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TE1 Doing businesswith the government

TE1 Strategis a storehouse of businessinfo
TE7 GSM now suitable phone line substitute
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16 Faces developer hitsjackpot
17 FTC misinterpreted antitrust lawIntel says
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80 Domain name disputes in Cyberspace
56 Compaq focuses onthe Internet

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currently have machines that use alternative Microsoft has still to convince the entire
This seems dose enough to mid-year to take CPUs.
industry of the merits of OnNow.
stock of where the personal computer indusThe significance of these distinctions may
Another complaint that Windows 98 tries
try has taken us so far, and what's likely to be lost on purchasers of these systems to address is the time it takes to launch an
transpire during the rest of 1998. I wouldn' t because they may not know
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events that will power, but merely enoughcomputing
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options as con- never is enough computing power.
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Celeron processor, Socket 7 and the chip
manufacturers that use it, will b e u nder
increasing pressure. Intel trademarked the
launch optimization feature in Windows 98

that reduces the time needed to load your
most frequently used applications.
Whether you derive benefit from
upgrading to Windows 98 depends a lot on
the age of your system. Newer hardware will
be needed to exploit many of the new features. I read reports in the week following
the Win 98 launch of a few upgrade problems people have encountered, And some
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Computers being developed after this event BIOS if necessary.
have the potential to offer real benefits over
those that came before. It's not Windows 98
per se, but how Windows 98 will mesh with
Pentium brand as a way to differentiate its the PC 98 System Design Guide specifications
fifth generation "586" processor from its {co-authored by Microsoft and Intel) that
competitors, and with the Pentium I and its could provide a friendlier PC experience,
Slot 1 architecture, closed the door a little
One longstanding complaint is how long
tighter. CPU competitors such as AMD and ittakesthe computerto boot up once you' ve
Cyrix have typically had success in the entry- hit the on button. If you buya new PC with
level market, competing most successfully FastBoot BIOS support, Windows 98 will get
with Intel's slower chips. They couldn't use you to the desktop more quickly.
the Pentium name, but they could use the
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now part of history, and with the Celeron, system to control power management of the
Intel brings its most current arChiteCtur, PC and its peripherals. OnNow addresses a
including Siot 1, to the low-cost PC market.
diverse set of problems that contribute to
PC manufacturers now face a decision of why a PC can't be an instant-on device. By
what kind of machine to build for the sub- making the OS the central controller of
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I don't know if your editorial department is
asleep at the wheel or just looking to whipup
a little sales through operating system religious wars. Whatever the case, I'm tired of
anti-Microsoft operating system fanatics and
their need to fight the defunct OS/2 vs.
Windows jihad through the new proxy of
I.inux.
The recent tempest-in-a-teapot over the

supposed merits and demerits of Linux is a
good example Like most programmers, I

understand perfectly the technical merits of
Linux. Unlike these zealots, I also understand
that the average SOHO [small office/home
office] user has a hard enough time with
today's no-brainer Win 95 and Mac machines,
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to use.
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repeatedly suggest that Iinux is in any way as
easy to set up or use as pre-installed Win 95
vant) hidden technical functionality. Freeware and it allows usersto make the jump to a Slot
I.inux has a very long way to gobefore it gets 1 motherboard, which will be important
into this ieague.
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will be virtually non-existent in a year or so),
San't lalcls an the teleran chip
I think Intel has done a really poor Iob of marI just fmished reading your article "The fastest keting this chip, as usual they focus on style
Pentium IIs" (KP Lab Test, June '98) by Steve over substance.
Halinda and was a little dismayed by the negDavid Begg
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The area this chip shines in is 3D game stated that Rod Lamirand'5 article on SOHO
performance for the price, something the was incorrectly calculating capital cost
iComp numbers don't show As a cost<on- allowance on a computer used in a home
scious home user, I don't need blistering speed office,
for word processing and surfing the Internet,
Unfortunately, his proposed calculation
but one thing I really notice is a slow 3D game and solution, although interesting, is also
or slow multimedia. The Celeron has the same NOT in
with the fstcome TaxAct.
core as a Peniium II chip, which means it also
Anybody running a business, be it at home
has the same floating point number calculat- or elsewhere, should not assume that income
ing ability as a Pentium H. The one area where tax compliance or planning is simple
just try
you really see the effect of this is in 3D games reading the first few pages of the approxiand some other multimedia applications.
mately 2,500 pages of itf
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tions, such as Quake II, you quickly realize the local professional accountant! Or else you
strength of this chip. It simply blows away the may be making more friends with Revenue
closest priced compe
tition,such as the 233 Canada Taxation than you first thought!
[MHz] MMX, and the AMD and Cyrix chips.
Chris Myburgh CGA
For those who are thinking of upgrading,
and are looking at the lowed CPUs, this chip Jeff Johnston's letter on Rod Lamlrand's article
does a disservice to your readers, Sure, atechnically adept user can install and use Linux.
More likely, the averageSOHO user will wipe
out his hard drive trying to set it up. At this
point, without a machine, he can foq,et about
Linux's "tech support," which consists of a
bunch of hackers you have to track down
through the Interne.
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prefers easy-to-use interfaces and install procedures, even at the expense of (often irrele- is an exceffent choice, as it is very low priced,
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AUGUST 1998 THE COMPUTER PAPER GREATER

TORONTO EDITION
Contimied froin page 6
ed TaxBulletins 175 (paragraphs 2 and 3),and

285 (paragraph 13). As weII as Income Tax
Regulation 1100(3), which is the foundation
for this rule.
Bulletin 172 states "Because capital cost
allowance is based on the length of the taxation year and not on the period during the
year that depreciable property may have been
used to in earning income...."
The taxation year for a business is its fiscal
year. This should properly clarify the issue at
hand. Like office in the home expenses, CCA
is not fully correct when it comes to the calculation of capital cost allowance (depreciation).
If a $3,000 computer is purchased on July
I, then the CCA for this depreciable asset for
the year would be $450 (3,000 x 0.30 x 0.5).
The only time one would prorate this deduction is when the fiscal year of the business in
which the asset was acquired is less than 12
months, I suspect Mr. Johnston misinterpret-
www.tcp.ca
cannot be used to create or increase a business months late!

loss.
Goes to show, even letters via email get
Austin Guerin
lost in the mail!
Kevin Brown
Can't blame
the post office for this one
On or off?
My buddy Geordie asked me the other day, I was wondering, is leaving the computer on
"Why did I send him a New Year's card via for 24 hours a.day bad? I heard that nowadays
email when it was June 8, 1998?e
most computers are burned and tested prior to
I had to sit and think, and yes I sent a few shipping and so leaving it on 24 hours a day
of my friends cards at New Year's Eve and I did is not bad for the computer. Is this true?
indeed send one to Geordie but it arrived six
I'm just curious because I want to leave'
mine on (well the monitor is turned off, just
the CPU is on) since I'm planning on having

a digital answering machine for voice and
faxes.
Sheila Patel
GB replies: Generally, monitors should be protected with a screen saver or set to turn themselvesoff
with powermanageinent.Some users set their
hard drives to automatically spin down, again
using power management (this is not always possibleorrecommended).
Computercomponents should be protected
with a good surge and spike protecting (and
EMIIRFl-resistant) power bar, or with an uninterruptible power supply.
Data should be backed up.
With all of these issues handled, I leave iny
computer(s) on 24 hours a day and find it very
convenient. Some risers claim that the reduced
strain on the power-supply transformer(s) actually
increases systein fife. Of course, if a fan fails, your
CPU couid overheat and you could be in senous
trouble.Some newer systems have heat sensors
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By CraigIHenefee and JeffEvans
AN FRANCISCO (NB) After not much
buildup to speak of, Microsoft Corp.
rolled out Windows 98 in late June to
only a small flurry of related announcements
from software and hardware vendors. The
excitement level rose to what one observer
characterized as "mild interest," although
some major retail chains were reported to
have drawn crowds at midnight when it
became officially okay to sell the upgraded
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song for the occasion.
It has been widely predicted that Microsoft
will abandon its Windows 98 OS format altogether before long in favor of NT. Some pundits even characterize Windows 98 as a collection of bug-fixes that should have been
released years ago at no charge to users.
Microsoft puts a different spin on its recommendationstobusinessesto stay away. The

firm describes Windows 98 as its first consumer-oriented OS. Among other non-business features, its graphics are more tightly
bound to the OS for use with games and other
such applications. Also, it lacks the kind of
operating system (OS).
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information systems (IS) department. So it
never really was intended for business use at
all, according to that version.
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rollout of a single product is expensive, and it
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live Webcast of the talks by Microsoft chief executive officer Bill Gates and vice-president of
marketing Brad Chase, was hosted on the
Microsoft Web site, conducted by rich-media
Internet pioneer InterVU Inc. InterVU said it

managed the feed from dedicated delivery centres distributed across nine Internet backbones.
Meanwhile, at a briefing in Toronto, Neil
Froggatt, Windows marketing manager for
Microsoft Canada outlined the advantages of
Windows 98. The new version of Windows is
a imed to i mprove integration with t h e
internet, allow users to work more easily and
quickly, enhance multimedia, games and
"convergence," and make it easier to add software and peripheral hardware to users' com-
puters. According to Froggatt, "The beauty of

Windows 98 is that it runs applications faster
and easier than Windows 95, while unlocking
a whole new range of hardware devices and

entertainment capabilities for consumers."
Froggatt described a broad base of local PC
end-user enthusiasm for Windows 98, ranging
from the thousands of Canadians who participated in the Windows 98 beta testing program, to the lineups of PC enthusiasts who
showed up at "Midnight Madness" events at
retail software outlets across the country to
buy their copies of Windows 98 upgrades right
after midnight on the morning of June 25.
ln response to questions, Froggatt claimed
new computers with Windows 98 would be
on sale immediately, and that Microsoft
expected the rate of Windows 98 sales to
equal the rate of sales of Windows 95 at its
launch. Froggatt claimed in a statement that
"Windows 98 is catching fire among the PC
enthusiasts." Microsoft has been very active
in its negotiations with PC makers, ensuring
that all significant Canadian vendors will
have Windows 98 available on new PCs from
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By Andri Salwyn
the program in WashingtonD.C.

explains Sylvie Lariviere, Cote's business partner.
What is Faces? It's a software application devel- "But there is also lots of room for making the comor John Walsh, the host and co-producer of oped by Montrealer Pierre Cote that uses 2,800 posite picture as dose to reality as possible. The
the television program
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software" he has ever seen.
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lips thicker... and so on."
"I have traveled throughout the United States
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The finished product is as dose to a photoand never came across something as useful as this on the computer screen, it automatically harmo- graph as you can get and police departments have
to fight crime on television," he said after trying nizes itself with all the other features of the face," expressed "tremendous" interest in the product.
Walsh liked the product so much he'd have
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and Lariviere to market Faces, had it been for sale.
Instead,America's Most Wanted,which claims
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night, offered a full endorsement of the program in
deciding to use it to draw photographic composites
of the most-wanted cnminals on the continent.
The producers of the TV program also offered
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Web site and to handle the marketing of the software in the United States.
"They just asked us what we wanted and said
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"The only thing they could not guarantee was
to have the software demonstrated on the Oprah
show. But they promised they would work on it.
"One of the major problems, investigators face
with composite pictures is that because of the lack
of precision in the drawing, the number of people
looking like the picture can be quite high," says
Cote who spent 10 years developing Faces.
"With Faces, anyone including even a child,
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looks like a photograph of the model and thus
reduce considerably the risk of errors."
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What is also particularly exciting for police
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pose a picture on the computer screen arecoded,

which means a portrait can be sent from one end
of the country to the other as a series of codes and
not a drawing.
"The saving in data transmission time is
incredible,e adds Cote.
The Faces database is so large that composite
pictures of people from all races and color can be
assembled with no problem.
The program also comes with a variety of head
gear that fit the face that is being composed,
Amnica'sMost Wantedhas scheduled to launch
its promotion around the middle of September.
"The official launch will include the free distribution of 75,000 CD-ROMs containing Faces to all
police stations in the US and Canada."
The directors of the program also plan to offer
the program to schools. Educators who have tried
it have said it is so easy to use that kids can learn to
use it in minutes, according to its developers,
"But more importantly, they are convinced
that Faces wiH help children to sharpen their observation skills by learning to pay more attention to
facial details," says Cote.
In its current version, Faces can only create
black and white composite pictures, but Cote is
already working on adding color for hetter reproduction of eye color and skin tones.
The producers ofAmerica's Most Wantedsaytips
from people watching composite pictures aired by
the program have led to the arrest of over 500
wanted criminals in the past 10 years.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (NB) Intel Corp.
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rights." The case could take more than a year
to conclude.
The FTC compliant aBeges Intel withheld
key technical information from leading computer makers such as Digital Equipment,
Intergraph and Compaq Computer, in order
to stifle competition and impede innovation.
While Intel says the company plans to follow a prescribed administrative process, it is
clearly ready to vigorously defend its actions.
Intel said the complaint is based upon a mistaken interpretation of the law and the facts.
"For years Intel has shared its intellectual
property and early samples of its products
with a number of key customers," said F.
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Intel to develop products for the market on a
mutually beneficial basis. We believe the ultimate beneficiaries of this approach have been
consumers, because they get the latest technology andbestproducts as soon as possible.
At the same time, for more than 10 years, Intel
has taken unprecedented steps to ensure that
all of our activities and policies are in full
compliance with existing law.
"The commission's decision today signals
that they want to change the very laws upon
which we' ve based our policies," Dunlap also
said in response to the announcement of the
FTC antitrust claim.
The complaint was filed as an internal FTC
action, which goes to an FI'C administrative
law judge for trial. Att
familiar with the
process say it could take a year or more for the
case to be heard.
According to Mulloy, the judge's decision
or recommendation is then presented to the
five-member FTC commission when Intel can
also present its objections. If the panel accepts
the judge's recommendation, Intel still has
the right to file an appeal in a federal court.
On the other hand, the FTC has appeal rights
should itobject to the judge's decision.
The first phase with the administrative
judge could take as long as one year. An
appeal could extend the case for several years.
Intel contends that the decision by the
FFC attempts to assert a new legal theory
under antitrust law. Mulloy said the FTC has
to show harm to competition as a requirement of an antitrust claim. "Our dominance is
in the PC desktop marketplace," he continued. "They cannot show any harm in this
area. These complaints have to do with workstations and we have a number of cross-licensing agreements with leading companies in
that area.
"The FTC's theory insists a company with
high market segment share like Intel cannot
use its intellectual property rights even against
a company that threatens its core business,
and even when there is no harm to competition," Mulloy also said. "The Supreme Court
and practices are lawful," Mulloy added.

According to the complaint, the three
companies tried to enforce their own patents
on computer parts and technology. Intel retaliated by withholding vital technical information and threatening to cut off the supply of
chips, the FTC alleged.
"If Intel can use its monopoly position in

the market for microprocessors to prevent
other firms from enforcing their own patents,
other firms will have little incentive to invent
new features to challenge Intel's dominance,"
said William J. Baer, director of the FTC's
Bureau of Competition. Baer said Intel forced
the three companies to share valuable patents

they held that could otherwise have led to the
development of competing microprocessors,

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Part I: Why encryption?

tandardization and computing power
have brought us to a place where encryption applications can easily and quickly
secure data sitting on your hard drive or traveling over the open Internet. And it is this
miss adoption of the Internet as the communications channel of choice that adds the last
important factor needed to spur developers
into action a potentially huge market.
It isn't surprising, then, that products
based on various forms of encryption are
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Once the province of big business and
government, encryption is poised to
become a mass phenomenon
out of nowhere, connecting the world in a

matter of a few years, and becoming an essential tool for many people.
While the security of information traveling the Net is a global concern, it has primarily been the business and financial communities that have pushed schemes to keep data
secure. Now that we are all using the Net as an
beginning to arrive, give-aways and trial offers extension of our desktops, the lines. between
are hitting the Net, and encryption-breaking data on a drive and data on a server are blurchallenges are being announced every month. ring and encryption is becoming important.
Unfortunately, terms like algorithm, key and
cipher often induce a glazed look in the eyes How secure do you want lt?
Crack the code challenge
tography an area they don't often investigate.

However, with increased use of the computer and the Net you might want to wade
into that pool and get a feel for the water. The
rest of the world is jumping in, so read on and
find out about encryption basics, recent developments in the politics of encryption and, a
look at some of the programs available today.
lion to anyone who can crack its encryption

code!
It's not likely that anyone will collect US$5
million from Jaws because we are at a point
where we can encode information so that it is
truly unbreakable and that is the problem.
Governments around the world, in particular,
the American government, are afraid that the
borderless Internet combined with uncrack-
of the average computer user, making cyrp-
Encryption companies have begun offering

rewards to individuals or groups that can
cracktheirencoded messages.Challenges by
such companies are a great way to get attention. However, if the encrypted information is
cracked the company offering the reward has
to pay up, Challenge payouts in the past two
years have ranged from $5,000 to $10,000, but
recent challenges have seen crackers fail to
decryptthe encoded messages.The most

ambitious challenge to date is currently being
offered by JawsTechnologies Inc. The CalgaryOne of the problems with scrambling your based company is offering a prize of US$5 mildata is that what was sufficiently difficult to
decrypt a few years agomay now beeasy. And,

of course, what we encrypt today may not be
secure in the future,
It wouldn't be easy to crack even a relativelyweak encrypted message using your
home PC, Using it, it would take you or me
one week of full-time processing to crack 40bit encryption. And to crack a 56-bit encryp-
Why' encryption ls hot today
tion algorithm, you'd need a a special tool
Encrypting written words is nothing new. In

this century, encryption gained a high profile
when the Allied Forces decrypted German
codes during Second World War, and really
took off in the '70s when more powerful computers combined with mathematical research
to produce new forms of encryption. Banks
and governments have been improving their
information security with various forms of
encryption ever since.
Today, the number crunching ability of
computers sits on practically every desk, One
of the programs reviewed later in this article
has a minimum hardware requirement of a
386sx PC, and yet the developer is so confident that its encryption is secure, it is offering
a US$5-million reward to anyone that can
break it.
Equally important to the mass use of
encryption is the widespread adoption of
Windows. A common desktop environment
eases some of the past problems associated
with communicating between different operating systems and programs.
Neither the mass use of PCs or a common
platform 'would have mattered, however, if it
called a Field Programmable Gate Array. Even

then, a single computer would take 38 years to
try all possible key combinations.
That sounds like pretty good security,
except that a company using multiple computers could bring that 38 years down to 13
hours, and a government agency, such as CSIS
(Canadian Security Intelligence Service, also
known as Canada's spy agency), could do it in
less than one minute!
One 56-bit encryption system known as
Data Encryption Standard (DES) has been put
'weren't for the fact that the Internet arrived
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able data spells danger.

