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The vulnerability of U.S. information networks and a belief that a future attack against the U.S. may be launched in cyberspace is high in the mind of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as he plots to change the U.S. armed forces so they can better defend against unconventional threats.
- Keywords:
- cyber attack, terrorism, national security, Donald Rumsfeld, information war, networks, Internet security, virus, National Defense University, critical infrastructure, NIPC, National, Infrastructure, Protection, Center
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/04/military.preparation.idg/index.html
SafeWeb, a developer of online privacy technology for consumers, government agencies and people around the world who need to shield their Web activities, last week acknowledged security gaps that could identify users.
- Keywords:
- SafeWeb, consumer, online privacy, Internet, security, e-business
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/22/safeweb.vulnurability.idg/index.html
The maker of a popular weight-loss system filed suit against four search engines this week, alleging that their policy of letting advertisers pay to appear in top-ranked search results violated federal and state trademark and fair-competition laws.
- Keywords:
- search engines, pay-for-placement search results, Internet advertising, Web advertising, Web ads, Internet ads, AltaVista, Kanoodle.com, FindWhat.com, Overture Services, Search Engine Watch
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/04/search.engine.lawsuit.idg/index.html
Despite the vendor's claims, Oracle's Oracle9i database is breakable, a U.K. security firm reported yesterday.
- Keywords:
- Oracle, Oracle9i, security, Oracle software
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/09/oracle.security.idg/index.html
The growing commercial adoption of personal digital assistants is slowly gaining
ground among corporate IT departments, according to industry observers.
- Keywords:
- PDAs, personal digital assistants, handhelds
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/04/pda.adoption.idg/index.html
Software from FaceTime Communications allows IT managers to log what employees are saying over Internet instant messaging services, and to control who has access to such services.
- Keywords:
- FaceTime, instant messaging, IM, software, employee surveillance, privacy
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/06/facetime.software.idg/index.html
Company's new image sensor will allow consumers to create professional quality digital images -- at a price.
- Keywords:
- 6, megapixel, digital, cameras, Sony digital cameras, digital camera breakthroughs
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/21/sony.megapixel.idg/index.html
Some IT managers are battling spammers, but others say the fight is too expensive.
- Keywords:
- Spam, CIS Internet Services, unsolicited e-mail, commercial bulk e-mail
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/21/spam.damages.idg/index.html
An early version of an emerging technology that will allow users to control software applications using the human voice was released to developers Wednesday.
- Keywords:
- Speech Recognition, recognition, software, development, technical development, voice recognition
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/25/speech.apps.idg/index.html
The battle for speech technology standards is set to escalate next week when a collection of industry leaders submits to the World Wide Web Consortium a proposed framework for delivering combined graphics and speech on handheld devices.
- Keywords:
- speech, speech recognition, standards, voice recognition, protocol, protocols, W3C, graphics, hand-held, handheld, hand held, PDA
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/06/speech.vendors.idg/index.html
Cost control and disaster recovery are among the top items weighing on chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs), according to the Technology Leadership Council, a recently formed group of IT executives that will kick off its 2002 forum schedule March 5.
- Keywords:
- Technology Leadership Council, tech industry, IT, Hunter Management Group, HMG, spending, budget, disaster recovery, security, back-up, CIO, CTO
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/22/tech.council.idg/index.html
Operating systems will become highly distributed and self-healing and will collaborate with applications.
- Keywords:
- Farsite, operating system, OS, Microsoft, distributed OS, software development
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/13/brave.new.os.idg/index.html
Google boss discusses the company's future and mastering the art of the Internet search.
- Keywords:
- Eric Schmidt, Google, Internet search, search engine, interview
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/01/interview.eric.schmidt.idg/index.html
Prototype drive stores 50 percent more data than earlier models, but when will it be available to you?
- Keywords:
- Toshiba, media, storage, hard disk, disk drive, hard drive, IDE, SCSI, data storage
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/04/toshiba.density.idg/index.html
While the government and aviation officials have gone to great lengths to bolster travel security since Sept. 11, the U.S. public seems prepared to embrace even more extreme measures to ensure safety, a survey released Wednesday by Travelocity.com Inc. indicates.
- Keywords:
- Travelocity.com, Sept. 11, travel security, aviation officials, government, ID cards, Travelers, Travelocity
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/28/travelocity.study.idg/index.html
AOL lockout illustrates battle to introduce messaging interoperability.
- Keywords:
- Trillian, AOL IM connection, AIM, instant messenger interoperability, IM interoperability, IMUnified, IM Unified
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/26/trillian.restores.im.idg/index.html
The U.K. government is considering using biometric cards with passports within the next four years as part of its increased security and antifraud efforts.
- Keywords:
- biometric passports, biometric cards, biometrics, international passports, identification, ID cards, U.K. Passport Service, UKPS
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/24/biometric.passports.idg/index.html
If customer relationship management-like systems had been in use by federal agencies before Sept. 11, law enforcers might have had the information they needed to prevent what became the most deadly act of terrorism ever to affect this country.
- Keywords:
- CRM, customer relationship management, enterprise management software, terror attacks, Sept. 11, WTC attacks, Pentagon, national security
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/28/crm.terror.prevent.idg/index.html
With IP voice technology producing call quality equivalent to that of the traditional phone networks, corporate users see VoIP as a way to save a buck by using their existing data networks for phone calls, too.
- Keywords:
- networking, VOIP, IP voice technology, data server
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/01/voip.ready.idg/index.html
Responding to thousands of e-mail messages lobbying against the attachment of royalty fees to World Wide Web Consortium standards, the group released a new draft patent policy Tuesday endorsing free specifications.
