Tech Talk Guest: Bruce Potter
Founder of Novawireless Community advocate for wireless broadband access (free or cost recovery model) Security and Unix expert Author of O?Rielly book on Wireless Security
BAE Systems, Integrated Systems Division, is Now Hiring!
Tech Talk Guest: Susie Wagner, Director of Human Resources Over 70 vacancies in Reston
Imagery and Geospatial Integrated Systems (IGIS) Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) Require clearance beyond secret
?Job Fair
Wednesday, November 13th, 4:30 to 7:00 PM To be conducted at Reston Location Reservations not required
Survey Shows Women Prefer HDTV over Diamonds
Guys, This is the perfect excuse for Christmas and Holidays Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) interviewed 1,000 women
58% would prefer an HDTV over 1-carat diamond 64% would rather have a digital camera than a pair of half-carat diamond earrings
CEA confirms the following
Women spend $55 billion each year on technology products Women initiate 49% of all electronics purchases
Spam Stats
Brightmail the leading ISP Spam Filter has released the following Stats Total Spam Volume
5.3M Spam attacks in October, 2002 Up from 1.6M in October 2001
Spam Distribution
Financial?36% Adult–12% Products?31%
NIST seeks input on computer security
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting comment on two draft reports
Comments due by COB Monday Excellent guide or any security savvy IT purchase
Election Fallout for Technology
No change in House Republican Majority in Senate
Department of Homeland Security, which includes online security Would hold Federal agencies to tougher computer standards and encourage private sector to share vulnerability info with Feds Expect R&D tax incentives Republican rated 85% and Dems 64% favorable by Information Technology Council ?Fritz? Hollings will be replaced by John McCain as Senate Commerce Committee Chair
Fritz favored embedded digital rights software Fritz opposed to broadband deregulation (Tausin-Dingle bill)
Bank Error Exposes E-mail Addresses
Bank of the West Exposed 3,300 e-mail addresses in e-mail alerting members of ATM downtime Sent to a list using the To: field, instead of the BCC: field Several years ago AT&T and Seagate Software made a similar mistake
Touch Screen Ballots Pass Test on Election Day
16% of counties have them nationwide
510 counties to date Georgia deployed 22,000 successfully. Most problems were human error 200 counties nationwide used them (California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, and Texas)
75% are expected to have them within six years
The Week of the PC Tablet
Weigh 3 to 4 pounds, cost $2,000 Some resemble etch-a-sketch and others look like hybrid tablets and laptops Toshiba, HP, Acer, Fujitsu, ViewSonic are in the game Dell computers is holding back
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