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< COMMENTARY >
Technology in the real worldne of the interesting thingsabout working for a maga-zine like TCP is having a
front row seat to watch new tech-nologies emerge. Our writers bringus stories on what's being cooked upin research and development labs orwhat's on the verge of hitting themarket as a commercial product orservice — these stories tend to relaythe "promise" of a new technology.
The next cycle of coverage follows its release, when wesee if it matches the hype: will it change the way wework, communicate, etc., or does it require a little moretweaking back at the Iab?
Some products and services seetn to disappear almostas quickly as they emerge. 'I'his was especially true fol-lowing the burst of the dot-corn bubble. RememberDigiScentsy That company was developing a personalcomputer peripheral that generated synthesized scent,which would be used to sell products online or toenhance multimedia. It made the cover of h'ircci maga-zine as its hype peaked, and earned the headline "Sniffcompany is a scratch," in the Standard.corn as its for-tunes plummeted.
But all was not vapourware. Sotne technologies justdidn't make it as the commercial product originallyenvisioned, they re-emerged in n' ew forms. Voice recog-nition for example, was very promising a tew years back,with a range of commercial software packages targetingbusiness users. Instead of all that typing and mousing,you created documents and navigated your PC and theWeb using your voice. Though most of these productswere functional, in practice they were somewhat cum-bersome and required a lot of training — of the user andthe software. During a demo of one company's voice
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Though standalone voice-recognition p roductsweren't quite ready for prime time then, the technologyhas since been incorporated into a range of other prod-ucts, for individuals (the Tablet PC platform is one sev-eral tk Iicrosoft developments to include voice-input fea-tures, for example) and forlarge organizations (such as"smarter" automated cus-tomer service systems).
This month, we take alook at how some tech-nologies are taring in the"real world" — being usedin new and unusual ways.
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Switching loyaltiesAlthough I'm not into networking at all, Iread Emru Townsend's article "Macs can nolonger just talk amongst themselves" [TCP
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Out of focusI usually enjoy the many indepth reviewsyour people do. The recent reviews of dig-ital cameras [cover feature, TCP July) haveme puzzled, however. No-one ever men-tions aperture as a feature of a digitalcamera, To get that info, one usually hasto go to the Web site of the manufacturer.I would appreciate it i f you could getsomeone to write an article on lens aper-tures and quality of digital cameras andhow they relate to the quality of the pic-
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Navigating the real worlManufacturers drive development of telematics, in-vehicle wireless communications
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he hrst cell phones were ofteninstalled in cars like stereos, draw-ing on the vehicle's battery and
even using the horn to get the attentionof a driver who had wandered away andwas missing a call. Only 12 years ago, avisitor to a construction site might betreated to the spectacle of a horn blow-ing in the parking area, triggering at leastthree guys to run madly back to theirtrucks to catch the call, unsure of whichtruck was calling.
Now that phones are smaller and wekeep them in our pockets, there's noneed for the mad dash. But there wereand still are advantages to having wire-less communications built into cars. Theintegration of wireless communicationswith the vehicle's information systemsand a global positioning system (GPS),called telematics, could make drivingsafer and more convenient. According tothe hype, it could allow us to avoid manyof the worst things about driving: trafficjams, bad weather, accidents, break-downs, getting lost, and the futile searchfor parking spaces. The dream can bepretty irresistible, but the question ishow much we are willing to pay for it.
What's available nowThe most prominent option for thoselooking for telematics in their vehiclesright now is the OnStar (wwwonstatcana-da.corn) package offered with many newGM models. OnStar, which must be fac-tory installed, essentially combines a cel-lular phone, a GPS system, and a net-work of sensors in the car with a callcentre subscription service accessedthrough a set of three buttons. Lockedyour keys in your car? OnStar canunlock your car for you remotely. Loseyour way'. The call centre operators cangive you directions to get you back ontrack. But what is likely the most appeal-ing to inany subscribers are the safetyfeatures, including remote diagnostics totell you if that engine light is signalling aproblem serious enough to leave youstranded.
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iniury because of the type of accident,they would be much better off."
Essentially, OnStar is like an insurancepolicy — the most important features arethe ones you hope you' ll never need.And like an insurance policy, it can besomewhat painful to pay for.
The system itself will add about $700to the price of a vehicle and it oftencomes bundled with other options in ahigher end package. The first year ofservice is included in the package. Afterthat, drivers who wish to continue theservice are offered a choice of three plansthat range in price from $24.95 to $87.95per month. Those who wish to use theOnStar service for hands-free personalcalling can buy packages of prepaid min-utes at rates ranging from 38 cents to 67cents per minute, depending on thenumber of minutes and how soon theyexpire.
There is one limitation drivers shouldbe aware of, especially if they do a lot ofdriving in remote areas. OnStar commu-nicates via cellular phone signals only, soif you' re out of cell phone range, you' reout of the service's reach. While the GPSwill continue to establish the vehicle'slocation, without a cell signal, there's noway to communicate the data to the callcentre. Walsh did point out, however,that because the system uses the vehicle'sbattery, which is stronger than the typi-cal cell phone battery, it will allow driv-
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ers to venture further before droppingthe signal.
Other optionsThere are alternatives to OnStar, thoughnot many, and not usually on lowerpriced vehicles. Several manufacturersalso offer DVD-based satellite naviga-tion systems, but they tend to be avail-able on luxury models, and can add sev-eral thousand dollars to the bottom line.
ihtercedes-Benz offers Tele Aid, athree-button system very similar toOnStar that comes standard on most ofits models. A DVD- and GPS-based nav-igational system is also available on
BMW offers Assist, which is also simi-lar to OnStar and Tele Aid, but whichrequires a vehicle with an on-board nav-igation system and an activated BihfWcellular phone system. The service ispriced at $190 per vear.
Lexus offers a DVD-based navigationsystem on some of its models, usuallybundled with premium packages.
DVD- and GPS-based systems use acombination of mapping software, satel-lite positioning, and a small LCD screenmounted in the dash. Drivers enter theirdestination and receive routing advicefrom the system, much like having apaper map with the route highlighted.The helpfulness of a DVD-based systemlargely depends on the quality of thesoftware, so car buyers planning toinvest in a system should ask questionsabout the areas covered by the mappingsoftware and try it out if at all possible.
The Pontiac Vibe, for example, has anoption to add a DVD GPS navigationalsystem, but the on l ine in formationincludes a caveat that at present, detailedmap coverage is only available forT oronto, M o n t real, Ot t awa, a n dVancouver. Considering the system willadd about $2,550 to the price of thevehicle, it's worth taking the time to besure it wiU be useful.
W hat's possibleWhile the idea of getting quick help afteran accident is comtorting, avoiding the
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tions manager for O nStar Canada,explains how this works: "If the owner ofthe vehicle presses the button andrequests what we call a remote diagnos-tic, OnStar can connect to the vehiclebut with a data connection instead ofvoice, and it can read the onboard com-puter and find out why, for example, thatengine light came on." The operator canthen look up the diagnostic code andadvise the driver whether or not it's safeto keep driving.
A radio ad illustrates the airbag notifi-cation service OnStar offers. The spotfeatures a crash, followed by an OnStaroperator paging the driver through thesystem, sending emergency services tothe scene svhen she hears no reply. Thevehicle places an emergency call toOnStar automatically when the airbagsare deployed.
According to Walsh, this function willbe expanded i n f utu r e ve h icles.Advanced automatic crash notificationwill be rolled out starting with the 2004Chevrolet Malibu, incorporating moresensors around the vehicle that wi l lallow OnStar to tell emergency person-nel where and how hard the vehicle washit.
"One of the greatest causes of deathfrom accidents are the injuries that [theparamedics] don't see, things like inter-nal bleeding," says Walsh, "and if theyknew that they could expect that type of
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Navigating the real worldConti nuecUiom page 12accident altogether would be an evenhetter option. It's a dream that inspiresongoing research at Ford's Research andAdvanced Engineering division.
Ron Miller; a physicist who graduatedtrom MIT. has been with Ford tor eightyears. His specialty is intelligent vehicletechnologies, and the results of his proj-ects probably won't hit a car lot before2008. The value in telematics, as he seesit, lies in "real-time traffic and weatherreporting," and Ford has partnered upwith the Departments of Transportationin Minnesota and Michigan to figure outhow to make it work.
Basically, the system involves threesteps; data is collected from vehicles asthey inove through tratfic; it's then sentwirelessly to d igital messaging signsoperated by the transportation depart-m ents; and t hen b ack t o vehiclesthrough a cell phone or radio signal as areal-time traffic message.
Miller says Ford is work ing w i thDelphi to develop a radio that would fitinto vehicles and offer both a wirelesswide area network (WAN) and a wireless
LAN. This would move the system awayfrom a server-based systein to a moredecentralized virtual floating network,in which cars talk directly to each other.
"By having these vehicles talk to eachother, multi-vehicle accidents are a thingof the past," says Miller, "because some-body slams their brakes on 500 m up infront of me, I norinally don't see thatuntil all the brake lights hit, and then allof a sudden, I have to brake hard. If Iknew that ahead of time, I would haveslowed down in a non-aggressive man-ner, and the people around me wouldslow down in a non-aggressive manner,and we'd stop that collision or shockwave that happens when events occur onthe highway. So i t c hangesall thedynamics. It provides sustainable mobil-ity, and it keeps people safe."Safety is a key message in the discus-
sion around telematics systems, and forgood reason: studies have shown thatsafety issues are the strongest sellingpoint in convincing car buyers to pay forthe systems.
A survey released in October byDriscoll-Wolfe Marketing and ResearchConsulting found that of those drivers
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with OnStar or Tele Aid (o ffered inMercedes vehicles) installed who decid-ed to renew the service after the firstyear, 93 percent cited the emergencynotification feature as a motivator. And astudy by J.D. Power and Associatesreleased in December showed that con-sumers are more interested in safety-related technologies than they are in fea-tures that only add entertainment, com-fort, or convenience.
What we need to Agure outBut not everyone is convinced thattelematics systems make vehicles safer.According to T ransport Canada,astelematics become more common, theycould make roads more dangerous, evenfor those without the systems installed.A discussion document published in theCanada Gazette in June argues thatmany of the devices are poorly integrat-ed with the car's system or are too com-plicated and require a lot of visual atten-tion, possibly distracting drivers to thepoint of causing accidents. Since the fed-eral government has the power to regu-late what is built into new vehicles soldin Canada, it seems Transport Canada
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has put the industry on notice that thegovernment is ready to step in and regu-late the systems if it doesn't think vehiclemanufacturers are doing enough to keepdrivers focused on driving.
