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Today Google Labs released Google’s New Personalized Homepage. It currently allows you to choose from among a discrete range of sources (gmail; news from Google, New York Times, BBC, Wired, Slashdot; weather; driving instructions; maps) for display on your homepage. Features will be expanded to include feeds from more sites. (Note: you need a Google …
Information Security: Federal Agencies Need to Improve Controls over Wireless Networks GAO-05-383, May 17, 2005. Highlights. “…federal agencies have not fully implemented key controls such as policies, practices, and tools that would enable them to operate wireless networks securely. Further, our tests of the security of wireless networks at six federal agencies revealed unauthorized wireless …
The Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2005 (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2005 was approved yesterday by the House Judiciary Committee.
Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2005 Update, by Gloria Miccioli The Problem of Orphan Works, by Tobe Liebert FOIA Facts: GAO Issues New FOIA Report, by Scott A. Hodes
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a new report released on May 17 – Health Information Online: Eight in ten internet users have looked for health information online, with increased interest in diet, fitness, drugs, health insurance, experimental treatments, and particular doctors and hospitals. [press release] Health Information Online (22 pages, PDF)
The Harris Poll® #40, May 12, 2005: Almost Three-Quarters of All U.S. Adults An Estimated 163 million Go Online “The numbers of adults who are online at home, in the office, at school, library or other locations continue to grow albeit at a somewhat slower rate. In the past eight months the number …
“Google Desktop Search for Enterprise helps you easily manage the ever-growing mountain of information located on your computers and includes key standards-based administrator features that provide enhanced security, centralized configuration and easy company-wide deployment. Perhaps best of allit’s free.” Related references from Internetnews.com and InfoWorld. See also this article, Which Is the Best Desktop Search …
A non-profit, non-government affiliated project, this free, browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago (with source data from the Chicago Police Department’s Citizen ICAM website), makes use of Google for map views, and RSS feeds “for every block and police beat in the city.” Users may browse by crime type, street, date, police district, location …
2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey: Many Companies Monitoring, Recording, Videotapingand FiringEmployees “From computer monitoring and telephone taping to video surveillance and GPS satellite tracking, employers are using policy and technology to manage productivity and protect resources. To motivate employee compliance, companies increasingly are putting teeth in technology policies. Fully 26% have fired workers for …
From the June 2005 issue of Consumer Reports, see this Internet Filtering Software Ratings, with rankings for 11 applications, including comparisons for price, fee, overall score, and variables for test results and features. [thanks Barbara]
Yesterday I posted a link to the New York Times announcement of a new fee-based service to access a selected range of current and archival content, effective September 2005. Bloggers, journalists, newspaper execs and financial analysts offer their responses: Business People Like ‘NYT’ Plan to Charge on Web; Bloggers Don’t.
From today’s WSJ free features, ‘Evil Twins’ and ‘Pharming’ – Hackers Use Two New Tricks To Steal Online Identities; Scams Are Harder to Detect.
