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August 31, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. How Retailers Are Turning to Tech
2. Tech Execs More Optimistic About Spending-Study
3. Supercomputer Seeks Comeback
4. Microsoft Makes More Open-Source Overtures
5. Reining in Tech
6. Convention Boasts Miles of Technology
7. Tech Workers Stay Put as Economy Perks Up
8. Nation's Voting Machines Tested in Secret
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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1. How Retailers Are Turning to Tech
>From Business Week (Topic: Retail), Aug. 31:
Newbie shoppers entering a Food Lion in Mooresville, N.C.,
might think they've come to the wrong place. The shop looks
more like an electronics emporium than a traditional grocery
store. Customers bustle about brandishing handheld scanners.
Information kiosks dish out maps on how to find any item,
such as that lattice pie crust hiding between aisles 7 and
8. And near the pharmacy, a high-tech blood-pressure monitor
takes shoppers' readings and keeps the data for a year.
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2. Tech Execs More Optimistic About Spending-Study
>From Reuters (Topic: Spending), Aug. 30:
U.S. technology executives are increasingly optimistic about
the business climate, although plans for increased
technology spending remain modest, according to a study
released on Monday.
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3. Supercomputer Seeks Comeback
>From Wired.com (Topic: Supercomputing), Aug. 30:
Vector supercomputers--the original mega-machines built for
crunching massive quantities of data--are once again widely
available in the United States. But it's unclear how long
they'll be in demand.
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4. Microsoft Makes More Open-Source Overtures
>From eWeek (Topic: Open Source), Aug. 30:
Still feeling the pressure from Linux and other open-source
software competitors, Microsoft Corp. is reaching out
further to the open-source community with offers of joint
development and testing. But it's not yet clear if anyone is
ready to listen.
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5. Reining in Tech
>From The San Francisco Chronicle (Topic: Innovation), Aug. 30:
When the original Napster program became an instant consumer
hit five years ago, it blindsided the music business. Today,
the entire entertainment industry--hoping to avoid being
caught off guard again--has stepped up efforts to nip
potential problems with emerging technologies in the bud,
before the public gets its hands on them.
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6. Convention Boasts Miles of Technology
>From The New York Times (Topic: Republican National
Convention), Aug. 30:
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The Republican National Convention has more than 40,000
miles of cabling to operate high speed computer systems,
telephone lines and live television broadcasts.
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7. Tech Workers Stay Put as Economy Perks Up
>From USA Today (Topic: Staffing), Aug. 29:
Tech workers are holding on to their jobs tighter than they
have in more than 20 years. Just 8.9% of tech workers
willingly left their jobs last year, says an Aon Consulting
survey of 595 of the world's best-known tech firms,
including Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Intel. It was the
third year in a row that voluntary turnover dropped. "It's
as low as I've seen it, and I've been tracking these numbers
since the early '80s," says study author John Radford.
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8. Nation's Voting Machines Tested in Secret
>From MSNBC.com (Topic: E-Voting), Aug. 23:
The three companies that certify the nation's voting
technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws
in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three
voters in November.
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