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From NeOn, An open conversation with Michael Wiley, Director New Media, GM Communications about: “GM FastLane Blog, GM’s experiments with podcasting and GM’s plans for further developments with communication channels like blogs, podcasting and RSS.” “We’re big into getting feedback from our customers, employees and others, taking their comments to become a better company and …
“Welcome to Seekport (beta), the new Internet search engine optimised to meet the needs of users in the UK. Proven technology and a British indexing team ensure high-quality searching with much less spam and far fewer hits from the US.” [via URL Wire]
“On February 23, 2005, Christie’s in New York will sell Jeremy’s Origins of Cyberspace Library. This library on the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications documents the scientific and technological foundations of the Internet. What makes the Origins of Cyberspace so special is that it goes to the very beginning of the developments that led …
“Leading IT companies including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Symantec are promoting a rating system that will standardize the measurement of the severity of software vulnerabilities.” [Link]
RFID Tags and Contactless Smart Card Technology: Comparing and Contrasting Applications and Capabilities See also this chart comparing the features and applications of RFID tags and contactless smart cards. Related resources: From the EU: “On January 19th, the Working Party 29 adopted a Working Document on data protection issues related to RFID technology (Working document …
From the Project on Government Oversight, this press release today: Justice Department Caves In: Allows Publication of Retroactively Classified Information. ” “A hearing scheduled for this morning before U.S. District Judge John D. Bates was abruptly cancelled after the Justice Department gave up and admitted that the information it had retroactively classified could be released …
Press release: U.S. Corporations Misuse or Underuse Competitive Intelligence, Outward Insights Survey Shows: “A majority of U.S. based companies that claim to use competitive intelligence (CI) to guide their decision-making processes either don’t use intelligence enough or use it the wrong way. This excludes nearly 30% of companies that don’t even have, or don’t feel …
France’s national library has raised a “war cry” over plans by Google to put books from some of the world’s great libraries on the internet. Related references: Google defies Europe, by Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Director of the National Library of France, Le Monde, 22.01.05 and this commentary on and translation of the aforementioned article.
From the Cato Institute, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Digital Rights Management: How Market Tools Can Solve Copyright Problems, February 17, 2005: “This study argues that the basic functions of DRM and P2P can be quite complementary and that innovative market mechanisms that can help alleviate many copyright concerns are currently blossoming. Government should protect the copyrights …
By Chris Jay Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Putting Identity Theft on Ice: Freezing Credit Reports to Prevent Lending to Impostors. “This article argues that the third actor, credit granting institutions, are culpable for a large number of identity theft cases. Institutions enable identity theft by maintaining lax credit granting practices, …
There are two feeds available via this Microsoft PressPass RSS Feeds link: Microsoft PressPass – Press Releases and Microsoft PressPass – Top Stories.
From the Washington Post, ID Theft Scam Hits D.C. Area Residents From ChoicePoint: Update on Identity Fraud Notification, 02/21/2005. This announcement includes a chart with a state-by-state accounting of the current number of victims of this scam, addresses the company’s plan to participate in the investigation of the fraud, and its plans to “guard against …