April 19, 2001
Wired News: MS Office Helper Not Dead Yet.
Clippy won't automatically show up in Office XP. But a Microsoft researcher working on the logic behind Clippy said that, although the implementation may be off, the technology it is based on is one the company's cornerstones for future products.
Industry Standard: There Must Be a Better Way ...
The problem, Gelernter notes, is that most PC-related advances of the past decade have focused on the Internet; the 25-year-old desktop, meanwhile, has been ignored. Inboxes are overstuffed, desktops are cluttered with icons, and files vanish. The typical PC is a study in disarray.
Interactive Week: Filters Face Free-Speech Test.
The law, called the Children's Internet Protection Act, forces schools and libraries that receive government money to block Web images deemed harmful to minors. San Francisco is taking a stand against what officials there see as censorship by refusing to filter content.
Business Week: IM Vulnerable.
But treating IM as a spoken conversation is a no-no, say some security experts. And using it for sensitive topics is even worse. Why? IM conversations are anything but intimate. Since IM messages are rarely encrypted, they could easily be converted into a potentially damaging record...
InfoWorld: Jabber eyes the enterprise, sets out to encrypt IMs.
Encryption will offer companies a greater degree of security and control of their instant messaging, the company said, adding that the new version of Jabber now supports SSL encryption, a common encryption method used on the Web.
KMWorld: Transforming information retrieval on the Web: a new direction.
This situation has produced two trends in consumer and corporate portals: the increased use of taxonomies where previously reliance had been placed solely on search engines, and the rise of vertical portals devoted to a specific topic or domain.
ZDNN: CERT group to sell cyber-threat warnings.
The effort, to be announced here Thursday, would distribute up-to-the-minute warnings to international corporations about cyber-threats, offer security advice and ultimately establish a seal program to certify the security of companies’ computer networks.
Internet World: VeriSign Stifles the Dot-Competition.
The deal makers at VeriSign demonstrated their shrewdness again in March when they shook hands on an agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that will extend the VeriSign monopoly over .com domains for at least seven years.
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