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Expert says lax security practices, not cool hacking tools, are the real threat.
- Keywords:
- Back Orifice, BO2K, security, hacker, hack, hacking, Counterpane, Internet, Security, Inc., Bruce Schneier
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/29/back.orifice.idg/index.html
Introduced 20 years ago, the first Sony Walkman was a clunky cassette player that revolutionized the way we listen to music. The turn-of-the-millenium Walkman is Internet savvy and plays compressed digital music downloaded from your PC.
- Keywords:
- MP3, Sony, Walkman, Sony Walkman, compressed digital music, music on-line, music downlaods, Sony Memory Stick
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/walkman.tunes.idg/index.html
Bethesda's Intense Import Drag Racing targets two groups: fans of drag racing and gamers who are curious about it.
- Keywords:
- computer game, Bethesda, Intense, Import, Drag, Racing, driving simulation, drag racing, car
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/01/dragrace.idg/index.html
eBay promises a double thrill: Media attention, and the satisfaction of seeing others bid money for bogus items.
- Keywords:
- Net, Internet, Web, auction, eBay, illegal, human kidney
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/20/ebay.side.show.idg/index.html
This Sunday marked the start of the annual European Computer Trade Show (ECTS) at London's Olympia exhibition hall, billed by the organizers as Europe's largest electronic game industry event.
- Keywords:
- European, Computer, Trade, Show, electronic game, gaming, convention, BeOS, Microsoft, Sony, Sega
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06/ects99.idg/index.html
PC game and entertainment software developers at the annual European Computer Trade Show (ECTS) gave visitors a taste of the latest trends in everything from classic shoot-em-up games to more educational titles.
- Keywords:
- PC games, entertainment software, developers, European, Computer, Trade, Show, ECTS, trends, classic shoot-em-up games, educational titles
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/08/new.pc.games.idg/index.html
They're hip, they're young, they're on the Web and they're not easily amused.
- Keywords:
- Generation Y, entertainment, youth, Web site, Internet
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/07/entertain.geny.idg/index.html
An independent security expert has questioned allegations made earlier this month that the National Security Agency (NSA) has a backdoor to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows platform.
- Keywords:
- Microsoft, Windows, security, NSA, National Security Agency, NSAKEY, Cryptonym, Counterpane Systems, CryptoAPI, Back Orifice
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/13/backdoor.idg/index.html
While the nation's education community is only minimally concerned about the Year 2000 problem, schools do expect some glitches, particularly because of the last-minute fixes many schools are making.
- Keywords:
- y2k, Y2K, year 2000, education, students, glitches, school
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/23/education.y2k.ready.idg/index.html
The Next Generation Internet, commonly called NGI, will be faster, less expensive to use and better able to accommodate more high-speed access options. But for NGI's benefits to be realized, vendors will have to agree to let products interoperate and establish standards, a networking executive said.
- Keywords:
- Next Generation Internet, NGI, faster, cheaper, interoperability, congestion
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/future.net.idg/index.html
Cellular phone companies must soon provide the means to track a caller's location on 911 calls made from their phones, according to revised standards adopted by the Federal Communications Commission.
- Keywords:
- 911, emergency, location, cell phones, mobile phones, cellular phones, revised, standards, Federal Communications Commission.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/20/fcc.911.idg/index.html
There may come a day when government IT managers realize the cost savings of not having to pay for an OS license for every desktop and server.
- Keywords:
- Linux, Windows, 98, 95, NT, servers, government
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/24/linux.for.feds.idg/index.html
The federal government plans to do
- Keywords:
- 9999, September, Sept., 9, Y2K, year, 2000, bug, Feds
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06/9999.idg/index.html
Some companies are going far off the beaten path to find skilled technology workers -- to Russia, where there are many programmers knowledgeable in legacy languages.
- Keywords:
- Y2K, year 2000 problem, Russia, Y2K staffing, coding, COBOL, enterprise solutions, management, careers
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/29/russia.staff.y2k.idg/index.html
An outside firm will test the security of the free e-mail service following last week's security breach, a Microsoft spokesman says.
- Keywords:
- Microsoft, Hotmail, audit, security, free e-mail, Truste, privacy
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/13/hotmail.audit.idg/index.html
A dramatic change taking place across all major industries is challenging everything people know about manufacturing and the support role IT plays.
- Keywords:
- IT, manufacturing, Ford, Microsoft, real-time computing, e-commerce, direct sales
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/fordms.ent.idg/index.html
U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds heard arguments from Ford Motor Co. and Web site publisher Robert Lane Monday regarding Ford's efforts to secure a permanent injunction against Lane's publishing confidential Ford documents on his Web site.
