Rowland Institute Library Blog

A New York Times article explores the disturbing e-mail practice of
“phishing,”  whereby folks receive e-mails purporting to be from
organizations such as eBay or financial firms such as Citibank with
bogus content and links to bogus web sites.  The real risk is
giving away sensitive information in the process. 

An article in Free Pint discusses the promise of the “semantic web,”

The latest issue of LLRX (Law Libraries Resource Exchange) has plenty of interesting reading, including an article on spyware, musings on the future of search engines, and a reprint of Christina Pikas’s solid overview of blog searching.  (source: beSpacific)

Wired News reports: Rather than record companies having to make a new
run of CD pressings, Apple licenses some of their non-current titles
for iTunes.  they’re not the only ones doing this but puting
significant energy into it.  The upside is songs that might
otherwise not be available (legally?) now are.  The downside is
some are exclusively licensed to Apple. 

Of particular concern to the university are problems with visas. 

Turing is considered by many to be the “father of software.” 
This, the first of a weekly series of BusinessWeek profiles on
innovators of the last century, considers his strange and eventful
life, and how Turing “Turing didn’t live to see the revolution he unleashed.”(Source: Slashdot)

Interesting.  Some European researchers presented a program that
does this.  But advocates for openness in gov’t info worry that
this will provoke increased secrecy.
(Source:beSpacific)

CNet points to a number of resources, including articles from Business
Week, Wall Street Journal and other American and even Indian outlets
(to which I would add the AIP’s article in their FYI magazine.)

“You Can’t Do That; It’s Patented”