Adding Power to Your Internet Browser
From Rick Klau, reviews and links to browser toolbar enhancements which will broaden your online searching capabilities and also provide some useful, value-added features at no cost.
Category «Internet»
Report: Security Risks and Broadband Access
According to an article in today’s New York Times, the industry sponsored National Cyber Security Alliance will release a study later today focused on the security and privacy risks associated with broadband internet connections. The study, Clear and Present Danger, In-Home Study on Broadband Security Among American Consumers, is now available here (37 page pdf).
Law Firm Technology Trends
Andrew Zangrilli’s new article in Modern Practice predicts the following trends for 2003 in law firm technology development: “1) more features and functionality added to existing technology; 2) unifying and consolidating disparate systems; and 3) more legal self-service applications.”
Microsoft Settles Browser Lawsuit With AOL
According to Information Week, “Microsoft will pay AOL Time Warner $750 million and license its Web browser to AOL for seven years to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by AOL unit Netscape Communications last year.”
Electronic Initiatives in Federal and State Courts
The New York Times reports on the steadily growing implementation of technology applications in courtrooms around the country, including the use of PowerPoint presentations, video and audio conferencing, the Web, and flat-screen computer monitors. For related information, see the website of the Courtroom 21 Project, “which seeks to determine how technology can best improve all …
Resource for Tracking Tech Legislation
The non-profit association, EDUCAUSE, maintains a regularly updated online chart in Excel that tracks technology-related legislation for the 108th Congress. The chart indicates issue, bill number, related bill, last action (date), committee/subcommittee, and whether the bill is active. There are currently 51 entries on issues including privacy, ID theft, broadband and spam.
Paying for Web Content: Perceptions and Value
Understanding Online’s Value Proposition, an article by writer, speaker and consultant Robert Spears, presents an overview of a diverse range of websites and online services that consumers have determined provide content that justifies a fee. This short but interesting commentary is part of an upcoming book, Strategic Convergence: The Path to Sustainable Profits.
Managing a Website
The Accidental Webmaster, by Julie M. Still, reference librarian at Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey.
Popular File Utility Changes Standard
Updated WinZip Alters Zip Format. “WinZip 9.0, from the market leader among file-compression utilities, has entered public beta with scheduled release later this year, bringing with it a new .zip format–which means some of its functions will not be compatible with earlier versions or other programs.”
Oregon Net Filter Bill Controversy
The USA Today reported on the status of Oregon House Bill 3101 which would eliminate state funding for libraries that refuse to install net filters for public access use of the Internet. Apparently “legislative counsel said it (the bill) is unconstitutional,” placing at least a temporary hold on this legislative initiative.
Access to Gov’t Documents After 9-11
Miriam Drake, Professor Emerita, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology has published part one of a two part article, Government Doublethink: Protection or Supression in Information, in which she reviews and addresses government efforts, through regulation and policy initiatives, to remove a range of documents from the public arena based on national security concerns.
Einstein Archives Online
Released yesterday, an “itemized database of approximately 43,000 Einstein and Einstein-related archival items: writings, professional & personal correspondence, and digitized manuscripts of his scientific writings, non-scientific writing, travel diaries.” See http://www.alberteinstein.info/
