21 st Communiqué - Newsletter #3
Index
1. New Web Browsers Make Surfing the Internet Easier
2. Training Applications for The Complete Story Being Explored
3. Internet Voting Successful in Michigan Democratic Primary
5. Electronic Storage Systems Enabling A Glut of Data
“The transformation of content delivery to digital formats is not only simplifying workflows for enterprise and government video professionals, it is making them more efficient, thereby lowering costs.”
Amir Majidimehr
General Manager, Microsoft Windows Digital Media disivision
1. Tabbing the Internet
A number of alternate Web browsers have added a very friendly user feature called “tabbed browsing”. The feature lets a person on the Internet keep multiple Web pages open at the same time. Only one page is visible at a time, other web pages are identified by a row of tabs. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg, “tabbed browsing is the biggest fundamental improvement in the Web browser in years.” Tabbed browsers for Windows and Mac can be found at Netscape, Opera and Mozilla. Other Windows tabbed browsers include Avant and Secure IE and NetCaptor. All can be downloaded from the Web.
2. The Complete Story for Complete Training
The latest application of The 21st Communications Company Complete Story platform is on-demand mixed media training products for corporations and learning institutions says CEO Glenn Meyers. The company is presently engaged in discussions with a number of training-oriented organizations that are interested in utilizing the Complete Story’s indexed tools to meet their training objectives.
3. Don’t Forget to eVote
More than 46,000 people voted over the Internet in Michigan’s Democratic caucus according to USA Today. That is nearly twice the number (25,423) that voted by mail. People could also vote in person at caucus sites. People could also vote in person at caucus sites. According to Mark Brewer, executive chairman of the state Democratic Party, "We're pleased not only with the number, but with the security and integrity of the Internet voting system." Critics of Internet voting systems have questioned both their security and their fairness.
To view the entire USA Today story, please click on the following link: http://www.usatoday.com/2004-02-07-internet-voting_x.htm
4. You Thought “Spam” Was An Insulting Name?
Some choose to communicate exclusively by email. Others can’t use email at all. Case in point: The Caudwell Group, a British mobile phone distributor, has banned all email use at its Phones 4U subsidiary. CEO John Caudwell called e-mail “a cancer” when he instituted the ban, stating some of his managers were spending a third of their day dealing with electronic mail, most of it not even job-related.
5. Numbers Like These Usually Refer to the Federal Deficit
Publishing capacity has become unlimited through the used of electronic storage systems. An October 2003 study at the University of California in Berkeley estimated that five exabytes of information were produced in 2002 (an exabyte is a billion gigabytes or one quintillion bytes). Five exabytes of data represents 500,000 times the size of the print collections at the Library of Congress.
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