Database of the Week Business Directories--United States
Source: Dun & Bradstreet It's Free: A Wonderful Phone/Address Directory From D&B
Not only is this a great tool but it's also an example of what you can find if your always on the lookout for buried treasure. This site itself is part of a service for small business owners, suppliers, etc. to find contact information and then purchase credit info, business leads, and other reports from D&B. However, the business directory, which is free to use is a comprehenive dbase that's full of useful data. You'll not only find basic phone number/address info but many entries include business owner/executive names, links to company or other related web sites, number of employees, and headquarters identification. Selecting the advanced interface allows you to search by name/address, telephone number, type of business, or D-U-N-S� Number. Note: If you use the advanced interface to search by name/address you must limit your search to a particular state. However, using the primary interface (inside the yellow box) you can conduct a nationwide name/address search.
Web Search--Privacy Issues
Source: Newsbytes "Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops On Web Searches"
From the article, "According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number. Anytime a Navigator user performs a search by typing terms into the browser's URL bar and pressing the adjacent Search button, or by using the Search tab on the browser's My Sidebar feature, the user data is sent to a server at info.netscape.com using a uniform resource locator (URL) forwarding system. While search sites such as Google log data about visitors, Netscape is in a unique position to compile a meta-database of search information, according to Marc Maiffret, "chief hacking officer" for Eeye Digital Security."
Digitization Projects--Maps GIS "This Is a Real Quest for Maps"
Source: Wired News
From the article, "When David Rumsey decided to take his private collection of 19th and 20th century maps public, even the world's largest library couldn't handle the load. So, rather than donate his vast collection of 150,000 maps to the Library of Congress, Rumsey decided to put it online...The result is an extraordinary online compilation of more than 6,500 high-resolution digital images from one of the largest private collections in the United States...This week, Rumsey will introduce 18 historic maps of Boston. He will later include other major U.S. cities, states, countries and continents. He hopes to have 500 historical maps in GIS by the end of the year...He is currently doing a collaborative project with the Library of Congress to fuse the two map collections online. MapLibraries.com, which currently holds about 250 images, will eventually include more than 10,000 images." Direct to the David Rumsey GIS Collection
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Identity Theft
Source: GAO Full-Text Report,Identity Theft: Incidence and Cost Appear to Be Growing, GAO-02-363
- Science and Engineering--United States--Statistics Higher Education--United States--Statistics
Source: NSF Full-Text Report, Science and Engineering Research Facilities: 2001
From the site, "The 2001 survey consisted of only two questions: the amount of science and engineering (S&E) research space existing at U.S. colleges, universities and nonprofit biomedical research institutions and the adequacy of this research space to meet current program commitments.
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