While the Transport Canada paperalleges that human factors, or the wayusers interact with the machines, are notadequately considered in the design andimplementation of telematics devices invehicles, Miller points to ongoing andextensive research Ford is doing in the
"We' ve got a t remendous effort inthat," savs Miller, adding that the compa-ny uses a t'ull-motion simulator to test
"You put people in the simulator, youhave different tasks they have to per-form, you look at eye glance, lane depar-ture, even small lane departures."
Recognizing that there are any num-ber of things that can affect driver focus,the testing program is not l imited toadvanced technologies. "It goes all theway down to, how do we set up the inte-rior, not only from the advanced tech-nologies we bring in there," says Miller,
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Navigating the real worldContinued tram page l4but also "how far those technologies arefrom [my] reach... and then can I seethem and am I affected by regular ambi-«nt conditions that are outside of thetechnology?"
Mike Walsh, of OnStar Canada, isquick to point out that his company's
"There's a big difference between thekind of service that OnStar provides andthings like a cell phone or the navigationdevices that have a screen," he says."When OnStar provides directions, forexample, there's nothing to l ook a texcept the roads, and nowhere else toput your hands except on the wheel. Sothe person talking to you will give youthe directions, and they can stay on theline with you as well, or just gii«you thedir«ctions and you can hang up. There' snothing to look at, really."
But visual devices may not be the onlyoffenders. A University of Utah studypublished in the March issue of the/ ouriiii l of F3c/Ierimental Psycliologyfound that drivers using cell phones,
even hands-free models, are less able toprocess visual information due to "inat-tention blindness," and react more slow-ly to traffic signals and changes in thedriving environment.
GM claims its own research is basedon precise, real-world situations andshows that us«of the OnStar systemwhile driving is safe. The company hasthe advantage of knowing exactly whenan OnStar call intersects with a crashserious enough to deploy airbags. Inanalyzing 8.1 mi l l ion embedded cellphone calls to Ongtar call centre advi-sors between October 1996 and ivlay2000, GM found that during only twocalls were drivers on the phone at th«time of a crash serious enough to deploythe airbags.
The d«bate is only just beginning.While those in favour of telematics pointout that drivers who eat, read, and chatwith passengers are also distracted,Transport Canada count«rs that while itis not in a position to regulate what driv-ers can bring into their vehicles withthem, it is in a position to regulate whatis built into the vehicle and how much of
that equipment is accessible and func-tional while the vehicle is moving.
What's it worth?All the dreams, hype, and debated issuesmay be moot i f the industry doesn' tmanage to find answers to the bottomline question: do people really wanttelematics in their vehicles, and are theywilling to pay the associated costs?
OnStar has been available on 41 mod-«ls for 2003, and will b«expanded toseven more models in the 2004 lineup.But despite the relatively widespreadavailability, including entry-level modelsl ike the P ont iac Sunfire and theChevrolet Cavalier, the system is onlyinstalled in about 20 percent of newvehicles driving off GM l o ts. And ofthose who have the service, only about50 percent renew it for th«s«cond year,once they have to start paying for thesubscription. Subscribers who stick withthe service for a second year ar«morelik«ly to renew for the third year andbeyond.
Ford partnered with Qualcomm inOctober 2000 to form Wingcast, a serv-
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The f«w Ford-branded vehicles thatoffer call centre services now are sup-plied b y a c ontract w i t h ATXTechnologies, a t h i rd -party serviceprovider that also works behind thescenes for Mercedes Tele Aid and BMW
While telematics hasn't expanded asrapidly as some predicted it would a t'ewyears ago, it seems that automotive com-panies have not given up completely.They' ve refocused, concentrating onfinding the magic combination of func-tions and price that will appeal to theircustomers. As part of this effort, they' vejoined forces to form a consortium toestablish standards.
The Automotive Multimedia lnteriac«Collaboration (AMI-C, at www.ami-corg)is made up of most of th«world's auto-motive manufacturers, and aims toestablish standards for electronic com-ponents in v«hicles that will result inlower costs and easier upgrad«s. 2
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Simpli ing securiBiometrics offer solution to password proliferation
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iometric technology has been withus for many years, on televisionand in films. And pretty much any
body part that you can think of has beenused as a way of allowing machines toidentify p e ople — from f i n gerprint,hand, retina, and fu l l -body scans tovoiceprint analysis.
The downfall of passwords and IDsSo what does all this have to do withyou? To answer that question properly,consider the requirements you currentlyhave for establishing your identity in thedigital world (and sometimes in the realworld) that are based on some form olID/password scenario. The ID can besomething physical (such as a bank card)or merely a set of characters or numbers(such as the ID you might type in at anelectronic banking 1 Veb site or on a 1 Vebmail service at an Internet cafe). Theproblem is that these scenarios are not
always secure.Take, for example, the average corpo-
rate user ID/password combination thatprovides access to a company's network.lvlost corporate IDs are formed in one ofseveral standard ways. The most com-mon is the first letter of your tirst nameand the whole of your last name (i.e.
jsmith for Jane Smith). I f you workwithin a company, or are even famiharwith those 1vho do, you know how IDsare formulated and can accurately guess
Assuming there is little or no securityaround IDs, thc effectiveness of yourdigital security in the simple ID/pass-
word world is going to depend on ho1vsecure your password is. Many people,however, choose their passwords for thesake of convenience. If you know a littleabout the people whose password you' retrying to guess, it sometimes doesn't takemuch to figure it out.
Here are a few ol the more commonones: spouse's name, children's names,pet's names, mother's maiden name, thev ord "password the user's own middlename, the ID itself, and so on. The pointis that ID/password technology is some-times not the most effective way tosecure your computer or your network.
Password proliferationAs a user, ID/password combinationscan be frustrating, considering the num-ber you may have to remember and usein a dav: a PIN for your bank debit card,security codes for your home and/oroffice alarm systems, seperate PINs foraccessing cell phone and office voice-
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Simplifying securityContinued from page~mail, network passwords for your officeand home computers, passwords foryour office email and Web mail clients,the "unlock" code for your PDA, and on
So what do you do? Write them alldown somewhere so you don't forgetthem or make them all the same so thatanyone who guesses the right passwordcan "unlock" your whole life?
Anybody's solutionOr, wouldn't it make sense to be able toeliminate at least some of the ID/pass-word headaches in your l i t'e withoutcomproinising the security of your per-sonal or business information?
With biometrics, there is nothing toremember. You can't forget your finger-print, your eyes, or your face. You alwayshave them with you — and should beable to easily produce them when need-ed. The real issue is whether or not bio-metric solutions niake sense for the aver-age home or small business user.
Biometrics for the home and small officeDo you really need a biometric securitysolution at your home nr in your smallbusiness? The answer lies in three words:
security and convenience. The addedsecurity comes trom knowing that onlyyou — or those people you' ve selected-can access a biometrically protected sys-tem. That security also extends to themobile environment. It' you use a note-book computer or a PDA, there are agrowing number ot biometric optionsthat alloss you to ensure that the workyou hold on your mobile system can bekept from hackers and computer thieves.These solutions can also offer conven-
ience by giving you at least one fewerID/password combination to remem-ber — freeing up those extra brain cells toremember more important int'ormation(such as your spouse's birthday). Only ahandful of the wide range ot biometrictechnologies are available to the homeand small business PC user, althoughthat number seems to be on the rise.
Common biometric solutionsHere's a breakdown of the most com-mon biometric solutions based on rec-ognizing a body part:
Fingerprint recognition: It's one ofthose wonderful quirks of nature thatno two human tingerprints are identi-cal (perhaps at least until someonebreaks the ban on human cloning).This ty7e of system takes a picture of
your fingerprint and compares it to apreviously taken picture ot your fin-gerprint to see if the two match.Face recognition: This technology ismore a software marvel than anythingelse. The hardware is fairly standardcamera gear — although it must besaid that the better the camera, themore accurate the results are likely tob e. F aceIt , a solu t i on fromMinnetonka, briinn. -based Identix,works by looking at the unique geo-metrical relationships within a facearid comparing them to a k nownimage of the individual. Others take adifferent approach. Massachusetts-based Viisage's face-recognition tech-nology, for example, was developed atMIT and uses what it calls "eigen-faces," which map characteristics otaperson's face into a multi-dimension-al "face space."
• Ir is recognition: The major applica-tions so tar have been aviation securi-ty, automatic border crossing con-trols, database access,computer login,building entry, ATMs, and govern-ment programs.
Quasi-biometric solutionsThere are also several quasi-biometricrecognition systems that require you to
speak, type, or write something:Voice identification: Notice that thist)pie of solution is called "voice iden-tification" and »o f " voice recogni-tion." While voice identification solu-tions need to recognize specific voic-es, their goal is to identify the speakerrather than what the speaker is sapng.Voice ID solutions allow vou to useyour voice to give commands to yourcomputer.
• Handwrit ing identification: Again,handwriting identification should bedifferentiated t r o m han dwr i t ingrecognition. The latter is designed tofigure out what is written, while theformer tries to establish the identityof the writer.
• Keystroke authentication: There area few products based on this notion.The best-known i s B i oPassword( from Bel l v ue, Wash.-basedNetNanny Software), which learns theunique way you enter charactersusing a keyboard. It's based on theidea that "typing rhythm" is individ-ual, so a intruder's will not be thesame as a computer's owner.
Putting yourself in the biometric pictureThe real key to figuring out which bio-
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puter securitv," you probablythink of f i rewalls and anti-
virus applications. They are importantproducts — something many of us havelearned through experience (find moreabout these products in archived articlesat www.CanadaComputes.rom).
Computer security also includes theftprevention and recovery for hardwareand data, Eor this I.ah, we' vc broadenedour scope to include hardware and soft-ware products developed to prevent lossand assist with recovery of stolen hard-ware or data and to prevent unautho-rized access and usage, data corruption,or inadvertent destruction.
The softwarePC Phone Home/Mac Phone HomeFrom: Brigadoon Software,www.pcphonehome.cornEstimated price: USS29.95Requires: Mac OS Bx, 9x, OS X; Windows9x/Me/2000/XP; modem (dialup or broadband).PC Phone Home helps get your stolencomputer back. Once the software isinstalled, it sends an email message everytime the computer is connected to theInternet. Dur ing setup, the systemrequires your email address and outgo-ing mail server name. No email client(email program or application) is need-ed. It's OK to use your own emaila ddress; just make sure that i t y o uchange ISPs, you also change the infolisted with PC Phone Home. The owner-ship information you provide duringregistration must be accurate if policeare to be notified or legalities arise aboutproviding false information on a svar-
We used the same email address forsending and receiving, and each time welogged on, an email message appeared inthe inbox within seconds. When con-nected on another telephone line usinganother ISP, it took about three minutestu receive the message. Dozens of infor-mation reports were sent stealthily, with-
out any indication to the user that theywere being issued.
