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Not exactly technology related, but certainly worth noting in light of important SEC related activity overshadowed by the press coverage of the election; SEC Proposes Rules to Implement Sarbanes-Oxley Act Provisions Concerning Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys.
The IRS is mobilizing to migrate 80% of tax filing from paper to online by 2007. To accomplish this goal, the agency is working with private enterprise to provide links to free e-filing services via a new IRS web site, by January 2003. For related information, see also this GAO Report, Tax Administration, Electronic Filing’s …
Taylor Nelson Sofres, a UK-based global marketing company, has published a new report that benchmarks the impact and use of e-gov services worldwide. Their 55 page (in PDF) Government Online Study, uses data collected from 29,000 interviews conducted with individuals in 31 counties, including the UK, Canada, and the U.S. The study provides a important …
Declan McCullagh reports that the election will have a big impact on key tech legislation as committee chairs change and support for the tech industry is bolstered. See the Information Technology Council High Tech Voting Guide for the 107th Congress, referenced in the second article.
The BBC reports on Singapore’s eCitizen Portal, winner of the Stockholm Challenge 2002 Award for e-government.
Winnie the Pooh is at the heart of a 20 year legal battle with a potentially huge payout in terms of online royalties. Disney and Stephen Slesinger, Inc. both claim copyright control over the commercial rights to the characters that would generate $1 billion in online merchandizing revenues.
In a follow-up to my 10/22/02 posting on trusted computing, globetechnology.com addresses the issue of how PC users will increasingly be forced to comply with industry imposed digital rights management solutions if they want to use most of the applications on the PCs.
Project Vote Smart is a non-profit, non partisan campaign information resource on candidates and issues throughout the country, on the Congressional, state, local and city level. The site is very easy to use, and provides links to candidate bios, campaign finance data, party and issue related web sites, as well as legislative tracking data by …
The Register published an interesting article on how the Supreme Court’s techies sent out e-mail messages with PDF attachments of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s rulings on Microsoft, two hours prior to the announcement of their availability. The Planet PDF weblog was actually a recipient of one of the e-mail messages, and posted a copy of the …
Five travel agencies want to establish a class action in federal court in L.A. against online web travel giant Orbitz. The agencies claim they cannot compete with the site due to unfair practices, and also name three of the site’s backers in the suit: American, United and Delta.
American Online has launched AIM Enterprise Services. Using this technology, companies can now monitor all instant messages sent by employees. In addition, AOL hopes to realize some increased revenue as well, with a per seat cost of $35. See this Washington Post for more information.
Blogwise is a project under development, with a topical and subject index that now includes 244 sites worldwide. There is an eclectic mix of links here, and the site promises to grow rapidly so check-in again to see what else in new and may be of interest.