National security?
Countries such as France, Iran, Iraq, Russia

and China have laws that prohibit or regulate
the use of cryptography. For example, in the
United Kingdom and Germany it is illegal to
transmit encrypted data by radio communication. In some countries, the use of cryptography is restricted completely. In France it is illegal to encrypt data at all.
And so, various proposals have been concocted to make strong encryption illegal. At
forth as secure by the American government this very moment you can surf the Net and
and proven to be less than that. Last year a buy encryption products, some of which can
group called DESCHALL showed that the DES only be sold and sent to American and
encryption strategy could be broken,
Canadian addresses, and others that can only
The group checked nearly 18 quadrillion be sold and shipped in the United States.
keys by linking together tens of thousands of However, the question arises whether any
volunteer computers over a 140-day period. country in the world could control and/or
How likely is it that this much energy could contain encryption technology. Some compabe brought to crack your email? Not likely, but nies have been very imaginative getting
the point is, processors are very rapidly around export laws, going so far as to print a
becoming more powerful. A 56-bit encryption whole book containing nothing but machine
system might suffice for today but what about language (books are not subject to the U.S.,
tomorrow? And do we want an encryption strong-encryption, software embargo).
standard that can be deciphered at all?
Perhaps the futility of trying to contain
strong encryption is winning out because,
recent actions by the American government

(such as granting permission to Netscape and
Microsoft to use 128-bit encryption for business-level financial software) indicate reality
may beovercoming technophobia.
A lthough t here ar e i n d ications t h e
Canadian federal government will support an
unencumbered encryption industry, it is still
sniffing the wind: "Other countries are also
currently examining their encryption policy
options, Industry Canada is therefore examining the evolving directions of Canada's major
trading partners to ensure its industry and
economic interests are not disadvantaged and
to discourage unnecessary obstacles to global
trade and commerce." This sounds like a continuation of the current situation.
At this time there are no laws in Canada
regulating the export of strong encryption.
But there is a voluntary agreement put forward by the U.S. and signed by Canada and
others. Our signature indicates we will abide
by the U.S. export embargo on strong encryption for another year or so. At that time we
may or may not support whatever comes out
of Washington.
Other trends indicate the U.S. is likely to
ease many of these restrictions anyway. The
proliferation of software and hardware products that utilize various forms of strong
encryption would be all but impossible to stop
regardless.
Part II:
Encryption products
Here is a look at some of the products available today to secure your data for the average
computer user.
Norton Your Eyes Only
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895 Don Mills Rd., 500-2 Park Centre,
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Tel: 800-365-8841
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Estimated street price: $69.95
Norton Your Eyes Only (NYEO) for Windows
95/NT is available in English or French. The
program uses the RSA (Rivest, Shamir and
Adelman, the surnames of its inventors) public key encryption engine to secure files, foldersand email messages.
Public key encryption was developed in

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Encryption on the Efesktop
any commercial product, and the company ECB modes to encrypt data. The product how- button. The PGP tray icon, floating toolbox
Continued /Tarnpage 18
augments its program with public key encryp-
the 1970s and works by using two keys

a
public key, which anyone can access, and a
private key, which you keep secret. Messages
are encrypted with the public key, and the
resulting mess can only be decrypted with the
private key.
The RSA encryption engine is patented
and owned by RSA Data Securities Inc., and
can be found in numerous software products,
including Windows, Netscape Navigator,
Intuit's Quicken, and Lotus Notes.
NYEO also uses a type of encryption called
symmetric key encryption. Symmetric key
encryption uses the same key to scramble and
ever cannot be downloaded from the Web and
and right-click menu selections are all very
tion andstate of the art random seed number may only be shipped to U.S. addresses.
generation.
Jaws has a number of interesting pointers POPfor Personal Privacy S.S
to help you keep your data safe. It suggests for Windows AS/NT 4.0
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Once you
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public key available so people can encrypt

messages to you. If you have a mainstream
email program, encrypting and decrypting is
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use a non-standard number (not a letter or a
number) in the password. Lastly, it recom- Pretty Good Privacy is a public key encryption
mends you do not use any words that are in standard that has been around for a number
the dictionary.
of years and is well used. PGP for Personal
Jaws L5 is a Spartan and clean utility with Privacy is in version 5.5 and runs on Windows
few buttons and no l
curve. Simply 95 and NT 4.0. (Macintosh versions are also
unscramble data. This is a very secure and click on a file or group of files in the explorer- available.)
well-understood encryption scheme, which style window, enter a password and it is done.
PGP is primarily an email encryption proworks well when data does not need to be The process is quick. Decrypting is equally gram, although you can use it to secure regu-
earning
shared. However, when you send someone
easy, but takes a few seconds longer.

data secured by a symmetrical key you must
If you want to encrypt your data so that
also get the key to them. Whether you call, even the CSIS can't read it, get Jaws LS
email or fax the key, the fact is your data is no Professional.
longer secure. For this reason email is usually
Blowflsh Advanced 91
coded with a public key system.
There is one draw back to public key systems as well. The person wanting to send you
information must first get your public key.
They can do so by asking you for it (many
people include their public key at the bottom
of their email) or by visiting a Web site that
keeps a list of such keys. Again there is a small
problem: because there is more than one company selling public key programs, there is
more than one public key list.
As well as these types of encryption NYEO
offers Triple DES, RCSand Blowfish if desired

(Canadian/U.S. version only), The program
will encrypt files individually if you like or
whole folders, The program defaults to a boot
protection password as well. If you start your
computer you must enter a password to proceed. Boot from a disk? No luck, the program
Windows (and back again) smoother.

You may have seen PGP encryption in a
program called Nuts gr Bolts from Helix
plug-ins for popular email programs such as Software. This is the same program, newer verEudora, Netscape and Outlook. The plug-ins sion. Network Associates merged with Helix
lar files on your hard drive. One of the best
things about PGP is that there are a number of
customize the software for those programs and acquired the product. The new version of
and add little touches such as an extra toolbar
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Price: US$20
This product may or may not be available at
the time you read this. The program is only
available via the Web, but its location on the
Web seems to change. A poll of various search

engines turns up reviews, sales information,
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and download links most of which are dead.

The reason why it is so hard to locate was
clear once we finally got a copy of the software, It seems to offer a level encryption forbidden by U.S, export laws. Germans businesses are not bound by these regulations, but
V.S. ISPsare, and this seems to be why links to
this product on three different Web pages did-
from the U.S. However, with registration, a
of features.
Bruce Schneier. Blowfish is a symmetric cipher

that takes a variable-length key, from 32 bits
Jaws LS Oata Enayptlon

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to 448 bits. Since 1993, the system has been

gaining acceptance. The Blowfish encryption
engine is not patented and thus is available
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NT 4.0, The product works with NT's existing capability.
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some other program, it is still possible to

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email program and send it.
PGP is particularly smart about sending
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he reason the monitor is
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it'sthere because you focus on
the content of the screen and not
the method of delivery. Typically,
when you start to pay attention
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of a malfunction or because the
monitor no longer meets your
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grams run simultaneously, the

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er, flipping from a spreadsheet to
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ICQ, over to the CD player and

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resolution for the display area.
While a lot of 14- or 15-inch
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of 1,024x768 or higher, the smaller text
and graphics can become
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next logical step and buying a
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For years, 14- and 15-inch
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only reasonable choice the user
monitors may also be made from

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from a batch with slight defects
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monitors? What is "dot pitch"?
spot. Most shadow masks currently manufactured are fabricatCathode ray tubes (CRTs) are ed from a substance known as
essentially big glass bottles with a "invar," which is tough and resisphosphor coating on the big end tarit to warping. This allows for
(the screen you see) and a firing more precise reproduction on the
mechanism on the other end,

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the color beams hit the phosphor.
When referring to 17-inch monitors, the 17 inches refers to the
d iagonal measurement of t h e
entire front of the tube. A certain
had. They were cheap and easy- portion of the tube is unusable or
to-use. Seventeen-inch monitors non-viewable, because it must be
were the domain of the graphics hidden behind the plastic casing
professional or the user with cash that holds the tube in the monito blow on the biggest and the
tor. The viewable area is the full
best. As with CPUs and other size of th e t ube, minus the
components, though, things only amount that's hidden or unusremain expensive so long as able. The unusable section is
they' re on top of the field.
always present, but the amount
With 19-, 20- and 21-inch varies from manufacturer to manmonitors making their way into ufacturer, and model to model.
the domain of the professionals Although all the models in this
(and consequently earning the roundup are referred to as 17big coin for manufacturers), the inch monitors, the actual viewpricing on 17-inch models has able area ranged from 15.6 inches
fallen. Now, the average con- to 16.1 inches.
sumer can consider purchasing
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With all of the different types of
monitors out there, choosing the
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of a challenge, and all the numbers and terminology thrown
around can be overwhelming.

What does "viewable" mean?
What'sthe difference between
screen face.
Aperture grille, on the other
hand, consists of numerous wires
running along the length of the
picture tube, to direct the electron beams. This process creates a
much richer picture, with better
color. The downside is that two
"damper wires" are required to
hold the many guide wires in
place, and these two wires show
up on the display as very thin
interruptions in the picture. For
the typical user, these lines tend
tions in brightness or as loss in

focus quality around the edges of
the screen.
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problems will be of little concern
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monitors tend to be the most
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may have change your whole system a few times. For that reason,
it may be worth investing a bit
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be hard t o d i stinguish from
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circumstances.
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confusion. As with the smaller something called "dot pitch."
monitors, 17-inch CRT displays Dot pitch is a measurement (in
come in two major types: shadow millimeters) of t h e d i s tance
mask technology,and aperture between two picture elements of
dollars invested in a m onitor

with a smaller dot pitch may be
worth the investment, if chronic
eyestrain is prevented.
Distort the distortion!
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compensate for picture problems

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grille technology. Which one is the same color on the screen. The effect,
which changes the edges
best for you depends on your
needs.
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of th e s creen f ro m c o nvex
through concave. Most also feature trapezoidal distortion and
image tilt.
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The most expensive of the .28 mm monitors

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is also one of the highest quality in that dot
pitch. There is some moire and flicker in higher res, but otherwise a top-notch monitor.
Monex Teievideo
SV200
From:Monex Technologies
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Tel: 905-709-3660
http: //www.televideoinc.corn
Pro:
OSD very intuitive, with non-menu brightness and
contrast buttons
good selection of image manipulation controls
good quality.28 mm dot pitch
minimal flicker, and small amounts of moire
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Mac users.
slight loss of focus around the edges

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may be inadequate for serious computer users.
Better as a starter monitor, or for the casual
user.
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DX700T
From: MAG Innovision
Tel: 905-890-9465
http: //www.maginnovision.corn
Pan asonic
PanaSync S70
From: Panasonic Canada
Tel: 800-265-061 6
http://www.panasonic.ca
Pro:
well-known name in monitors
. top-notch quality display, at.25 mm dot pitch
good selection of user controls, including nonmenu brightness/contrast
CSB:
slight edge deformities and edge flicker on unit

tested
priced a bit higher than some
Weil-known in t h e m o nitor field, MAG
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DX700T, which has great image quality for
the most part. Edge integrity was a bit of a
problem, with some waviness and jitteriness,
a good chunk of which was correctable with
the OSD image manipulation.
Pro:
high quality display with next to no flicker and only
some moire athigher res.

good selection of image manipulation options in
the OSD
Cos:
even at,27 mm dot pitch, image is a bit coarse.

higher price
The PanaSync S70 is certainly a sturdy and
confident monitor with a great display quality. However, the price tag may scare people
away, especially with the monitor only checking in with a .27 mm dot pitch. A shallower
version is also available, at a higher cost.
ftjiagitronic C-SV1701PS
From: Liuski International
Tel: 800-665-5487 http: //www.magitronic.corn
Pro:
reasonable performance for.28 mm dot pitch
OSD controls fairly intuitive.
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INagnavox 107s
From: Philips Canada
Tel: 800-387-0564
http: //www.philips.corn
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non OSD buttons for contrast and brightness
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monitor isn't too bad except for some problems with focus at the edges of the screen.
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From: Mitsubishi
Tel: 800-387-9630
http: //www.mitsubishidisplay.corn
OSD control is fairly awkward, with a push-button

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the chassis
OSD requires user to scroll down to either "save"
or "exit" for each sub-menu, which can be timeconsuming
moire is fairly noticeable in 1,280x1,024 resolution
Pro:
The Magnavox 107s from Philips has a display

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priced a bit on the high side
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From: Princeton Graphics
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THE COMPUTERPAPER GREATERTORONTO EDITION www.tcp.ca AUGUST 1998
T CP T E S T L A B S
The higher end of 17

monitor casing, making use a bit difficult; buttons
are also a bit on the small side, which makesuse
awkward
By Sean Carruthers
few of the monitors we received were a

bit out of the range we had asked for
initially, and are included here for
informational purposes.
Compaq V7$
From: CompaqCanada
Tel: 800-567-1616
,".," http: //www.compaq.ca
From Big Blue comes "Big Black," the only

monitor we received that strayed from the
standard off-white color. The contrast of the
casing makes the picture quality stand out
even more than usual, being a monitor of outstanding quality from the get-go. The $1,140
suggested retail price is pretty steep, but if
money is no object, this monitor is a dream.
Pro:
LG Flatron 78FT
excellent display quality, with good picture and next
From: LG Electronics
to no flicker or moire
Tel: 888-542-2623
USB port for running keyboard and mouse through
http: //www.lgeus.corn
monitor
separate brightness/contrast spinners
top brand name
Pro:
'relativelyinexpensive, as 'performance' monitors go astounding .24 mm dot pitch
Con:
competitive pricing
minimal OSD controls
OSD control button layout is counter-intuitive: the+ separate brightness/contrast spin wheels
key is located BELOW
the - key.
Con:
slight image distortion around edges
of the screen
Although a bit thin in the OSD, the Compaq two-tone coloring of case (off-white and blue-grey)
V75 monitor comes through in sheer perforcan be a bit distracting
mance, with a solid and high-quality display, moire a bit problematic at 1,280x1,024
all for a fairly low price (for the performance
line). The USB port is a nice touch.
The "G" in LG Electronics stands for Goldstar,
the name under which LG's monitors previously sold. Along with the new name, the
Eizo FlexScan TZ-C7
78FF introduces LG's new Flatron technology,
From: Dynamic Channels
with
an ultrafine.24 mm dot pitch. While the
CanadaInc.
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quality is great, the coloration of the
Tel: 800-800-5202
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http: //www.eizo.corn
blue-grey panel tending to draw the eye away
from the screen. A minor complaint about an
Pro:
otherwise fine monitor, though.
.25mmDiamondtron display offers superior image
quality
automatic setting control is one of the most accuNEC INultlSync E700
rate tested
From: Packard Bell-NEC
Tel: 800-366-0476
OSD control button is a panel that tilts in the four
http: //www.nec.corn
compass directions, with a centrepoint as "click"very intuitive
Con:
Pro:
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high-quality .25mm display
"centre" by mistake whengoing for one of the
backed by the NEC
name
directional arrows
reasonably low cost for a performance monitor
some ghosting evident on unit tested
Con:
a bit on the heavy side
a few less image control features than usual on the
higher
end models,and an OSD hampered by the
Eizo is known for creating high-performance
slightly confusing "proceed" button
monitors, and the FlexScan TX-C7 is no
exception to this. The monitor has a very at 15.6 inches, viewable area is smaller than most.
crisp picture, great frequency response and a moire can be a problem at 1,280x1,024
good selection of features. Definitely a great

choice for graphic work.
IBIN P72
From: IBM Canada
Tel: 800-465-7999
http: //vnvw.ibm.corn/ca/
Delivering high performance for a low cost,

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the other monitors, but otherwise provides
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that happened in shipping
Sceptre is well-respected in the field of monitors, and you can see why, the Dragon Eye
D73A offers an impressive .26 mm dot pitch,
for only S345 street price. The OSD spinner
controls are a nice innovation, though it can
be a bit awkward when a lot of spinning is
necessary,
Viewsonic G$771
From: Viewsonic
Tel: 800-&88-8583
http: //www.viewsonic.corn
Pro:
great display quality, even at:27 mm
shallower design (back to lront) is a plus for smaller workspaces
OSD relatively intuitive, with a lot oi image manipulation capabilities
Con:
higher price
moire can be problematic at 1,280x1.024
Another well-respected name in monitors,
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of the entry-)eve) field price-wise, but delivers
the goods in performance. Even with the .27
mrn dot pitch, the picture quality is great, and
the GS771 offers a great alternative to more
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Performance: 4:ybervlslon C72
ln the field of )ower-priced monitors, the Cybervision C?2 is a treat, offering an outstanding .25 mm picture quality, excellent functionality in the OSD, and price that's not
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Sceptre Dragon Eye 973A

