Web Headlines

Headlines from around the Web for Thursday, March 6, 2008
Compiled by Melanie Bender

IT Looks for Online Video to Boost Corporate Training, Collaboration, Marketing

ComputerWorld

While a number of companies struggle to keep employees from surfing sites like YouTube during business hours, others have embraced online video as a means of training employees and disseminating information both internally and to the general public.

Homemade Robot Drives Away Drug Dealers

InformationWeek

The 'Bum Bot,' a robot pieced together from junked motorized scooters and some other odds and ends by engineer and tavern owner Rufus Terrill, has been chasing drug dealers away from an Atlanta neighborhood with a high-powered water gun.

Law Enforcement Creating Vast Data Network

The Washington Post

Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots.

Optical Scan Voting Draws Few Complaints in Ohio

Government Computer News

More than 400,000 voters went to the polls yesterday in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, using a new optical-scan system that appears to have worked with no more than the usual number of complaints in an election day plagued by foul weather and a closely contested race.

U.S. Tech Leadership Seen as Wavering

CIO Insight

American CIOs would rather be followers than leaders when it comes to adopting new technology. Only 6 percent of American CIOs surveyed responded that they wanted to be leaders in adopting new technologies vs. 15 percent among European and 19 percent among Chinese IT leaders, according to a survey of 500 global CIOs conducted late last year.

DOD CIO: Network Configuration, Scanning Softened Cyberattack Blow

Federal Computer Week

Dennis Clem, chief information officer at the Pentagon and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, explained how his network's configuration helped lessen the impact of a cyberattack last June.

Tech Companies Fight Md. Sales Tax

WashingtonTechnology

The Maryland information technology community is fighting hard against a new sales tax requiring companies to pay a 6 percent tax on the sale of computer services scheduled to go into effect July 1. Though the state legislature passed the measure in November, even state comptroller Peter Franchot thinks its a bad idea.

Who Should Bear the Cost of Tomorrow's Broadband?

InfoWorld

A panel of industry executives and analysts discussed who should foot the bill for the mega-sized data pipes that will be necessary for the predicted increase in data expected over the next several years.

Colorado Voting Bill Advances Despite Opposition

Rocky Mountain News

A paper-voting proposal cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday, despite stiff opposition from county clerks and Secretary of State Mike Coffman. The bill calls for voters statewide to cast paper ballots at polling places but also would allow those who ask to use electronic voting machines.

South Carolina Legislators Seeking Real ID Solution

Spartanburg Herald-Journal

As South Carolina officials debate whether to ask the Department of Homeland Security for more time to prepare for the Real ID act, residents are wondering if they'll be able to board airplanes without their passports in the next few months.