Case Resigns from AOL (What went wrong and right?) Old Hard Drives Yield Data Bonanza Email is not as private as you think. Ten ?things to remember US Uses e-mail to target key Iraqis TeleSea to Launch Wi-Fi for Networks Microsoft Server Dumps .Net Name Computer Electronics Show Predictions for 2003 (from Canoe News) House Makes Plea to Keep Blackberrys What is the site helpcombatterrorism.com all about? Stratford News
Case Resigns from AOL (What went wrong and right?)
Steve Case Resigns and Richard D. Perry named as replacement
What went wrong?
Fuzzy vision as Microsoft enemy
Purchase of Netscape to create competing OS and browser
Software driver feud with Micrsoft
Too much advertising focus
Failure to move to broadband, wireless, Satellite connectivity
Stock manipulation ripped off Time-Warner investors
What went right?
Connectivity anywhere worldwide
Community for friends
Addition of content from Time-Warner
Case was nearly on target. The execution was flawed.
Old Hard Drives Yield Data Bonanza
Two MIT Grad students bought 158 hard drives for less than $1,000
Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat from MIT Lab of Computer Sciences
Found more than 5,000 Credit Card numbers, medical reports, detailed personal and corporate financial information, and several G-bytes of personal email and pornography.
Report Titled: Remberance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitation
Published in: IEEE Security and Privacy, Jan/Feb 2003 Edition
Email is not as private as you think. Ten ?things to remember
Remember: Email is not private
Keep sex out of it
Count to 10
Beware of rumors, gossip, and insults
Break the chain
Do it in person
There is no body language in email
It isn?t grade school. Check your grammar
What you say will haunt you.
US Uses e-mail to target key Iraqis
Messages urge key Iraqi leaders to defect
Make it clear that US will attack
First publicly reported Psychological Warfare Operation Report
CNN reported it Friday after clearing with Whitehouse
TeleSea to Launch Wi-Fi for Networks
Reston Based Firm
Wi-Fi for major ports
Cruise lines to pay $500/month for access
Microsoft Server Dumps .Net Name
Studies showed consumers confused with .Net initiative
Will to back to Windows Server 2003
Computer Electronics Show
Held in Las Vegas This Month
Microwave/Refrigerator Combo with Ethernet Connection
Netgear Teleconference for Consumer with i2Eye
Plugs into TV and Broadband Internet Connection
Can connect to another i2Eye for Chat
Sells for $299. Connects wirelessly to Wi-Fi AP
Wrist Watch with Pager and Streaming Text Messaging
Using Direct FM
Microsoft Personal Object Technology
Can receive Instant Messages
Fossil, Citizen, Suunto of Finland ($200 to $1000)
Predictions for 2003 (from Canoe News)
Death of CD-ROM
Instant Message for Business
More Linux in Business
Web Access Prices to Go Up
Wireless to Continue Strong (not as standalone 802.11b)
Law enforcement information database sharing will be up
House Makes Plea to Keep Blackberrys
NTP, Inc, an Arlington holding company won a patent infringement against Research in Motion (RIM), Blackberry manufacturer
$23M in damages
May have to shut down operations
Congress just invested $6M in Blackberry Technology and is lobbying for settlement
