Robert Nickerson's

Business & Information Systems, 2nd Edition
Robert C. Nickerson

Technology Updates

Chapter 1

New UK crime bill

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Grpff descrambles DVDs
Court awards student $10,000
Did IBM help the Nazis?
Illegal links
Privacy in bankruptcy

Chapter 4

NSF Super Computer
New Apples
IBM makes chip breakthrough
Wearable devices
Making faster chips
Monitors may shock
The eyes can tell
Xbox
Iraq buys PlayStation
Fingerprint mouse
Schools get Zapped
Refurbs take off
Nobel Prize awarded to hardware pioneers
3D monitors
Playing video games may be good for some children
Computer trade-in
Internet appliances

Chapter 5

Program catches plagiarism
Microsoft posts open source
Microsoft breakup order reversed
Microsoft.Net
Linux on PS2
Apple OS X
Microsoft appeals
Web translation software
Y2K bugs still cropping up
Microsoft appeals
Mac OS
Gnome for UNIX
Cookies management coming

Chapter 6

3G Internet test successful
Patent for subscription software
Comcast bids for AT&T broadband
Napster down, then up
3G rollout
Internet phones get virus
Broadband in flight
Hackers try to find child porn
Cell phone lawsuit
Sex.com
Iridium flies again
Anti-spam bills considered
Cable break causes delays
Alternative TLDs
DSL service problems
Domain name system vulnerable
Cell phone radiation levels
Whois
AOL pager
Internet traffic soars in search of election news
No hand-held car phones in Suffolk
The connected car
Wireless home networks
ICANN allows new top-level domain names
A Riot on your phone
FBI's Carnivore
International merger
The fight for the worldwide wireless market
New high-level domain names

Chapter 7

Oracle's new database
New database software

Chapter 8

Bionic suit

Chapter 9

Dow fires employees due to e-mail

Chapter 10

New PeopleSoft suite

Chapter 11

Neurons communicate with chips
AOL uses neural net as a filter
Teaching a computer to talk
E-filing

Chapter 12

Online pricing problems
Books on demand
Napster gets licensing deal
Iran shuts cybercafes
Authors' guild battles over e-books
No webcast of execution
MIT puts it all online
Napster loses in court
Amazon and Microsoft pull Hezbollah ads
Transfer of Web power
States vote to simplify sales tax
China moves to censor Web sites
New TLDs
Torture prevented by e-mail
Who wants to be a billionaire?
Online auctions decide what's for sale
Buy the moon (and some planets) online
International Web links
Translation for auctions
Digital freebies

Chapter 13

Space station computers crash
Nasdaq goes down
CASE tools for rent
NHTSA still has Y2K problem
Y2K update

Chapter 14

International child-porn ring busted
Code Red Worm
E-book hacker
Safe Harbor attacked
Patent for software downloads
Supreme Court rules for free-lancers
Profs go to court
Exodus hacked
Profs can't present
A mouse that can help people see
Polish hackers win security contest
Panic and relief for H1-B visa holders
Identity thief strikes the rich and famous
Info theft at Davos
Anna Kournikova worm
Argus's $50K contest
Fingerprint mouse
Webcasting royalties
Microsoft hack poses national security threat
Copyright hearing
Microsoft Cracked
Panel rejects use of filters
Hardest code cracked
Western Union Hack
Pokemon attacks
NASA attacks hackers

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