This month, both the AOC and the Sceptre monitors offer
excellent price/performance ratio. Though it has a coarser display, the AOC still has a great picture, and has a lot
of features to boot. The Sceptre monitor offers a finer dot
pitch, but carries fewer OSD features. Both offer a lot of
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Pro:
high quality.25 mm dot pitch display
OSD controls feature separate buttons for menu
categories, for easier navigation
non-menu brightness/contrast buttons
competitive price
Microsoft
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OSD easy-to-use
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be problematic, as well as flicker and moire at
1,280x1,024
minimal image manipulation controls
problems with regulation (image compression and
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accounts, theft, secret commissions, and per'I'ORONTO (NB) A survey conducted by one
sonal use of company supplies. Cust'omerof the world's largest security firms has disrelated fraud is predominantly committed
closed that, despite concerns among business
through check-forgery, credit card schemes,
leaders that the Internet is not a secure way to
automatic teller machine fraud, misstated
send information, it is still widely used by
accounts, and withholding cash receipts.
Canadian companies to do just that.
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food and packaged goods,
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mation.
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However, the study shows 43 percent stated their company uses the Internet to trans- that 57 percent of all respondents admitted activity. However, almost half the firms admitted they accept forms of payment that make
mit sensitive or private information, anyway. that their firm had been a victim of fraud.
them vulnerable to money laundering.
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economy they need to be more concerned rose to 62 percent within the financial services acknowledged they do not conduct backabout the security of their Internet transac- sector. When asked for a reason why fraud ground checks on investors. Vulnerability to
tions," KPMG Investigation and Security Inc. would increase, over half of the survey partic- money laundering was highest in the financial
services sector. Fifty-nine percent of responipants blamed regulatory deficiencies.
president Norm Inkster said.
However, less than five percent attributed dents from this sector believe their company is
"The Internet is a very easy and convenient
way to conduct business and send information. the problem to a lack of government interven- affected by international money laundering,
I'eople are busy and electronic commerce and tion. "One of the conclusions that I think we while 56 percent accept forms of payment that
mail appeals to them because it's fast and saves can draw from these results is that many busi- make them vulnerable to money laundering.
Companies are, however, taking measures
time," Inkster continued. "However, the ness leaders blame the increase in fraud on the
to
prevent
fraud among employees.
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For the first time in its seven-year history,
KPMG's fraud survey asked about the security sophisticated, the source appears to be the in place. However, only 50 percent of responmeasures for computers and the transmittal of same as recorded by KPMG surveys in previ- dents say they ran background checks on new
information by Canada's largest companies. ous years. Overwhelmingly, the greatest single suppliers and contractors. Even fewer less
Inkster points to warning signs from the source of fraud, according to respondents, is than 20 percent conduct background checks
results that indicate that Canadian businesses their company's own employees. Seventy- on new investors or franchisees.
Other survey findings support the fact that
are vulnerable to fraud through the Internet. seven percent of respondents cited their
"I believe that business leaders are putting employees as the principal source of fraud. companies should have procedures in place to
their companies at risk," he said. "Fighty-two Customers were considered by respondents to prevent fraud. Most respondents report that
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er systems to be a potential security risk for
fraud. But less than half reported using security measures when transmitting information
over the phones or Internet."
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realize that when you are hooked up to the
Internet, the Internet is hooked up to you.
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British survey carried out b y R eed wide open, allowing anyone to steal your
Exhibitions, the easiest way to steal large prized possessions," he explained.
companies' vital information is through the
Porter claims the survey has exposed a
Internet gateways of their accountants, lawyers, major rupture in "the IT security chain." Large
advertising and public relations agencies.
companies, he notes, often spend millions on
Reed'claims 62 percent of these profes- their own I'I' security, but are ignoring their
sional advisors are using the Internet without professional suppliers' security standards.
any security in place, needlessly exposing
He says companies often impart vital
their clients' data to potential theft, breaches information to their medium-sized profesof confidentiality, manipulation of data, dele- sional advisers, such as detailed company
tion of files, and to their competitors.
accounts, Inarketing plans, designs, legal
According to the company, many large information, employee information and at
organizations that invest heavily in their own the same time, "they are overlooking the fact
information technology (IT) security systems that 62 percent of these companies have no
may not be aware that their systems are being form of internet security, whatsoever."
circumvented by their professional advisors.
Steve Barnett, Check Point U.K.'s managThe survey, commissioned by Reed and ing director, said that, as the use of Internet
Check Point Software Technologies, claims to technology continues to skyrocket, the scale
show 8O percent of medium-sized profession- of this issue is will grow. "The results of the
al advisors are now using the Internet as a survey highlight the fact that large companies
business tool, and of these, 62 percent are investing millions in I T security systems
doing so without any Internet security.
could in fact be wasting time, resources and
Of the 80 percent using the Internet, )teed money if security breaches are occurring via
claims S6 percent had it connected to their its professional advisors."
networks, of which only I8 percent had a fireThe survey shows that, of the three profeswall in place.
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Tim Porter, an event manager with Reed, best protected, as SO percent of those firms
said the results of the survey are extremely with an Internet connection have a firewall or
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some other form of Internet security.
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However, of those that have password controls, many acknowledged that it is often ineffectual as it is badly administered
one accounting firm admitted it uses passwords, but that
everyone knows everybody else's password.
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the issue of viruses and the importance of
passwords, "however it is obvious that most
companies are totally unaware of the dangers
of not having a firewall and yet how easy and
inexpensive it is to implement."
The survey also found that 38 percent of
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system for the data on their computers.
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the free exchange of information."

Later on came groups like the PLO, which
breaks into networks "purely for profit;" and
finally, people whose motives are entirely
malicious.
ELLESLEY, Mass. (NB) Network

"cracking" is taking a more malicious direction, while adding specialty areas like mfrackingm and mcryptingm in
Many of the newest breed of crackers are
the process, according to a member of the kids who are unaware of cracking"s roots, said
new anti-cracking u ni t a t Ca m b ridge Wade, one of eight members of the CTP antiTechnology Partners (CTP).
cracking team.
"Cracker" describes an individual who
CTP, a systems integration and software
breaks into networks, according to Wyly
development specialist based in Cambridge,
Wade of CTP's Enterprise Security Systems Mass., formed the new group, known as
Group, at the CTP-sponsored New Hack Tour "Core," in response to customer requests. CTP
conference. "Hacker" refers to anyone who takes ampartneringm stance with its customers,
meeting whatever information technology
requirementsthat need to be addressed, Wade
said.
With Internet security a rising concern
among customers, the Core group stays about
one year ahead of the industry in keeping on
top of new security threats, according to CTP.
The job is challenging, because new
mincursions,m or security holes, show up every
day, Wade said.
A few of the more popular methods of
cracking discussed at the conference included
the FTP (file transfer protocol) bounce attack,
protocol tunneling, and tactics such as SYN
flooding, which result in "denial of service."
In an Fl'P bounce attack, crackers send
scripts that allow them to gain access to unau-.
thorized FTP servers. Protocol tunneling
writes program code, even an end user who involves encapsulating, or hiding, one protocol inside of another, such as a telnet inside a
scripts Microsoft Word macros, Wade said.
Emerging derivatives of "cracker" include ping request. Many tactics can be used.to
mfracker,m a person who breaks into phone bring denial of service, including SYN floodnetworks, and mcrypter,m a specialist in cracking, ghost routing, and service loops, for
ing cryptographic algorithms, Wade added.
instance. In this type of attack, users often
The earliest crackers engaged in the prac- don't realize a server has been hit, but instead
tice for "humanitarian" reasons, such as the believing it's busy, or down for repair. 0
desire to help build better products, according
to Wade, The humanitarians were the joined Contact: Cambridge Technology Partners
by those who cracked networks to "further http: //www.ctp.corn
Emerging derivatives
of "cracker" include
"fracker," a person
who breaks into
phone networks, and
"crypter," a specialist
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m odel
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subscribers. He said 3Web is expected to
attract 37,000 households in Calgary within
18 months. On average, he said 2.6 people per
Internet-connected household tend to use
Internet access. (Family members will each be
able to have their own logins, with separate
email accounts, and preferences.)
Users will access the Internet and email
services through 3Web software, which
includes Netscape Communicator 4.0S. That
interface software will, of course, contain
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for its Oracle Lite mobile computing data-
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PalmPilot and Palm III organizers, as well as
for Palm Computing platforms from IBM

and Symbol Technologies.
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Oracle Lite. The subsequent "full-featured" edition will add the ability for realtime database synchronization and replication between a handheld PC and either a
notebook running Oracle Lite, or Oracle's
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n one of my previous careers I co-owned a
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lots of processing of Forms and such. With just
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have liked to pursuing other government work.
Although I'm now far from government
contracting, people occasionally talk to me
about doing business with government.
Sometimes the talk strays to rumor and
innuendo about how someone won a rich
contract because he knew someone who
worked with someone who was tight with
the department's chief muck-a-muck. It' s
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There may be instances where this is the
true state of affairs, but what drives this persistent and quite common attitude, I think, is
resignation and resentment that smaller
companies don't really have a chance to bid
on those lucrative government contracts that
get reported in the daily news.
If you are one of those people who has dismissed government as a potential customer,
there are two reasons why you might want to
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a huge purchaser of goods and services.
Secondly, governments particularly at the
federal level have taken steps to make the
process more open and accessible.
Technology has played a big role in opening up government. The Federal government's
Strategis Web site, for example, is an ambitious project, and impressive in the scope of
information it provides. In many cases, information that was very difficult to find is now
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optimal version for the site (and an apologetic
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download Adobe Acrobat Reader on the pages
that list documents created in PDF (portable
document format).
The need to provide timely information

packaged in a form businesses could use was
the driving force behind the Strategis initiative, says Lucie DeBlois, manager of the
department's Internet marketing unit.
Making it happen
The federal government had determined
access to strategic information was crucial to
the survival of SMEs, particularly those in the
knowledge-based sectors of the economy,
which rogether are the primary creators of
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Feasibility studies began in 1994 during a
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Consultation with Canadian SMEs confirmed relevant business information was difficult and time-consuming to locate. Also,
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Since 1989, Precise Software has been

developing operating systems called real time
operating systems for technology products,
is also an authorized reseller of software for
including amplifiers that prevent speakers
developing systems.
from blowing during stadium rock concerts,
Jasek says about 60 percent of his business satellite paging systems, and operating sysis with the federal government and he would tems For Formula I race cars.
like to see that grow.
"A lo t of contracts come t h r ough
[MERX]. The process is heavily driven by
that technology. You have to understand how
to bid on [government projects ] but at the
same time you have to prove to a client that
you' ve done your homework in advance."
Developed and operated hy Cebra Inc.,
th Bank of Montreal's electronic commerce
company, MERX is an internet-based bidding system used by the federal and several
provincial governments and other public-sector institutions. MERX is just one of ways the
federal government is attempting to standardize and simplify the p rocurement process.
Craig Honegger, Precise Software
The Canadian Federation of' Independent
Business (CFIB), which represents the interWith that type of technology, it's imporests of Canada's small business community,
tant
to talk to the customer and explain the
has been lobbying for years to cut the red tape
and reduce the amount of documentation merits and processes of the technology,
businesses are required to provide before the Honegger explains. "In the private sector
government will come to the table. More than there's a lot of' interaction between the custwo-thirds of CFIB members surveyed said tomer and the vendor. There's more of'a diathey found the amount of'paperwork needed logue with the customer. Whereas with the
to bid on government contracts too time-con- government you tend to submit these proposals and you either win or you don't win. You
suming and costly.
In response, a forum of Treasury Board never really get a chance to explain the merits
and private and public sector representa- of the technology."
His sentiments are common.
tives have been trying to reduce the paper
Kevin Higgins, FreeBalance Inc. president
nightmare for small businesses. Over the
last year, they reported cutting 55 percent and chief executive officer, says, "Dealing
of the paperwork burden. This red-tape with the federal government has been very
good [for FreeBalance]." But he understands
reduction not only aided the bidders, it
saved the government millions of dollars as the frustration of some companies. In many
well. The Treasury Board has also estab- ways the government has been trapped by its
lished an ombudsman to review small busi- own procurement procedures. He suggests if
you want to do business with the governness concerns.
In another streamlining efFort, Public ment, "You have an up front investment in
time and effort to learn how to market to
Works and Government Services Canadathe federal purchasing organization responsi- them. But if'you do have products that are
relevant to government and you' re willing to
ble f' or outfitting most departments with
everything from office supplies to computer take the time and effort to understand government and how it buys, and market at the
programming service~ recently set up a
group called Contracts Canada, which gives departmental level, you can build up a very
small businesses a "single window" to access substantial business with a customer who is
very loyal."
information on government contracts.
business-like way of working, they are not

business. They have a whole difFerent reality
and they need to have a whole different reality. By virtue of the fact that they are spending
taxpayers' money, they have an obligation to
taxpayers."
He says, "Most vendors listen for about
half the time they need to and then say, 'Man,
this is just too complicated' and they either
try to circumnavigate the process or they just
go and sell to the private sector where they
can make a sale with less effort."
Higgins adds, "You really have to decide if
government is part of the economy that you
want to sell to. You have to organize your
marketing and sales efforts to understand how
the departments are organized, who the people are, and build those relationships. And
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only then does business start to happen.'
The Canadian federal government spends
more than $8 billion each year, so there are
many opportunities for small business operators who want to take the time to understand
government and market to them.
With the tneasures taken by the federal
government todate, there seems to be recognition that the procurement system isn't perfect and a commitment to improve it.
Alfonso Galgliano, minister of public
works, has said recently measures to improve
access to federal contracts for small- and medium-sized businesses is a government priority.
Improvement is especially an issue in the
high-tech world. To this end, the federal government has developed what it calls benefitdriven procuremenr (BDP), which could have
a dramatic impact on smaller computer hardware and service companies. BDP Falls under
common purpose procurement (CPP), a new
form of planning and implementation for
government projects in most industries.
T he BDP processallows those assessing
the bids to look beyond the bottom line.
They can consider the abilities of the bidders
to manage and complete a project, making
cost of secondary importance.
Factors other than cost are particularly
important in the high-tech industry where
everyoneknows cheaper isn't necessarily better. The more complex the technology, the
more factors other than specifications need to
be considered. For example, two bidders may
propose completely difFerent technologies as
On i t s W e b s i t e ( h t t p: //www.consolutions to the same problem. In a case like
tractscanada.gc.ca), you can find infortnation
this, neither cost nor specifications would be
on what goodsand services the Federal govthe best place to start assessing the bids.
ernment buys, who it buys from and how it
So, while things are improving for small
companies looking to do business with the
spends its money. Through this site, you can
also link to and search the MERX database.
federal government, they' re still not perfect.
Even with all the changes, many compaBut for those companies with a fitting product or service, as well as the desire to sell to
nies still prefer to work with business instead
of government. Says Craig Honegger, vicethe government and the time required to
learn how, the rewards can be great.Just ask
president of Precise Software Technologies
Inc., "We actually preFer to deal with private
AJJA or FreeBalance.
Bruce Lazenby, FreeBalance
industry because there's less bureaucracy, less
And there's no shortage of information
red tape. It can be very slow dealing with the
available on how to begin doing business with
FreeBalance provides financial systems to the government. The hest place to start is
government."
Honegger adds that speed is not the only public service organizations worldwide, yet its with your potential customer. Says Lazenby,
issue. "The whole bidding style is quite diffocus has been mostly on the Canadian f'eder- "Speak to the purchasing oAicers. The people
Ferent. It's a completely difFerent process sell- al government. Adds Bruce Lazenby, vice- at Public Works and Government Services
ing to government. Also, usually when you' re p resident o f b u s iness development at Canada will spend a lot of time explaining the
dealing with private industry there are a lot
FreeBalance,"People need to understand that process to you if you ask. They are very open
fewerpeople involved."
although the government is working toward a and Friendly." 0
"The whole bidding style is
quite different. It's a completely different processselling to

government. Also, usually
when you' re dealing with private industry there are a lot
fewer people involved."
"People need to understand

that although the government
is working toward a businesslike way of working, they are
not business"
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Public Works and Government Services
ant to find out how to do business

with the federal government? Talk
to your potential client. The government has no shortage oF information to
help you decide if public sector contracts are
Canada (PWGSC) is the main purchaser of

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Contracts Canada, unlike MERX, is an
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PWGSC or Contracts Canada directly.
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on purchasing surplus Federal government
properties. It lists contact names and telephone numbers. Of course, the provinces and
municipalities get first shot at surplus properties, but there may be some tempting leftovers. The 24-hour hotline (888-GOVLAND) will give you basic information on
provincial and regional properties.
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Aboriginal firm? The federal government
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aboriginal companies to do business with
government. As part of this program, the
Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
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department's W e b si t e (h t t p : //www.
inac.gc.ca).
Strategis (hnp://www.strategis.ic.gc.ca) is
a good place to find all business-related
resources. Once on the main menu, click on
Business Support and Services and check out
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from the government and the Canadian
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is not your mode of communication. CBSCs
are located in every province and territory.
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information officers who are surprisingly
knowledgeable about the endless number of
government programs and services, provided
departments have given them the right information. You can drop into one of the centres
to do research on your own or with assistance
of stafF, or use the roll-free fax-on-demand
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ATI a world leader in PC graphics

By Geof Wheelwright
to ATI lies in its technology and add-on

products.
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198$ afteP imtnigrating ro Canada, ane
w
ighlysuccessfulCanadian
computer
companies are becoming more
common on the world market. But
Canadian high-tech firms that can establish
and maintain global market leadership are
still pretty rare.
That's just one reason why you should
Probably the hottest ATI product for consumers right now is the ATI All-in-Wonder
Pro board. It provides you with a built-in
TV tuner, video capture capabilities, highresolution graphics and a number of unique
know about Thornhill, O n t .-based ATI
Technologies Inc., a c omputer graphics computer/TV features such as "instant
board manufacturer that is considered by replay"(achieved by recording a few seconds
many to be the world leader in this sector. In of a TV broadcast onto your hard disk).
To capitalize on the success of the All-infact, ATI has done so well that at the end of
April it was ranked the number one world- Wonder Proproduct,as wellas the demand
wide vendor for 2D and 3D graphics accel- it expects from t h e r e cent r elease of
erator add-in boards by market research Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system,
group I n t ernational D a t a C o r p oration ATI recentlyannounced a series of product
upgrades designed to take maximum advan(IDC).
tage of Windows 98.
IDC reported ATI shipped nearly six
These productsinclude a new version of
million add-in boards in 1997, making up
the
All-in-Wonder Pro, 3D , 2 D , v i deo
about 30 percent of the total world maraccelerator
and TV tuner that is now capaket. And IDC suggests ATI is well positioned to take Further advantage of the ble of "enabling" Microsoft's Web TV for
market as it continues to grow over the Windows as well as providing video capture
and TV-out display. In addition, ATI's more
next couple of years.
"The market For PC graphics accelerator basic XPERT 98 board boasts 3D, 2D and
video acceleration and 8 MB of SDRAM
add-in boards pushed through the 20 milmemory For the modest sum oF$98.
lion mark in unirs shipped worldwide in
M eanwhile, A TI sa y s i ts n ew
1997 a 54 percent year over year growth
XPERT@play
98 board is designed f'o r
w
explained
IDC
anarate for 1995 to 1997,
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IDC
active
Windows
98 game players and offers
lyst Edward Buckingham.
3D
graphics,
2D
and video acceleration
forecasts this market to continue growing to
with
TV
out
display
(which ATI expects to
roughly 29 million units shipped in 2002.
M uch of t h i s g rowth w il l r e sult f r o m be used For large-screen gaming) and a full 8
has Ied it to its curreint status, as the top'-'.":::

graphics hardware vender in the wnriilI ':::-:.according to an- sIntersnattonalc Dacha Corpp
report.
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oflicer, has been tdenti6ed intimately with '.
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his company, largely on the basis of a "Ho
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Knows' marketing and PR campaign in
1991. One of Ho's principal strengths has
been to build a team of some of' the beit '-'=technologisrs in the world, based largely on
the. rich pool of' talent in the southern '-,=,
Ontario region, Ho also has a very good feel
lar m the dtg ta video segment.
for market trends and the demands of
=--..--However
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I
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taged a strong recovery. ATI dropped its
improvi ng graphics and 2 D and 3Q capa

bllines.
went throu@ a difficult period "
; sideline businesses in sound cards and

modems, a"d concentrated on its core
:-:-- business building the market leading

yaphtcs processor chips and packaging
leading to delays in product releases or

cancelatiort. of'proposed products, paiticu-
n ew Features and f u n c tions such a s

