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Monday, June 30, 2003
Bandwidth Drought?
Robert Cringely, the man the legend, posts an interesting problem. He believes there's a bandwidth drought coming and no one is prepared for it. According to Cringe we're about to reach a dead end wall with current infrastructure that will prevent us from every reaching the so called communication utopia we've been told is just around the next bend.
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on 06/30/2003 at 07:29 PM
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Girls less confident on computers
The Globe and Mail has a report about a study done on high school girls in Canada and computer use.
“The new digital divide, says the study released yesterday by Statistics Canada, is not about access to computers and the Internet” that gap has all but disappeared, it says “but about a gender gap when it comes to attitudes and opportunities in a knowledge-based economy that relies heavily on a computer-literate work force.”
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Late nights at the computer bad for you?
Say it isn't so! The American Physiological Society has released a study saying that using computers late at night can cuase changes in melatonin levels and affect your biological clock.All I have to say is, well duh...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003
The future of RAM is in Nanotubes
New Scientist is reporting that a company called Nantero had succeded in creating a prototype RAM (Random Access Memory) chip using carbon nanotubes.They call it NRAM or Nanoscale Random Access Memory and the great thing about it is...
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Friday, June 13, 2003
Linux and Opensource: When does the hype end?
It seems whenever you read or hear something about alternatives to Microsoft all you get is Linux this and Linux that. Honestly though it's getting rather repetitive. All you hear is the same party lines being run over and over. "Opensource is more secure", "Linux is cheaper", etc. Not to say I don't like Linux or opensource products...Continue reading "Linux and Opensource: When does the hype end?"
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
FTC wants to show it's fangs to spammers
Well it appears the FTC (Federal Trade Commision) has asked congress to give them power to go after spammers. In a Cnet News.Com article it appears that the FTC has filed a 13 page proposal to congress asking for more power to deal with spammers. Dubbed the International Consumer Protection Enforcement Act...Continue reading "FTC wants to show it's fangs to spammers"
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Microsoft pays AOL $750 million...
MSNBC is reporting that Microsoft has settled an antitrust lawsuit with AOL.Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner. However as usual it's probabbly more of a win for Microsoft than AOL...