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walktalker · 30-11-01, 05:42 PM

Judge Says Excite Can Shut Down
A federal bankruptcy judge has allowed ExciteAtHome to shut down its cable network service by as soon as midnight Friday, but he urged the company to work out a deal with its cable customers to prevent millions from losing their Internet access. Thomas Carlson, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in San Francisco, ruled Friday in favor of ExciteAtHome's creditors, who had argued that a shutdown would force AT&T (T)-- ExciteAtHome's largest shareholder -- to pay much more than what it recently offered for ExciteAtHome's network.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48735,00.html

Gates Predicts a Wireless World
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Friday told about 400 of his biggest fans from around the world that wireless networking would become commonplace in the next 10 years. Addressing a group of Usenet-based volunteers -- which Microsoft calls its "most valuable professionals" -- Gates predicted the coming of the "digital decade." "Every business, every home, every convention center will be wired up with high capacity 802.11," Gates said, referring to one of the short range wireless networking standards that has gained wide acceptance in the past year.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48775,00.html

Stem Cells: From Blank to Brain
Two teams of researchers have turned human embryonic stem cells into brain cells, a significant scientific step that could lead to the treatment of nervous system disorders. After coaxing stem cells into becoming brain cells, they were implanted in mice. It will take many steps and probably many years -- not to mention many political hurdles to clear -- before such experiments are undertaken in humans, but so far the results in mice are encouraging.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,48744,00.html

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Computer
Computers have come in many shapes, sizes and colors, but never, until now, in a test tube. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have created the first programmable "biological computer," using molecules of DNA in solution. Billions of these computers can fit into one drop of water and can perform billions of operations per second. However, right now this "computer" is far removed from the modern definition of the word and closer to the idea of a computing device conceived in the 1930s by Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computer science.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48697,00.html

Nanotech, but Not in a Nanosecond
Nanotechnology boosters have long hyped the field's potential, envisioning a future of nanobots and nanocomputers. But the scientists doing the grunt work in the field say the reality is a little more mundane. "At this point, we have a lot of nanoscience, but there's very little nanotechnology," said R. Stanley Williams, a nanotech researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. "Those who excel at popularizing the field are not necessarily those who actually understand it," said Williams, who delivered the keynote address here at Nanotech Planet 2001.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48737,00.html

Underground Sea in Jupiter Moon?
Recent photographs from NASA's Galileo spacecraft provide supporting evidence to the theory that Jupiter's outermost moon may hold an underground ocean, scientists said Thursday. Callisto, one of four large moons surrounding Jupiter, can be seen to have a surface that sits directly opposite from its Valhalla basin, which was rocked by a collision with a major object. The images were taken during a May 25 flyby.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48752,00.html

Consumers May Demand VOD Yet
For 10 years, the running joke about video on demand over TV sets has been that it's the technology of the future -- and always will be. Countless, expensive trials of the technology failed to blossom into a market. That market now appears to be imminent. Dozens of companies at this year's Western Cable Show -- most compellingly, set-top box leader Motorola -- are demonstrating network-based products that allow consumers to instantly call up movies and TV programs, pause and fast-forward them, and perform other tricks previously relegated to VCRs and TiVo devices.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,48708,00.html

AOL's Wide-Ranging Broadband Plan
AOL Time Warner -- with its online service, television, movies, music and print publications all under one roof -- is doing its level best to make the most of its assets and cross-promote them. "For the next layer of growth, we need to think holistically," AOL CEO Robert Pittman said Thursday at The Western Show, the cable industry's annual gathering of content and hardware providers. "One of the mistakes people make when it comes to synergy is to put a bunch of middle managers together and say 'work together.' Well, they're not authorized to work together."
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48729,00.html

NASA's Eggs-ellent Experiment
When the Space Shuttle Endeavor takes off this week for its rendezvous with the International Space Station, its payload will include hardware, food, three new crew members for the station and 36 Japanese quail eggs. The eggs are part of a new push at NASA to learn more about the effect of near-zero gravity, called microgravity, on biological life. It's an undertaking that the space station, now entering its second year of constant habitation, makes both necessary and feasible.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48656,00.html

Digging Deep for Life's Answers
A group of American scientists want to convert a South Dakota goldmine into the world's deepest underground laboratory where they'll be able to conduct ground-breaking research into the origins of the universe. But the group must get funding before the mine closes on Dec. 31 and groundwater floods the vast network of tunnels that reach 8,000 feet underground. The United States has no "deep" laboratory -- a facility far enough underground to block interference from cosmic rays, which disrupt sensitive experiments -- and the Americans who forged the field of underground science are forced to reserve time at foreign facilities.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48722,00.html

Brit Law Bans Human Cloning
British lawmakers have approved an emergency bill barring scientists from using cloning techniques to produce babies, and Queen Elizabeth II is expected to approve the measure next week. The Human Reproductive Cloning Bill, which cleared the House of Commons on Thursday, prohibits the planting of cloned embryos in a womb.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48751,00.html