Electronic Programming G uide, w here
viewers can view programming information
on-screen. By entering their zip code and
cable company, Microsoft pledges that
upgrading the older PC fo r m u l timedia MB of SGRAM memory. ATI has designed WebTV for Windows users will be able to
applications and enhancing the new low- all of these products for use with either find out what programs are coming on,
cost PC from a basic function machine to a Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) or the older view information about those shows, and
PCI (Personal Computer Interconnect) add- access any TV show with a single click.
true multimedia system."
IDC predicts products for the PC graph- on interfaces.
ATI appears to have high hopes for the On board from birth
ics market will continue ro evolve rapidly,
A
ll-In-Wonder
Pr o ( o r A T I - T V a n d Over and above all of these developments,
w ith 2 D a c c eleration g i v ing w a y t o
XPERT
series
cards)
as it says it will "Fully ATI has also been able to take joy in the fact
advanced 3D capabilities, the introduction
e
nable"
the
W
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9 8 W e bT V f o r that PC manufacturers are increasingly optof innovations such as DVD playback, and
the migration of multimedia applications to Windows Feature. This will let you watch ing to have ATI graphics technology built
mainstream PCs for both corporate and standard TV programs, as well as new inter- into their systems at the factory. And this
active television broadcasts, on a Windows should be good news for consumers, as it
consumer use.
will eliminate the need in some cases to
98 PC.
All of that, however, is not why ATI
Microsoft's WebTV for Windows, which go out and bu y add-on boards to get
should be o f i n t e rest t o t h e a v erage
improved graphics performance.
C anadian p e r sonal co m p u te r us e r . is designed to provide access to both TV
I n June, For e x ample, b ot h D e l l
Patriotism only goes so far. Like consumers programming and Web content through
anywhere else in the world, the biggest draw cable hook ups, promises to further provide Computer and arch-rival Compaq opted to
them on high- uali cards.
Je+Euunr
use ATI boards in their new PCs. Dell is

using ATI's RAGE IIC chip in the new Dell
OptiPlex G1 and Ei corporate computers to
provide 3D, 2D and video acceleration to
mainstream PCs and entry-level corporate
systems.
C ompaq, meanwhile, is moving in a
slightly different direction by choosing ATI's
digital flat-panel accelerator board, the
XPERT LCD, to power its new "digitalready" Presario 5000 and 5100 series of
home PCs. The unique thing about this deal
is that it provides Compaq Presario 5100
and 5100 series systems with a digital interFace to connect to a new breed digital flatpanel monitors. It also supports existing
"legacy" analog cathode ray tube (CRT)
monitors, so that you can start with a CRT
display on your new Presario and then

upgrade later to a digital flat panel monitor
without worrying about upgrading your display adapter. 0
Voice recording chip for new Motorola cellphones

By Sylvia Dennis
AN JOSE, C alif. ( N B) Information Storage
Devices has announced that its ISD Voice Chips are
being incorporated in Motorola's new CD-900 series
of dual band GSM (global system for mobile communications) 900/1800 cellphones.
Newsbytes understands that the CD-920 and CD-930
series of handsets will include a voice recording function,
known as VoiceNote, that records up to three minutes oF
messages for later playback. The 180-second time cycle is
higher, notes, than on most other handsets, where voice

recording Facilities are included.
The VoiceNote facility is enabled by the ISD33180
chip, a member of the ISD33000 series of chips, which
ISD says are the industry's first family of three-volt, single
chip record and playback products optimized For communication devices.
According to ISD, the new handsets are the third and
fourth Motorola cellular handsets to integrate ISD's voice
chips for voice storage functions. Motorola first integrated
the ISD voice chips into its MicroTAC Elite handset, and
later into the StarTAC 8600 unit.
David Angel, ISD's chairman, said he expects that, over

the next few years, these types of voice features in cellular
phones will become standard throughout the cellular
industry.
Ralph Pini, senior vice-president of Motorola's Cellular
Subscriber Group (CSG), meanwhile, said that "VoiceNote
is an indispensable business Feature in the new handsets. The
VoiceNote feature lets us provide our customers with the
highest quality of sound reproduction, for storing memos or
recording phone calls, available on the market today."
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impressive accomplishment from a government standpoint. Normally, the federal government can't even complete a feasibility
study in that period oI' rime, said David
Waung, d i rector g eneral o f In d u stry
Canada's strategic informarion branch, to
another TCP writer last vear.
tools for assessing your company's export

readiness, researching the market and developing n export plan, and delivering services
ro Foreign markets.
Launched early this year, the Credit
Cards Cost Calculator and Consumer Help
Desk were designed to offer people advice
on how to shop around for credit cards.
Users can type in their monthly unpaid balances For each card, then find out the total
A benchmark for other projects
annual charges. The two sections logged
The speed to market made the department a more than 2,000 hits in the F>rst two weeks
trailblazer for other departments, including of operation, according to a n I n dustry
Human R esources an d
D e v elopment Canada report.
Canada, and highlighted the importance of
Carrard says Strategis will expand its
managerial change to meet the demands of electronic commerce capabiliries to include
an online world. Delegations From govern- services such as Competition Bureau subments in Vietnam, Greece, Ukraine and the missions, patent licensing, federal incorpoEuropean Union have toured the Straregis ration and all forms ol spectrum licenses.
headquarters to learn how to set up similar "The future plans are to continually refresh
initiatives, according to Daly.
the documenrs we have," he adds.
The number of'new documents pubBut what about small businesses that
lished the s i t e
i ni t i a ll y i nc l u d ed don't have computers? (They do exist. While
325,000 is proof of broad staff acceptance preparing an employment Web site last year,
of the technologies involved in the depart- I did a s u rvey oF businesses in N ew
ment's electronic p u b lishing v e nture, Westminster, B.C. [population: 50,000] and
DeBlois says.
found 71 percent had five or fewer employThe information explosion has drawn ees, and the majority didn't use computers.)
thousands of new users to the site. Strategis
Individuals can access rhe Internet at one
has logged 2,425,000 visits and more than of the department's 271 community access
25.5 million document retrievals since its sites throughout Canada, Garrard says, or
launch.
request information f'rom Indusrry Canada's
So far, Strategis has been immune to
network ol'Canada business service centres.
computer viruses and has resisted attempts The department continues to produce some
ar penetration by hackers, according to
information materials in paper Form. but he
Daly. As for service, Daly says the only times adds, "There's no doubt rhar our primary
rhe system has been down for significant method ol publishing is the Internet."
periods have been during scheduled down
If knowledge is power, then Strategis is a
times for telecom servicing (which usually good reason I' or business people ro book up
occur on weekends) and three-and-a-half to the Internet as soon as possible. 0
days during the ice storm in February 1998.
Among the new features on Strategis are Adrtana Barton is a freelance writer and classiT ake a World Vi ew .
. Export Your cally trained cellist based in Vancouver. She
Services, which includes three sections of can be reached at adriana@intergate,bc.ca.
the technological demands ol such a large

undertaking, including:
till>llgliI >tltcli<lci' screens li(1 il l)illilgu1
Wch utlu>ring process tht could he used

hy 500 non-tcchni< l husincss experts
with no knowledge of HTML (hvpertext
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client services help <lesk
technology to allow for online company

registration and the use of interactive tools
Lo t us iVotes-hosed servers to manage the
uthoring process nd make it quick and
easy to puhlish elocuments and keep the
site current
firewall to protect the site against vandalism nd computer viruses

e-commerc>e tools capable of full encryption nd uthentiction nd the use of digital signlures
fc eelhck mechanisms. such as online survey forms nel <laily usage statistics. for
ssessing the projet's success anrl identifying pitfalls such s hrokcn links anti poor
cod illg
The direct cost of building Strategis was

$5.5 million. according to DeBlois. All costs
were absorbed by the department internally,
as are the annual maintenance costs of $2
million.
The Strategis initiative made the department a significant employer of Canadian IT
c ompanies, i n c l u din g Bl ue
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Information T e c h nologies, Quantum
Information Sysrems and Touchnet Canada,
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Strategis has links to over two million
documents.
It c onnects over 6>0.000 businessrelated sites.
Conversely, 2,343 Web sites point to
Strategis.
Approximately 8,000 visitors access
the site each business day.
Roughly 5,000 Strategis users subscribe to Headlines, which are weekly email
bulletins of new or updated material
(the week of June 12, 1998 included
Top 10
Tax Tip s f o r 1 9 9 8 a n d T he
Automotive Competitive Review)
Since its launch the site has had more
than 2,425,000 visitors.
In t h e s a me p e r iod, d o c ument
retrievals from Strategis have totaled
more 25.5 million.
Number trouble
Industry Canada's hit count For the
number ol visitors to the site may be
inflated, since a ten-time visitor to the
Web site would register as ten visitors
rather than one. "Well, it's probably
true," said Tirn Garrard, chief information officer For Industry Canada, in a
recent in terview. "The question of
knowing how many distinct visirors as
opposed to visits is difficult one." For
user I'eedback, he said Industry Canada
relies heavily on ongoing Focus group
studies and electronic survey forms that
periodically appear on t h e screen.
(Note: the surveys obligingly disappear
if you decide not to fill them in, I am
happy to report.) aldricha Barton
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (NB) The Royal Bank
of Scotland estimates that it is saving around
USS117,000 a month through the use of
videoconferencing links.
The bank backs up its claim by noting
that it has been using videoconferrncing technology for more than a decade and today uses
the systems both within the United Kingdom
and globally. According to bank officials, its
stafF clocks up more than 8,600 hours a year
in videoconferencing meetings, so saving on
staff time and cost that would otherwise be
required f'o r traveling to meetings.
"Visual communications give

us a realistic and cost effective
means of communicating,
allows us to make faster
decisions, and reduce the
need for travel"
George Clarke, Royal Bank of Scotland
George Clarke, the bank's senior manager

of voice and video communications, said that
videoconferencinghas enabled the bank to
operate its business across the whole of the
U.K., despite the fact that its headquarters are
in Edinburgh, the corporate operation is in
London, and other key business divisions are
located throughout the U.K.
"Visual communications give us a realistic
and cost effective means of communicating,
allows us to make faster decisions, and reduce
the need For travel," he said.
The bank, which runs its internal videoconferencing service over its Philips digital
private auromatic branch exchange (PABX)
network, has four studios in London, three in
Edinburgh, and one in Manchester, as well as
30 other desktop systems in non-centralized
regional offices.
Each studio is equipped with a British
Telecom videoconFerencingroom based systems that can accommodate up to eight people in a conference room environment.
In addition, the bank uses its systems to
connect to its sister companies overseasCitizen Financial Group in New England and
Banco Santander in Madrid, Spain as well
as other ofFshore locations like the Channel
Isles and the Isle of'Man.
According to Clarke, the bank encourages
everyone throughout the business to use
videoconferencing
from its property departments, to its technical and human resources
people and within all levels of the hierarchical structure.
"Videoconferencing is more than a convenient method of communicating with colleagues and clients, it is an important tool
that allows the company to communicate

effectively and efficiently while saving on
costs incurred when traveling to meetings,"
he said.
Clarke notes rhat videoconferencing is a
tremendous time and cost saving facility that
allows the bank to make instant decisions and

help build a rapport with dients.
"It's also a very productive way to do business and, more importantly, improves the
quality of life for individuals by freeing them
up From time spent traveling," he said.
According to Clarke, videoconferencing

has become an integral part of the company
culture, even to the extent that employees are
asked to explain why, when completing travel
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Fortune 1000 firms reluctant Net investors

By Sylvia Dennis
"Our findings clearly indicate that the phenomenal business
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (NB)

Just when you
thought everybody and their grandmother
was using Internet firms and services with
gusto, research from International Data
growth in the Internet may plateau because of the failure of

technology standards to meet businessrequirements"
ven by the ease-of-use, the ability to provide new applications, the ability to tlein remote offices, and network management.
T wenty-five percent of companies are
inhibited in lntranet deployment by

issues of interoperabillty over time, lack
MiChael SI/lliVan-Trainar, IOC
Corp. (IDC) suggests that the Fortune 1000
of skills,
companies are not following this trend.

Delving into IDC's Global Infrasfnrcttire average annual revenues of U5$1.5 billion.
research reveals that, although the big compaThe research concluded that there has
nies are achieving a four times return on been a tremendousreturn on investment for
investment from the development of Interne, companies that have deployed Intranets and
intranet, and extranet applications, they are extranets to reduce costs and increase productivity, while new revenues have been
still holding back from deploying mission~tical applications on the public Interne.
realized by companies pioneering Internet
According to IDC, the Fortune 1000 firms commerce.
nology standards to meet business requirements," said Michael Sullivan-Trainor, a

senior analyst with IDC,
According to Sullivan-Trainor, the short
more than 200 members worldwide.
Interestingly, IDC also notes that unre-
More than &0 percent of companiessaid
term success companies are experiencing
with Intranets and extranets may also lead to

a fragmentation into hundreds of closed private networks built on top of the public
In addition, IDC's research found that infrastructure.
"Without a common set of specifications,
the return on investment and revenue gains
(the most profitable 1,000 companies assurveyed byFortunemagazine) ln the U.S. ate
holding off from using the Internet to its full have not necessarily impactedcorporate botcapability until guarantees of reliability and tom lines, as well as there being a danger
that the Internet will not fulfill its promiseas
security can be made.
IDC says itsresearchwasconducted Joint- a business infrastructure that opens up new
ly with the Open Group, the international markets and encouragesnewsways of doing
information technology (IT) association with business.
and integration with legacy systems.
technologies, and products which guarantee

a level of security and reliability businesses
require, the Internet may simply become an
security was the primary barrier to

expansion of extranets and VPNs.
Less than 15 percent of companies surveyed said they would deploy mission-
critical applications on the Internet.

And sixty percent of corporations sur-
veyed said they would accelerate their

plans for moving to the Internet lf they
were guaranteed security and reliability.

"We were interested that our respondents
do not want governments orequipment ven-
interesting public access network," he said.

Other key findings of the study included: dors to solve the problems of reliability and
The use of Internet technologies has security," said Sullivan-Trainor.
"In fact, 60 percent of those we surveyed
grown at a rate of 200 percent per year.
IDC says that lt surveyed information solved issuessuch assecurity reliability, and A full 100 petcent of companies have believed that consortia were the proper orgadeployed an Intranet, 50 percent are nizations to define a collection of specificatechnology managers at large multinational performance may lead to a "leveling off" of
extending services to remote usersvia a tions, technologies and products for solving
corporations, including those In retail, finan- Internet benefits and thereforeslowdown its
cial services, telecommunications services,
deployment as a business tool.
virtual private network (VPN), and 66
"Our findings clearly indicate that the

percent were extending their network to
cotnputer equipment, and mailwrder indusbusinesspartners via an exttanet.
tries. The average number of employees in phenomenal businessgrowth in the Internet
these companieswasmore than 19,000, with may plateau because of the failure of tech- The popularity of intranets ls being drl-
the Internet woes," he said. 0
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(ATM) network li nking five cities from
Montreal to the West Coast. The network will
provide broadband services to MetroNet's
business customers, officials said.
MetroNet said the network, built of optical fiber, will connect Vancouver, Calgary,
Edmonton, T o r o nto , a n d M on t r eal.
MetroNet has local operations in all of those
cities as well as in Winnipeg, Quebec, and
Ottawa and is planning an expansion to three
additional markets later this year, company
officials said. The ATM network is also to be
expanded before the end of 1998.
MetroNet launched local telephone service in competition with the incumbent telephone companies in Toronto, Calgary, and
Vancouver on April I o f t his year, putting
itself in the vanguard in a market that was
opened to local competition by federal regulators at the beginning of I c)98. h announced
in May that it wil! be competing in the local
market in Edmonton as well.
Metro Net, a Calgary-based firm that
started by offering specialized voice and data
communications services to businesses, has
resold business services using incumbent telcos' facilities since late 1997.
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Yahoo beefs up hosting

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (NB) In order to
expand its
merchant services program, Yahoo
said it bought privately held Viaweb Inc. for
newly issued shares of Yahoo valued at about
$49 million.
Subject to a number of conditions, the
acquisition is expected to be completed this
summer. Despite this, Yahoo has already
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called "Yahoo Store."
Yahoo's new e-commerce site also at
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complete Web setup, design, hosting and promotional service. Yahoo Store is based on the
popular Viaweb Store service, and lets nontechnical users create, publish and manage
high-quality, secure online stores.
Retailers use a Web browser and a pointand-click interface to create their stores from
their own location. Thye can also use the
complete suite of tracking and reporting tools
to gather data about traffic and income
sources.
More than 1,000 businesses currently use
Viaweb Store, including Dean 81: DeLuca,
Frederick's of H o l lywood, the H o uston
Astros, Rolling Stone, and Vermont Teddy
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PCs to leave centre stage

