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1)
"Harper-Collins to offer Free Book Content Online"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11204333


2)
NARA and Google Launch Pilot Project to Digitize and Offer Historic Films Online
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/02/24/1405184.htm
WASHINGTON & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Feb. 24, 2006 --
Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Co-
Founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin today announced the launch of a
pilot program to make holdings of the National Archives available for free
online. This non-exclusive agreement will enable researchers and the general
public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries and
other films from the National Archives via Google Video
(http://video.google.com/nara.html) as well as the National Archives website
(http://www.archives.gov).


3)

New Director for Office of Educational Technology US Dept of Education
Tim Magner, the former deputy director of the US Department of Education's
Office of Educational Technology (OET;
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology),
is taking over as director of OET, filling the position that has
been vacant since Susan Patrick left last year. Magner has a long history
working in the education technology industry, including serving as executive
director of K-12 education for Microsoft Corp. and director of the Schools
Interoperability Framework. He also has extensive experience teaching at the middle
school, high school, and college levels.

4)

2/27/06 Ask Jeeves officially becomes Ask.com
and Ask Jeeves for Kids becomes Ask for Kids.

Spyware - Don't use or download Ask Jeeves
Who in their right mind would agree to have their
computer become a vehicle for pop-up ads? It turns
out that many of these programs target kids. They
advertise their software at kids sites. They bundle it with
videogames. They use advertisement images like smiley faces.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NHN/NH25.html

Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Editor, ResourceShelf
and Search Engine Watch now works full time as
Director of Online Information Resources for Ask Jeeves.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060209/sfth056.html?.v=43


5)
National Science Foundation's First Town Hall Meeting on
GENI-Global Environment for Networking Innovations.
http://www.geni.net/
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE) is planning a new initiative, "Global Environment for Networking
Investigations" (GENI), to explore new networking capabilities that will
advance science and stimulate innovation and economic growth. GENI's
goal is to increase the quality and quantity of experimental research
outcomes in networking and distributed systems, and to accelerate the
transition of these outcomes into products and services that will
enhance economic competitiveness and help to secure the nation's future.
Ultimately, the research supported by GENI is expected to lead to next
generation of network capabilities and services.

6)
"Total Information Awareness" - secretly funded in
defiance of Congress
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0223nj1.htm
 the programs' proponents don't seem to like
meaningful civil-liberties accountability and have institutional
escape hatches for avoiding such.



7)

Lawmakers Move to Make FCC Allow Broader Wireless Net
http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=257883
Feb. 22 ­ Typically costing $30-50 a month, high speed internet access
remains out of financial reach for many people in the US. But advocates
for more affordable Internet access hope that new legislation will
eventually lead to lower prices.
Hailed by consumer advocates and progressive media activists, the
Wireless Innovation (Winn) Act of 2006 would open up additional public
spectrum for wireless Internet use.
The Winn Act, introduced by Senator George Allen (R-Virginia), would
require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to release unused or
unassigned parts of the broadcast spectrum, also known as "white
spaces," for wireless computer networking use. The bill is co-sponsored
by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-California), John Sununu (R-New Hampshire)
and John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). A similar bill, the American Broadband
for Communities Act, was also introduced last week by Senate Commerce
Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Arkansas).

8)

"A CBS undercover reporting team went into 38 police
stations in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in Florida, asking for a set of
forms they could use to complain about inappropriate police behavior. In all
but three of the stations, the police refused to give them forms. Some of
the cops threatened them (on hidden camera, no less) -- one of them even
touched his gun."
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_033170755.html


9)
Plug-In Internet Connection to Get Test on Long Island
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/nyregion/17lipa.html
Customers love to grumble about their phone and cable companies, and
residents on Long Island are no different. But for those unhappy with
their service from Verizon or Cablevision, an alternative may be on
the way.
The Long Island Power Authority announced on Wednesday that it would
begin testing technology that provides high-speed Internet
connections through people's electrical outlets, a service that could
ultimately make a dent in a business now dominated by Cablevision and
Verizon.


10)
CYBERTHIEVES SILENTLY COPY AS YOU TYPE
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology/27hack.html
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Tom Zeller, Jr]
There is evidence that among global cybercriminals, phishing may
already be passé. In some countries, like Brazil, it has been
eclipsed by an even more virulent form of electronic con -- the use
of keylogging programs that silently copy the keystrokes of computer
users and send that information to the crooks. These programs are
often hidden inside other software and then infect the machine,
putting them in the category of malicious programs known as Trojan
horses, or just Trojans.

This is not no news and only sent to show how the public is way
behind knowing what they need to know about their privacy. ~KE
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/censor.html
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITYprivacy.html


11)
Horrible waste of money on technology
Computer ills hinder NSA
2 technology programs, weapons for the war on terrorism, have proved duds
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-te.nsa26feb26,0,7835588.story


12)

Diebold Voting Machine Whistle-Blower being prosecuted for
"Stealing documents"
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/socal/la-me-
diebold22feb22,0,33600.story?coll=la-news-politics-local
Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district
attorney's office, refused to call Heller a "whistle-blower."
"We call him a defendant," she said. "He's accused of breaking
the law?. If we feel that the evidence shows beyond a reasonable
doubt in our minds that a crime has been committed, it's our job
as a criminal prosecutor to file a case."


13)

Ethics - Outsourcing Drug Trials to India and
Testing Drugs on India's Poor
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69595,00.html


14)

Digital method puts ad inside TV show
By Reuters  |  February 27, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- A breakthrough in television advertising debuted
without fanfare last spring as a brand-name box of crackers appeared
on the CBS sitcom ''Yes, Dear" for about 20 seconds, seen but hardly
noticed by millions of viewers.
Unbeknownst to them, the image of Kellogg's Club Crackers had been
digitally painted onto the top of a coffee table after the scene was
filmed, launching the latest advance in a marketing practice known in
the industry as product placement but derided by critics as ''stealth
advertising."
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/27/digital_method_puts_ad_inside_tv_show/>


15)

China is preparing to launch what appears to be an alternate root.
Starting tomorrow, they will establish four country-code domains.  In
addition to the current dot-cn, they will offer Chinese character
versions of dot-China, dot-net, and dot-com. As one article puts it,
this "means Internet users don't have to surf the Web via the servers
under the management of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN) of the United States."
Coverage from China is at
http://english.people.com.cn/200602/28/eng20060228_246712.html
How the Top Level Domain Name thing works
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/Domain_Name.html
and
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icann.html


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