The email messages from PC PhoneHome contained all of the informationwc provided during registration, plusthe IP address, time connected, username, serial number, and even the sillyname sve forgot wc'd given the comput-er when we tirst installed the operatingsystem.
As PC Phone Home requires email tosvork, you might thiiik formatting thchard drive or deleting the partit ionwould wipe out the program. Wrong! Itremains hidden as a separate, phantompartition disguised as a bad sector. Evenif that is deleted, several key tiles spawnon reboot. Format and Fdisk commandsdon't work if the program is properlyinstalled. Registered users can, however,request a special uninstall program loremove PC Phone Home. The companyreports that all 31 computers registeredwith PC Phone Home that have beenstolen so far in 2003 have been returned.None were tampered with, reformatted,or re-partitioned.
The user's manual describes a tech-nique to slow down a thief: make yourCA drive the first hoot device in your
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system, and password-protect yourBIOS settings. This prevents someonef rom using a t loppy or CD t o b ootaround the protection (many systemsnow ship with the CD-ROi%1 drive set asthe first boot option), and from readilychanging the hoot-drive order. It is pos-sible to work around this protection, butit's more likely that many alerts will besent before YC Phone Home is defeated.
We experienced one mildly annoyingevent. When not connected online, thedial-up networking adapter kept tr)nngto dial a connection immediately afterwe booted up the computer. After leav-ing our computer running all night, wefound dozens of dial-up attempts on ourtaskbar — so many that we couldn't closethem, and were forced to reboot. Byex7erimenting, we learned that simph'closing the hrst two automatic dial-upattempts solved the problem. Note: if theprogram is contigured for use wi thbroadband, this should not occur.
A tull version of the software can bednwnloaded from the PC Phone HomeIVeb site, as can a free 30-day trial ver-sion for those who want to try beforethey huy. Enterprise version~ are alsoavailable for organizations with several
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computers. PC Phone Home has nomonitoring tees or other costs.
SecuriockFrom: SecurSoftware, www.secursoftware.cornEstimated price: 5199 (1 key); 5278 (2 keys)Warranty: 1 yearRequires: Windows 2000/XP; 1 MB disk spaceA loss prevention device, SecurLock is aUSB key/sottware solut.ion for Windows2000 and XP. (Note: key in photo indi-cates scale and is nol part of SecurLocksystem.) When inserted into a USB porton your system, it performs user logonaiithcntication, file encryption, and stor-age for all of your passwords and logonprotiles. It can store this tyT)e of infor-mation for several users on the same sys-
If lhe "key" is removed from the USBport, you will he prompted to insert itwhen you boot the computer. If youinsert it before turning on the system, ordid not remove it when you last shutdown the computer, you' ll be promptedto t)ye in the PIN you selected duringsetup. The computer can't be accessed atall without the SecurLock USB key. Aswell, SecurI.ock blocks access after threeincorrect PIN attempts. At this point,only an administrator can unblock it. Ofcourse, if you' ve installed SccurLock ona stand-alone system that only you use,you are the administrator.
Right-click on a file icon to encrypt itwith either RC4 or Blowfish algorithmencryption. While it provides strongerencryption, Blowfish increases the sizeof files, so RC4 is recommended for larg-er file.
Right-clicking also of'fers the option oflocking a file for transfer on tloppy diskor hy email, or making it self-extracting.Simply right-click, select the encryptionor lock you want, and choose a pass-word. To read the tile, the recipient mustalso know the passssord.
The Single Sign-On (SSO) featureallows you to store all your logon namesand passwords in one encrypted loca-tion. Each identity is stored under anicon with individual names. When yougo lo a Web site that requires a login,
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simply drag and drop the appropriateicon onto the WLb page and click toenter rather than typing in a name andpassword.
Unlike some USB keys, SecurLock isi nternal)y shielded to protect i t f r o mstatic electricity damage.
Kroll OnTrack Easy Recovery LiteFrom: Kroll OnTrack Inc.,www.ontrack.corn/easyrecovery/Prices: 589 (Lite), 5)99 (Data Recovery), 5499(Pro), 5399 (File Repair)Requires: 486 or faster CPU; 150 MB disk spaceKroll OnTrack Easy Recovery lets youtry your hand at retrieving data Inst duecorruption by viruses, accidental dele-tion, or dr ive failure. Fasy Recoveryprobably won't cause a sudden decreasein business at professional data recoverylabs — which On Track acknowledges by
placing a Crisis Centre icon on yourdesktop during installation, with a directlink to its lab and other services.
I-'or our tests, wc downloaded a ver-sion of Easy Recovery Lite (the 26.6 MBfile requires 2.5 hours to download at33.6 Kbps). Through an easy-to-useWindows interface, the program offersdata recovery and file repair, and is sub-divided into recovery f rom var iousevents. Depending on what caused yourdata loss, you can choose Formatted,Deleted, Virus, Standard, and Raw datarecovery. Separate sections exist forrepairing damaged Word and Zip files.Straightforward instructions are at thetop ot' each window. You can also useEasy Recover Lite to make an emergencyboot disk.
To recover a file, you must have two'disks; anbad" one with the damaged file,and a "good" one that Easy Recovery canwrite to. If not, you' re gently reminded,"The destination path you have chosenis on the source partition. Please select adifterent destination."We recovered both formatted and
deli.ted files. Then we deleted and for-matted again, and pressed the reset but-ton on the system during a recovery, justto scramble things a bit. Using the Rawrecovery function, which is reserved forthe most extreme cases, our 400 KBWord file was fully restored, albeit with adifferent name. 2tk small price to pay for
We'd love to say "we" recovered the data,
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Simplifying securityConf(nued fir/m page 26metric solution is right for you lies infiguring out why you need it, If you arejust looking for a little extra security foryour desktop computer, a simple low-cost, quasi-biometric solution — such asNctNanny BioPassword (which sells forUSS 29.99) — using your existing hard-ware may fit the bill.
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Notebook biometric solutions arelargely based on that plug into yourcomputer'5 USB port or PC Card slot. Inlooking at such a solution, you want tnmake sure it's flexible, easy to use, andmakes sense for the way you work. If youare right-handed, for example, and youhave a notebook computer that has itsPC Card slot at the rear left-hand ofyour notebook, you may not want to gofor a PC Card-based fingerprint recog-nition solution that requires vou to awk-wardly reach across the notebook everytime you want to use it.
Likewise, if you know that you aregoing to be tvorking regularly in spaceswhere you have little extra room (on aplane, train, or in a taxi), you won't wantto have cords dangling out of the back ofyour notebook as you work, so a PCCard solution may be best.
And then, of course, there's the issueof price. In the world of biometrics, allthe usual rules still apply. One of them isthat an@hing from Sony will be sleek,good-looking, and work really well, butyou' ll pay a premium for it. That cer-tainly true of the Sony FIU/SS2I (alsocalled the Puppy), which scl)s for aroundUS$300, but has garnered strong praisefor the integrity of' its fingerprint IDsecurity, its good looks, light weight, and
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At the same time, companies such asFlorida-based AuthenTec have startedsupplying t i ngerprint i d ent i f icationsolutions to computer manufacturersfor as little as $6 per unit, making it a rel-atively low-cost add-on to a mid-rangenotebook or desktop computer.
As demand grows — andcompetitionin the struggling PC industry continuesto intensif) — it's likely that some formof biometric security will become com-mon on many mid-range and highcr-end systems. Over time, it may evenbecome a standard feature on entry-level systems. And it is certainly lookinglike it will have strong appeal on more"personal" d igital devices, such asmobile phones and PDAs.
So our final word of advice on lookinglor a biometric solution is: caveat emp-tor. You would do well to buy from amore well-known supplier, and, if youare planning to buy a new system in sixmonths to a year anyway, think aboutwaiting until then and buying a solutionthat has biometrics built-in. 2
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When specilj~ng where you want thereports sent, keep in mind that spam fil-ters on nlany email servers prevent youfrom seeing HTML mail. Choose theplain text report option for instant noti-fication, and wait to view the t'ull reportlater on the subject computer. At anytime you may test the reporting func-t ion. Reports are sent to vou l v ith abogus reply address, preventing a reportfrom returning to the subject computerand possibly alerting the user.
There are no signs anyxvhere thateRlaster is installed on a computer. Itdoesn't appear in thc program files oruninstall software. Few users are awareof the e x istence of ' th e W i n dowsRegistry; hut we looked thoroughly andfound nothing. It has to bc in t heresonlewherc, but cBlaster hides very well.
Shouldn't your anti-virus programblock an eBla s ter ins t a l lation?SpectorSoft says !vfcAfee and Mortonanti-virus programs won't stop even a
Eslaster 3.0From: SpectorSoft Corp., www.eblaster.cornEstimated price: USS149.95, USS99.95 (via Web)For monitoring unauthorized computeruse, eBlaster is personal spyware thatgenerates detailed reports about. thecomputer n n wh i c h i t ' s i n s talled.Whenever that computer is used toaccess the Internet,a report is ernailed toyou, in intervals of your choice, fromevery 30 minutes to cvcry 24 hours.
Select the online activities you wantreported to yo u f r o m t h e eRlasterControl Panel. Conlptl'ter Danie, riserlogin ID, IP address, kc>~vord summary,applications used, Wcb sites and chatrooms visited, keystrokes typed, and thescreensaver type are all included. If youset a Keyword Alert and that word comesup in an application, email, chat, or
remote installation of eRlaster, becausethe file is not a virus. Grisoft AVG wasinstalled on our test system, yet eBlasterbreezed right past it.
known Windows exploits (securityholes) are used to send the ke)svordalerts. Chat and messaging programsalso have weII-known exploits, whichmight also be used to send reports with-out a user's knowledge.
Two separate spyware detection appli-cations c o u ldn' t de t ec t eB l aster.Removing a known Xifjcrosoft InternetFxplorer exploit disabled thc cBlasterkeyword reporting function, yet all othersp>ing and reporting functions sti l lworked. The v e r i f ication p r ov idedmakes worried parents and employersobvious users of CBlaster. However,SpectorSoft literature avoids mentioningthat untrusting spouses form the largestportion of eRlaster purchasers.
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D imensions (cm) height width dep t hThe Wrap external 52 27 . 9 51 .4-63.5Max. PC size 48.3 24 .8 46. 4-572Server Wrap external 55.2 35.6 9 0.2-101.6Max. PC size 50.8 31.1 8 3 .2-94.6One look at this made-in-Canada 16-gauge steel "computer safe," which isattached to the floor, will send a thieflooking for your cashbox or jewelry.Without a key, your computer will bedestroyed before it ever comes out ofthis box.