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (NB) The PC's
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o ffice printer, Xerox claims. The N40 i s
priced at $4,900.
Xerox claims it is leveraging its carefully
concieved WorkSet technoloy, which Features a consistent network interface, print drivers and utilities, to drastically speed up the
innovation of higher performance products.
It is partnering with document technology
l eaders Adobe, I n -System Design a nd
Digilnternational to offer "copier-like" Features in its printers, including collating, sorting, offsetting, stapling, edge-to-edge printing, high-security printing, proof printing,
transparency slip sheets, and a wide range of
status as the dominant device in the access

portion of the digital marketplace will sputter
to an end within six years, say researchers at
International Data Corporation (IDC) in a
new study. Further, the survey predicts that if'
vendors of PC-related technology do not
jump into the connected appliance market
soon, consumer electronic suppliers will.
At the end of the transition in 2004 or
2005, the study said, PC will still have a
growing market. But PC will be dwarfed by
paper handling
demand for digital consumer ppjiances that
Also new to the N Series is the N17, a 17
have built-in connectivity and cost relatively
ppm printer, priced at $1,400. Both the N40
little.
and N17 ship with a full suite of printer manGadget like TV et-top boxes, World
agement service software For small and mediWide Web-enabledtelephones, Web-enabled
um sized networks.- leg Evans
personal digital assistants (PDAs) and WebXerox, Tel: 800-ASK-XEROX
enabled video game ronoles will drive a near
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tripling in the annual volume of access device
ViewSonlc's "office theatre"
shipments from 1')97 to 20()2, and exceed PC
shipments hy 2004 or 2005, the firm said.
ViewSonic has introduced the PJ820 LCD
Frank Gens, I DC's senior vice president of projector, which with a high-powered 759
research, said "There's a rich irony here, in ANSI lumens image brightness, offers what
that very high volume, low-priced appliance ViewSonic says are "super-bright, clear premodels are taking off. The appliance model sentations, even in well-lit rooms." The PJ820
may do to the PC guys what the PC market can project images up to 7.6 m (25 ft.), at a
did to the mainframe and mini guys."
maximum resolution of 1,024x768, with a
Connected. low-cost devices will put a lot contrast ratio of 200:1.
ofdemand on the network and specifically on
The PJ820 weighs about 9.5 kg (21 lb.),
servers, Gens said, and the major operating and with an optional carrying case is easily
system (OS) vendors are already fighting to portable, or with an oprional ceiling mountcontrol the platform.
ing kir can be permanently installed. As well,
"If'you look at Sun, they' re betting heavi- it can be connected to VCRs, computers and
ly that Unix and Java will be better at running audio systems simply, as it supports NTSC, Sthe new system than other systems," Gens Video, PAL and SECAM video formats. The
said. "Microsoft is pushing hard to get suggested price of the JP820 is $7,858. Jeg
Windows CE into as many appliances as pos- Evans
Viewsonic Tel: 800-888-8583, 909-869-7976
sible."
http: //www.viewsonic.corn/
"It could be that we' re looking at the PC
cap
abilities.
business applications, and their ease of integration with business networks. Common
environments suited to t h i s t echnology
include hospitals, factories, and outbound
sales or service operations.
Fujitsu Personal Systems, the market
leader in handheld pen computers, has
announced that Liberty LiFe Insurance has
decided to equip its 1,200 member fiels sales
force with Fujitsu Stylistic pen computers.
They will be used with a suite of business software, including a customer information system, sales prospecting and rate caclulation
programs. The completely integrated hardware/software system has been named the
Prioritypad, and each system comes with a
modem and an HP DeskJet 340 portable
printer. The system allows agents to upload
information to the home office, and receive
updated customer, policy and pricing information.- Jefi Evans
Fujitsu Tel: 800-831-3183, 408-982-9500
http: //www.fpsi.fujitsu.corn/
Agents given pen PCs
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Xerox unveils 40 ppm printer
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Xerox Canada unveiled its new line of print- drive have been overshadowed by the runers at the recent premiere of the X-Filesfea- away success of the lighter 3COM PalmPilots
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printing 40 pages per minute (ppm) 66 per- due to their ability to run regular Windows
ness-ready sites, capable of handling sales

transactions online. IBM has bundled tools
from Apache (the Apache HTI'P Server) and

NetObjects (the NetObjects Sriptbuilder) to
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users of the IBM WebSphere Application
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According to Tim Tevlin, market manager, e-business solutions at IBM Canada, Ltd.,
"Now Web site developers can take advantage
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Packard has introduced what it describes as bundled 56K "hard modem" connects
the flrst palmtop PC to be bundled vritb a through a PC Card slot.
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The BusinessDevelopment Bank of Canada and small business loans
By Ross MacDonald
assets Ior liquidation.

"I could bp making a
loan of $100,000 to a fishing
lodge," Dusablon illustrates,
"which is the kind of business that is seasonal. So if
payments are missed in the
off-season, we' re a lot more
patient than )<gular bankswe may postponepayments,
forexample, to accommodate
the seasons. But, at the end
of the day, if the business
goes belly-up, obviously the
assets will be seized and we
will go and sell them. Weare
a bank in the end."
That kinship with standard financial institutions has
an up side too, in that the
BDC has developedstrategic
alliances wit h c h artered
banks to
sham ri
sks and total
amounts of specific loans. In
the recent past, it was necessary to have been turned
down by a r egular bank
before applying to the BDC.
Changesto the mandate have
eliminated that rather onerous r.quin:ment.
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busy. profitable enterprise.
There's only one problem:
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And the hanks won't give
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Don't despair. Canada
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Business D evelopment
Bank of Canada otherwisp known as tht. BDC.
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thr BDC has uncle niahlv assisted a large number
"Given that the government is our main

shareholder." says Dusablon. "they gave us a
mission to really bc helpful in creating aiul
developing small- and medium-sized businesses
that are a lot ))skier than would bp undpitakpn
hy other
hanks. We are nothprp to make loans to
Bell Telephone; wc'rc herr to provide specialized financing to commcr(ially vi<ible small
buslflPssPs othn' banks might think are too high
risk."
The BDC. I' or example. will consider loaning
to knowledge-based in<histrics(KBI) computer
software. srrvi(es. publications. Ptc. which. as
of entrcpreneui<s<Bid business ol)crators over tlic
tlnvont' who s lilt'd to grl hacking lor surh an
advisoiy capacity or. when

an agency actuallv ran provide. capitaL tlm
money issourccd from thc BDC. Inotherwonls.
any small business operator looking for federal
flllallciill assist<)ncc will cveBtllally bP dealing
with the BDC.
Nurturing small business
While lh(' BDC's niandatt' is specifically oriente

toward creating and nuituring small husincss. it
remains a government institution with all the
lnhri'('Bl hui'Pau('I'all('ron)I)I)rations. And though
would be created. we looked at the business

plan. and we noticed that the pe)son starting it
was involved in health rare for the past 15 years.
There was that impoltant link there. so wp just
went along."
According to Dusablon. the BDC. unlike
chaltcrpdbanks. is mandated to operate on a
cost-rccovriy basi~ although slight profitability isnot discouraged as il makes more money
available to help other small businesses.
However.Ihc BDC does. like chartered
hanks. takpstpps to rerove.r defaulted loans.
Where it's not their policy to seize "wives. kids
and houses." they will take any and all business
What BDC loans

In terms of hard numlx.rs. the BDC had active
accounts totalling $4.4 billion spread out over
more than 17,500 clients at the end of its last fiscal year. New loans in calendar year 1997 totalled
$1.4 billion disbursed into 6,400 small businesses. an increase of 25 per cent over the previous
year. Reflecting the BDC's new-found enthusiasm
for non-traditional businesses, 40 percent of those
new loans were granted to KBI and exporting
enterprises.
Even more encouraging is that the BDC has
developeda varied menu of loans rangingup to
years. recipients are subjcclp<I to an often less- Pntcqniscfrom a regular hank knows. is outof
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Spcakin<g I'or lhe BDC. Vice-President Andre

Dusablon stresses thai his organization Icmls
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business idea that was technologically oriented

which pmvidedhonu' health sciviccs to older
people. They got a first loan of $25.000 and a
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recalls.
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business. We'rp more intnpsted in projct
financing. So we looked at thc company that
SEAP vs. BDC

Weathering hcr experience with Business Development Bank of Canada bureaucracy and still
without financing, Shelly Calhoun, publisher and owner of Ideal Source Publishing Inc. in
B.C., Found a morc encouraging climate at ano(her federal resource, the Self Employmen(
Assistance Programme (SEAP). The SEAP is directly connected (o Employment Insurance
and Human Resources Development Canada and is designed to assist entrepreneurs in star(ing businesses.
However, as one of the few alternative sources of financial assistance to the BDC, SEAP
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have collected within a specified number of years) while they get their business going and
only to an amoun( thar doesn't exceed the maximum El rate.
More to the positive side, however, SEAP offers rudimentary business courses that teach
essential skills like marketing, cash flow management, making a business plan, creating a balance sheet, e(c.
"I had very good experiences with SEAP," Calhoun says. "But, when you want (o gel
funding, or capitalized, or any type of loan from the government, it's extremely difficult.
They' re supposed to make it easier for small business but, believe re, it's not easy at all."
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0250.000, each with its own mandated criteria Ontario, which manufactures airflow monitorand qualifications. The BDC offers term loans, ing equipment (he designed) for the mining
venture capital loans, expansion capital loans, industry. He successfully obtained BDC
micm loans and what they call youth entrepre- financing, largely because he met the listed
neur loans.
criteria.
Maenpaa has an extensive background
A term loan is similar lo a regular loan from in mining and business, had done a thorough
a chartered bank, providing working capital for marketing and business plan and, perhaps
growth. A venture loan. on the other hand, is a more significantly, had raised quite a bit of
form of venture capital but without the BDC par- capital on his own establishing that allticipating in company ownership(they will, how- important personal stake in the success of his
ever, take a royalty fmm the pmfits). An expan- proposed venture.
sion capital loan is similar to a venture loan but
is available to businesses in very early stages of
development. OI' more interest, perhaps, to new
entrepreneurs would be a micro loan of up to
$25,000 for a new businesses or up to $50,000
for an existing business.
"There seems to be an
excessiveamount of
hand-holding, shall we say,
but if they have moneyand
nobody else does,you just
kind of have to hold your
nose and go through it."
Douglas Maenpaa, Synergy Electronics
Then there's the Youth Entrepreneur loanfor people 19 to 34 years old
which, though a
"very, very small" amount, may be granted to
someone with a good idea starting a business
venture in their basement.
A timely new $50-million loan program has
just been introduced to help small businesses
deal with the impact of the Year 2000 (Y2K)
computer problem. Under this program. small
businessesperform an assessment using their
own consultant or a guide pmvided by the
BDC of the financial impact making their
computer system Y2K-compliant will have on
their operations. If the cost is pmhibitive or
could cause the business to collapse, the BDC
will loan the company the money and consider
postponing payments until 2000. And, unlike
otherBDC deals, there are no fees attached to
the transaction.
Bringing something to the table

The catch to all this apparent largesse, however, is
that all applicants for all loans have to showpersonal financial commitment to the enterprise in
question. You can't approach the BDC with the
idea to start a company but oKer absolutely no personal stake in its success. The bank is simply not
interested in that type of arrangement.
Although the BDC considers each case individually, it is generally interested in applicants
who maintain a current company account at a
regular bank as well as a small line of credit.
Your collateral can be quite small but, as
Dusablon puts it, "Obviously we don't want to
finance the business 100 percent, otherwise we
might as well run it ourselves."
Applicantsalso have to do enough backgmund research to passwhat is called "due diligence" establishing the existence of a viable
market or need for the product or service the
new business will provide.
Douglas Maenpaa isthe owner of a new
business called Synergy Electronics in
IZI
"Initially, to get this pmduct going, we had to

Fortunately for Maenpaa, the BDC was will"I'd
gone
to
a
do some R&D," Maenpaa says.
ing to give him a micro loan of $25,000 at that
few banks to see if they'd be interested in getting point. He was first interviewed by the BDC to
involved at that stage. Of course, the chartered establish his level of business acumen. Tbe
banks weren' t, but neither was the BDC. But I bank must have been satisfied with the results
did raise capital from some private investors to because loan officers didn't insist on further
get the prototypes to the point they were ready input before granting the loan.
"They asked about all the different aspects
for testing and at that point I went back to the
BDC for financing to build up a small amount of of business,
" says Maenpaa. "including marketinventory that could actually be put inside the ing, accounting and so on. But I knew pretty well
mines."
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plans through advisory and mentoring programs.
The developmentbank has more than 1,000
qualiTiedcounselors spread acmss the country.
BDC's reasoning is that assistance from
acknowledged experts will greatly increase the
chance of
a businessto succeed and so,in turn,
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These services are particularly exercised for
those applying under the Youth Entrepreneur
program.The bank's mentors and advisors participate in all aspects of business creation, fmm
pmject preparation thmugh self-assessment,
training in management skills and marketing
strategies, and the conipletion of a pmper business plan. Only after all that has been satisfactorily completed will financing kick in.
But it doesn't end there. Over the next few
years,as the business develops, BDC advisors
may continue to participate.
"Between ourdiierent loan programs and
and services to help that size of business too."

Though thisall sounds good, some have
found the advice and management services to he
more of
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Michele Baron used BDC loans to stait a private K-8 school in Sudbury. Ont., last year.
Though extremely happy about receiving
$50,000 of
the $75,000 she requested from the
BDC, shestmngly echoes Maenpaa's observation about "excessive hand-holding."
"When I f i r s t w ent t o t h e B u siness
DevelopmentBank they were very supportive."
she recalls, "but they said they had no money for
this sort of business and sent me away. In fact,
they gaveme the names ofsome investorsto go
to who actually stiffed me very badly in the end
and cost me a great deal of money I didn't have,
"But a few months later," Baron continues.
"I discovered they had a new initiative for northern business so I tried them again. It took some
doing, it wasn't easy. It took forever and ever and
ever and it's very expensive money the interest
rate is very, very high but they did help me out
a great deal and really mlled out the red carpel
once I was accepted. But getting accepted was
very difficult. It's kind of like auditioning on
Broadway you have to be the absolute best at
singing and dancing. But once you get the part,
boy, they treat you like gold."
"It's kind of like auditioning

on Broadwayyou have to
be the absolute best at singing
and dancing. But once you
get the part, boy, they treat
you like gold."
Michele Baron, entrepreneur
Baron was directed to the BDC by the

Sudbuiy Business Development Corporation and
was well-armed with a business plan, cash flow
projections and pre-registration foils to pmve
schoolenrolment. However. she was forced to
extensively revise her business plan and, though
they oH'ered an advisor to help her. she simply
didn't have the money to pay for that service.
"I'm not really sure what they wanted
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management experience and qualifications. plus
I had really researched the market provincially.
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By the time she inet the needs of her BDC
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Conversely,
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NEW YORK (NB) When it comes to the
Millennium Bug, the computer date glitch
that could cause numerous systems to crash
two New Year's Eves hence, it seems everyone
either has something to sdl or tell about how
to fix the bug that could become a plague.
One commercial Web site, however, is trying

to sift, or rather mine, the hype from the
hopeful information concerning the Year
2000 (Y2K) problem.

The Mining Co., which opened its virtual
door in April 1997, is using its network oF
special interest sites and individual, handpicked guides to try to hit the mother lode of
information about what the Millennium Bug
is, how to recognize and cure it, and where to
go for further help.
Unlike other Internet companies who
attempt to organize Internet content with

engines and indexes, Founder Scott Kurnit
said The Mining Company's business

model is based on "an army of dedicated
people."
Each "Guide" will maintain a highly targeted niche site, Kurnit said, which will
"constitute a new network catering to every
imaginable area of interest, presented within
a consistent, structured, and coherent environment," including Millennium Bug information.
"The unique design allows users to follow
Guide recommendations and travel to recommended sites absolutely anywhere on the Net,
while maintaining strong contact with The
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readiness.
Kurnit said that small businesses, which
also may be seriously affected by the Bug, can
find information at ht tp://sbinformation.
miningco.corn/library/weekly/aa021998.htm
, while additional information on how to protect a business from Y2K related lawsuits is
available at http://mis.miningco.corn/library/
weekly/aa022098.htm.
Information on investing in companies
offering Y2K " s olutions" i s l o cated at
http://investing.miningco.corn/library/week-
ly/aa040697.htm, but if reprogramming

those bug laden computers sounds like a job
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10598.htm at The Mining Co.'s site.
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resources, he said, at http://mis.miningco.

corn/msub28.htm and http://intranets.miningco.corn/msub17.htm, respectively. 0
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Economist warns of millennial recession

By Bill Pietrucha
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NB) Judgment
Day is rapidly approaching for the world' s
computers, and there may not be enough
time left to avoid a severe global recession
due to the Millennium Bug, a Deutsche
Bank Securities economist warned.
"I can no longer say with any confidence there is enough time to avoid a
"I can no longer saywith any confidence there is enough time

to avoid a severeglobal Y2K [Year 2000] recession.... The fact is,
there are only 550 days,and only 377 businessdays, until
Judgment Day for our computers onJan. 1, 2000"
Kelley noted that in a recent review of

reports filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) by about 95

percent ofthe Fortune 500 firms, those
firms expected to spend about US$11 billion dealing with the Y2K problem.
Of this total, he said, financial corporations are planning expenditures of US$3.5
billion, while companies in the nonfinancialsector have budgeted funds of around
EdwardYardeni DeutscheBankSecurities
"I think it i s naively optimistic to
Committee in late April, cautioned that
severe global Y2K [Year 2000] recession," believe the business community isn't going although the Federal Reserve, and other
Edward Yardeni, chief economist for
Deutsche Bank Securities warned at a
National Association of M anufacturers
(NAM) press conference. "The fact is,
to have any failures," Yardeni told the

press conference.
According to Yardeni's most recent
forecast for the next two years, the proba-
there are only 550 days, and only 377
bility of a global recession has climbed
business days, until Judgment Day for our

computers onJan. 1, 2000."
Although Yardeni acknowledged some
progress in fixing the computer date
glitch, which could cause entire systems to
crash on Jan. 1, 2000, the progress isn' t
m oving "as fast as the year 2000 i s
US$7.5 billion.
public and private organizations are working feverishly to correct the computer software problem, which might not recognize
"00" as "2000," "this episode is unique."
Making allowances for a l l c o sts,

whether explicitly stated or not, Kelley said
that an "educated guess" of the cost of Y2K
remedial efForts in the U.S. private sector
"We have no previousexperiences to

from 60 percent to 70 percent, and a U.S. give us adequate guideposts," Kelley said,
stock market crash of 30 percent or more noting that some economists already are
could occur some time next year.
suggesting that Y2K-related disruptions will
"We need to prepare for failure," induce "a deep recession in the year 2000."
Yardeni said. "We need to have emergency
alone "might be roughly US$50 billion."