- Keywords:
- Ford Motors, Robert Lane, First Amendment, confidential information, free speech, freedom of speech, Web, Internet, Net, sites, lawsuit, TRO, temporary restraining order
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/01/ford.idg/index.html
French artificial intelligence developer Mathématiques Appliquées S.A. (MASA) unveiled a prototype of its forthcoming Peacemakers strategy game at the European Computer Trade Show (ECTS).
- Keywords:
- French, artificial intelligence, AI, developer, Mathématiques Appliquées S.A., MASA, prototype, Peacemakers, strategy game, European, Computer, Trade, Show, ECTS
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/08/war.games.idg/index.html
One of the first of the new smartphones, the NeoPoint 1000 aims to merge cellular abilities, Net connectivity and PDA portability.
- Keywords:
- celular phone, Sprint PCS, handhelds, wireless Internet connection
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/24/neo.phone.idg/index.html
Not quite a sequel but more than your average expansion pack, it's the follow-up to what was arguably the best action game of '98.
- Keywords:
- computer game, Half-Life, Opposing Force, Gearbox
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/23/opposing.force.idg/index.html
A full 75 percent of all e-business projects will fail because of poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology, according to a Gartner Group study.
- Keywords:
- Gartner Group, e-business, e-commerce, projects, enterprise, electronic commerce, business, Internet commerce, sites, business venture
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/24/eprojects.ent.idg/index.html
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates acknowledged that Microsoft must improve its application server technologies within Windows NT Server and the forthcoming upgrade, Windows 2000.
- Keywords:
- Gates, Windows, 2000, NT, application server, technologies
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/16/gates.speech.idg/index.html
Georgia is deploying a new system that will enable participating countiesto provide the state with vehicle registration and title processing information in real time.
- Keywords:
- Georgia, vehicle registration, Registration, and, Title, Information, System, GRATIS
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/09/georgia.title.idg/index.html
By 2005, at least 40 percent of Germany's population will have easy access to the Internet, if the German government has its way.
- Keywords:
- Germany, population, Internet access, German government, Net, Web, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/24/germany.net.idg/index.html
Facing a storm of criticism from the open-source community, a Hamburg, Germany IT vendor has defended his move to take out a claim to the name Linux with the German patent office.
- Keywords:
- Linux, trademark, Germany, open source, patent, Channel One GmbH
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/20/linux.trademark.idg/index.html
Declaring last year's Internet strikes a failure, a German user group is now trying a different tack to get across the message that metered phone charges are seriously hampering the growth of the Internet in Germany.
- Keywords:
- Internet strikes, German user group, metered phone rates, growth, Internet, Germany
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/09/germa.net.idg/index.html
New industry standards will enable someone to tap into numerous databases via the Internet to create a multilayered digital map.
- Keywords:
- Open GIS Consortium, geospatial databases, maps, Net, Internet, Web, Federal
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/14/new.maps.idg/index.html
An Irish mathematician and his team have cracked the seventh and toughest encryption problem as part of a challenge by Canadian firm Certicom Corp. to prove that one type of encryption is tougher to break than another.
- Keywords:
- Certicom, cryptography, encryption, computer security, mathematics
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/29/crypto.challenge.idg/index.html
Open-source software group GNU announced the release of its message-encryption tool GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) version 1.0.0.
- Keywords:
- GNU, open source software, privacy, encryption, GnuPG, Free Software Foundation
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/09/gnupg.idg/index.html
If you're using Microsoft Outlook Express in Internet Explorer 5.0 for e-mail and you don't disable the ActiveX Controls feature, someone could send you a message that could wipe the files off your hard drive or put a new file onto it.
- Keywords:
- Microsoft Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, ActiveX Controls, bug, security, problem
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06/activex.idg/index.html
Handheld computers have helped doctors at this hospital make better decisions, saving both lives and money.
- Keywords:
- handhelds, hospital technology, medical technology, doctor, PDA, personal digital assistant, PIM, personal infomation mangers, hospital, St., Joseph's, Hospital, in, Phoenix, patient
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/hospital.idg/index.html
A group of prominent politicians and Internet industry heavyweights are meeting at the end of the week to discuss proposals to help protect minors from harmful online content.
- Keywords:
- Internet, summit, regulation, censorship, EuroISPA, rating system
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/08/heavy.weight.idg/index.html
Soon you can have as many as 200-disc DVDs in your home-theater system's changer and controller thanks to Escient's PowerPlay.
- Keywords:
- home-theater systems, DVD, Escient, plug and play
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/30/200.dvd.idg/index.html
E-mail administrators are clamping down on users who send and forward messages to free Web-based e-mail services, such as Microsoft's Hotmail or Yahoo Mail.
