NewsScan Daily, 18 May 2004 ("Above The Fold")

NewsScan Daily, 18 May 2004 ("Above The Fold")
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       IBM and Cisco Plan Joint Internet Phone Venture
       Cisco Code Stolen?
       Offshoring Moves Out and In
       Trial of Man Accused of Using Internet for Terrorism
       Internet Grocery-Stopping: It's Back
       'Insanely Cool' Woman Technologist at SDSC

FEATURES        
       Flash Card
       Happy Birthday, NewsScan!
       Worth Thinking About: Side Effects

IBM AND CISCO PLAN JOINT INTERNET PHONE VENTURE
     IBM and Cisco have begun an Internet telephony project in which Cisco
will provide the phone and network technology and IBM will provide the
systems integration software. Gartner Research, the market research company,
says that within three years Internet phones are likely to account for the
vast majority of business phone systems. (New York Times 18 May 2004)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/technology/18voice.html

CISCO CODE STOLEN?
     Cisco Systems, which provides the Internet's backbone equipment, is
investigating the possible theft of some of its core software code. A
section of that code was found over the weekend on the Russian Web site
SecurityLab.ru. Ken Dunham of the security consulting firm iDefense thinks
although the theft could be serious, the missing code may simply not contain
any significant vulnerabilities." Dunham speculates: "It would almost be
better for the code to be out there, as opposed to the unknown of who might
have this, who might be using this and what for." (Washington Post 17 May
2004)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34629-2004May17.html

OFFSHORING MOVES OUT AND IN
     A new study from Forrester Research estimates that 830,000 U.S.
service-sector jobs will move abroad by the end of 2005 and 3.4 million jobs
will leave by 2015. Although short-term job losses have surged as companies
have begun experimenting, Forrester believes that the long-term numbers will
probably moderate. The report also suggests that a new wave of white-collar
offshoring among manufacturing companies will bring the trend to parts of
the U.S. that have not yet experienced it, such as the Midwest, though it's
unclear what impact the loss of accountants, programmers and business
analysts would have in places like Detroit, Chicago and Cincinnati. (AP/USA
Today 17 May 2004)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8688896.htm

TRIAL OF MAN ACCUSED OF USING INTERNET FOR TERRORISM
     In the terrorism trial of a University of Idaho computer science
graduate student Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a 34-year-old Saudi national,
prosecutors say that they've proven a conspiracy between the defendant and
the Michigan-based Islamic Assembly of North America to use the Internet to
foster terrorism, and that they should therefore be allowed to show jurors
Web postings about the Assembly that are not specifically related to
Al-Hussayen. In rebuttal, Defense attorney David Nevin argues that his
client is charged with promoting terrorism just because some Internet sites
he helped maintain carried objectionable material: "We're circling around
and around and making our way toward the issue of the First Amendment that
has been floating around here from the start." Besides being accused of
terrorist activities, Al-Hussayen is also accused of visa fraud and making
false statements to cover up his association with the Assembly. (AP/USA
Today 18 May 2004)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-05-18-hussayen-moresites_x
htm

INTERNET GROCERY-STOPPING: IT'S BACK
     You thought it was gone forever, but the Internet grocery business has
survived its best-known failures, and remains confident about the future.
Safety.com chief executive Mitch Rhodes says, "Our business has doubled the
last two years and we expect it to double again this year." Peapod LLC has
150,000 active customers in its delivery range (which includes Chicago and
the East Coast), and New York-based Freshdirect.com now has about 100,000
active customers, four times as many as a year ago. Freshdirect co-founder
Jason Ackerman says: "For the most part the demand has been greater than our
ability to supply. When you deliver great food people love the convenience
of it. If we delivered crappy food people wouldn't be as excited." Of course
there are skeptics about online grocery shopping: "People who go in and feel
fruit have no idea what they're doing, but it's still so important for them,
and online shopping changes that dramatically," says eMarketer analyst David
Berkowitz. (AP/Los Angeles Times 17 May 2004)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040517/D82KAMSG0.html

'INSANELY COOL' WOMAN TECHNOLOGIST AT SDSC
     Business Week magazine has named San Diego Supercomputer Center
director Fran Berman one of the top women in technology, along with seven
other elite women in the technology industry including Susan Bostrom of
Cisco and Lorrie Norrington of Intuit. The magazine says: ³Berman is the
only woman on the planet in charge of a supercomputing facility. That¹s a
rarefied neighborhood. In the info-tech geek hierarchy, supercomputer jocks
are the equivalent of NASA rocket scientists.  It¹s one of the rare academic
jobs that¹s insanely cool." (Business Week 17 May 2004)
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/tc_04women.htm.

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FLASH CARD 
     "Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality." (Steve Allen)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NEWSSCAN!
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WORTH THINKING ABOUT: SIDE EFFECTS
     Here are the possible side effects of a commonplace prescription drug:
"dry mouth, drowsiness, dizziness, headache, nausea, weakness, diarrhea,
excess sweating, heartburn, unpleasant taste, weight gain, an increased
appetite for sweets, constipation, blurred vision, eye pain, irregular
heartbeat, hair loss, shakiness fainting, nervousness or restlessness,
twitching of the face or tongue, mood swings, loss of balance, uncontrolled
movements of arms or legs, stiffness, difficulty speaking and swallowing,
unusual bleeding or bruising, sore throat or fever, skin rash and itching,
swelling of hands, face, lips, eyes, throat, or tongue, irritability,
ringing in the ears, seizures, yellowing of the skin or eyes,
hallucinations, or chest pain."
     Maybe the prescription should be accompanied by a prescription for each
of the side effects, along with prescriptions for each of the side effect's
side effects, and so on.

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