Tech Talk Guests Census Bureau Plan for Paperless 2010 Census
Door-to-door canvassing of 40 million households Plan to by 500,000 wireless computing devices
GPS,Telecommunications,Maps, E-mail Target price $100 (current price $500 to $600)
Global Crossing Creating Havoc with the Market
Optical capacity trading discovered between Global, Worldcom, and Qwest is scrutinized Telecom in freefall (Global, Worldcom, Sprint, Quest) Stock option management called into question at Worldcom New bidder for Global is at least from US
Fiber Optek Interconnect for NY Competing with Hutchinson Whampoa and Singapore Telemedia ($750M)
25 States join the Team of 9 against Microsoft
Three more ?friends of the court? briefs were filed on Friday, March 15 25 additional states have rallied behind the other nine States are trying to protect their sovereignty in anti-trust cases
New Windows Filing system in the works
NT, 2000, XP, .Net and now something new Total revamp of current filing system .Net and Database technology is moving to the hard drive Advanced database technology using XML will make retrieval much easier Important for complete integration with .Net Microsoft would be following Oracles lead in this matter
W32/Gibe Malicious Worm In the Wild
Delivered via Email
From: Microsoft Corporation Security Center To: Microsoft Customer Subject: Internet Security Update Message: This is the latest version of the security update, the 7 March Cumulative Patch???. Attachment: q216309
Impact
Installs backdoor GFXacc.exe Sends itself to addresses found on host
ICANN Makes Controversial Election Ruling
ICANN is Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Annual conference in Ghana, Africa? is in an uproar Board Chair rejected open election of Board Members Recommended 5 government, 5 corporate, 5 ex-officio members ICANN (and ISOC for that matter) are suffering the same problem as UN
Great New Idea of the Week (Link requires free website registration)
Point, shoot, translate into English Invented by IBM researcher, Dr. Haritoaglu Uses a color digital camera on wireless Palm. Provides realtime translation using remote language translation server Used for street signs, signs in grocery stores, etc.
AOL Testing Netscape
Current beta software called Talon uses AOL 7.0 plus Netscape Gecko It was supposed to be used for 7.0 release but was not ready 7.0 currently uses IE
Homebrew Wireless Network in Hawaii (Signs of a real movement)
Bill Wiecking is networking the Big Island single handedly Set up 26 802.11b nodes, some with amplifiers for ranges up to 26 miles Uses housetop antennas to cover 300 square miles
EBays goes down 90 minutes
First outage since January, 2001 EBay gets 300 page views per day and delivers about 1.5GB of data per second
Stratford News
Health Fair
Saturday, March 23 Potomac Mills Mall Healthy Cooking Demos and IT Technology Advice All day long, beginning at 10AM
ACF Awards Stratford Two Service Awards at annual awards banquet
Chef Professional Award Outstanding Culinary Educator
New term starts this week Still time to enroll for Woodbridge for Tysons Corner