- Keywords:
- Web-based e-mail, hacker, network security, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/08/email.risk.idg/index.html
Users offer favorite recipes for properly implementing SANs.
- Keywords:
- storage-area network, SAN
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/how.to.san.idg/index.html
For anyone who majored in MIS or works in IT, there's no problem with battling the technical mechanics of an online class, but it can be something that's hard for nontechies to overcome and may be the biggest pitfall to online learning.
- Keywords:
- education, online learning, Internet, Web, training, IT, certification, career advancement, technical
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/15/learn.online.idg/index.html
Floyd packs a punch online too, as weather Web sites report record traffic.
- Keywords:
- weather, Floyd, Web sites, hurricane, disaster planning, online traffic, congestion
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/17/floyd.idg/index.html
IBM releases the IBM Consumer Wallet, Version 2.1, targeted at merchants who want to minimize the number of abandoned virtual shopping carts.
- Keywords:
- shopping carts, virtual, online, e-commerce, e-Wallet, IBM, Big Blue, Internet
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/16/e.wallet.idg/index.html
Idiom Technologies Inc. is a startup that provides software and services for companies that want to make their Web sites available in more than one language.
- Keywords:
- Idiom Technologies, Web, translation, Internet, start-up, language
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/09/idiom.idg/index.html
Microsoft is not expected to release the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 until late this year or early next year because the software giant is refining its Tasman rendering engine and working on certain end-user features, an official confirmed.
- Keywords:
- Internet Explorer 5.0, Mac, Apple, delay
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/10/ie5.mac,idg/index.html
In the wake of a Tokyo District Court injunction against the sale of Sotec's iMac lookalikes, the Korean-Japanese PC maker said that it will change the color of its e-one machines from Apple's distinctive translucent blue and white to simple silver, according to a media report.
- Keywords:
- Tokyo, injunction, iMac, copycats, lookalikes, clone, color, change, blue, silver
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/27/clone.color.change.idg/index.html
WarpSpeed Communications will introduce its Bandwidth@WarpSpeed service at NetWorld+ Interop '99 Atlanta next week.
- Keywords:
- WarpSpeed Communications, T-1, Internet, real-time resource manager
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/08/warp.speed.idg/index.html
Problems crop up with the next-generation 820 chip set's controversial Rambus memory design.
- Keywords:
- Intel, processor, chip, CPU, Rambus, 820 chip set, Intel 820, Pentium III, high-end PC, high-end processor, CPU
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/27/intel.hiend/index.html
The new company is being viewed as a natural transition for Cox Interactive Media, a division of Cox Enterprises, which purchased a 10 percent stake in MP3.com for $45 million in June
- Keywords:
- Cox, Interactive, Media, MP3.com, mp3, radio, Mp3radio.com
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/02/mp3.radio.idg/index.html
A new wave of wireless devices and services let you browse the Web and check e-mail wherever you are. But don't expect peak performance.
- Keywords:
- Internet appliances, handhelds, wireless, Palm VII, portable, PIM, PDA, personal information managers, personal digital assistants
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/07/net.anywhere.idg/index.html
Efforts aimed at protecting consumer privacy on the Internet were high on the agenda at the Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe) conference held in Paris.
- Keywords:
- Global, Business, Dialogue, on, Electronic, Commerce, GBDe, Paris, Internet privacy, censorship, CEOs
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/16/paris.prive.idg/index.html
Sure, people were duly impressed when all 110 years of National Geographic magazine became available on CD-ROM in 1997. But in my circles, the release of Broderbund's Totally Mad is a much bigger deal.
- Keywords:
- Mad Magazine, Mad CD, online magazines, Totally Mad, Alfred E. Neuman
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/23/mad.CD.idg/index.html
The U.S. Information Agency this week plans to ship dozens of computers, printers and other technology tools to Kosovo, where a small number of Internet centers will form the foundation of a massive reconstruction effort throughout the ravaged province. Started in May at the height of the air war in Yugoslavia, the Kosovo Internet Assistance Initiative brought USIA together with more than a dozen ...
- Keywords:
- Kosovo, War, IT
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/01/kosovo.it.idg/index.html
HP and Microsoft bank on James Bond to spread the word on Jornada Windows CE handhelds.
- Keywords:
- Jornada, HP, Hewlett-Packard, Windows CE, James Bond, handheld, palmtop, portable, HP Jornada 430se
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/29/bond.pc.idg/index.html
The Java Grande conference was established with the purpose of championing Java for scientific applications and high-performance network computing systems. This article covers the goals of this special forum, as gleaned from an interview with Geoffrey Fox, the academic coordinator for Java Grande.
- Keywords:
- Java Grande, scientific computing, research, network, programming
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/01/java.grande.idg/index.html
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