Kelley, asking what monetary policy
can do t o o f fset any macroeconomic
efFects of the Y2K problem, said "the
truthful answer is not much." 0
planning, and the President's Year 2000
Conversion Council simply isn't taking

charge."
Most of the upcoming blame, Yardeni
And Yardeni is not alone in his gloomy
said, will be on the U.S. President Bill outlook. Earlier this year, Federal Reserve
C linton's administration, t h e U .S . Board of Governors member Edward W.
Congress, and other national govern- Kelley Jr. told a U.S. Senate committee
ments, that need to pursue a more aggres- hearing that "the stakes are enormous."
sive policy to convert critical computer
Kelley, who t e stified th e S enate
systems before the turn of the century.
Commerce, Science and Transportation
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desktop," Basically, users .specify their interests, such as weather and news, for example,
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Gonzo said a particular push is being made to
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of 3Web. He said the custnlners who continue
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In order to keep the prices of entry-level
models of Presario systems low (as little as
US$899), some are based on AMD processors.
Higher-end desktop and notebook use Intel
Pentium II chips. Compaq announced the
first computers in the industry to.take advantage of the ATI-led DFP (digital flat-panel)
standard, which enables much cheaper, simpler to use flat panels to be built to an all-digital video format. A new 14-inch flat panel dis-
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CRT monitor) using the DFP technology costs
as little as US$949. Though far more expensive than a similar-sized CRT monitor, it's a
big drop. in price from its flat-panel peers.
Compaq representatives expect a 15-inch flat
panel (nearly the viewable size of a 17-inch
CRT monitor) to be under US$1,000 sometime in 1999.
Compaq also re-entered the printer market
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Compaq is also rolling out a "build-toorder" program to make customized versions
of certain Presario models available from up to
4,000 U.S. retail outlets by the end of the year.
There was no confirmed word on the extension of this program to Canada. Compaq representatives claimed that they hoped to eventually see 20 to 30 percent of Presarios being
built under the new system. The build-toorder initiative appears to be an attempt to
compete with direct sale PC vendors Gateway
and Dell. Dell, in particular, is growing at a
faster rate than Compaq, and at its current
rate could surpass Compaq's PC sales in a few
years.
A week after the consumer Presario
launch, Compaq also announced its latest
"high-value" notebook family, the Armada
1700 series. Starting at $4,749 for a 233 MHz
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By Geef Wheelwright
o you feel a little bit naked without a

mobile telephone? Do you go on long
walks in the country, find yourself out
of dial tone range, and feel haunted by the feeling that someone is trying to get hold of you?
It may well be time for some long overdue
therapy to quell the separation anxiety so
obviously stirring disquiet in your soul. On
the other hand, you may be a candidate for a
new type of mobile phone and pager service
from a company called Iridium LLC.
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Ariz., the 66 satellites in the Iridium constellation are the key to allowing you to turn your
quiet walk in the forest into a gab-fest with
friends halfway around the world.
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not an issue."
But just who those potential customers?
Rompre admits they will probably be a tiny
minority of existing mobile phone users,
although he hopes to win a lot of market
share from those few hearty pioneers who
phone or pager users by the year 2004. The

company will start serving subscribers Sept.
23. Rompre suggests that anyone who wants
to have access to a mobile phone anywhere on
the planet at any time of day is a good candidate for subscribing to the Iridium service.
Oh, and they' ll need a pretty good bank
balance as well. Calls made via Iridium's satellites will be priced in the "dollars per minute"
category, depending on where you are calling
and what time of day it is. And that's not
counting monthly subscription fees and the
cost of the phone itself.
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says. "In Canada, it could go as high as two
percent because of our dimensions and geography. We are also targeting business travelers,
the forestry industry, mining and fishing sectors. In the satellite phone market, we think
that there will be three competitors and we
hope to have 60 percent of that market initially and then retain 40 percent as it grows."
Yes, but why? Why would people want to
spend even more money so that even more people could bother them in those few quiet and
uninterrupted moments they have in their lives?
Could it be that they just want to be seen to be
important enough to need a phone that can be
used from the Amazon to the Arctic Circle?
"Some could consider it a status symbol,"
admits Rompre. "I remember when car
phones first came out there were people who
made a fortune just selling cellular antennas
without the phone. I am after the market of
people who will generate calls, people who
will spend $3,000 per month."
He says that while this may be a steep
price for most users, it may simply be part of
the cost of doing business for someone like a
legal advisor working on a delicate highstakes case or even a huge contract. "While
we will respectfully serve the customer who
uses it to make one call per week, this is not
really the market," he says.
A more accessible service for most business
users will be the global paging service. It
allows you to use a slightly larger than average
pager to receive alphanumeric paging messages anywhere in the world. This service will
cost about $17S per month, including the
price of the pager and an unlimited number of
pager messages per month. If you absolutely
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Iridium network was created and what it
means for the future of mobile wireless
telecommunications for Iridium will not be
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company called Teledesic (which is backed
by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his
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By Geof Wheelwright
n the future, your car may spend as much

time on the internet as you do. Prototype
"network car" designs currently making
the rounds of major automotive shows are
starting to be taken seriously by the world' s
biggest automobile manufacturers. These prototypes include everything from global positioning systems (GPS) for navigation, onboard satellite receiving dishes for Internet
and high-definition television access, as well
as voice-command capabilities to control all
these goodies.
At the recent SAE International Congress
and Exposition in Detroit, leading lights of
the computer industry seemed to be as interested in the "real world" highways of the
planet as they are in the "information super-
Much of the technology

to do this, including
our head-up displays,
vehicle manufacturers, these technologies

could be integrated into all types of vehicles."
The concept vehicle receives direct broadcast
reception from Hughes DirecTV and DirecPC
satellites by use of an innovative flat antenna
embedded in the roof of the vehicle. The
Network Vehicle development team promises
that this will provide driver and passengers with
everything from route and travel information to
movies and real-time stock quotes.
It also suggests that existing services that
could be integrated in the future include theft
deterrent technologies and the ability to contact emergency services. In addition, GPS technologies can provide the vehicle's exact locatron. Additional future features include dictating and electronic distribution of email or
nology, microprocessors, Web access and col Dave Wohleen, Delphi Delco faxed memos, setting work schedules via an inlaboration, and other Internet/intranet feacar connection with handheld computers such
tures.
According to Dave Wohleen, general direc- as the IBM WorkPad version of the 3Com/US
What really gives this effort credibility
e n g ineering fo r D e l ph i D e l co Robotics Palm Pilot, listening to and dictating
amongst auto makers is the participation of tor o f
Electronics
Systems, there is potentially broad a response to faxes, and viewing videos.
Delphi Automotive Systems, which already
demand
for
this kind of car. "A networked
Delphi Delco Electronics Systems has not
supplies electronics to a huge number of them
(largely through its Delphi Delco Electronics vehicle will have tremendous appeal to drivers limited its partnerships in this area to IBM and
Systems group). The customer list includes and passengers, offering a vast array of new friends. At the SAE trade show in Detroit, the
Audi, Chrysler, -Daewoo, Fiat, Ford, General features and functions," he says. "Much of the company worked with Saab and Microsoft to
Motors, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Hyundai, technology to do this, including our head-up create something c a lled t h e P e rsonal
Hummer, lsuzu, Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, displays, steering wheel-mounted controls, Productivity Vehicle.
It's a custom version of the 1999 Saab and
Renault,Rover, SEAT, Skoda, Suzuki, Toyota, and man-machine interface in the passenger
compartment, exists today. Working with
includes a huge number of entertainment and
and Vo! kswagen.
highway." A joint development
effort by D elphi Automotive
Systems, IBM, Sun Microsystems
and Netscape, for e xample,
resulted in something call the
Network Vehicle:
The Network Vehicle, which
was first shown at the 1997 Fall
., Comdex computer industry
bash in Las Vegas, seems to be
".: gaining support.
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with wireless communications, global
positioning via satellite, head-up displays,
voice recognition, Sun's Java software tech-
steering wheel-mounted
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ing a whole ton of satellites quickly and successfully atask that was completedin May of the largest telecommunications and paging
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Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United Wireless (U.S.), Telecom Italia (Italy), DDI
States. It was the 15th successful launch in 12 Japan), Miniphone (Argentina), Cellnet
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pany says was the quickest deployment of the addition to providing the traditional wireless
services, these companies will act as Iridium
largest number of satellites in history.
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Iridium satellite launches using the Boeing coverage to encompass the entire planet.
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vice-chairman and chief executive officer. "The
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Rompre says the companyexpectseachof aggressive leadership in the 15 Iridium gateway
these satellites to operate for seven to eight operating companies will soon permit Iridium
years. Enough fuel has been put on board to products and services to be distributed in marallow maneuvers and course corrections for kets throughout the world."
Iridium is also boasts that it is the only
that length of time.
He adds, however, that the speed of devel- satellite telephone company with a network
opment in both the hardware and software designed to offer service throughout the
world's 239 countries on all continents.
underlying modern satellites means that
Iridium is already planning the launches of Staiano says subscribers will remain connect"second generation" satellites. The pace of ed by using mobile handheld telephones with
satellite development by that time is expected both satellite and cellular capability, allowing
to be so rapid that the second generation use of the Iridium satellite network when
satellites will only serve for five years before local wireless services are unavailable.
Some 15 Iridium gateway operating comthey are replaced by a third generation.
panies (of which Iridium Canada is one) are
responsible for establishing and managing
True filobai access
In June, Iridium announced it had reached 209 relationships with service providers and roamdistribution agreements with regional wireless ing partners throughout their service territoservice providers and roamfng partners. The ries, Iridium gateway operating companies
company says these partnership agreements also act as regional distributors of Iridium. 3
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ome things in life just make plain good

sense together: apple pie and ice cream,
steak and potatoes or how about wireless communications and Internet access?
One company that is enjoying real commercial success in bringing datacommunications and wireless technologies together is
Calgary-based Wi-Lan Inc. Its goal is to use
"spread spectrum" technology to enable a
whole range of wireless data communications
applications including high-speed wireless
Internet access.
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interference that may exist at any specific frequency and increases the level of security of
the data transmission (because the data is not
tied to transmission at any single frequency).
The company also claims staggering potential
data transfer speeds of up to 20 Mbits per second in some applications, making it far faster
than any land line-based Internet connection
currently available.
Wi-Lan was founded in 1991 by former
Alberta Government Telephones (AGT, now
known as Telus) Ltd. researcher Dr. Hatim
Zaghloul and University of Calgary associate
professor Dr. Michel Fattouche.
So far, the company's technology has
moved it into an intriguing number of areas,
starting in 1995 with the release of its Hopper
DS wireless modem. The Hopper allowed customers such as Saskatchewan-based oil and
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its 15 schools, a library, several administrative
buildings and 1,500 computers and give
them all access to the Internet.
And in June of this year, the company
announced that it had signed a contract with
Tele2 U.K. Ltd. (a subsidiary of the multinational Millicom International Cellular S.A.) to
supply a "wireless local loop" system for a
national wireless data network in the United
Kingdom. The goal will be to offer high speed
Internet access and intranet services to smalland medium-sized businesses and telecommuting employees, starting in the well-heeled
Thames Valley area outside London.
The companies have promised that the
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Mbits per second (about 15 times faster than
is currently possible over the ISDN high-speed
land lines available from British Telecom) and
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next year, with the capacity to reach 60 percent of the United Kingdom by 2003.
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realization in the early 1990s that data transmission over phone lines was going to be a
Zaghloul says the contract in the U.K.,

plus other foreign deals in the United States
huge opportunity, whether those phone lines and potentially in China, should ensure that
were wireless or land line-based.
He says, for example, that while data traffic on land lines went from being negligible in
1970 to 10 percent of the market by 1991, it
only took another six years until 1997 fordata traffic to exceed voice traffic on land
lines. He suggests that within a few years, data
traffic could be as high as 95 percent of the
volume on land lines (although he agrees that
some confusion is likely as Internet telephony
could be classed as data traffic even though it
is carrying voice digitally).
Wi-Lan is not a "one-deal company" and

that its technology is both popular enough
and powerful enough to make a real longterm impact on the wireless data market. As
part of its growth, the company recently
went public, although Zaghloul says he does
not worry about he and his co-founder losing control of it at this point since they still
hold 30 percent of it'.
"lt is a significant deterrent [to any poten-
tial hostile takeover] as we are not as widely

held as being public suggests," Zaghloul says.
"Having said that, everything is for sale at the

right price."
He says his main objectives are to build
and diversify the company. WiLan runs several subsidiary operations, including Calgarybased Cell-loc, which produces cell location
sy'stems for mob'ile telephone companies that
need to comply with recent U.S. Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) regulations that require them to be able to pinpoint
a cell phone call to within 125 sq.m of its origin. In addition, Wi-Lan has a stake in
California-based Wireless Inc., which develops
and produces wireless telephony products
using Wi-Lan's technology platforms.
One other i nvestment Wi-Lan made

recently was in acquiring the original patent
rights for spread spectrum technology. And

the acquisition comes from an unexpected
quarter film legend Hedy Lamarr, who codeveloped a technology in 1942 that became
known i n
war t i m e a s the "Secret
Communications System" and for which
Lamarr has received little credit. Zaghloul,
who has been a fan of the screen legend s! nce
boyhood, announced in late June the deal to
acquire her patent rights and promote her
role as a telecommunications pioneer. It's a
s tory that c o ul d h av e b een m ade i n
Hollywood. Cl
Not just a pretty face

The brains behind the technology behind Wi-Lan's high-speed
wireless Internet access system is Hedy Lamarr, the screen legend
who starred in more than 25 films with the likes of Clark Gable,
Claudette Colbert, Judy Garland and Spenser Tracey.
At 26, Lamarr developed what is now called "spread-spectrum"
technology which reduces the need to lay expensive cable across
vast distances with avant garde musician George Antheil.
The pair created what they called the Secret Communication
System as an anti-jamming device intended for use in U.S. submarines in Second World War.
The system was intended to guide torpedoes to their target
without enemy interception by sending messages over multiple
radio frequencies in a random pattern. As a message was sent,
both the transmitter and the receiver would change radio frequencies according to a special code. Identical slotted paper rolls
dictated the code according to their pattern of slots at the end of
the transmission. The message would move so quickly across the
radio waves that anyone tuning into a particular frequency would
only hear a blip, and would be unable to translate or intercept the
message.
The wireless technology has proven useful in areas with limited
telephone and Internet access and is used today in a range of military and civilian applications.
Lamarr's interest in military technology came from her 1933
marriage in her native Austria to Fritz Mandl, one of Europe's
largest armaments manufacturers. She later left Mandl and moved
to the United States after signing her first film deal.
In 1941, Lamarr and Antheil sent the invention to the National
Inventors Council. They ironed out some technical links with an
MIT engineer, and submitted their patent proposal. They were
awarded U.S. Patent n u m ber 2 , 292,387 fo r t h e S e cret
Communications System on Aug. 11, 1942.
The patent rights expired in 1958, just as the invention was
being reborn because digital components replaced paper rolls. An
electronic spread-spectrum system derived from the 1942 patent
was used to handle secure communications for the U.S. during the
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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demand to stay competitive. It suggests that
these mobile workers need easy access to huge
resources of legacy enterprise data in addition
to simple messaging capabilities.
The Internet, concludes the report, is also
a huge factor in this demand fot wireless data
services. "The Internet's advantages in terms
of ubiquity, simplicity and standardization
make it ideal as the data equivalent of the
PSTN [public switched telephone rietworkj for
voice," says Yankee Group director of Wireless
or anyone who has ever spent significant

time away from the office, but needed to
be able to connect to either the corporate
email system or data on the network itself, it' s
clear that the challenge often lies in getting
one bit of wire to connect to another.
It's not always easy and it can often be a
colossal waste of time, removing whatever
strategicadvantage your company may have
perceived when it equipped you with all these
high-tech goodies. There is another way of
trying to connect, however, and it's one that
corporations are increasingly looking at as a
solution for the remote employee.
The answer lies in getting rid of the wires
altogether and providing totally wireless
access to corporate network and email.
Wireless solutions allow "outbound" and
remotely working employees to become
entirely independent of traditional telephone
lines, staying in touch even in areas where
they can't easily get to a conventional landline.
Wireless data solutions are in h eavy
demand. In fact, a recent survey by European
IT services group CMG and International Data
Corporation revealed that 28 percent of the
300 respondents in the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands and Germany are already using
mobile phones to send and receive email. In
addition, 12 percent were using their mobile
phones for Internet access and a full 79 percent expected to be using mobile systems to
do their email work by the year 2000.
Mobile Communications Roberta Wiggins.

