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As a profession, doctors have traditionally communicated with their patients in person or by telephone. However, the tide may be turning, as some doctors pioneer fee-based virtual medicine, by which they communicate and diagnose patients via secure e-mail.
This is an excellent example of how the power of Microsoft’s marketing power can thrust a new application into the limelight way in advance of its actual final release, which may be some time to come. EPeriodicals technology will supposedly revolutionize the entire process of publishing and distributing digital documents, via handhelds and tablet devices.
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 Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights indicated their support for the Global Internet Freedom Act via this letter to Reps. Hyde and Lantos. For more details and background about this bill, H.R. 5524, please see my previous postings here, here, and here.
The controversial Child Online Protection Act which specifies the “requirement to restrict access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of the World Wide Web that are harmful to minors,” is currently under review again by U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. In May 2002, the Supreme Court remanded the case, Ashcroft v. ACLU, …
The Supreme Court will review a number of cases this week, including United States v. American Library Association, No. 02-361, requiring the use of filtering software by all libraries receiving federal funds. For up-to-date information on this case, see the American Library Association web site on CIPA.
Political Web, launched on July 30, is a useful site for research studies on the growing use of the Internet by Congressional and gubernatorial candidates. Funded by the The Pew Charitable Trusts, researchers from the Washington State University issue regular short press releases on their findings, as well as longer, topical reports, such as this …
E-mail is a ubiquitous and essential business tool. Consultant Robert Eisenberg reviews the reasons why all companies should implement an e-mail management system not only for the sake of efficiency, but also for its defensive and preventative applications. See also this ABCNews.com article, The Trouble With E-Mail, which reviews recent cases in which e-mail played …
Rep. Adam Smith is a strong advocate for tech giant Microsoft, one of his principal campaign contributors. Post 9/11 however, there has been a growing movement in Congress to use open source software such as Linux for cybersecurity related agency applications. Rep. Smith is quoted in this article as stating that such software is “problematic …
The CyberJournalist.net published the results of the Nielsen/NetRatings September 2002 survey of top news sites. CNN, MSNBC and Yahoo topped the list.
The FBI, via its National Infrastructure Protection Center, is investigating the DoS attack on the Internet that occurred October 21 (see my previous posting, //www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/000375.html).
Iwon.com has responded swiftly to a 10/22/2002 report by TechTV.com documenting iWon’s use of a malicious spyware program users were encouraged to downloaded as part of a promotional effort to win money. Not only was the use of this software in violation of iWon’s own stated privacy policy, it has proved to be almost impossible …