Adjustable front and rear steel flat barscan be locked in position out of the way,or placed to prevent access to drive baysand card interfaces. The 1/2-inch rodpin locking mechanism with key cylin-der lock is mounted on the front bar.Keyed-alike locks are also available forlocations with multiple units, such as abusiness, setwer room, or home wi thmore than one computer.
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While relatively easy to insert, thescrews for assembling the Wrap arecross-threaded to discourage, if' not pre-vent, removal once installed. The screwheads require an uncommon dr iver,which prevents anyone from taking itapart with a common slotted, Philips, orRobertson screwdriver.
Anchoring the Wrap is slightly morecomplicated than drilling into your con-crete floor (over 90 percent of The Wrapinstallations are on concrete) with amasonry bit and Tapcons (typical hard-ware-store masonry screws). Unlessyou' re experienced in concrete drillingand inounting, pay a l i t t le extra forinstallation. (Your insurance companymay insist on professional installation.)If you have a wood floor, special mount-ing adapters are available that prevent athief with a crowbar or lever f'rom sim-ply prying up the entire package.
Smoke CloakFrom: Martin Secunty Smoke,www.smokecloak.comPrice: from 53,000 (customized installation)This loss prevention solution sports a"zero dollar loss" record, ac.cording to itsmanufacturer: nothing has ever beenstolen from locations — which span theglobe — where Smoke Cloak has beeninstalled.
Sinoke Cloak connects to existingsecurity systems, so installations are cus-tomized for each location, with fire andpolice departments notified. It includesa separate battery so it works even inevent of power failure at the location.When the security system is breached,
the Smoke Cloak quickly distributessmoke it has generated from distilledwater and pharmaceutical and food-grade tr iethylene polyglycols, whichwon't harm those caught in the roomwith the smoke (though serious asth-matics might disagree). Unlike theatricalsmoke, it leaves no residue. Smoke parti-
cles are one micron in size and non-buoyant. A "cloak sensor" measures thesmoke level after the first "firing," pro-ducing more for half the duration i fneeded.
As a room fi lls rapidly with SmokeCloak-generated smoke, thieves typical-ly react by running from the " fi re,"according to the company. We witnesseda 140 sq. ft. room I III completely inunder 13 secoilds.
With an additional 7.5-second blast,we couldn't see anything. With smokefrom a fire, the air is clearer if you getclose to the floor — not so here. Even onthe floor, you can't see your hand until ittouches your nose. It's an eerie feeling:an exit door and fresh air is only about ametre away, yet you' re unsure of i t sdirection.
Smoke Cloak backs up its reputationwith money: public liability and damageloss insurance of up to Sn0 million onunoccupied premises. The exception isfirst page output from copiers and print-
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ers, as the glycol on the drums couldcause a bit of smearing on the first page.As well, norinal smoke detectors areaffected hy this smoke, so have to bereplaced (about $30 each) in the eventthat the Smol'e Cloak is used.
The level of the fluid used to make thesmoke is monitored by the alarm moni-toring station. The sensors shut downthe pumps to save them in event of fluiddepletion. Because the fluids evaporateat different rates, a licensed technicianmust service the system once a year.
Initially designed for banks and lescel-ry stores, this device now protects serverrooms, labs, and other rooms used tohouse a lot o f expensive equipment.Some home versions are installed nearthe main hall, activated by a panic but-
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Kids in driver's seat of new wireless technologiesBy Jeff Evans PNs+
bout a year ago, I went to aToronto media briettng on shortmessaging services (SMS), a
wirejess data technology that lets cellphone users send and receive short textmessages. A presentation showed houriwildl)' popular S,'vIS was in japan andEurope, and how the Canadian tejcoswere finally getting their act together tomake their next-generation cell phones"interoperabje." alloIving Canadianwireless phone users to communicatedigital info with each other.
Fine, interoperable is good, and I did-n t ljllnk nltlch about It «fter t11at.
Then, this spring I began to notice anodd new behaviour;1Iuong many ot nlykids' high school and college age friends.They'd be talking with each other, thenone would stop, pulj out his or her cellphone, silently read something on thephone's screen, and tap in a quick reply.
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I talked with a couple of Canadianwireless industry experts, Todd Beaman,director of enterprise and mobile appji-cations for Ericsson Canada <wwwencs-son.corn/ca/), and David Neal, vice-presi-dent of new product development atRogers AT3<T Wireless (www.rogers.com),to find out what had happened to thetechnology and the market in the last six
Both Beaman and Neaje. as it turnedout, were very i n terested in whatCanadian kids were doing with S IvIS. Itturns out that there are two user groupsdriving much of the progress ot' wirelessvoice and data technologies around the
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A healthy perspectiveBy Sean Carruthers
icrocircuitry has become apart of p retty much everyaspect of our daily lives, from
cell phones to portable digital audioplayers, to navigation systems for ourcars. The ongoing miniaturization of thetechnology is also helping people stay ontop of their own health, right at home.We had a chance to look at a few newgadgets that will help you stay healthy.
According to the Canadian DiabetesAssociation, over two ntijlion Canadianshave diabetes, whether they know it ornot. For people who are interested intaking control over regulating and mon-itoring their blood glucose, computer-ized monitoring technology is availablein the palm of your hand. There arc anumber o f p a l m-sized mon i tor ingdevices available from a handful ot com-panies; wc looked at the OneTouchUltraSmart, from LifcScan.
MOne Touch UltraSmartFrom: LifeScan Canada Ltd., www.onetouch.caEstimated price: $99
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forearm, and then apply the droplet tothe end of the test strip, which is stickingout ot' the meter. The blood is suckedinto the inner core of the strip, where itreacts with a small zap of electricity, andin about five seconds, the meter givesyou a result.
What's nice about a monitoring sys-tem like this is that it allows you to addcomments to results you take, includingthe food you' ve eaten, how you' re feel-ing, and any exercise you' ve done.
As the blood glucose result is entered,the system is designed to display warn-ings or suggestions as appropriate — ifyour glucose is dangerously high or low,it will display a large warning on theLCD screen saying so, or if i t's on theverge it may just recommend a snack.Also, along the bottom of the device arespecific buttons to allow you to enterdata at any time about exercise, generalhealth, medications taken, and mealseaten. All of this allows you to better
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track your blood glucose levels and howthey react to various daily occurrences.The meter allows you to view the infor-mation either in log form or as a graph
The OneTouch UltraSmart comes in asmall soft-shell case with a belt loop, soyou can ahvays have the ki t handywhether you' re at work, home, or out ona walk. Two AAA batteries are included,as is a 10-pack of sterile lancets. Testingstrips aren't included in the box, so makesure to buy them separately. Also soldseparately is a serial cable interface thatallows you to connect the meter to yourcomputer, a s we l l as One TouchManagement S o f tware f or yourWindows PC, INote: the retail price ofthe OneTouch UltraSmart is $99, butthere are incentives available throughqualified health professionals, which canbring the price of the unit down to aslow as $29. Ask your DEC or doctor formore information )
Thc package comes with thc glucosemeter itself, a device that's a touch small-er than a deck of cards, as well as a sam-pler that holds a lancet on the end of aspring-loaded trigger. You stick a tests trip into the slot on the top of themeter, use the sampler to obtain a blooddroplet from either your f ingertip or
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Centrios Infrared Ear TkermometerCentrios Blood Pressure MonitorFrom: InterTAN Canada, wirw.radioshack.caEstimated price: 540 (thermometer), 560 (bloodpressure monitor)Taking control of your health at homedoesn't necessarily mean drawing andtesting your own b l ood — there arealways the basics, and ways to makethem even easier. Radio Shack's Centriosbrand now features two new products todo just that.
The Intrared Ear Thermometer looksalmost like a tube ot toothpaste, but
sensor on the tip. When you press thescan button on the side, the infraredsensor takes 512 readings within onesecond to determine your temperature.When done, the LCD shows your tem-perature along with a small face toemphasize how you' re doing: a smileyface if you' re within a normal range, andan unhappy face if you' re running afever. A memory setting allows you tostore 10 readings. The unit is powered bya single CR2032 watch-sized battery, andcomes with a protective case for storage.
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Centrios also offers a new B loodPressure Isfonitor, which you fasten toyour wrist using an in f latable velcrostrap. All you have to do is make sure theback of the unit is properly positionedover your wrist's pulse point, press thebutton, and let it do its work. It inflatesautomatically, and takes your b loodpressure and pulse as it deflates (for therecord, mine is a touch higher than itshould be; maybe I should take sometime off).
It uses two AAA batteries (not includ-ed), which are a bit tough to install, butnot i mpossible.The whole th ing isstored in a reasonably small plastic casewhen not in use. 2
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One reason SMS is such an easy sell toyoung people, according to Bcaman andNeale, is that kids were already big usersof Instant Messaging, email, and chat ontheir computers, as well as dedicated cellphone voice and pager addicts. SMScombines the computer and phonemediums, and is portable.
The importance of a private, immedi-ate way to contact one's friends is shownby the proportion of disposable incomeyoung Canadians will spend on their cellphones:monthly hills of 540to $100 arecommon. A high percentage of kids buytheir cell phone time on a pay-as-you-gobasis.
Neale claims that there is a combina-tion of group tashion and individualfreedom to SMS, which is very appealingto young people.
"It's an intimate I'orm of communica-tion," he commented, noting that thisdemographic places a lot of emphasis
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Beaman looks ahead at regular wavesof new wireless hardware and applica-tions hitting the Canadian market overthe next three to four years, as higherspeed services and m ore p owerfulphones with better screens, built-incameras, and the ability to run Java soft-
Bcaman also claims that photographyand even Webcam-style video overphones will become popular over thenext f ive years, along w i th games,enhanced email, and Web browsing.
In a recent Ericsson survey, 56 percentof Canadian respondents claimed to beusing cell phones, well behind the 93percent of respondents in a Swedish sur-v»y. Beaman notes that if the parts of thepopulation not surveyed (children, peo-ple living outside of cell phone coverageareas) were counted, the actual cellp hone using population would b croughly 30 to 32 percent of the totalp opulation, o r ab o u t 10 m il l i o n
The cell phone market is still growingsteadily, and looking three to four yearsahead, Beaman expects to see a real 50percent penetration rate, or about 15million Canadian cell phone users.
