NewsScan Daily, 24 February 2000 ("Above The Fold")
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
Honeywell's Business-To-Business Web Strategy
FTC Proposes New Legislation To Protect Consumer Privacy
U.S. Privacy Protections Could Ease European Concerns
College Student Charged With Network Vandalism
Swedish Web Firms Merge
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Honorary Subscriber: Georgia O'Keeffe
HONEYWELL'S BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS WEB STRATEGY
Honeywell, the manufacturing company, is revamping its MyPlant Web site into
what it calls an "e-hub, the portal of choice for industrial companies," and
will change itself from a free service into one that will charge for its
information. It hopes also to join forces with competitors such as Rockwell
International and Emerson Electric in order to turn MyPlant into a
comprehensive forum for plant managers, engineers, and other customers.
Honeywell chief executive Michael R. Bonsignore says, "I suspect Honeywell
will eventually be a minority shareholder in the site, but that will be fine
if it gives us more customers"; he adds, "Amazon.com, eToys, all those Web
companies are building the back end of their businesses. We've got the
customer relationships, the warehouses, the factories, all the back-end
things down pat. We're reinventing the front end, the part that makes it
easy to do business with us." (New York Times 24 Feb 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/24honeywell.html
FTC PROPOSES NEW LEGISLATION TO PROTECT CONSUMER PRIVACY
The Federal Trade Commission is proposing legislation that will require
department stores, automakers, car-rental firms, and other companies to
protect the financial privacy of consumers who do business with them.
Financial firms will have to create a privacy policy and clear state it to
consumers, and give consumers the right to forbid the sharing of their
personal financial information with unaffiliated third parties. (Washington
Post 24 Feb 2000)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a26996-2000feb24.htm
U.S. PRIVACY PROTECTIONS COULD EASE EUROPEAN CONCERNS
The move by the FTC to impose privacy protection rules on U.S. businesses
has been heralded as a breakthrough by U.S. and European negotiators who
have been seeking a way for U.S. firms to do business in Europe without
eroding Europeans' privacy rights. In the compromise, the FTC will maintain
a list of companies that agree to comply with at least one of four ways of
implementing privacy protections: 1) By subjecting themselves to the
data-protection authority in one of the 15 EU countries; 2) By showing that
they comply with similar U.S. privacy laws; 3) By signing up with a
self-regulatory organization such as BBBOnline, which is subject to FTC
oversight; or 4) By agreeing to refer privacy disputes to a European
regulatory panel. European officials say that resolving the disparities
between U.S. and European privacy protections will be key to the success of
e-commerce on the continent. (Wall Street Journal 24 Feb 2000)
http://wsj.com/
COLLEGE STUDENT CHARGED WITH NETWORK VANDALISM
Ikenna Iffih, a 28-year-old computer science student at Northeastern
University has been charged with hacking his way into government and
military computers and disrupting the operations of an Internet service
provider in the state of Washington. If convicted, he will face up to 10
years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Prosecutors say that Iffih caused
"substantial business loss, defacing a Web page with hacker graphics,
copying personal information, or in the case of a NASA computer, effectively
seizing control." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 23 Feb 2000)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/080797.htm
SWEDISH WEB FIRMS MERGE
Swedish Web consulting firms Information Highway and Connecta are teaming up
to create one of Europe's largest Web companies. The merged company plans to
use its combined power to expand beyond Scandinavia, most likely targeting
the U.K. and Germany for new business. Currently, Information Highway
provides Web expertise to Ericsson, SAS and Lufthansa, and Connecta counts
Swedish bank SEB, Volkswagen, and travel agency Thomson among its clients.
(Financial Times 24 Feb 2000)
http://www.ft.com/
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HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887-1986), one of the primary shapers of modern art in the U.S. Although
her work sometimes turned to abstraction, O'Keeffe's subjects were usually
derived from nature and included principally flowers, still lifes, and
landscapes. Her famous flower paintings were characterized by bold
magnification and an absolute clarity of form. She also painted cityscapes
in a precise modernist geometric style.
After visiting and then moving to New Mexico, her paintings began to
reflect the atmosphere and scenery of the southwestern desert. One of her
finest works of this period was an austere series of paintings depicting
animal bones set against spare backgrounds.
After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students
League in New York City, O'Keeffe began about 1915 to evolve her own style,
and in that year her canvases--with their broad, summary forms, emphatic
rhythms, and prismatic colors--came to the attention of the photographer and
art exhibitor Alfred Stieglitz, who gave O'Keeffe her first one-woman show
at his stylish "271" gallery in New York. Stieglitz encouraged O'Keeffe's
painting as no one had before, and he eventually convinced her to move to
New York and devote all her time and energy to her art work. She arrived in
1918, and immediately began a romance with Stieglitz, 23 years her senior.
They were married in 1924 and had a mutually productive professional
relationship, despite some marital problems, until his death in 1946.
In May of 1929, during a vacation in Taos, New Mexico, O'Keeffe fell
in love with the seemingly infinite space and wide, rugged views of the
desert landscape, which became the inspiration for many of her most famous
paintings. She returned every summer, and eventually took up permanent
residence in the town of Abiquiu, New Mexico, where she purchased the
legendary Ghost Ranch.
O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe
at age 98. At the end of her life she said: "When I think of death, I only
regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore
..unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone."
See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671016660/newsscancom/ for
Laurie Lyle's interesting book, "Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of
Georgia O'Keeffe." (We donate all revenue from our book recommendations to
Literacy Action's adult literacy programs.)
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