April 24, 2001 -
MS
ties new Media Player to Windows XP
- By Joe Wilcox Special to ZDNet
News, Microsoft is requiring
consumers who want to use the latest
version of Windows Media Player to
upgrade to the new Windows XP
operating system--a move that is
reminiscent of the company's
controversial decision to tie the
Internet Explorer browser with
Windows...
April 25, 2001 -
Feds
ignoring small biz - GAO to
Congress: Agencies not meeting SBREFA
rules. NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Small
business owners have long complained
of having their concerns ignored by
the federal government. A new study,
released Tuesday by the General
Accounting Office, lends some support
to that claim. For the past five
years, since the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
was passed by Congress, some federal
agencies have not abided by the
protections written into that law for
small businesses...
February 23, 2001 -
Fair
share for women? - New GAO
study reveals women-owned firms left
behind in fed contracting. NEW YORK (CNNfn)
- The General Accounting Office, in a
study released this week, warned that
there may be even more problems ahead
for women-owned businesses trying to
garner their fair share of the federal
contracting pie...
April 25, 2001 -
April 19, 2001 -
Biggest
waste of worker's time - E-mail - By Gwendolyn
Mariano, News.com,
"Employees waste nearly an hour a day managing work
e-mails, according to a new survey. The survey, released
Thursday by research firm Gartner, said workers spend an
average of 49 minutes per day managing e-mail and that 24
percent spend more than an hour per day on this
task..."
April
20, 2001 - Searchable
Archive for Ellis Island Now Online [in Real
Audio] - NPR.ORG, The records of 22 million
immigrants who passed through Ellis Island between
1892 and 1924 are now available online, thanks to a
massive project sponsored in part by the Mormon
Church. The American Family Immigration History Center
opened Tuesday on Ellis Island, the culmination of
some 5.6 million hours of work by 12,000 volunteers.
The volunteers transcribed and digitized data from
ship manifests -- pieces of paper scribbled with
names, dates, ports of entry and sometimes, how much
money was in a passenger’s pocket. Looking up your
relatives won’t always be a piece of cake on the
system, though. Names in the original passenger
logs may have been misspelled and dates of arrival may
differ from family histories. Hear more as NPR’s
Margot Adler reports for All Things Considered. For
more on the project, go to the American
Family Immigration History Center's Web site...
April 19, 2001 -
Kids'
sites fined for privacy violations - USATODAY,
NEW YORK (AP) — Three Web sites agreed to pay $100,000
in civil penalties to settle federal charges that they
collected too many details about kids without their
parents' permission. The penalties announced Thursday
against the operators of GirlsLife.com, BigMailbox.com and
InsideTheWeb.com were the first under a new law designed
to protect children under 13. Saturday is the law's first
anniversary...
April
19, 2001 - Microsoft
Boosts 'Self-Destructing' E-mail System [in Real
Audio] - NPR.ORG, Microsoft is
working with the aptly named firm
Disappearing Inc. to promote e-mail
that self-destructs after a designated
period of time. The year-old product
is available from several companies,
but Microsoft has included
Disappearing Inc. on its Web-based
Office software updates. Disappearing
Inc. markets its e-mail as an
efficient advance for the management
of electronic communications. Those
who receive it are told it will
disappear, and they can save it with a
simple cut-and-paste procedure. But
one big benefit for corporations is to
eliminate the sort of e-mail that
lawyers have mined for potentially
damaging evidence in court cases --
including Microsoft's own antitrust
battle with the federal government. Hear
more as NPR's Emily Harris reports for Morning Edition.
April
19, 2001 - Cable
rates could fly sky-high - By Corey Grice,
ZDNet News, After remaining virtually unchanged for
the past several years, the cost of monthly Internet
access via high-speed cable modems could be headed higher.
Millions of cable-based Internet customers have grown
accustomed to paying about $40 monthly for access. But
that fee could become just a fond memory for two recent
developments: Leading provider Excite@Home is under
extreme pressure to raise cash, and the competition from
the DSL (digital subscriber line) industry has already
started to raise prices. There's also one old development
to factor in--the cable industry's long history of
boosting the monthly cost of cable TV bills each year...
April
19, 2001 - Cheney
calls for Net tax ban, R&D credit -
By Andy Sullivan, Reuters,
"WASHINGTON--U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on
Wednesday the United States should make permanent current
policies that ban Internet access taxes and encourage
businesses to fund research and development..."