The next leading edge of wireless isclaimed to be mult imedia messaging:pictures, sound, music, and animations.Some of these sersices are already hap-
pening in the U.S, but there is a bit of alag in Canada, as the local serviceproviders wait to sec how it tlics down
Some of the first serious multimediaphone offerings may be rolled out forthe holiday season at the end of this year,and looking out a couple of years ahead,there' ll be more phones and more serv-ices capable of handling streaming typesof media: television, news clips, music,live feeds from concerts, and other pub-
When the phone networks' serversand switches are upgraded to third-gen-eration or 3G technology, we may seethose streaming apps become very pop-ular. And when every phone comes outwith a buiJt-in lsIP3 player, and there aremillions more users, the prices of the
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rity and privan p roblems with next-generation phones, Bcaman laughed and"no more so than the Internet," whichwas not very reassuring. He said wirelessis just as secure, maybe more so than adesktop PC, because it's not as easy tocapture data wirclessly due to phenome-na such as frequency hopping. But evenif you dn manage it, the data's very muchthe same, neither less nor more securethan the Intern»t.
Phone fashion reportNext year, according to Beaman andNcale, almost all new phones will havecolour screens as a standard, with mostalso having the capability of handlingmultimedia messaging at current trans-mission speeds, with games and down-loadable Java applets among the options.
Thc average cell phone user trades upto a new phone about every 18 months,so within a fcw years, most Canadianusers will be carrying a new generationphone: depending on economic condi-tions, up to 20 million new phones mayenter the Canadian market, according to
According to Beaman, Ericsson cur-r ently has a s m al ler share o f t h eCanadian cell phone market comparedto industry leaders Motorola and Nokia,but its market share has been increasingsteadily in recent years, and it's lookingat its sophisticated new mul t imediaphones to give it an edge.
Both Neale and Beaman expect thatyoung Canadians will always be dispro-portionately interested in new commu-nication and entertainment technolo-gies, but today's early adopter kids willgrow up and turn into business userswho are very tech-savvy and accustomedto spending on telecom services.Because of this group's acceptance of
svircless services, they' ll become morewidely spread even year, as today's kidsgo to university, graduate, and tind iobs,and the wireless lifestyle becomes thestandard. 3
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Working on scenarios in Excelpreadsheets aregreat at answer-ing "what-if"
questions: design aworks hect in whichyou change a couple
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I of t hose c h angesinstantly. Being ableto manage the results
will help you test your scenarios, allowingyou to easily switch between sets of dataand compare results side by side.
Enter Excel's scenario manager. Thistool lets you save the sets of data youplace in cells of a worksheet model andeasily restore them rather than enteringthem again. It can also be used to createsummaries for the scenarios you' re test-ing, allowing you to compare both thedata and results side by side.This month, I' ll show you how to use
the scenario manager to compare varioussavings goals, so you can see how thefinal amount saved varies depending on anumber of scenarios. We' ll create a verysimple worksheet for use with the sce-nario manager that will also be a fullyfunctional worksheet model.
The savings planner will calculate theamount you save over a period of timebased on an initial deposit and additionalperiodical payments.
The basic calculatorTo create this worksheet model, open anew Excel file and enter the followingdata into the cells shown:Cell DataB3 Ini t ial amount deposited84 A d ditional m~onthl deposits85 Int e rest Rate86 Years to save88 Total Amount Saved
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The formula in cell CB calculates theamount you' ll have saved at the end of 10years if you invest $2,500 now and addanother $100 every month, earning fourpercent annual interest calculated month-ly. The negative amounts in the formulaare used because you are making pay-
The result for this savings scenario is$18,452.06. You will need to format cellsC3, C4, and CB to display currency and cellC5 to display percentages.
Naming cellsMake it easier to read and interpret resultsby naming the cells containing the vari-able information: i.e. cells C3 through CB.You will change the values in cells C3through C6 to test results in cell CB. Toname the cells, highlight the block of cellsfrom B3 through C6, click Insert, Name,Create, select the Left Column checkbox,and click OK. Repeat this process to namecell CB, selecting cells B* and CB, thenclicking Insert, Name, Create, etc.
The result will be that each cell in col-umn C that contains data will be named,using the headings opposite the cell incolumn B. If you select cell C4, for exam-ple, the name in the formula bar will beAdditional monthly deposits. Using theName, Create feature to name cellsreplaces any spaces in the name with anunderscore. Naming cells this way allowsyou to refer to them by their names ratherthan cell references. So, cell C5 becomesInterest rate, making it easier to identifyits contents. In fact you can, if you wish,replace the formula in cell C8 with thisformula:
=FV(Interest ratef12, Years to save*12,Additional Monthly deposits,Initial amount deposited)
The scenario manager doesn't requireyou to name the cells, but it is recom-mended because these names (rather thancell references) are used as headings inthe scenario report.
Create a scenarioYou can now run a what-if analysis on thisworksheet. For example, check to seewhat would happen if you could get fivepercent interest instead of four or if yourinitial d eposit was $5,000 instead of$2,500. To do this, change the figure incell C5 to,05 (which is five percent) oralter the figure in cell C3 to $5,000.
As you start playing with the data,you' ll want to save your changes and thesubsequent results using the scenariomanager. To do this, begin by putting thedata back to the way it was when you firstcreated the worksheet. Select cells C3through C6, click Tools, then Scenarios,and click Add.
The first scenario will be the originaldata, so in the Scenario Name area typeOriginal plan and check that the ChangingCells area contains the reference C3:C6.Click OK. In the Scenario Values dialogue,make sure the following appear in the listfrom top to bottom (alter them if need-ed): 2500, 100, .04, and 10. Click OK.
The Scenario Manager dialogue willappear again with your f i rst scenarioappearing in the l ist under the nameOriginal Plan. Add another scenario byclicking Add. Type the name of this sce-nario as 5,000 initial savings and click OK. Thistime you' ll test the scenario of investing$5,000, so make sure the following appearin the list from top to bottom (alteringthem if required): 5000, 100, .04, and 10,Click OK.
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Add a third scenario called 5iyo interestrate in which the interest rate is five per-cent. This time the settings will read (topto bottom): 2500, 100, .05, and 10. ClickOK to add this scenario.
One final scenario will allow you tocompare the results of making monthlypayments of $110. Add this scenario, call-ing it Extra 510 deposit, and set the variablesto: 2500, 110, .04, and 10. Dick OK.
Back in the Scenario Manager dialogueclick Close to exit the Scenario Managerdialogue and save your workbook callingit savings plan. xls.
Viewing a scenarioTo view a scenario, display the ScenarioManager dialogue by c l icking Tools,Scenarios, select the scenario you want todisplay from the list, and click the Showbutton. The worksheet will change imme-diately to show the results of the scenarioyou' ve chosen. If necessary, move theScenario Manager dialogue to an unusedpart of the screen by dragging its title barso you can see the results of applying thescenario to the worksheet modeLIf you use the Scenario Manager a lot,
you can make it even easier to view yourCvntinued on page 52
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W orking on scenarios in ExcelContinue&ra/7/ poge50different scenarios by adding a Scenariodropdown listbox to your toolbar. To dothis, click View, Toolbars, Customize, andclick the Commands tab. From theCategories list, click Tools, and from theCommands hst, scroll down to locate theScenario dropdown list. With your mouse,drag this out of the dialogue and up andonto one of your visible toolbars. Let goand the dropdown list box will appear ont he toolbar. Click Close to exi t t h eCustomize dialogue.Now you can view the results of apply-
ing any of the scenarios to your worksheetby choosing the scenario name from theScenario dropdown list. If necessary, youcan edit a scenario from the ScenarioManager dialogue to change the figures itapplies to your worksheet.
To do this, click Tools, Scenarios, andclick the scenario you want to alter. ClickEdit and OK and you can change the fig-ures in the dialogue to your new choices.Click OK then Close to finish. Notice thatwhen you edit a scenario, the original ver-sion changes permanently. If you reallywant a d i f ferent additional scenarioinstead, use Add rather than Edit. Onlyuse Edit when you really want to discard
the orig1nal data.You can also add new scenarios using
your New Scenario dropdown list on yourtoolbar. To see how this is done, alter theworksheet so cells C3 to C6 display as fol-lows; $2,500, $200, .04, and 10. This willtest the scenario in which you doubleyour monthly investment. To add this as ascenario, highlight cells C3 to C6, clickthe Scenario dropdown list and typeDouble monthly payments, and press Enter.You' ll now see that the new scenarioappears in the dropdown with the otherscenarios you created using the ScenarioManager dialogue. View it as you wouldany other scenario by clicking its name.
Create a scenario summaryThe scenario manager is a handy tool formanaging multiple scenarios. You canstore data in it and, when you select ascenario to view, the tool will replace thecurrent worksheet values with those it hasstored for that scenario. Scenarios aresaved with your worksheet so they' llalways be available for viewing and print-ing.
It is also possible to summarize yourscenarios into a handy table so you cancompare the results of each scenario sideby side. To create a summary worksheet,
c lick Tools, Scenarios, and cl ick theSummary button. From the ScenarioSummary dialogue, click the ScenarioSummary option and ensure the entry int he Result Cells a rea i s CS (orTotal Amount saved). The results cellcontains the figure you' re interested inseeing — the amount we will have saved ifwe apply these figures to our model. ClickOK to conhnue.
A new worksheet will appear in yourworkbook containing the scenario summa-ry report. This is a horizontal table that isalready formatted neatly in Outline form.Click the "+" (plus) and "-" (minus) but-tons along the top and left of the work-book to collapse or expand different partsof the summary to show more or less ofyour data. Each of the scenarios you cre-ate, as well as the values in the worksheetat the time you created the scenarioreport, will be displayed. Notice that thecell names you assigned earlier have beenused as the row headings, so the informa-tion is easy to understand.You can print this worksheet as you
would any other Excel workbook and evengenerate a chart from the results. To dothis, drag over cells D3 to I3 (or E3 to I3if the first column contains data from ascenario that appears elsewhere in the
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Creating a chart from the scenario summary table is avery quick process.
As you can see, scenarios can be animportant and useful addition to yourExcel toolkit. Once you understand them,you' ll find plenty of ways use scenarios toanalyze data, from calculating savingsplans and mortgage repayments to costand production situations. C3Helen 8radley specializes in writing hands-on tuto-rials. Her columns appear regularly in a number ofpublications in Australia, the U.K., and the U.S.Contact Helen al [email protected].
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The other big new feature, which wealso tried out, was LiveType. The built-ineffects include some wild fonts, animatedtype effects and backdrops, and it's veryeasy to create a complex animated title ina short time.
