January
18, 2003
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- Case
Resigns from AOL (What went wrong and right?)
- Steve
Case Resigns and Richard D. Perry named as replacement
- What
went wrong?
- Fuzzy
vision as Microsoft enemy
- Purchase
of Netscape to create competing OS and browser
- Software
driver feud with Micrsoft
- Too
much advertising focus
- Failure
to move to broadband, wireless, Satellite connectivity
- Stock
manipulation ripped off Time-Warner investors
- What
went right?
- Connectivity
anywhere worldwide
- Community
for friends
- Addition
of content from Time-Warner
- Case
was nearly on target. The execution was flawed.
- Old
Hard Drives Yield Data Bonanza
- Two
MIT Grad students bought 158 hard drives for less than $1,000
- Simson
Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat from MIT Lab of Computer Sciences
- Found
more than 5,000 Credit Card numbers, medical reports, detailed personal
and corporate financial information, and several G-bytes of personal
email and pornography.
- Report
Titled: Remberance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitation
- Published
in: IEEE Security and Privacy, Jan/Feb 2003 Edition
- Email
is not as private as you think. Ten things to remember
- Remember:
Email is not private
- Keep
sex out of it
- Count
to 10
- Beware
of rumors, gossip, and insults
- Break
the chain
- Do
it in person
- There
is no body language in email
- It
isn’t grade school. Check your grammar
- What
you say will haunt you.
- US
Uses e-mail to target key Iraqis
- Messages
urge key Iraqi leaders to defect
- Make
it clear that US will attack
- First
publicly reported Psychological Warfare Operation Report
- CNN
reported it Friday after clearing with Whitehouse
- TeleSea
to Launch Wi-Fi for Networks
- Reston
Based Firm
- Wi-Fi
for major ports
- Cruise
lines to pay $500/month for access
- Microsoft
Server Dumps .Net Name
- Studies
showed consumers confused with .Net initiative
- Will
to back to Windows Server 2003
- Computer
Electronics Show
- Held
in Las Vegas This Month
- Microwave/Refrigerator
Combo with Ethernet Connection
- Netgear
Teleconference for Consumer with i2Eye
- Plugs
into TV and Broadband Internet Connection
- Can
connect to another i2Eye for Chat
- Sells
for $299. Connects wirelessly to Wi-Fi AP
- Wrist
Watch with Pager and Streaming Text Messaging
- Using
Direct FM
- Microsoft
Personal Object Technology
- Can
receive Instant Messages
- Fossil,
Citizen, Suunto of Finland ($200 to $1000)
- Predictions
for 2003 (from Canoe News)
- Death
of CD-ROM
- Instant
Message for Business
- More
Linux in Business
- Web
Access Prices to Go Up
- Wireless
to Continue Strong (not as standalone 802.11b)
- Law
enforcement information database sharing will be up
- House
Makes Plea to Keep Blackberrys
- NTP,
Inc, an Arlington holding company won a patent infringement against
Research in Motion (RIM), Blackberry manufacturer
- $23M
in damages
- May
have to shut down operations
- Congress
just invested $6M in Blackberry Technology and is lobbying for settlement
- What
is the site helpcombatterrorism.com all about?
- Talked
with Bill Rice the man behind it.
- Good
idea, technically feasible, no independent verification of code
- Stratford
News
- Four
Your Health Expo at DC Convention Center
- Grad
Program Review
- Undergrad
Program Review
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