Pay phone companies rush to refit for the Internet era; an industry moves from coins to content

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Makers and operators of pay telephones are scrambling to develop new technologies that will transform the ordinary pay telephone into an Internet-access communications device allowing e-mail and offering information on weather and local news. The popularity of cellular telephones has already forced the removal of many pay telephones, hurting the poorer people in the country's urban areas the most.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Strategy & planning, Services development, Product/Service Evaluation, Forecasts and trends, Industry trend, Telecommunications equipment industry, Pay telephones, Pay telephone, Company service review

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Computer forensics teams learn to follow digital footprints

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Dr. John Leeson, a professor of Computer Science at the School of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, teaches and trains students and law enforcement investigators in the new field of computer forensics. As the use of computers in crime increases, the need for investigators trained in digital crime-solving methods is growing.

Investigations, Training, Interview, Computer crimes, Computer crime, Detectives, Criminal investigation, Leeson, John

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Laurels for Giving the Internet Its Language

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Computer scientists Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf are being honored with the Turing Prize for their 1973 invention of the Internet.

Electronic computers, Computer industry, Microcomputer industry, Internet, History, Achievements and awards, Cerf, Vinton G., Kahn, Robert E., 1973 AD

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