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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:16:29 -0500
From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: Edupage, 5 October 1997
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> TOP STORIES
> Rhapsody Roll-Out Tempo Slows To Adagio
> Net Advertising Hits The Mainstream
> York U. Professors Just Say No To Technology
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> ALSO
> Canada May Get Supercomputer Hub
> Porn Found On 25% Of Corporate Computers
> Policing Securities Transactions On The Net
> Low-Risk, High Payoff Crime
>
> RHAPSODY ROLL-OUT TEMPO SLOWS TO ADAGIO
> Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs says the company is planning a more
> gradual changeover to its Rhapsody operating system, rather than the
> quick switch envisioned by former Chairman Gil Amelio. "I concluded
> this was a bad thing to do," says Jobs. "To think we are going to
> take $7 billion on the Mac OS and move it to Rhapsody next year is
> absurd." Jobs still plans to launch Rhapsody next year, initially
> targeted at servers, followed by a gradual expansion to desktop
> machines over the next few years. In this way, Jobs says he hopes to
> emulate Microsoft's Windows NT marketing strategy, which started at
> the server level and has trickled down to high-end PCs over the last
> four years. (Wall Street Journal 3 Oct 97)
>
> NET ADVERTISING HITS THE MAINSTREAM
> Analysts predict that 1997 will the year that Web-based ad spending
> approaches the magic $1-billion mark, and companies outside the
> traditional realm of computerdom are finding the Web an effective and
> inexpensive way to get their message out. Yahoo! says its profile of
> advertisers has gone from 85% high-tech in 1995 to nearly 80%
> consumer-oriented this year. According to Jupiter Communications, top
> spenders on the Net now include General Motors, American Express, Walt
> Disney, and Proctor & Gamble. "The Internet is no longer in the realm
> of experiment," says one Internet ad coordinator. "It's part of our
> mainstream advertising, like television or print." (Business Week 6
> Oct 97)
>
> YORK U. PROFESSORS JUST SAY NO TO TECHNOLOGY
> In what may be a first, Toronto's York University professors have
> negotiated a new contract that ensures that they will not be forced to
> use technology in the classroom if they don't want to. The contract
> stipulates that decisions to use technology "shall be consistent with
> the pedagogic and academic judgments and principles of the faculty
> member employee as to the appropriateness of the use of technology in
> the circumstances... Normally, a faculty member will not be required
> to convert a course without his or her agreement." The faculty union
> that spearheaded the negotiation says that the issue revolves around
> protecting the autonomy of professors: "When you put your course on a
> Web site, you are essentially giving up control of the course," says a
> professor who points out that redesigning a course to fit the
> constraints of a Web site constructed to someone else's specifications
> can interfere with a professor's plan for the course. (Chronicle of
> Higher Education, 3 Oct 97)
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> CANADA MAY GET SUPERCOMPUTER HUB
> Speculation has emerged that tough new anti-dumping tariffs imposed by
> the United States on Japan may result in the creation of a
> high-performance computing center in Canada to serve the U.S. The
> U.S. International Trade Commission, on a petition from Cray Research,
> ruled that NEC was selling supercomputers in the U.S. market at 454%
> below their fair market value, and that Fujitsu was selling the
> machines at 173% below fair value, which resulted in tariffs on
> machines from the Japanese companies being imposed when they hit
> American soil. The ITC's decision is being appealed, but NEC says it
> is considering the creation of a supercomputer center in Canada to
> serve American and Canadian customers. (Toronto Financial Post 3 Oct
> 97)
>
> PORN FOUND ON 25% OF CORPORATE COMPUTERS
> A study conducted by Digital Detective Services found that one in four
> corporate computers investigated contained pornographic files,
> including some cases of child porn. The study was based on 150
> investigations over an 11-month period. (Investor's Business Daily 3
> Oct 97)
>
> POLICING SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS ON THE NET
> Douglas Scheidt, an administrator at the U.S. Securities and Exchange
> Commission has called for international cooperation on policing the
> sale of cross-border mutual funds on the Internet. The Commission
> would like to require funds management groups to clearly identify on
> their home pages the citizens they are allowed to sell to, and to
> screen out possible purchases from unauthorized countries. (Financial
> times 3 Oct 97)
>
> LOW-RISK, HIGH PAYOFF CRIME
> Stealing computers or computer chips and circuit boards has become a
> low-risk, high payoff crime -- much easier than robbing banks or
> armored cars, and usually more lucrative. Police say most computer
> bandits are content to "smash-and-grab," shattering windows of
> ground-floor windows and acquiring up to $20,000 worth of computer
> parts in about two minutes. (Toronto Globe & Mail 2 Oct 97 A1)
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