"As the Internet becomes increasingly compelling to the enterprise, its usefulness also
extends out to the remote and mobile element
of the enterprise."
It is still the early days, however, in terms
of remote access to the Internet and corporate
intranet being provided in a wireless fashion.
The Yankee Group suggests that although 87
percent of the top 100 U.S. companies are
developing intranet applications, only 20 per-
You shouldn't have to carry an armory of

battery-powered gadgets just to be able to
stay in touch while you are out of the office
the office" is often no longer an acceptable

excuse for being of touch with the electronic
culture of a company.
The second factor is that notebook comHigh expectations
puter, handheld computer and wireless data
There appear to be a couple of factors driving system designs will continue to improve in
these expectations. The first is simply that the terms of ease of use, performance, reliability
corporate email system and the corporate and speed. Recent developments in all those
network and/or intranet are becoming so areas would tend to suggest that this is not an
vital to the operation of such a vast number of unreasonable expectation.
businesses that few employees can conceive of
Finally, there is the hope that someone,
spending time out of the office without access somewhere, should have the good sense to be
to these vital tools.
able to combine all of the things that people
Failing to respond to email is not necessar- really want when they' re away from the office
ily grounds for dismissal, but it certainly does- into a single device. You shouldn't have to
n't help your career. And saying "I was out of carry an armory of battery-powered gadgets
just to be able to stay in touch while you are

out of the office.
The Internet factor
And it appears that this is not just idle or
wishful speculation on the part of those who
sell wireless data systems. There does appear
to be a demand for these services. According
to a recent report by industry research organization The Yankee Group, one-third of the
current U.S. workforce (about 43 million people), spends 20 percent of their time away
from their primary workplace.
The report suggests that more companies
are pushing their workers out into the field
and abolishing fixed office space, driven by
cent of surveyed companies have provided

remote Internet/intranet access via wireless to
their mobile workers so far.
"The pervasiveness of intranets will stimulate efforts to incorporate remote workers into
integrated business practices," predicts the
report. "However, among corporations today
the focus is more on using intranets to connect remote company locations than providing mobile access. While field support managers can readily justify the technology, information technology is less motivated to
accommodate remote access requirements,
especially via wireless networks."
Respondents to the Yankee Group survey
cite perceived high cost, and conflicting priorities as the most important reasons for not
providing wireless access. Wireless also apparently accentuates end-to-end management
and security concerns.
The report also suggests that the Internet is
both a blessing and a curse for wireless. On
one hand, it says the Web is creating an expectation, in terms of information delivery, that
cannot be met by wireless data networking.
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W IRELESS TECHN O L O G I E S
vide the smooth bandwidth needed for Web

or intranet page browsing (except, perhaps,
for simple text pages) in a way that is cost
effective.
At the same time, the report concludes
that the internet does offer the means to drastically reduce the cost and complexity of wireless data integration. By finding a way to bring
together the two technologies, it suggests that
it may be possible to "break the logjam that
has stifled wireless mobile data in the form of
underutilized networks, low revenue and lack
of applications".
Over the next six years, it further predicts
that corporations will increasingly store mission-critical information on i ntranets and
most corporate email systems will be accessed
remotely over the Internet.
The Yankee Group estimates that 33 percent of large U.S. corporations will be providing field service and sales personnel with wireless intranet access by the year 2000. It also
forecasts a potential 21.3 million users by
2002 resulting primarily from availability of
packaged Internet access solutions, attractive
flat rate service pricing for unlimited use,
wireless network speeds equivalent to ISDN or
above, widespread adoption of Internet based
email, higher value, more personalized
Internet content, and user-friendly device
interfaces incorporating voice recognition and
text-to-speech technologies.
the Stentor group of provincial telephone

providers. These services have made it easier
to connect the latest breed of Windows CEbased handheld computers to email messaging servers.
While these services differ on a number of
important technical dimensions, the user
experience is similar. All offer a wireless data
communications system that relies on sending and receiving data using radio technology.
It requires that you have a radio-based link
into and out of your corporate email system
and provides server and client interfaces for
Lotus cc:mail, Microsoft Exchange and
M icrosoft Outlook. I n fowave uses t h e
Cantel/ATILT Canada Mobitex wireless data
network, Bell Canada Mobility offers a service
based on the Ardis wireless system, while BC
Tel Mobility and several other provincial
Mobility organizations are using a CDPDbased network that allocates part of the digital
cellular phone bandwith fo r d ata. (See
"Wireless modem, handheld PC a natural fit"
and "Wireless datacomm nearly there" in the
June '98 issue of TCP, available online at
http: //www.tcp.ca for more information.)
There are Windows CE 1.0 clients and a
recently released Windows 2.0 client. Once you
have the server link to the radio network established, the basis of the system is quite simple.
On your laptop or Windows CE 2.0 handheld, you simply attach a wireless radio PC
data card,
which can then be used to access
The server solution
the radio data network from many major
Another serious option to consider is a system cities in North America and elsewhere for
that will allow you to provide a wireless "gate- sending and receiving email.
way" to your corporate email system. A numThe system has several advantages over
ber of companies provide such services, analog or PCS
digital phone-based email access
including Vancouver-based Infowave Wireless systems. The major advantage is that the mail
Messaging Inc. and the "Mobility" divisions of system is "always on" and when mail is
received, it is simply forwarded on from your

corporate server to your notebook or handheld
computer. Similarly, outgoing mail is forwarded from the mobile computer via the radio
network to the company's server and out to
its destination. The only real disadvantage of
these systems is that they do not currently
offer any form of Internet Web access.
Wireless email at sea

LOS ANGELES (NB) The wired world now reaches a place where. wires cannot run: cruise
ships. Crystal Cruises said its passengers can now receive personal email while sailing the
high seas, far away from the people sending the messages.
Crystal guests can send an email message from the ship for a fraction of the cost of a satellite phone call: Only US$3 per message, up to 20,000 bytes, or eight to nine typed pages
including attachments. Crystal did not say how much it charges guests to receive messages.
"With the world's appetite for information growing, and the number of Net-savvy citizens
doubling every year, lines have blurred between the leisure traveler's desire for tranquillity and
the business traveler's need for constant communication," Crystal Cruises officials say.
Crystal has offered shore-to-ship email service since January 1997. But with the old system, email was sent to a main ship address and routed through the radio room.
Now, the cruise line has established a new server that enables guests to personalize their
email addresses. A bit of hoidy-toidyness is added, too, with the name of the ship being
included in the email address.
Intra-ship email is also available, for those urgent email messages between passengers:
"Charlie, this is your wife. Quit running up the bar tab."
Email isn't the only way Crystal has put the "cyber" in cybercruise. A UniversityC~Sea
program is available for vacationers who can't get the silicon out of their systems. Guests can
expand their computer skills and learn new programs in specially constructed, dedicated lab
spaces on each ship equipped with 22 computer workstations.
And for those people who cannot fathom the thought of not having a PC constantly at their
side, they can rent notebook computers and even receive in-stateroom, private insfruction.
Imagine: Go on a cruise, never leave your room.
BobWoods
Contact: Crystal Cruises,
http: //www.crystalcruising.corn
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By Emru Townsend
hen I first got a scanner, people
a sked me what I d i d w i t h i t .
"Well," I'd begin confidently, "I
can scan photographs for publishing and
Web use, and I can use it for document
management."
PaperPort ScannerSuite
From: Visioneer
Tel: 510-608-0300 or 800-787-7007.
http: //www.visioneer.corn
Email: infoOvisioneer.corn
System requirements: IBM or compatible PC,
Windows 95/NT 4.0
Estimated street price: $119
"Document management? How do you

do that?" they would ask.
"Well,. I can fax scanned documents
with my fax modem, and... er... ah..." At
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this point, I'd start fidgeting. "Say, isn' t

that Leonardo DiCaprio by th e dessert
tray?" Then I'd sprint for the exit.
The truth of the matter is, keeping track
of text and graphics documents armed with
only Windows 95's Explorer and a handful
of utilities is hard work, which is why
Visioneer's PaperPort ScannerSuite is so
enticing. Like a car salesman in a cheap
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PhotoEnhancer, and Quicken FxpensAble)
f or one l o w p r i ce. Astonishingly, t h e
ScannerSuite does the job and does it well,
with but a few caveats.
Most people associate PaperVort with
t he slender s heet s canner t h a t p u t
Visioneer on the map. The ScannerSuite is
software only. It will work with PaperPort
hardware, of course, but also with any
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The backbone of the suite is Paperport
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scanned documents in the current folder. As
you might expect,these documents can be
moved, copied, deleted, or converted to various formats.
But that's just document organization,
not management. Where PaperPort shines
is in its features for indexing, sorting, and
manipulating documents. Multiple-page
documents wit h i n d i v idually s canned
pages can be compiled by "stacking" them;
each document can be ma rked up a nd
annotated without permanently affecting
the original image; keywords and comments canbe added to each document. My
favorite feature for text documents by far is
SimpleSearch, which does a quick OCR
(optical character recognition) operation
and stores the text in a database that can be
searched later.
A toolbar on the bottom provides dragand-drop access to your applications. A
nice touch is that the PaperPort can supply
the application with a copy of the original
image; if you' re so inclined, you can alter
an image in Photoshop without ruining the
original.
Among the applications are, of course,
the programs included in ScannerSuite. The
three that I thinl are key for document management are FormTyper, PictureEnhancer,
and ProOCR100. FormTyper allows you to
directly enter text on a scanned form, which
I found useful for the various faxed forms
that need to be filled out and faxed back.
PictureEnhancer does just what it claims; it
provides an intuitive means of adjusting
brightness, contrast, sharpness, and more.
While some of the options are quite useful
(such as adding the effect of an indoor flash
to an image), the menu can be a chore; for
instance, you cannot select a degree of light-
adjustment settings at a t i me. Graphics

wonks will prefer Adobe Photoshop's more
precise image-editing controls, but this is a
pretty good second place. One glaring problem, though: PhotoEnhancer doesn't read
compressed TIFFs.
VroOCR100 is a fairly easy to use. Like
other OCR programs, you can execute the
process step by step, or push the Auto button to follow through on all your settings
automatically. A t h ird o ption, the OCR
W izard, g u ides n o v ices t h r ough t h e
process.
VroOCR100 is one of the few products
out there that is cheap, fast, and good.
Visioneer claims it's the fastest and most
accurate OCR package around; while I can' t
verify that, I can say it is pretty quick and,
for the most part, very accurate. Clean originals were converted with more than 99 percent accuracy; and even a faded dot-matrix
original yielded about 25 percen't of the original text (not very high, but remarkable considering its condition).
Unfortunately, ProOCR100's great performance is hampered by problems with some
of its other features. Clicking Auto often
crashed the program when the document
was brought in from PaperVort Deluxe (as
opposed to running ProOCR100 on its own).
Choosing to preserve the original document's appearance works... sort of. When I
tested this option and exported the results to
Microsoft Word, everything looked fine.
Closer inspection revealed ProOCR100 used
a strange mix of frames and columns to
achieve this effect.
A minor gripe is that ProOCR only deals
with monochrome scans. This is perfectly
understandable for text, but the program
does offer the option of recognizing text and
graphics simultaneously. Suppose I want to
keep the graphics in color?
While these problems are annoying,
they can generally be worked around with a
minimum of fuss until Visioneer fixes them
(they are going to fix them, right?). The
overall result is t h at ScannerSuite's core
programs follow through on their promise,
providing effective document-management
ening for an image, it must be adjusted by
tools at a reasonable price. 0
increments each of which requires three

commands.
The most interesting option, Enhance By
Example; lets you preview nine possible
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Michelangelo's damaged second Pieta statue,
the one he defaced for reasons that have never
been explained. Using 3D modeling techniques, the team will work closely
with Jack Wasserman, a prominent Renaissance art historian, to
recreate the statue and perhaps
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great artist ruined his own work,
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has just started the extensive work
of capturing the data, with over
two billion bits of data collected
using the Virtuoso camera. The
Virtuoso, more commonly known
for its use by plastic surgeons, has been upgrad-
information digitally, she added.

GabrielTaubin, head of the research
group, said the project held not only artistic
interest, but presented the technological
challenge of collecting data, then assembling
that data into a 3D model that could be used
to "render very accurate images
under different lighting conditions, from different points of
view."
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camera to take about 700 separate
digital shape photos of the statue.
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be reproduced in a book of essays about the
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Contact: IBM Florentine Piete project

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FAIRFAX, Virginia (NB) Call it early middle
. age crisis or just plain bum-out, but almost
half of all college-educated workers in their
early 30s would choose a different major if
they could do it all over again, according to a
recent survey by George Mason University.
But while most of the non-science majors
say they would focus on science or technology the second time around, the grass appears
greener on the liberal arts side of the fence for
information technology workers as well.
"It seems that non-technical people want
to know more about technology, while technology people are finding there's more to life
than bits and bytes," George Mason University
president Alan G. Merten said. "The results are
a healthy sign that people are looking to balance their lives and fill in the gaps."
George Mason University conducted the
study with the Potomac Knowledge Way, a
Northern Virginia organization focusing on
the information technology industry.
While 57 percent of the 400 graduates interviewed by Market Research Institute for the
study have taken additional college-level courses since graduation, mostly to advance their
careers, information technology workers were
more like than other workers, by a 31 percent to
22 percent margin, to take courses purely for
personal rather than professional reasons.
The survey also found that information
technology workers are almost twice as likely
to switch careers as the average employee, with
one in three saying he or she expects to make
a career change in the future. Overall, the study
found that the majority of college graduates
have switched careers at least once and about
one on five expects to switch in the future.
About 43 percent of the respondents said
that if they had to do it all over again, they
would have majored in something else, with
the most popular choice, surprisingly, being
the Iiberalarts, with 64 percent. Some 17 percent said they would switch to science, tech' nology or computer science, while 17 percent
also said they would switch to a businessrelated major.
But the same degree of restlessness also
shows up in the high-tech careers, with 39
percent saying they would choose a different
major if they could. More than 56 percent said
they would opt for the "other" category, usually meaning liberal arts, while 26 percent said
they would switch to education. Only seven
percent said they would switch to business or
computer science.
"The results suggest that employees are
more restless than in the past, Merten said,
"and that companies, especially in the critical-
ly short-staffed high-tech industries may want

to take a hard look at their retention efforts."
No matter what the career choice'has
been, however, the vast majority are confident
they can handle the onrush of technology,
Only seven percent feared the pace of change
would pass them by, while 60 percent
described themselves as "comfortable" with

the technology both on the job and in their
homes. Another third said they are getting by
for now with the technology, but are a little
concerned with what may be coming down
the road.
The study also found that 89 percent of
the respondents said they would be more likely to stay with an employer that paid for all or
part of an employee's continuing education.
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learning is here," Merten said. "Employers
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theme, you need to find the sounds, images,
icons and cursors you want to use. Visit
Yahoo, AltaVista, or InfoSeek and you will
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the appearance of the desktop should be a
non-issue. It's pretty easy to modify the
desktop and startup screens. Even a beginner can do it, using Themes designed for
Microsoft Plus (which is now included in
Windows '98).
Themes are collections of icons, graphics,
and sound files that combine to give a specific look and feel to the a computer's desktop.
Choose colors and icons that complement each other. A wild barrage of colors
might look cool, but it can be hard to look
at for a prolonged period of time. I recommend 800x600, because it is a popular size
and allows for minimal stretching and distortion at either higher or lower resolutions.
The most striking aspect of any desktop
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the image and to use error diffusion. That
Once you' ve chosen a background image will keep the icon as close to the original as
for your theme, you can decide on the color possible and still benefit from the color
scheme. Be especially careful to maintain reduction. Save the image as a .BMP file.
some sort of contrast between the various
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a low-color theme, one that is.256 colors or open a new 48x48, 256-coloricon. In the
fewer and c o nforms t o t h e s t a ndard edit menu, select OPEN AS BITMAP and
Windows color palette, you should use a select the file saved above. Save the icon and
256-color palette.
you are done. Remember, there are at least
When you choose a font, pick one that is four icons to make; My Computer, Network
commonly distributed with Windows. That Neighborhood, Recycle Bin Empty, and
way you won't need to include the font if
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especially those of the menus, enough to be cursors and use them as their own. If you are
readable from 90 cm (3 ft.) from your the adventurous type, you' ll find the process
screen. Be careful not to choose a font that of creating them from scratch is similar to
becomes distorted at lower resolutions.
the one above for icons (You can use an icon
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your theme already exists in another form. cursors),
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Pro. Finding the right picture to use as an sounds is a simple process. You will need a
icon can be difficult. Look for images that sound editing program. You can find a
have a large square portion that will be clear
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March 1998 saw the much-anticipated
release of Microsoft Office 98 for the
Macintosh, one of the culminations of a
renewed partnership between Apple and
Microsoft that was announced at the July
1997 MacWorld Expo. In response to customer requests, Microsoft now supports Apple
t echnologies such a s Q u i ckTime a n d
Macintosh drag-and-drop functions. In order
to give Office 98 consistency with other Mac
apps, Microsoft also revised the look-and-feel
of the product to conform to the so-called
"platinum appearance" of Mac OS 8.1.
ships only on CD-ROM. One of the biggest

improvements over the previous version is the
simplification of the installation. The menu
and dialog driven method of past versions is
now replaced by procedure of simply dragging to your machine.

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disk. Within a few moments the default package of Word, Excel and PowerPoint is copied
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Pros: Drag-and-drop installation, self-repairing applications, support of key Mac technologies, Mac lookand-feel, seamless file exchangewith MS Office 97
Cons: Onerous disk and RAM
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accomplish this, Microsoft invested millions of
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of application performance. However, the
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RAM and at least 90 MB of available hard
disk space. However, if you plan on using
Outlook Express for managing your email.

Microsoft also includes another optional
installation c alled V alue Pack, w h i ch
includes add-ons such as clip art, templates,
fonts and office assistants. Microsoft also
includes a custom installation option if you
only want to install specific components of
the office suite.
One of the best features of Office 98,
which is unique to the Mac, are the "self-
Word, Excel and PowerPoint concurrently
then 64 MB of RAM is a more realistic

requirement.
It's also recommended that you enable
virtual memory through the memory control
panel when running Office 98, With virtual
memory turned on, the minimum suggested
RAM allocation is 8 MB for Word, 6 MB for
repairing" applications. Part of the process of Excel and 10 MB for PowerPoint. Turn virtuinstalling Office 98 involves the automatic al memory off and you will incur a large
placement of numerous extensions into the hardware penalty by boosting the RAM
Mac system folder. In the past, if any one of requirements to about 12, 10 and 14 MB
these extensions was accidentally moved or respectively. When using the minimum RAM
disabled, then i t b ecame impossible to settings with smaller documents, I occasionlaunch any Office applications. You can ally encountered messages from Word and
imagine the frustration of trying to track Excel that they were running low on memodown and re-enable these missing compo- ry. Be prepared to boost the settings if you
nents, especially if you administrated a large plan on working with larger documents.
If you want to remove the office producsite.
In Office 98, Microsoft solves this prob- tivity from your Mac, Microsoft provides a
lem by creating an invisible, compressed utility aptly named Remove Office 98. If you
duplicate version of all the system compo- decide to purchase Office 98, be. sure to go to
nents needed to run the applications. If any Microsoft's Web site get the updated version
of the original components are missing of the utility. In the rare circumstance where
a user moves the Office 98 library out of the
when you attempt to launch Office 98, it
automatically detects and replaces them MS Office 98 folder and into the System foldfrom the duplicate version on your hard er, the initial release of this utility will move
your System folder into the trash if you
disk.
A word of caution: if you want this fea- decide to uninstall. Oops.
ture to work reliably, then don't rename the
MS Office 98 foldei or any of its contents. If Office refinements
you want easy launching access to any of the Enabling v i rtual m e mory d r amatically
applications, it's recommended that you cre- improves the performance of application
ate an alias that you can rename and drag to launch times. On a Power Macintosh G3/300
model the launch times for Word, Excel and
the desktop.
To run Office 98 comfortably, Microsoft PowerPoint take about one second. I have to
recommends a minimum configuration of a admit that the immediacy of having software
120 MHz Power Macintosh with 32 MB of ready to go when you want to use it adds
immeasurably to the user experience.