Both LiveType and Soundtrack are sep-arate from the main Final Cut interface,and you can choose to install just thecomponents you want. While the learningcurve for both programs is easy, therequirements are quite steep. Final CutPro 4 ships on four DVDs, one each forFinal Cut and Soundtrack, and two for
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Price drops on all Apple laptopsOnce again, Apple has announced anunexpected price drop, this time for itslaptop lines. It's good news for consumersand retailers aLike, and laptop sales haveseen a big boost in the past few weeks.There are several reasons for the drops,the first being the f luctuation in the
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12-Inch 800 MHz CD-ROM 51,49951,42912-inch 900 MHz Combo 51,99951,84914-inch 900 MHz Combo 52,29952,149
These price drops are almost entirelydue to the currency fluctuations, as thenew iBooks were selling briskly. It's inter-esting that now the difference in pricebetween a 14-inch iBook and a 12-inchPowerBook is only $100. Considering thatthey have the same screen resolution, andthe PowerBook is a slicker looking, we' dbe surprised if this move didn't hurt salesof the 14-inch iBook.We don't think these recent drops point
to any new iBook models — Apple is likelyto update the PowerBooks over the sum-mer but leave the iBooks the samethrough the back-to-school season, witha possible smal l s peed b ump inOctober/November, or, more l ikely, anentirely new iBook in early 2004.In January, Apple chief Steve Jobs pre-
dicted that 2003 would be the year of thelaptop, and Apple is aiming to have 50percent of its total units sold be laptops.With ag gressive prices like these, wethink he could be right.
QuarkXPress 6 for OS X shtpsAfter month of speculation, rumours, anddelays, the desktop publishing communi-t y wil l f i nally get a c hance to useQuarkXPress in Mac OS X. The new version,QuarkXPress 6, is very similar to version5.0, but now runs natively in OS X, andnot just in Classic mode. Not only doesQuark 6 run in OS X, it actually requiresit — 10.2 to be exact. The two other mainfeatures are multiple undoes and full-res-olution previews.
The Quark implementation of multipleundoes is nice, You can get a list of thelast five tasks you performed, for example,and undo just the third one leaving therest untouched. Otherwise, Quark 6 run-ning under OS X looks al.most identical toQuark 5 running under OS 9.
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What a difference a single slot makesBy Sean Carruthers I I 6 I I •
we recently t ested a ne w Pentium 4
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«rboard — both new products I'rom Intel.During our t esting, we ran severalbenchmark tests on that conf iguratio,as w«ll as benchmarl tests on AMD'sthen-newest Athlon XP processor andthe slightly older Pcntiurn 4 3.06 C9Hzprocessor on an 845 motherboard. Theresults showed the new Cant crwnndcombination providing excellent results,though those results lagged very slightlybehind those of the older Pentium 4/845combination by a very small margin.
Well, a few sharp-eyed readers pointedout that the numbers werc not all theycould be, and they are absolutely right:one of the nicest features of the newCanterwood boards is dual-channelmemory support, designed tn give b«ttcrmemory bandwidth and speed every-thing up. With tsvn matched memorysticks, any motherhnard with dual-chan-nel support will be able tn take advan-tage of g r eater p er formance; th isincludes boards designed for A ' MID'sAthlon XP, as well. The hitch — and thisis what caused our results to suffer — isthat they have to be placed into thcproper slots in order tn put the mother-board into dual-channel mode.
A blast from the past> Well, only
Old-school readers who have beeninterested in computer hardware mayremember back to the days when com-puters required pairs of memnry in allcases. You couldn't just insert one stickof memory, it had to have a partner in
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With new dual-channel boards, that' snot exactly the case: You can usc one slotnf DDR memory at a t ime, and theboard will run just frne. The catch is thatit ss~ll only run in single-channel mode.
As the testing last time around shows,the results were still great, but as nurreaders have pointed oui., that's not goodenough! The hoards are capable of bet-ter! We fully agree, and thus wc'rc morethan happy to admit nur mistake here-
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with these ncw boards, it's a very easymiscnnfiguration to achieve, and a veryeasy nne to sct straight. So let's fLar it up.
The proper config is only a slot awayIf you' ve purchased a machine that sup-posedly features dual-channel memory,you may assume it's configured correctlysimply because there are tsvo identicalsticks inserted into the motherboard. Aswell, because many motherboards areautomatically configured to boot upsilently, there may be no way of knowingthe truth unless ynu bust your way intothe BIOS settings and confirm it. (Even
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when you'vc confrgured the BIOS tnboot non-silently — in other words, todisplay the configuration data for mem-ory, hard dr ives, and processor — theinformation may blast past your eyes soquickly that ynu won't be able to read it.)
If you' rc putting the machine togetheryourself, you' ll be in a much better posi-tion to know if the settings are right. Theimportant thing is to read the mother-board documentation, then read i tagain. Many people who have beenbuilding systems for a while may be usedto sticking two DDR modules into slotsdirectly next tn each other, but that may
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What a differeme a single slot makesContinued from page 6not be the proper configuration! In thecase of our Intel 875 motherboard, itmeans placing them two slots awa> fromeach other: either slots one and three, orslots two and tour. If you place them intothe wrong configuration, the computerwill still work and work well, but notoptimally.
Rant on?It's tempting to want to go into full-onrant mode about this kind of nitpiclqmemory configuration, since most of uswere relieved to get rid of this "matched"configuration years ago. That said, itcould certainly be a lo t worse.TTVithmotherboards supporting dual-channelDDR memory, the wrong configurationwill send you hack to single-channelmode instead of rendering your systemcompletelyunusable. (Compare this tothc other high-performance memorytechnology from Rambus; with RIMMS,you need all of your slots populated witheither memory or a pass-throLlgh nlod-u le, and you generally have to useRIIVIIVIS in pairs. In o ther wortls, it' squite possibly a tlollble-whanlnly with
that configuration.) Even though its easyto configure it i ncorrectly, the dual-channel DDR setup is much more ilexi-ble, allowing you to start with one stickof DDR and then match it later on whenyou have the extra cash. That sure beatshaving a system that won't run at all.
The (new) resultsFor tivo of our benchmarks, th» resultsare pretty similar: any tests designed tobenchmark the CPU performance wereunaffected by the bump up to dual-channel mode — in fact, they actuallyshowed a slight decline. The memorytests in both PC Mark 2002 and SandraPro, holsiever immediately saw a notablerise in performance. That pays off inSysMark 2002, which now shows the sys-tem'5 perlormance blowing past theother configurations, including the pre-vious chainpion: the 3.06 GHz Pcntium4 system teamed up with RDRAILI.
Again, it's worth stressing that all wehad to do to get this performance gainwas move one stick of the DDR memoryin our system over to the next slot. That' sit. Bango boomo. It took about 10 sec-onds once we got the side panel off, andit was more than worth the effort. CJCieeir;e Anions.no Gioup ia CGhtM6 16
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WillExpert aims for legacy of family harmonyBy leff Evans
hen I was a kid, I rememberseeing at least a couple of pic-tures each >ear in th» newspa-
per, showing p»ople grappling in th»dust on the sidewalks in front of funeralparlours, working out famil >' problemsrelated to the passing of a loved one.
basic will and related documents, suchas letters to executors and guardians,powers of attorney, and personal h»althcare directives.
S tromberg says about hal t o f a l lCanadians have never composed a will,and of those writt»n, many are neverupdated to account f' or changes in finan-cial or personal circumstances. fher»suits of a poorly wr i t ten wil l caninclude deeply hurt feelings, anger, andconflict among surviving family mem-bers, and even substantial legal expensesas survivors squabbl» over the estate.
Intuit Canada saw a market d»llland,especially amongst baby bvomers, 1'orsimpl» estate planning software anddeveloped Will Expert.
According to Canadian estate plan-ning experts and atithors Les Kotzer andBarry Fish, there are good practical rea-sons to face up to the often difficult sub-ject of making a will: "Planning aheadcan often prevent, or at least minimizethe risk of family f ighting. Planningahead can avoid costly court actions andit can ease the burden on your lovedones, if and when tragedy strikes."
Kotzer and Fish have published a well-r»ceived book on estate planning, 'I)reFaurily Fight: How to Ai oid It, (www family-f ight.corn/canadian/book intro.htm), w h i chmakes a convincing case for planningone's will caret'ully and promptly.
WillExpert incorporates Intuit's manyyears of experience designing intuitiveuser interfaces, offering a simpl» ques-tion and answer format for step-by-stepcreation of a legally sound, comprehen-sive will. The software was developedwith the aid of Canadian will and estate
Iawvers, and all its major features com-ply with Canadian law as applied every-where hut in Quebec (as much of the lawgov«mingestates in Quebec is a provin-cial responsibility, a considerably differ-ent program would be required for usein la belle province).
Out of the boxWe installed WillExpert on a Compaq533(> Pentium 4 c omputer runningWindows XP Home Edition (minimumsystem requirements are a 133 Ml-IzPentium, or equivalent, processor with32 MB RAM, running Windows 95 orhigher). Installation was simple: weinserted the CD and followed the instal-lation prompts. Wil lFxpert requiredonline registration to bc activated (if youdon't have an Interrr»t connection, youcan g»t your activation k«y by phoningIntuit). The software can only be usedon one PC, and the licence is limit»d totwo finished wills.
The compulsory registration and lim-ited user licence, increasingly conlrlloliwith new software, is a bit irritating, butas with its tax software, Intuit is trying toensure that one copy of software doesn' tget passed around to unlimited users.
The program is fairly simple to useand is similar in concept to Intuit taxsofhvare in that it has been simple to useand tries to anticipate common ques-tions. At every stage, WillExpert offers awealth of answers to basic questionsabout wills and estates, definitions oflegal terms, full-motion video advicesnippets t'rom experts, and simpleon screen forms.
There is st il l a l earning curve to
WillExpert, though. I 'm no t a l egalexpert, and it took me a whil» to under-stand the t»rms and concepts, and prac-tical and legal r«quiref11ents of »vel1 111>.very simple will. I spent a couple ofhours clicking the L»am More buttonand reading through the p rogram'sPlanning a»d User Guide. According toIntuit's Stromberg, for many Canadianswith fairly simple fmances and limitedproperty, WillExpert may bc the onlytool you need to create a decent, work-able wi l l a n d re l a ted d ocuments.However, he cautions that in cases wherethe estate is fairly complex, or where theamounts of money and property aresubstantial, it is still a good idea to showLh» finished will to a lawyer. to ensurethat any glaring errors or oinissions arecorrected.
According to Stromberg, it' you haveany particular questions about specialcircumstances — a relative's disabilitypensions, institutional care contracts, orother situations that might affect thedisposition of an estate's ass»ts, forexample — ask a lawyer. A half-hour con-sultation fee will still be a lot cheaperthan the full cost of a lawyer writingyour will from scratch, and in th» courseof using WillExpert, you' ll have gained alot more understanding and controlover an important responsibility, and anopportunity to increase your family'slong-term harmony and prosperity.
