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October 26, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. Stump-the-Geek Helps Google Recruit Tech's Elite
2. Cingular-AT&T Wireless Merger Cleared by FCC
3. Computer Security Survey Finds Awareness Gap
4. Desktop Supercomputing
5. Home PCs Plagued With Problems
6. Is Lack of Coordination Hurting Health IT?
7. Identity Theft Is Epidemic. Can It Be Stopped?
8. Intel Cancels Plan to Enter Digital TV Chip Market
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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1. Stump-the-Geek Helps Google Recruit Tech's Elite
>From USA Today (Topic: Staffing), Oct. 26:
Google locates almost anything on the Web within seconds,
but finding the brainy engineers who program the company's
lightning-quick search engine takes more time--and a quirky
bit of ingenuity.
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2. Cingular-AT&T Wireless Merger Cleared by FCC
>From The Washington Post (Topic: Cingular and AT&T), Oct. 26:
The Federal Communications Commission today removed the
final regulatory obstacle to the $41 billion merger of
Cingular Wireless LLC and AT&T Wireless Services Inc.
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3. Computer Security Survey Finds Awareness Gap
>From Reuters (Topic: Security), Oct. 25:
Most computer users believe they are safe from online
threats even as their machines fall victim to viruses and
spyware, according to a survey released on Monday. The
survey of 329 computer users by America Online and the
National Cyber Security Alliance found that many were more
vulnerable than they thought.
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4. Desktop Supercomputing
>From MSNBC.com (Topic: Supercomputing), Oct. 25:
The chips inside personal computers work pretty hard, but
they're not very good at handling graphics. That's why
gamers make a big fuss about graphics acceleration cards
from such companies as Nvidia and ATI. The add-in cards from
those companies go into a PC to take over the computing
tasks associated with graphics, leaving the CPU chip in the
computer to do other things. If you can off-load the heavy
processing for the purpose of graphics and gaming, then why
not apply the same concept to create a supercomputer in a
desktop?
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5. Home PCs Plagued With Problems
>From Wired.com (Topic: PCs), Oct. 25:
Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they
believe, according to a nationwide inspection by
researchers. They found most consumers have no firewall
protection, outdated antivirus software and dozens of
spyware programs secretly running on their computers. One
beleaguered home user in the government-backed study had
more than 1,000 spyware programs running on his sluggish
computer when researchers examined it.
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6. Is Lack of Coordination Hurting Health IT?
>From eWeek (Topic: Healthcare), Oct. 25:
Attendees of last weekend's Health Information Technology
Summit contacted by eWEEK.com said they came away convinced
that efforts to implement widespread health IT are getting
off to a solid start. They also agreed on some chief
barriers to implementing health IT: misaligned financial
incentives and a lack of integrated, easy-to-use products.
More than 800 people representing vendors, health care
providers and public health officials attended the Health
Information Technology Summit, held in Washington.
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7. Identity Theft Is Epidemic. Can It Be Stopped?
>From The New York Times (Topic: Identity Theft), Oct. 24:
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Pausing in the foyer of a comfortable suburban home two days
before Halloween in 2002, Kevin Barrows, a special agent
with the F.B.I., could not bring himself to open the front
door. He and a team of agents had just spent several hours
searching every room in the house, in New Rochelle, N.Y.,
but they were leaving empty-handed. Months of investigating
had led Mr. Barrows to believe that someone was
orchestrating a huge fraud from the house, yet he had not
found a single scrap of evidence.
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8. Intel Cancels Plan to Enter Digital TV Chip Market
>From Reuters (Topic: Intel), Oct. 21:
Intel Corp. on Thursday said it has scrapped plans to enter
the digital television chip business, marking a retreat from
a major component of its consumer electronics initiative.
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