- Keywords:
- World, Wide, Web, Consortium, standards, W3C standards, royalty fees, Web standards, Web interoperability, Web protocols, patent policy
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/28/w3c.royalty.fre.idg/index.html
Security organizations warned that corporations are unwittingly putting sensitive information on their Web sites that terrorists could use to damage the nation's critical infrastructure.
- Keywords:
- terrorists, attackers, Osama, bin, Laden's, al-Qaeda, financial, specs, data, maps, schematics, Audits, terrorist aids, Web sites, September 11
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/12/sensitive.information.idg/index.html
Privacy rights clash with security needs as options for true online anonymity falter.
- Keywords:
- security, e-mail, Anonymizer, Advicebox.com, anonymous email, anonymity, consumer privacy, anonymous remailers, encryption, government surveillance, Mixmaster network, QuickSilver, Center, for, Democracy, and, Technology, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/13/anonymous.email.idg/index.html
Although the flaw is
- Keywords:
- software fix, network domains, server operating systems, NT 4.0, Win 2000, Flaw
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/01/windows.flaws.idg/index.html
A wireless standard called ZigBee is not as fast as Bluetooth, but it works across longer distances and costs less.
- Keywords:
- ZigBee, Philips Electronics, Ericsson, wireless, mobile, HomeRF Lite, 2002, International, Solid-State, Circuits, Conference, Bluetooth, networking
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/06/lowcost.wireless.idg/index.html
Thursday proved a tense day for Arianespace, the European launch company, as it prepared for the launch of its Ariane 5 early Friday morning.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/28/ariane.launch/index.html
Two residents of the international space station stepped outside their orbital home on Wednesday, testing a new airlock, performing numerous maintenance jobs and soaking up space radiation for an experiment.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/20/iss.walk/index.html
Robots rock.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/15/roundup.demo/index.html
As China moves away from the planned socio-economic system, the state is no longer taking care of everything, leaving many citizens feeling insecure about their future, anxious and even stressed out.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/14/china.ehelp/index.html
Brighter as seen from Earth than any other star or planet, Venus will reappear in the evening sky in the coming weeks -- after seeming to vanish behind the sun early this year.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/26/venus.returns/index.html
Now if you need money you can trash and loot shops, a thuggish voice booms.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/02/27/hooligans.asia/index.html
By steadily releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, humans could inadvertently slow down the rotation of the Earth, according to a new scientific report.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/13/earth.gas/index.html
A galaxy captured by the camera of the Hubble Space Telescope seems to be rotating in the direction opposite of what it should, astonished astronomers announced this week.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/08/oddball.galaxy/index.html
Cell phones and weather balloons -- what's the connection? Combining these two technologies could someday mean more widespread, and more stable connections for mobile phone users. That annoying, deal-killing, no service text on your phone screen could pop up a lot less frequently.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/22/cell.phones.balloons/index.html
Using lasers to measure the gravitational tug from celestial neighbors on the moon, NASA scientists have determined that the lunar interior contains something akin to molten slurry.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/15/moon.beam/index.html
A strange mesa really stands out on the red planet on Valentine's Day. So does a pit that extends more than a mile in length.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/14/mars.hearts/index.html
The ringed planet will skirt behind the quarter moon Wednesday evening in a display specially tailored for much of North America.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/19/moon.saturn/index.html
The proposed 2003 budget for NASA would scale back spending on the international space station and space shuttle but promote the development of nuclear technology in space.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/04/nasa.budget/index.html
A new Mars satellite turned on its scientific instruments this week, kicking off a mapping mission in search of hot spots and hidden water on the red planet.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/20/mars.probe/index.html
With a lot of the world's attention focused on the Winter Games opening in Salt Lake City, it may interest athletes, coaches and fans to know about some mighty mice at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/02/08/oly.igf1.research/index.html
More Europeans than ever before were going online on Valentine's Day, in an attempt to find romance on the Internet.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/13/internet.dating/index.html
There is probably no other animal so widely identified with wildlife conservation, but the giant panda's future is still seriously threatened.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/02/09/giant.panda/index.html
It may only hover a few feet above the Earth right now, but the inventor of the SoloTrek XFV hopes that one day it will allow people to swoop and dive at distances comparable to a small airplane.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/06/solotrek.jetpack/index.html
The most recent great floods on Mars took place in the recent geologic past, not billions of years ago as previously estimated, according to scientists.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/27/mars.floods/index.html
A planetary scientist says a combination of physical conditions on one of the moons of Jupiter might not only make life possible but also encourage it to evolve.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/28/europa.ice/index.html
Hurling great heaps of energy into space at a brisk pace, the sun has likely entered a second phase of major intensity during an 11-year cycle of activity.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/06/sun.cycle/index.html
After taking awesome pictures of the heavens for a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope should expand its already impressive view of the universe thanks to a major midlife makeover.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/22/hubble.preview/index.html
- Keywords:
- RSA, security, RSA Conference 2002, Arthur Wong, SecurityFocus
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/25/2002.security.idg/index.html
The ringed planet vanished behind the quarter moon in a display specially tailored for much of North America.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/21/moon.saturn/index.html
New models of the leg muscles of Tyrannosaurus Rex suggest that a real T-Rex might not have passed the screen test for Jurassic Park. Stanford University researchers writing in the British journal Nature this week suggest that a T-Rex could not have been able to run as fast as the one in the movie -- and might not have been able to run at all.
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/02/27/tyrranosaurus/index.html
If humans shoved off this planet for a deep space expedition lasting two centuries, would their descendents be able to speak intelligibly with those left behind?
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/15/space.language/index.html
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