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Edupage, 8 November 1998. Edupage, a summary of news about information
technology, is provided three times a week as a service of EDUCAUSE,
an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming higher
education through information technologies.
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TOP STORIES
Internet 2 Project Targets Internet Video
Betting On Tut Technology
Microsoft To Build Its First Research Lab In Asia
411 Everywhere
Is There Intelligent Life In The Universe?

ALSO
Teenage Crackerjacks Told: No More Computers
Bureau Of Labor Statistics To Review Its Use Of Internet
Judge Lectures Microsoft Lawyer
Honorary Subscriber: Samuel F.B. Morse

INTERNET 2 PROJECT TARGETS INTERNET VIDEO
The Internet 2 Digital Video Network Initiative is developing software to
deliver high-quality video over the Internet. Headed up by Joel Mambretti,
director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at
Northwestern University, the digital-video project is part of a larger
Internet 2 program called the Internet 2 Middleware Initiative. New video
technology could unleash a flood of niche broadcasting on the Web, says
Mambretti. "You won't just have a history channel. You could have a
Roman-history channel. You could even have an early-Roman-history channel."
(Chronicle of Higher Education 6 Nov 98)

BETTING ON TUT TECHNOLOGY
High-tech companies, including Compaq, Lucent Technologies and Advanced
Micro Devices, are licensing technology from tiny Tut Systems that uses
telephone wires to create a household network. The technology, called "Home
Run," will be built into phone-networking modems, which will sell at less
than $100 each. Other technologies, such as electrical power lines and
radio waves, will undoubtedly also make inroads into the home-networking
market, but Home Run has a head start -- the first modems will begin showing
up on shelves in time for Christmas. "For the next three to five years, the
phone line is the way to go in terms of price and functionality," says the
business development manager for Lucent Microelectronics, who adds:
"Wireless in the long term may be the big winner." (Wall Street Journal 6
Nov 98)

MICROSOFT TO BUILD ITS FIRST RESEARCH LAB IN ASIA
Microsoft is expanding its international reach, investing $80 million in a
new research laboratory to be located in Beijing. It plans to employ around
100 researchers over the next three years to develop more user-friendly
computers and interactive software. The company already operates similar
facilities in the U.S. and Great Britain. (Investor's Business Daily 6 Nov 98)

411 EVERYWHERE
Pending tariff approval, Bell Atlantic is rolling out a service that
everyone will appreciate -- in early January callers will be able to dial
411, the traditional information number, and get directory information for
any city in any state. Charges will be based on whether the listing is
local or long distance, but callers will not need to know the area code of
the residence or business they're trying to reach -- a handy feature in the
day of rapidly proliferating area codes. (Information Week 2 Nov 98)

IS THERE INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE?
With new support from Sun Microsystems, the SETI@home project is proceeding
with its plans to use the idle processing power of 50,000 or more personal
computers to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. A project base at
the University of California-Berkeley will serve as data collections and
distribution point (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu). (Newsbytes/USA
Today 6 Nov 98)

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TEENAGE CRACKERJACKS TOLD: NO MORE COMPUTERS
In a San Francisco trial of two California teenagers found guilty of hack
attacks on U.S. military computers, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney
sentenced the teenagers to three years of probation, during which they were
ordered to refrain from possessing or using a computer modem, from acting as
computer consultants, or having any contact with computers out of sight of
"a school teacher, a librarian, en employer, or other person approved by the
probation officer." What should the teenagers do instead of hacking? "The
defendants will attend school and make their grades." (Reuters/San Jose
Mercury News 5 Nov 98)

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS TO REVIEW ITS USE OF INTERNET
Embarrassed last week by a premature posting on its Web site of
market-sensitive employment data, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor
Statistics has partially closed down the site while it conducts an internal
review that will take "a minimum of two weeks and likely longer." BLS
commissioner Katharine G. Abraham said that the early posting was accidental
and "resulted from inadequate internal control over the handling of
supplemental information." (AP 6 Nov 98)

JUDGE LECTURES MICROSOFT LAWYER
In the Microsoft antitrust trial, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson expressed his irritation with Microsoft attorney Theodore Edelman
during the cross-examination of Apple executive Avadis Tevanian Jr. Jackson
lectured Edelman: "You keep mischaracterizing what he's told you. He said
this was not a proposal. This was a pre-decisional communication by two
Apple engineers, which was explicitly rejected by Mr. Tevanian and others as
a proposal. To me it's misleading language and it's not acceptable." A few
hours later the Judge Jackson again sided against Edelman when he asked the
judge if Tevanian could be directed to study a document over the weekend.
Judge Jackson: "It's entirely up to Dr. Tevanian. He may have other things
to do." Tevanian: "I do." Judge Jackson to Mr. Edelman: "I think you
better go on to another subject." (Washington Post 6 Nov 98)

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