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Presents updates on the computer industry in the United States as of September 2001. Key speaker at the Macworld Conference & Expo in New York; Main character of the film `Tomb Raider'; Apple's reason for suing Church of Satan.

Features the HarlemLive, a mosaic of life in that African-American community in New York, produced by Harlem high school students and delivered as a Web magazine. Creation by former teacher Richard Calton; Hosting of the site by the Columbia University; Winner of the 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, honoring information technology (IT) projects in the United States that benefit society.

Presents the technologies debuting at PC Expo in New York. Xeon chip from Compaq Computer Corporation; Universal Management Agent from the IBM Corporation; Versa LX and Versa SX universal notebooks from NEC Corporation.

The author reflects on a lawsuit against Dell Inc. claiming that the company engaged in a false advertising and deceptive business practices as a means of boosting profits on their personal computer sales. He points out that the company is denying the charges and is insisting that it will defend itself in court. He argues that Dell could be in no position to do so as countless users have validated their fraudulent acts and the state of New York refused to do business with them.

The article discusses the author's experience of being in the information technology industry. He recalls the heroic acts of his colleague named Joe Rankin during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City. He remembers being laid off a few months after Rankin and his entire group were laid off.

This article presents the author's views on the first Start of Authority (SOA) Executive Forum conducted by Infoworld in San Jose, California and in New York, both in May 2005. The juxtaposition of the two events helped me reconcile a deep schism between two factions, which I will call the WS and Web 2.0 camps. The argument, which revolves around pairs of opposing and overloaded words--simplicity versus complexity, decentralization versus centralization, agility versus stability--has been going on for years, but it is gotten really loud in recent months. Like a pair of bookends, our two keynote speakers neatly bracketed the debate. In San Jose, Motorola CIO Toby Redshaw sketched out a SOA deployment that was music to the ears of WS-aligned vendors and standards makers. For Redshaw, the key to success is shared infrastructure: a central directory based on the oft-maligned UDDI standard, and an enterprisewide WS management system. At our New York event, though, Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka told a very different story. His task was to streamline financial and clinical data exchange across New England's network of physicians, hospitals, and insurers. The solution relies on techniques that Web 2.0 advocates know and love: XML across HTTP, secured with Secure Sockets Layer. Simple Object Access Protocol and WS-Security are part of the mix now, but the system was up and running before those standards were done. And to this day, for political and logistical reasons, it remains a loose federation with little shared infrastructure or central control.

The article presents a list of events related to computer industry to be held in 2005. The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies will be held during April 11-13 in San Francisco. The conference includes tracks on content management, enterprise search and knowledge management, content technology, document and records management and enterprise information integration. The Conference Board Inc. will conduct its Strategic Alliances Conference on April 14-15 in New York. Topics of discussion include using alliances to fuel innovation and growth, introducing innovation through alliances, sourcing innovation externally, partnering with competitors, forging big-small alliances, implementing go-to-market strategies with partners and deciding when to partner. A conference on Business Process Outsourcing will be held on April 18-19 in New York. An IT Symposium sponsored by Gartner Inc. will be held on May 15-19 in San Francisco.

Presents information to those who will attend the PC Expo in New York City in June 2001. Best round-trip airfare as of May 24, 2001; Best hotel deals; Points of interest.

Presents several news about the computer industry in the United States. How investors can benefit from the site of the Nasdaq-Amex Market Group and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd.; Information system to be developed by the GE Capital Information Technology Solutions and Aquilium Software Corp. for the city of Troy, New York; Aim of several security vendors for establishing the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group.

Focuses on New York City Public School for the Deaf's CD-ROM called `StreetSigns: A City Kid's Guide to American Sign Language' which was chosen as a finalist in the 1996 Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Programs. Savings from the program; Error rates.