Migrating from the older version of the
software to Office 98 won't be a problem for
most users. For the most part, all of the components of the suite still maintain the same
look. Word has received the biggest overhaul
of any ofthe packages and makes much
Parity more or less

flagged by red and green squiggle underlines, Office 98 comprises the same core functionwhich in turn become pop-up menus with ality that has helped bring the Mac version
correction suggestions when you hold the
Control key down and click with the mouse.
These contextual menus also come in handy
in Excel and PowerPoint.
Probably one of the biggest advantages
for mixed Mac-Windows corporate sites is
that Office 98 and Office 97 share a common
file format. No longer does the Mac user
have to use MacLink or specialty translators
to exchange Office files through the network
or by disk. Because the file formats are now
binary-compatible (and will remain so for

the foreseeable future) the process is completely transparent. This capability is long
overdue and will probably be the most compelling reason for mixed-platform corporate
sites to go with this upgrade.
To help provide some comic relief in the
course of a workday, Microsoft has provided
an automated helpagent named Max. Max
probably qualifies as "the world's most
advanced Tamagotchi" and is characterized
as a Mac Classic with arms and legs. He
resides in a small floating window and
watches your every action i n case you
request assistance. I found him unobtrusive
and entertaining, but if you grow tired of or
become distracted by Max, you can simply
close his window.
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there are some features that are still unique
t o each p l a tform. Fo r i n s tance, t h e
Macintosh version o f t h e V i sual Basic
Environment does not support some of the
editing and debugging features that exist in
the Windows version. Also, Office 98 does
not directly support Data Access Object
libraries. Cross-platform developers must use
libraries that support ODBC drivers for
Sybase SQL Server, Oracle and FoxPro. These
are included with the Value Pack on the
Office 98 CD, Microsoft details some of these
m ore subtle i ssues o n i t s W e b s i t e
(http: //www.microsoft.corn/macoffice/product
infolmig ration2.htmPCompare).
The bottom line
There's an adage from the film Field of
Dreamsthat "if you build it, they will come."
In the case of the Macintosh user it should
read, "if you build it with quality, they will
come." For the most part i t
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Microsoft has met that objective. Initial sales

estimates indicate Office 98, will be an overwhelming success. The result of the company's effort is impressive, but the tradeoff is
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to use commercially valuable domain names.
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trademark owners have sought to protect their
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statutory and common law trademark rights.
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registration of the panavision.corn domain
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than suing him. Panavision sued.
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as his domain names for the purpose of
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federal and state laws against trademark dilution. Toeppen was ordered to transfer the
domain name to Panavision.
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recognizes the commercial value and importance of domain names and the use of trademarks as domain names; and (3) it confirms
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account of its similarity to the name, brand
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tags can be used to describe Web page con- self on the receiving end of an injunction to
tents in a misleading way and thereby manipulate search engine results in order to lure
users to a Web page.
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injunction will be in terms which will make
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Playboy Etrterprisrs inc.v. Tcmi Welles,involved a

claim that former Playboy Playmate Welles had
unlawfully used a number of Playboy's wellknown trademarks as headings, watermarks, and
meta-tags in her adult-oriented Web pages.
Playboy argued this constituted unfair competition and trademark infringement and dilution.
U.S.District Court The court dismissed Playboy's preliminary
injunction application. The court held that
The March 16, 1998, U.S. District Court for Welles used the Playboy trademarks in good
the Central District of California decision in faith to describe and identify herself and the
Avery Detniison Corp.v. Sitmitton and Free View contents of her Web site, and there was no likeListings Ltd. involved a c laim against a lihood of confusion or risk of trademark diluCanadian-based business that registered more tion. The court reasoned that Playboy had not
than 12,000 Internet domain names with the established a strong likelihood of success on the
stated intent of licensing the domain names as merits and the injunction should not be granted.
email addresses. The domain names were com.mon proper last names, such as Avery and Protecting valuable domain names
Dennison, and used the ".net" lop-level The following are some basic rules that ought
domain rather than the more popular ".corn" to be followed to protect valuable domain
domain. Avery Dennison sued, challenging the names and guard against the unauthorized
defendants' registration of the Avery.net and use of trademarks and names as domain names:
Dennison.net domains, alleging trademark (a) make registration and renewal payments
infringement and dilution. The court granted
in a timely manner;
judgment for Avery Dennison on the basis that (b) register domain names as trademarks;
the defendants' registration of the domain (c) properly use domain names as trademarks
names prevented Avery Dennison from using
in association with wares or services;
its famous trademark as an Internet domain (d)search the Internet on a regular basis to
name and thereby wrongfully diluted the
ensure trademarks are not being infringed;
mark's ability to identify Avery Dennison's (e) take timely steps to stop all infringing congoods and services in violation of the U.S.
duct through negotiation, administrative
Federni Trndemnrk Dilution Act.The court held
dispute resolution, or litigation. 0
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does nol authorize cybersquatting," which the Bradley J. Freedman is a trial lawyer with the
court reasoned would prevent Internet domain Vancouver law firm Ladner Dawns. His preferred areas
names from being used for their highest and of practice include intellectual property law and combest use. The court ordered the defendants to mercial litigation. He can bereached by email al
transfer the domain names to the plaintiff.
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lessons are also suitable for high school age
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Program in BASIC. Kids who are interested in line of code. You must use these in the lessons tendency to jump from feature to feature want to have fun while they learn about proprogramming, or schools that want to intro- section, but other sections allow you to simply w ithout w o r king t h r ough l e ssons i n gramming.
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Learn toProgram In BASIC
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Weaving your own Web site: Part XXXV

Building a tool chest: Part II
software). For the Web author who has some

cash to spend, Adobe Photoshop (for
Macintosh or PC platforms) is the graphics
By Kelth Schengill-Roberts
package of choice for most serious, profesast issue, we discussed building a basic sional designers.
Web "tool c hest" a collection of
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most recent version of Photoshop contains
many enhancements specifically for Web

design. It allows you to create graphics tha:
have a "Web safe"' palette or optimize image

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image. Its layered approach to creating imagesis very flexible, so you can try out different
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shareware versions that do particular graphi- graphics and making simple adjustments,
such as adding transparency, interlacing, and
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graphic tools and where they can be obtained
easy to use, and allows authors to create GIF
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supports over 30 image formats, offers simple LiveImage simplifies the process of mapping
Web pages asrequired.
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tools (largely shareware) to add to your tool if you have tried out several HTML (hypertext (URLs, also known as Web site addresses). This
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By Kelth Schenglli-Roberts
ost books on Photoshop devote one
or two chapters to designing graph-
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of using this image-creation software could fill
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automate the production of images for the

Web, using Photoshop as a Web layout tool
and avoiding color shifts when importing vector images. In short, Photoshop for the Webhas
plenty to keep Photoshop users interested.
The steep price is largely due to the number of color illustrations (just under 90 exam-
Photoshop for the Web

Author: Mikkel Aaland
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
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ISBN: 1-56592-350-2
Softcover 197 pages 1998
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Despite this handicap, this book is wellwritten, easy to follow (even for a graphically
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OuTLtNE toolbar to move the paragraph. Notice
that any paragraphs that follow this paragraph
that are at a lower level will move with it.
Adding a style to a level

If you use your own styles rather than Word's
heading styles you can easily associate your
style with an outline level so it will be treated
like any of the built-in styles. To do this, place
the insertion point in a paragraph that is formatted in the style you want to link to an outline level and select Fox~AT, STTLE.Select
MoDIFV, FQRMAT, PARAcRAPH and select the
INoENTsANOSpActwc tab, in the OuTUNE level:
list box select the level that you want to associate with this style and select OK, OK and
Ccosf.
Shortcut keys
Most of Word's outline features are accessible
by shortcut keys, here are a few useful ones;
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Ctrl+ Alt+ 1
Ctrl+ Alt+ 2
Ctrl+ AIt+ 3
Alt+ Shift+ left arrow
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paragraph down
Using the moose
In addition to the keyboard and the toolbar buttons you can promote or demote
any heading using the mouse. Hold the
mouse pointer over the outline symbol

next to the heading and drag it to the right
to demote it and to the left to promote it.
You' ll see a guideline appear to show the
level you are altering the paragraph to. You
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major headings and then print this by selecting
Working ln outline view
Printing an outline
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Become
You should use outline view to create a

document only when you really need to create a document outline. Because Word creates
the outline for you, you won't lose the benefits of outlining if you create your documents
in another view using styles rather than in
outline view itself.
@ poll 5eNNtt' Iie~
up or down to move it this time you' ll see

a horizontal guideline showing where it
will be moved to.
each heading and so on.
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Applies Normal Style and

demotes paragraph
to body text level
Applies Heading 1 style
Prolnote the paragraph and
apply a higher heading
style
Alt + Shift+ right arrow Demote the paragraph and
apply a lower heading style
Alt+ Shift+ plus (+)
Expand the text below
a heading
Alt+ Shift+ minus (-) Collapse the text
below a heading
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WordPerfect's toolbar includes options

for viewing different outline levels, moving
paragraphs and hiding and displaying body

text. If you have created an outline using
numbers you can later replace the numbers
with headings by highlighting the outlined
text and select INsERT, OUTLINE/BULLETS 6T

e a sily bols to surround each number. Use the
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apply
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outline view and make your other choices
BERING. Select the line" in the Help options. Here are quick
to)ekerouunc of andoj'
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OUTLINE NUMBERED instructions for Corel WordPerfect 8 and
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number all the headings in yourdocument.
from the options WordPerfect's outline feature is more )ike a using paragraph styles" button. In this dialog you can select each style used in your
the Pnn T button on the toolbar or select FILE, visible. The top row of options will num- traditional outline and is not automatically
document and nominate its level in the outber
both
the
headings
and
the
body
text
created
for
you.
To
turn
it
on,
select
INSERT,
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entire document, rather than the outline wh i le t he bot tom row will number only OUTLINE(BULLETs ' AND NUMBERING and select line. If you use WordPro's heading styles
the NuMBERs tab. From the options on the you' ll find the levels are already assigned for
view will appear, and printing from PRINT the headings.
screen you can select a numbering system to you. To add numbering to your outline
use or select EDIT to adapt one to your needs. select a style from the "Numbering sequence
When you have outlining turned on you to apply n list box and select ARILv. When
can t )rye your docutnent. Demote a para- you have completed your choices select OK
and OK again.
graph by selecting the DEMDTE
button on the
tlight click on any outline number in the
tooibai or press TAB before you type the paragraph and promoteone by selecting the editing screen to see the options available to
PRDMDTE button or select SIIIFT + TAB before promote and deinote headings, move paragraphs and expand and collapse ail or part of
you type, To type body text, press ENTER
after
a heading and then press the backspace key the document. To return to the usual view of
to remove the bullet or n u mber which your document select VIEw and select a view
WordPerfect will have inserted, before typing from the top o( the menu. 3
your text.
Because TAB and SHIFT + TAB control the Next month we' ll take a cha~ge in direction and
outline levels, you' ll need to use the INDENT lank at some spreadsheet functions. We' ll begin with
key F7 or CTRL + TAB if you need to move to same hot charting ideas and tips that are sure to
make your work the envy of everyone in your office!
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Oh, they built the ship
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To sailtheocean blue
And they thought they
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That the water wouldn' t
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But the good Lord raised
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Said,theship auld never
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It was sah-ad whenthe
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Ohit was sad (so sad)
Ohit wassad (so sad)
It was sad when the grayate ship went down
To the bottom of the
By Ross MacDonald
e Titanophiles will immediately
recognize that this disc is about their
favorite mass exodus to Davy Jones'

locker. DiCapriophiles, on the other hand,
won't have a clue.
A Night to Remember
From: TheVoyager Company
inCanada:299Queen St.W,Toronto,ON M5 V 2Z5
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For, Windows,Macintosh platforms

A Night to Retnetnber is the title of what
is arguably the best Titanic movie made to

date despite the more recent product
released by the king of the world. An
account of the sinking told in sort of,
maybe-ish, documentary style, this 1958
British production features the likes of
Kenneth More,a pre-Man fr
om U2LC.L.E.
David McCallum and even a pre-Avengers,
pre-Goldfinger Honor Blackman among
other "I' ve seen him in a million movies
but don't know his name"-type British film
stars of the '50s and '60s. A tale well told by
all accounts and undoubtedly fascinating to
all but the most shallow Titanic enthusiasts.
But this isn't a movie review, alas, so the
merits of the film, /b Night to Rememberwill
just have to be discovered elsewhere. On
the other hand, as a CD-ROM, this disc is
equal, if not even better than, the movie it
Seeeeeeeeee
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Husbands lost their wives,
little children lost their addresses.
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It was sad when the gray- example, you can hear scene-by-scene
commentary from Titanic experts Don
ate ship went down.
Lynch and Ken Marschall, you can see a
blueprint
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ng gers who are portrayed by all those venera-
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It is arguable, however, that watching a
Voyager has also very nicely thrown in

a bonus disc containing a 1993 documentary on the making of A Night to Remember,
movie on your computer is a less than

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shown in less than full screen (in this case the usual behind-the-scenes-footage and
a window that's about 6x4 in.). But anyone the original British trailer for the film.
interested in the topic will purchase this
All in all, a handsome package at a bardisc more as a multimedia document to gain price that ought to be an especially
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Digital Equipment Corp. When I was in Palo

Alto, Calif. recently, I asked a Digital researcher if
this was a matter of interest to U.S. government
agencies. In the presence of witnesses, he evaded

from many of its supposed Western allies and the question. He approached me afterward in pri-
vate and said, "Of course it is. That's behind the

development of the translation software. We
can't talk about it."
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and a limit to the reme- on Canadian bids on international contracts.
Graphics,
Rockwell, and others have been intiEspionage
techniques
ranged
from
old
fashdies that an individual
can obtain for damages suf- ioned bribery to electronic surveillance to copy- mately involved in "black" projects, which
friends.
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vidual can do to
defend his or herself, alleged French successes in stealing information
fered, and to prevent further ing or stealing data files. The payoff for this espionage campaign has been billions of dollars of
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which the borderless new business and thousands of jobs for the
Internet logically leads to and it French economy, and similar losses to Canada.
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the increasingly interconnected world of
computing is an international responsibility.
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need for collective action, for law writing, law
enforcement and government intervention at
local, national and international levels. The
problem is, some of the biggest threats to com-
puter security are posed by the same govemments that we want to protect us.
In the age of
cyber-terrorism,
governments
are the main
targets, the
main defenceand the main
perpetrators
Nations have no friends, only interests'

The United States has a host of government
agencies that rely on digital technology to spy
on that country's friends (including Canada)
and enemies. Agencies such as the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defence

Intelligence Agency (DIA), Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) and many others depend
on electronic eavesdropping and digital satellite
data for much of their intelligence. Although
officially restricted in the kinds and amounts of
involve developing the capability for the NSA,

CIA and others to spy on anyone the U.S. deems
necessary. By comparison, the surveillance activities of private corporations and local law
enforcement agencies are relatively minor.

Canada, too, has its own info-warriors, in
organizations such as the RCMP, the Canadian
Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), and our own

electronic ears, the Communications Security
Establishment (CSE). However, compared to the
Americans, Russians or Israelis, we are in the little leagues.
So what?
If you' re not actively involved in smuggling

heroin or plutonium, should you care if U.S. or
I irnow who I am
other nations' spooks have the ability to read
electronic
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do
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but who are youT
Governments exist on multi- U.S. intelligence agents have very few restric- your email? In the short term, probably not.
ple levels, both official and tions on what they listen to outside of U,S. terri- They are interested in the big picture and the big
players.
unofficial, publicly visible tory.
However, the history of America's domiOvershadowing
all
the
other
intelligence
and accountable, and hidden. Even an overtly democ- agencies on the planet in terms of its ability to nance in computing has shown endless examratic national government listen in on every kind of electronic conversa- ples of American technology flowing irresistibly
over the planet, being picked up by other
such as that of the United tion, however, is the U.S.'s little known or
nations and individuals. The futile American
understood
National
Security
Agency
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Kingdom, the United States,
attempt to restrict exports of encryption techEndowed
with
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budget
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said
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France or Israel has an invisible component,
which conducts espionage and clandestine mili- be similar to the CIA's (no-one knows for sure), nology, for example, shows that the U.S. is contary operations, and withholds secrets considered the NSA exists to watch, listen, decode, and sift cerned about its own technology being used
against itself, but it has limited ability to control
essential for "national security" away from the through all the world's communications.
eyes of its own citizens. Increasingly, those secret
activities have an element of computer technolo-
gy in them
intercepting electronic data, storing
it in databases, and analyzing it with the aid of
computer tools.
Even countries that are officially allied to
each other conduct electronic espionage against
each other, often in the arena of economic competition, and increasingly with the aid of telecom, computer and satellite surveillance. No
matter what laws are officially enacted to protect
privacy, for example, interception of network
Through a network of private contractors

and government labs, the NSA benefits from the
U.S.'s development of computer automated

translation technology, which does a quick sort
of intercepted non-English language data, and

identifies messages of possible interest for further, human scrutiny. The NSA and the U.S.'s
other military, police and space agencies, have
been the principal instigators of the development of computer technology in the last 50
years, and they continue to be one of the main
markets for the l atest in supercomputers,
data by governments would appear to be encryption, decryption, data analysis and comincreasing. I say "would appear to be," because munications technologies.
secret government activities, especially possibly
The growth of the Internet has become an
ment's own representatives what it is doing, but

to listen to its opponents' or victims' accusations
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those hostile to the U.S. or the West in general,
are gaining proficiency with computer and telecom tools, and building their own info-tech
infrastructure. Once the knowledge and tools for
computer surveillance and info-war are everywhere, they risk being used more widely.
We face a future where privacy may well
become an outmoded concept whether we like it
or not, and where information technology is a
principal weapon in the great game of economic, political and military competition. Given
their history, putting governments in charge of
illegal ones, are often protected from scrutiny area of great interest to government spooks. telecom security and privacy may be like putting
Dracula in charge of the blood bank. 0
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