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“The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report offers analysis and discussion of threat activity over a six-month period. It covers Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code, phishing, spam and security risks as well as future trends. The eleventh version of the report, released March 19, 2007, is now available.” Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, Volume XI: March …
Combating Pretexting: H.R. 936, Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Friday, March 9, 2007 Witness List and Prepared Testimony EPIC: “In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg expressed support for H.R. 936, the Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act. …
“RSStalker.com provides RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon.com products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply unsubscribe to the feed when you are done…Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a …
“Browse and search is a new way of browsing and searching pages from books in a Web browser using a “widget.” Thousands of titles are available for browsing and searching and are denoted as such with the “Browse and Search” icon. To get started right away, you can search the Random House catalog for any …
Washington Post, February 28, 2007: New Profiling Program Raises Privacy Concerns: “The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations.” Christian Science Monitor, February 9, 2006: US plans massive data sweep – Little-known …
RIAA press release: “The recording industry today launched a new and strengthened campus anti-piracy initiative that significantly expands the scope and volume of its deterrent efforts while offering a new process that gives students the opportunity to avoid a formal lawsuit by settling prior to a litigation being filed. The Recording Industry Association of America …
Envisioning the Whole Digital Person, by Jonathan Follett, Published February 20, 2007: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitizedfrom the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster, we are doing more and more onlineand in the process, saving a …
Deloitte Telecommunications Predictions 2007 (TMT Trends 2007) – “This study examines 10 emerging developments sure to make 2007 another eventful year for the telecommunications industry”: 1. “Reaching the limits of cyberspacegrowth in video traffic on the “superhighway” means the Internet is approaching gridlock. 2. The net neutrality debate needs resolutionthe Internet, fundamental freedom for all …
The Brookings Institution, The Implications of Service Offshoring for Metropolitan Economies, by Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial, February 2007. [Full Report in PDF] “An examination of service offshoringthe movement of service jobs overseasforecasts higher than average job losses in twenty-eight U.S. metropolitan areas between 2004 and 2015. Information technology jobs, and the metropolitan areas where …
Google’s Moon Shot, by JEFFREY TOOBIN – The quest for the universal library. New Yorker, Posted 2007-01-29 “Every weekday, a truck pulls up to the Cecil H. Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into …
China’s Impact on the Semiconductor Industry: 2006 Update: “PricewaterhouseCoopers began the study series Chinas Impact on the Semiconductor Industry in 2004 in response to our clients interest in the rapid growth of the semiconductor industry in China. Specifically, clients wanted to find out whether Chinas production volumes would contribute to worldwide overcapacity and a subsequent …