The briefest known will in histor > wascomposed by a Czech gentleman, whosimply wrote a two-word Czech phrasethat means "All to wi te." Intuit's WiIIExpert isn't quite that simple, but it's abig leap in the right direction. 0
From: Intuit, wwv.intutcaPrice 55q 95Pros: Easy to use, informative, educational, Makesan often difficult task easier and less expensive.Cons: Annoying compulsory online registrationbefore use, program is not compatible withQte bec faw, so use is limited to TROC (the rest ofCanada). Requires some learning of terms andconcepts to use most effectively. fn some circum-stances you may still want to get an opinion froma lawyer to ensure no glaring mistakes.
In my innocence, I couldn't under-stand what reasons there might be forpeople to b«have in such a strange fash-ion at such a solemn mom»nt. As theyears have passed, I have begun tounderstand that the way we write ourw ills and p lan th» d isposal of o u r"estates" (th» sum of' the property andother assets w«own) can have a deepand lasting effect, for good or ill, on ourfamily and fr iends. So, when I heardabout WillExpert, a new Canadian willand estate planning sofhvare packagefrom tax and finance publisher IntuitCanada, I was v»r>. intrigued.
According to In tui t Canada's Brad'Stromberg, WillExpert is design»d to letany person easily plan, write, and print a
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Penguin sound bytes: Technology and societyhe Linux world isno stranger toawkward legal
and socio-politicalissues. On the legalfront, a dedicatedLinux aff i c ionadodevelops a n a t i veunderstanding ofbasic legal e se
between the proliferation of open source,limited source, and other such licensestrying to get the balance between owner-ship and access "just right"; certain com-panies' attempts to scuttle the operatingsystem in the courts of law and publicopinion; and more. On the social issuefront; well, in many ways, that's whatLinux and open source are all about. Let' stake a look at some of the more interest-ing dilemmas and discussions amongstthe Linux kernel's movers and shakers.
Torvalds refuses to 'play politics'Linus Torvalds has once again shown the
Linux community why he's such a trustedname. Rather than allowing himself to bedragged into political. and ideologicalissues such as whether digital rights man-agement (DRM) is evil and should be madeimpossible in the Linux kernel or throughchanges to licensing, he's simply statedthat technological.ly, DRM is possibleunder Linux and he sees no need to makesweeping changes despite his personalviews on the technology.
After all, it's up to individual program-mers and companies to decide their ownpolicies, not to mention the users tochoose what they' re willing to use. That' swhat free choice is all about.
Centrino wireless under Linux still a dudIntel's Centrino wireless capabilities arestill unsupported under Linux. FromIntel's own Web site's technical supportsection, you can try to learn this by read-ing the following several times: "Linuxwill run on any IA based PC. InteF'Centrino Mobile Technology-based sys-
tems include integrated 802.11b wirelessLAN capability, requiring particular driverswhich currently do not run on Linux.n
According to a source inside Intel,every request for Centrino wireless net-working drivers for Linux is forwarded tothe Centrino team within the company. Ifthere are enough requests, Linux driverswill reportedly be provided. You can writeto Intel's technical support through theContact Us link on its Web site, and youcan keep track of Centrino wireless's Linuxstatus through wwwintel.corn/produc(s/mobiletechnology/centrino/.
Part of the problem with the driversmay be related to an overall difficulty inthe wireless industry, an issue summarizednicely on the main Linux kernel discussionlist. According to participants, the latestcards — all of the ones without Linux driv-ers, really, including Broadcom's — haveprogrammable options for the frequencyused. There are a number of issues inher-ent in this setup if the average Jane isable to choose any frequency she wants.
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Open source drivers make it virtuallyimpossible to prevent people from usingcertain frequencies since any limits placedcould just be removed by an industriousprogrammer. Expect at least part of anyLinux driver for these cards to be "blackbox." Of course, open source isn't the onlyculprit. Folks are already breaking the fre-quency limitations with these same cardsin the Windows world. Experts anticipatethat the frequency control componentswill be encrypted in the next generationof cards, to further discourage peoplefrom abusing the technology.
Wither to internationalizekernel error messagesCanadians are all too aware that noteveryone speaks or reads English. Theproblem in the programming communityis that, while not all programmers and
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Penguin sound bytesC0000//aruiom pdga Madministrators speak English, every tinybit of code (text included) adds to a pro-gram's size. A regular issue brought up inthe Linux kernel development circles isthat of adding non-English error messagesso administrators around the world don' thave to pull out their dictionaries tounderstand what has gone wrong with the
Torvalds, a non-native Engbsh speaker,summarizes the problem succinctly-though it's phrased for technical readers:"I refuse to clutter the kernel with inaneand fragile (and totally unmaintainable)internationalization code. The stringlookup can equally well be done in userspace where it isn't a stability and com-plexity issue."
In other words, "if it ain't broke, don' tfix it." Any operating system kernel is amassive collection of code. If you' ve everprogrammed or tried to maintain a sys-tem, you' ve probably experienced theplatitude that fixing one problem alwaysseems to break something else. Torvalds'concern, apparently, is that adding errormessages in dozens of languages mightnot only make the kernel even larger, itmight cause other problems that justcomplicate the whole effort. Especiallysince every time a new error is added, allof the translations would have to beadded too; hence, his maintenance con-
But he also offers an alternative. "Userspace" means, in general, wnot kernelspace." In other words, there are pro-grams whose jobs are to maintain logs ofkernel output. These programs aren't partof the kernel itself, and are therefore inuser space, even if that user happens tobe root. It is within these programs thatnon-English versions of kernel error mes-sages can rest. A quick setting can tellthe daemon to log all error messages inFrench, or Metis, or whatever languagethe administrator prefers.
Of course, as always, this relies on hav-ing excellent translators to do the work.Anyone who's cringed at the French trans-lations on many products available inCanada is all too aware of this.QDee-Ann LeBlanc has written more than 10 com-puter books, many atticles, and taught classesmostly involving Linux and its programs. You canreach her at [email protected].
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TECH IN THE REAL WORLD
By Geof Wheelwright
nternet-based videoconferencing hasslowly been gaining acceptance in thebusiness world, but for a g rowing
number of deaf and hearing-impaired con-sumers it is opening up a whole new wayof communicating with others over long
In recent years, deaf and hearing-impaired users have widely adopted emailand instant messaging technology to"chat" online using their computers. Now,however, they can use new videoconfer-encing-based services to speak to othersin sign language and see their replies dis-played back to them on the videoconfer-ence screen by sign-language fluent oper-ators. And it is being used in all kinds ofplaces.
The University of Washington, forexample, promotes the use of this servicefor its deaf and hearing-impaired stu-dents. Known as the Video Relay Service(VRS), it's a supplement to the Telecom-munication Relay Service (TRS). Both
services facilitate t e lecommunicationbetween non-hearing and hearing individ-uaLs.
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The university says VRS is animportant alternative to the
original TRS, since many indi-viduals with hearing impair-ments prefer to use AmericanSign Language (ASL) as theirprimary method of communi-
Videoconferencing a bridge between deaf, hearing users
rmany individuals with hearing impair-ments prefer t o use American SignLanguage (ASL) as their primary methodof communication.Unlike TRS, VRS is not mandated by fed-
eraL law in the U.s„and the Federal RelayService, e s tablished t h r ough t heTelecommunications Enhancement Act of1988, does not yet provide VRS services.Some states, however, have begun to pro-vide this service, even to consumers wholive outside their jurisdictions.
National VRS started being offered lastyear when U.S. telephone giant Sprint andCSD (a private, non-profit human serviceagency headquartered in Sioux Falls, S.D.that is the world's largest telecommunica-tions relay service provider) initiated thefirst nationwide Video Relay Service forthe deaf and hard-of-hearing. It allowscustomers in the U.s. to use ASL in visu-al conversations over advanced phonenetworks. The service, known as USA VRS,is available at www.usavrs.corn.
VRS is Web-based and entaiLs eitherspecial phone terminals or personal com-
puters with a high-speed Internet con-nection, Microsoft Internet Explorer Webbrowser, NetMeeting software, and aninexpensive Web cam.USA VRS, accessible anywhere in the
U.S. via the Internet, is free. The serviceallows calLers to use ASL to "converse"with a video interpreter via video link,who then translates those signs intospeech for standard voice users or TTYtext.The U.S. Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) strongly encourages theuse of video interpreting service. Sprintsays it is "the nation's leading provider oftelecommunications relay services (TRS)"and boasts more than a decade of experi-ence. The U.S. government, 27 states, andthe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico cur-rently use Sprint to operate 10 relay cen-tres. Relay services in each state weremandated by the Americans withDisabilities Act of 1990 and are paid forby all local phone customers throughstate fees included on monthly bills. 2
The original TRS provides two-waytranslation between spoken word andtyped text. The hearing user communi-cates by voice, the non-hearing user com-municates by typing on a TTY, and therelay operator serves as a liaison, commu-nicating by voice to the hearing party andby text to the non-hearing party.
The university says VRS is an importantalternative to the or iginal. TRS, since
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Technology, Toronto, and the SARS outbreak
tBy Jef Evans
t is perversely fitting that Toronto,the nation's high-tech hub, and amaior portal between Canada and
the global economy, was the epicentre ofthe Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS) outbreak in North America. Atraveler from Hong Kong brought thedisease into the city, and on b,larch 7, herso», suffering from an unidentified res-piratory i l lness, presented himself atScarborough Grace Hospital, and wasinitially diagnosed with tuberculosis. ByMarch 14, SARS' presence was con-firmed, and it had begun to spread tohealth care workers, patients, and theirfamilies in Toronto.
The technological weakness of theToronto Public Health department's dis-ease colitrol system was exposed, as itturned out that the department hadfailed to ever institute a computerizeddatabase for t racking communicablediscase cases, despite sales pitches bydatabase vendors over the years, not tomention the threat ot bioterrorism sincethe terror attacks in Washington andNew York on Sept. 11, 2001.
According to one Public Health offi-cial quoted by the Toronto Srar and theCBC, at the beginning of the outbreak,records of all SARS patients, suspectedpatients, and quarantined persons werefilled out by hand on paper forms, whichwere stored in cardboard boxes.
The task of t r)dng to correlate thepaper records, in an attempt to track theroute of SARS transmission, requiredmanual comparison of many thousandsof paper records, which took enormous
numbers of hours of manual labour.Eventually, an Excel spreadsheet tem-
plate was cobbled together, and diseasetransmission and quarantine recordswere manually entered. However, thetemplate used by Toronto Public Healthwas incompatible with Excel templatesor dai.abase forms used by otherCanadian health agencies in the provin-cial and federal governments, as well asinternational health agencies includingthe World Health Organization and theU.S. Centres for Disease Control (CDC).
