Category «Internet»

Upcoming GAO Report Details Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE) Program

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 …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Mail, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

E-Gov Act Report Highlights Results

Report to Congress on the Benefits of the E-Government Initiatives: “In February 2007, the Office of Management and Budget submitted to Congress the second annual Report to Congress on the Benefits of the E-Government Initiatives. The report outlines the purpose of the E-Government and Line of Business Initiatives and highlights the benefits agencies receive from …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

RIAA Launches New Initiatives Targeting Campus Music Theft

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 …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Web Guide to Free Sites on Drug Interactions

From the Washington Post, Internet Offers Many Ways to Avoid Harmful Drug Mixtures. The article includes two categories of links, Medication Information and Drug Interaction Checkers, both of which include a dozen sites each.

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Commentary on Our Increasingly Digitized Lives

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 …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey of Wireless Internet Access

“The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report that 34% of internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. The report profiles these wireless users and describes their intensive use of the internet, especially in exchanging emails …

Subjects: E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management, Wireless Web

Site Offers Free Searching and Viewing of Major Broadcast News Videos

“The Tyndall Report monitors the weekday nightly newscasts of the three American broadcast television networks: ABC World News with Charles Gibson, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams…The Tyndall Blog monitors and comments on each night’s newscasts and links to the stories that the networks aired.” Links to a …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Awareness Watch Report on Script Resources

Via Marcus P. Zillman, news of his latest Awareness Watch Newsletter, on Script Resources. “Resources for scripts, codes and programming languages on the Internet continue to expand at a very rapid rate especially with the developments in the Web 2.0, MashUps, and the constant creation of new applications which of course foster new scripts.”

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Web Capacity Encounters Limits With Increased Global Demand for Rich Media

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 …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Wireless Web

CDT Analysis of Child Protection Bills Pending in Congress

“CDT has released an analysis of the legislative proposals now pending before Congress, February 15, 2007” – CDT Analysis of Child Protection Bills Pending in Congress (10 pages, PDF)

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Internet, Legislation, Privacy

Consumer Payment Study – AARP Research Report

Consumer Payment Study – AARP Research Report, February 1, 2007 (31 pages, PDF): “To what extent do age 25+ individuals with bill-paying responsibility for their households use newer electronic payment methods, such as automatic bill payment and online transactions, as well as more traditional payment methods, such as cash, checks and credit cards? This national …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet

FCC Releases Data on High Speed Services for Internet Access

Press release: “High-speed lines increased by 26% during the first half of 2006, from 51.2 million to 64.6 million lines in service, compared to a 21% increase, from 42.4 million to 51.2 million lines, during the second half of 2005. For the full twelve month period ending June 30, 2006, high-speed lines increased by 52% …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet

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