Archive for October 2003
Motorola launches Linux-run phone
Posted by: kegill on: 31 October 2003
On Friday, Motorola launched a phone based on the Intel chip set and Linux operating system; the phone is currently available only in China. Motorola declined to provide details such as price or if/when the phone might be available in the U.S. or Europe. The company sells a phone with a Microsoft operating system in [...]
Just say no, please!
Posted by: kegill on: 31 October 2003
The New York Times reports this morning that Microsoft is wooing Google and has offered to buy (ie, assimilate) the upstart firm.
Neither Google nor Microsoft would confirm the paper’s report. News.google.com, science-tech section, does not list the story, but a search on Google, IPO and Microsoft yields a plethora of citations, many talking about [...]
MSN splits; so does Palm
Posted by: kegill on: 30 October 2003
It’s the week for divorces, it seems.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it was splitting MSN into two parts: communication and information. The information division has the web site, e-commerce, the nascent search technology; this group will also work on an online music store. The communication division has Messenger, Hotmail, Passport.
Interesting timing. It’s the [...]
From Dell to Apple: the story of the “big Mac”
Posted by: kegill on: 30 October 2003
It started as an effort to circumvent the lag time associated with using U.S. Department of Energy computers, according to Dr. Srindhi Varadarajan of Virginia Tech’s Terascale Computing Facility, speaking at the O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference.
The project was to build an academic supercomputer. Budget contraints caused him to envision a linked system of off-the-shelf [...]
Copyright “offense” ruled invalid
Posted by: kegill on: 30 October 2003
The U.S. Copyright Office has ruled that Lexmark, the second largest printer company in the U.S., cannot invoke the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in its lawsuit against Static Control Components (SCC). The opinion is not binding on the Federal Court that is reviewing the case.
SCC, a small North Carolina firm, sells a chip that [...]
Info deluge
Posted by: kegill on: 29 October 2003
The worldwide production of information has increased by 30 per cent each year between 1999 and 2002, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
The team started measurements with terabytes, but quickly found that insufficient; they also measured information by exabytes, each equal to a million terabytes.
In 2002, we produced about five [...]
Court rules on digital TV
Posted by: kegill on: 28 October 2003
A federal appeals court has sided with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), upholding a ruling that all television tuners larger than 13″ must have digital tuners by July 2007. The court noted the catch-22 — consumers aren’t buying digital TVs because of the paucity of digital programming; programmers cite lack of receivers as a reason [...]
Sony pulls game featuring terrorists
Posted by: kegill on: 28 October 2003
The Globe & Mail reports that Sony Entertainment will pull a scene featuring terrorists attacking a Toronto shopping mall from the final version of its latest installment in the best-selling Playstation 2 series …
Search inside a book
Posted by: kegill on: 27 October 2003
Imaging being able to find obscure citations by searching the entire contents of a library (all those books!) … from a computer terminal.
Now imagine doing it from your home, when the library is “online” at Amazon.com. That’s the idea behind Amazon’s latest project, launched last week.
This tool allows you to search 33 million [...]
Dell, Lexar announce entertainment products
Posted by: kegill on: 27 October 2003
Dell’s new 15GB jukebox and music service debuted Tuesday, while Lexar joined the MP3 player market.
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