This necessitated manually retypingor cutting and pasting the Toronto Excelspreadsheet information into other sys-tems. Once the data was finally enteredinto a usable computer format, however,it became much faster and easier to tracetransmission routes of the disease.One outcome of the SARS episode is
l ikely to b e a be l ated at tempt byCanada's nat ional, p r ov incial andmunicipal governments to put asidetheir endless IT turf wars, at least to theextent of adopting a truly interoperablcdatabase system for disease reporting,tracking and control.
As SARS worked its way through someToronto hospitals, many effects on thetechnology industry and the f inancialindustr> also popped up.
On April 10, Hewlett-Packard Canada(www.hp.ca) stated that i t had to sendnearly 200 of its Toronto-area workers tohome quarantine, allegedly after a work-er who was exposed to the disease cameto work despite being instructed to stayhome in quarantine. As a result of thepossible exposure of fellow workers tothe virus, 197 HP staff (102 full-time
At the beginning of the out-break, records of all SARS
patients, suspected patients,and quarantined persons werefilled out by hand on paperforms, which were stored in
cardboard boxes.employees and 95 contract workers,according to an HP Canada spokesper-son) at a hfarkham facility were senthome for a quarantine period, whileother HP Canada staff filled in.
I nvestment f i r m M er r i l l LynchCanada (www.canada.mlcom), which has itsmain offices in downtown Toronto,moved its key trading staff out of thedowntown area to a backup facility inStreetsville, Ont., for several weeks, toavoid the possible risk of SARS exposureand quarantine of cr i t ical employees,
which could have had a crippling effecton the company's multimillion dollarsper day investment business in Canada.A Merrill Lynch source claimed that therc-deployment was done as much as atest of the backup facility as it was aresponse to SARS.
The senior management of Ih,IAXCorp. (www.imax.corn), the giant-screenmovie company that was founded inToronto, avoided coming to Toronto fora scheduled shareholders' meeting onJune 4. Instead, they preferred to use av ideoconference from New York t odeliver the company's financial results,their images appearing on an e ight-storey high screen in a Toronto theatre.
On June 9, sofhvarc giant Microsoft(www.microsoft.corn/canada) announced thatdue to SARS fears it had changed thelocation of its annual partner event fromToronto to New Orleans. The event willgo ahead on thc originally planned date,October 9 to 12. To soften the blow toToronto's already staggering tourism,hospitality and convention industry,ikficrosoft promised to hold next year' spartner event in Toronto.
According to f i nancial analysts atinvestment f i rms J.P. Morgan andIvferrill Lynch, the SARS outbreak cen-tred in the Toronto area is expected tocrimp Canada's national econonuc out-put, at least in the short term, by asmuch as 1.5 percent, compared to esti-mates of GNP growth prior to the out-
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Nuance's annual V-Wnr)d user confer-ence in San Francisco in late April. Thecompany is a leader in voice rccogrTitinnand speech applications, producing arange of solutions that arc often used incorporate call-routing applications.
Rather than installing a system thatrequires users to "press one for this,press two for that," and so on, interactivevoice-recognition (IVR) systems allowusers to strrte what they want wh«n theycall a company and then hav« the IVRsystem route the call to where it needs togo. It not only allows customers tn gcttheir issues dealt with quickly, but cor-porations can process higher volumes ofcalls with lower levels nt staff (as manyqueries can be answered with an auto-mated response).
The theme ot the conference was"accelerating the value of voice" (i.». get-ting quick return on investment), andone very interesting example of th i -came from representative of Avon's ITd ivision whn gave a talk on how it isusing voice recognition technology to
The cosmetics giant — which used torely heavily on d o o r - tn-door salesagents — is currently undergoing a majorcorporate facelift as it steers throughmiddle age and it is using the Web andvoice recognition technology to do so,One of t h e f ascinating th ings sherevealed is that about 28 percent of Avoncustomers in the U.S. still usc rotary dialtelephones.
This means that when they dial intothe Avon call centre, they have to waitthrough all the dial pad button optionmessages before they' re put on hold toget through to a human operator. Byusing voice recogn!tion technology, allthose rotary dial customers are now ableto start getting help right away — and
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"Speech is adding substantial value tobusinesses around the g lobe," saidChuck Berger, president and chief exec-utive of Nuance. " From Avon in t h »United States tn UBS in Switzerland andTELUS in C a nada, companies areautomating tasks, reducing costs, offer-ing new revenue-producing services andsetting themselves apart from the com-petition with speech. The return oninvestment for these speech solutions isstaggering — many pay for themselves in
Industry analysts predict that revenuetrom voice-enabled services will reachSI,4 billion by 2004 and analyst firmssuch as Gartner Group are listing speechrecognition as one of 2003's top 10"strategic technologies." One of the cata-lysts for market growth is the emergenceot packaged speech applications thatsimplify deployment, reduce time-to-market, and, as mentioned already,speed up the return nn i nvestment.Showcased at V-World, Nuance Call
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Also at V- rWorld, speech technologycustomers presented real-word casestudy blueprints about how they areputting speech to work in retail, bank-ing, and in s urance environments.Keynote presentations from Avon, BellCanada, EnergySouth, Expedia, LloydsTSB, TELUS, UBS, Verizon, and Ydilocentered around customer service, goingglobal with speech, empowering saleswith speech and improving employeeproductivity. 2
Technology, Toronto, and SARSContinued from page 74remote connectivity software that makesthem less vulnerable to the closure offacilities or the quarantine of employees.According t o a rep r esentative ofCanadian based Yo, Inc. (www.yo.corn),there has been a surge of interest fromall sizes of businesses in the company'5VisEdge secure remote e-commercesolutions. The VisEdge system "solvesthe business problem of hohs to securely,quickly and c o st-effectively enableremote users to access internal businessapplications through the Internet."
According to Frank Stipo, president ofMedia Replication Services, a VisEdgeuser, "In an event, such as a quarantine,it is imperative that some of our key per-sonnel have access to key networkresources from e x ternal l o cations.VisEdge has become an integral part ofour preparedness plan."
SARS is proving to be a hard lessonand a wake-up call for Canada's govern-ment agencies and businesses. In thepost-SARS Canada, technology will haveto be used much more effectively totrack, manage, treat, and prevent infec-t ious disease, and to m i n imize thehuman health cost and economic dam-age of outbreaks and epidemics.
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noise? When it comes to com-puters, it depends on who you
talk to. To the dedicated gamer with herspeakers cranked, case noise may meannothing at all. To the writer focused onthe empt} white Word document on hisscreen, even the hum of the power sup-
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We' ve been l iving with computernoise for so long it has become the back-ground hum of our lives. Noise, we are
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led to believe, is th» price we pay for per-formance. Look at the evolution oftoday's CPUs — even over the last coupleof years — and it's easy to see why. Intel'sPentium III Coppermine (500 to 750MHz) output I3 to 19 watts, comparedto 49 to 75 watts tor the early Pentium 4s(1.3 to 2 GHz), and 82 watts and morefor the Pentiurn 4 3.06 GHz chip. AMDchips follow a similar evolutionary path.Think of placing your hand around a100 watt light bulb. Ouch! All of thesechips take some powerful cooling, andthat means fans, and that means noise
High performance CPUs and the fansrequired to cool them arcn't the onlysource of computer noise, of course, andin some cases may not ev«n be the pri-mary cause. Noise tends to corn» fromlive distinct sources: the hard drive, thepower supply and its fan, the CPU andits fan, optical drives, and general elec-trical hum from components, including
Depending on your system, you mayalso have one or more case tans. If vouhav» a dual-processor system, add yetanother fan. A cutting-edge system maygen»rate noise in the range o('50 to 60decibels (dBA), similar to a retrigerator.Compare that to a whispered voice at 30dBA, or big city freeway traffic at 70dBA. Saying that a modern PC is as noisyas a jet taking off may not be far off themark.
If all this makes you doubt that youhave any chance of achieving computingsilence in your lifetime, relax. It's beendone before. XVhen Apple introduced theiMac desktop computer five years ago, itwas revolutionary in more ways than
one. In addition to ~vibrant colours andunconventional d esign, t h e iM acbrought something else, somethingunnoticed, to t h e d esktop. Silence.Unlike its PC brethren of the era, theIMac had no CPU cooling fan — it keptits G3 processor at optimal operatingtemperature with a passive heat sink. IfMac users can bencfit from some cre-ative design and attention to si lence,then so can PC users.
The big chip manufacturers are awareof the problem, Thermal managementwithout excessive noise is becoming amantra, though it's still drowned out bythe cry for improved perl'ormance. EvenMicrosoft has identified computer noiseas one vf the big issues that will need tob» addressed in the next few >ears. Andthere has been progress. Liquid bearingson hard drives are a huge improvement,Innovative designs in heat sinks and fansare another. Some of the new breed ofCPUs and motherboards control fanspeed based on CPU load, meaning thesvstem remains relatively quiet until i theats up.
So, have hope. Thc silent PC, or atleast the relatively quiet PC, is coming,and probably sooner than you think. Inth» meantime, for those who can't wait,we offer some suggestions for putting alid on what may be the noisiest memberof your household.
For existing systems• Drown out the noise: Open up your
favourite MP3 player and put on a fewtunes. Even low-level backgroundmusic is usually enough to drown outthe noise from a PC.
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• Reposition the box: Where's your box?On your desktop? At your feet? A littlerearrangement to place it between thcside of the desk and thc printer stand,t'or instance, can baffle a considerableamount of noise.Upgrade key components: Even a sim-ple upgrade, like replacing your exist-ing hard drive with a new drive withliquid bearings, can make a dramaticdifference to system noise. Upgradethe power supply, too, and you may bewell on your way to silence.
• Join the mod squad: Modifying exist-ing hardware is a passion for some, anecessity for others. Your favouritecomputer supply store can assist youin choosing the appropriate hardware(new fan, heat sink, case, case insula-tion, and lnore) to successfully reducen1ost PC noise. Hut be careful! Thepoorly considered modification couldlead your system's CPU to fry itself, orunderperform.
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• Ask for quiet components: If you arehaving your system custom bui l t ,insist on a machine that runs quietly.Make silence onc of your top priori-t ies. System bui lders have manyoptions open to them when it comesto parts. Quieter components may bea little more expensive, but your earswill thank you.Choose a laptop: Laptops of any vari-ety tend to run more quietly than theirdesktop counterparts. Today's laptopsare powerful and have large screens-using one as your primary system isperfectly feasible.
• Become a switcher: Consider switch-ing from PC to Mac, and check out thenew iMacs. Attractive and still rela-tively quiet (they do have fans now),
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