Studies and new research show employees who telecommute believe the arrangements actually hurt family life and career advancement. In fact, a number of supervisors are revoking these arrangements due to telecommuting-related problems, reports USA Today. Telecommuting hasn’t grown at the clip many experts first predicted in the 1970s; there were 21 million workers in 1997 […]
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A global network of sensors initially designed to listen for clandestine nuclear blasts is now being used to detect violent winds, volcanic eruptions, and the crash of meteoroids from outer space, reports the New York Times. Though still under construction and primarily backed by the U.S., the International Monitoring System (part of the Comprehensive Test […]
Approximately 379 million people in 21 countries connected to the Internet from their homes in March, an increase of 6.8 million from February, according to Nielson/NetRatings. The latest figure is based on real-time monitoring of Internet users in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the […]
A report finds that in the first quarter of 2001, a number of computer security issues, including incident and vulnerability reports, will top 2000 figures. The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT), a government-funded R&D center based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, reported receiving 7,047 incident reports, from Jan. 1–Mar. 31, putting 2001 […]
The number of European households connected to the Internet increased by 55% between March and October of 2000, and Europe now has more users than the U.S., the European Commission reported. The findings, published in "Impact and Priorities of the eEurope 2002 Initiative," cite the increasingly liberalized European telecom market for the sharp rise in […]
Appearing before a congressional panel, the head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers defended the process ICANN used to select new suffixes to compete with the popular established generic top-level domain—.com. With the number of Web addresses dwindling, ICANN chose seven new domains last fall, along with the companies and groups authorized […]
An ongoing effort involving dozens of people and pilot programs with hundreds of employees at Sun Microsystems could be the next model for large high-tech companies worldwide in molding the workplace to information-age realities, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Whereas the setup of traditional high-tech companies was established in the industrial era, when people […]
NASA, Carnegie Mellon, and a dozen leading technology firms have formed the High Dependability Computing Consortium with the goal of creating crash-free software. The group signed a three-year agreement to attack the problem of unstable systems by building tools “of such a magnitude that no single company could afford to build them alone,” explains James […]
The U.S. Copyright Office endorsed a new federal law, a provision of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act, that makes it illegal to break the technological safeguards for books, movies, and music distributed in digital form. The ruling was a defeat for several constituencies—including universities, libraries, and computer programmers—that had argued the law should preserve […]
A new study claims exposure in early education to computers can harm children’s ability to reason, imagine, and play, and calls for legislators to refocus early education toward a program that supports strong bonds with adults, time for spontaneous play, a curriculum rich in the arts, and hands-on interaction. The Alliance for Childhood, Washington, DC, […]
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