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Cem Kaner, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, posted on his blog the text of ten suggested principles that comprise a “Software Customer Bill of Rights” which he authored in an effort to “restore integrity and trust — and consumer confidence, consumer excitement, and sales – in this stalled marketplace.”
Newspapers Want to Charge for Content, but Will Readers Pay? Peter Krasilovsky, Senior Partner, Borrell Associates, a media consulting firm, speaking at a recent workshop on journalism, stated that “Paid content is a great way to make more money, but the real money is in advertising and marketing…”
According to this Washington Post article, the nation’s largest ISPs are responding to the recent escalation of email viruses (Blaster and SoBig.F) innundating customer accounts by planning to implement scanning applications to screen all attached documents. With as many as half of all incoming emails infected with viruses, AOL, Comcast, Microsoft, and Covad have already …
More news about radio frequency id tags, as RSA Security has published a detailed and informative white paper on the technology, which unbeknownst to many, is already ubiquitous in many aspects of our daily life, an example of which is the tags used by drivers on their car windshields which automatically scan and log toll …
From the GPO: Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper Format: The list comprises 48 titles, along with associated web links as available. “The dissemination of information products through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) includes a variety of formats. As directed by Congress, the primary method of making publications available to the FDLP is …
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, this news on the release of “nearly 2,000 pages of transcripts of emergency calls made on September 11, 2001, to Port Authority police command from civilians and officers…under an order by Bergen County, N.J., Superior Court…Judge Sylvia R. Moses…The Times (New York Times) had told the …
From ALA, a pdf version of a three page letter sent to Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, on August 27, concerning limitations on the public dissemination of “homeland security information” determined to be “sensitive but unclassified.” ALA was one of 75 organizations that signed the letter (including journalists, evironmental groups, scientists and privacy …
Catching up on some news from earlier this month, a press release from the Supreme Court of Appeals, State of West Virginia, dated August 8 announced: The West Virginia Supreme Court and the West Virginia Library Commission are working together to “establish legal research centers in three urban public libraries, three rural public libraries and …
Sorry to say all of the above have been the gremlins in my machine the past couple of days. If you would like to read beSpacific postings for August 26 and 27, I invite you to visit the site.
Homeland Security: Efforts to Improve Information Sharing Need to Be Strengthened. GAO-03-760, August 27. Highlights. From ComputerWorld: “The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t effectively coordinated the multitude of information-sharing efforts now under way throughout the nation, creating a situation where critical clues to impending terrorist attacks may once again go unnoticed.”
This FTC press release from August 27 includes information, associated fees and links for use by telemarketers to obtain data from the national do not call registry when it is released on September 2.
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights issued a media alert that responds to specific statements in support of the Patriot Act made by Attorney General Ashcroft in a speech he delivered at the American Enterprise Institute on August 19.