'Mujihadeen' Hackers Take Out US Government Sites
Two Web sites operated by the United States government were attacked Thursday by a group that threatened violence against Americans. The hackers vandalized the home page of the NOAA Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, as well a Web server operated by the National Institute of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute, according to a mirror of the defacements captured by the Alldas defacement archive.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172582.html

Scientists warn of 'super athletes'
Drug cheats are on the verge of using genetic engineering to increase stamina and speed, sport scientists warn. And they estimate that 2012 could be the first Olympics to have artificially produced super-athletes in action. A conference on Friday on genes in sport warns that gene therapy - originally devised to help treat diseases like cystic fibrosis - could be abused to enhance performance. And some sports scientists believe that work must start now on developing a test to catch them out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/hea...00/1683873.stm

Canadian Marketers Seek Muscle For 'Don't Call' List
An organization representing marketing companies in Canada is asking the country's telecommunication regulators to establish a mandatory "dot-not-call" registry to be heeded by all telemarketers. The 800-member Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) also said in a submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that it would volunteer to manage a national do-not-call service if regulators would enforce the same rules for all telemarketers.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172598.html

Bill Would Spawn Panel To Review U.S. Security Efforts
The chairman of a House Government Reform subcommittee has introduced a bill to examine the privacy and security of information collected by the Bush administration's new antiterrorism agency. Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., introduced legislation on Thursday that would establish a Commission on Homeland Security to scrutinize the government's recent efforts to safeguard U.S. national security.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172597.html

Lawmakers Form ID Theft Task Force
A pair of congressional leaders wants to make it harder for criminals to abuse the identities and credit ratings of the recently deceased by exploiting a loophole in Social Security Administration (SSA) procedures. Despite advances in technology it still takes as long as six weeks for the SSA to notify financial institutions and credit bureaus of recorded deaths through something called the Death Master File, House Financial Services Committee spokeswoman Peggy Peterson said today.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172593.html

Broadband Expense Is Major Barrier To U.K. Adoption
Research into broadband services in the U.K. and Germany suggests that their high price in the U.K. is holding back acceptance of the technology. The research, conducted by support services specialist Support.com, and which took in responses from 430 Brits and 580 Germans, found that 58 percent of U.K. respondents thought that broadband services were too expensive. Only 38 percent of German respondents to the survey, in contrast, told researchers they thought their country's broadband services are too expensive.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172589.html

Digital Cameras Are Hot For The Holidays
By the looks of holiday-shopping statistics released by comparison-shopping site BizRate.com this week, there will be a lot of digital cameras under Christmas trees this year. The Los Angeles company, which collects point-of-sale data from some 2,000 online retailers, said searches for various brands of digital cameras have accounted for at least half of the 10 most popular searches on its own site over the last two weeks.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172579.html

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walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Judge Says Excite Can Shut Down A federal bankruptcy judge has allowed ExciteAtHome to shut down its cable network service by as soon as midnight Friday, but he urged the company to work out a deal with its cable customers to prevent millions from losing their Internet access. Thomas Carlson, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in San Francisco, ruled Friday in favor of ExciteAtHome's creditors, who had argued that a shutdown would force AT&T (T)-- ExciteAtHome's largest shareholder -- to pay much more than what it recently offered for ExciteAtHome's network. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48735,00.html Gates Predicts a Wireless World Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Friday told about 400 of his biggest fans from around the world that wireless networking would become commonplace in the next 10 years. Addressing a group of Usenet-based volunteers -- which Microsoft calls its "most valuable professionals" -- Gates predicted the coming of the "digital decade." "Every business, every home, every convention center will be wired up with high capacity 802.11," Gates said, referring to one of the short range wireless networking standards that has gained wide acceptance in the past year. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48775,00.html Stem Cells: From Blank to Brain Two teams of researchers have turned human embryonic stem cells into brain cells, a significant scientific step that could lead to the treatment of nervous system disorders. After coaxing stem cells into becoming brain cells, they were implanted in mice. It will take many steps and probably many years -- not to mention many political hurdles to clear -- before such experiments are undertaken in humans, but so far the results in mice are encouraging. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,48744,00.html Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Computer Computers have come in many shapes, sizes and colors, but never, until now, in a test tube. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have created the first programmable "biological computer," using molecules of DNA in solution. Billions of these computers can fit into one drop of water and can perform billions of operations per second. However, right now this "computer" is far removed from the modern definition of the word and closer to the idea of a computing device conceived in the 1930s by Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computer science. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48697,00.html Nanotech, but Not in a Nanosecond Nanotechnology boosters have long hyped the field's potential, envisioning a future of nanobots and nanocomputers. But the scientists doing the grunt work in the field say the reality is a little more mundane. "At this point, we have a lot of nanoscience, but there's very little nanotechnology," said R. Stanley Williams, a nanotech researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. "Those who excel at popularizing the field are not necessarily those who actually understand it," said Williams, who delivered the keynote address here at Nanotech Planet 2001. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48737,00.html Underground Sea in Jupiter Moon? Recent photographs from NASA's Galileo spacecraft provide supporting evidence to the theory that Jupiter's outermost moon may hold an underground ocean, scientists said Thursday. Callisto, one of four large moons surrounding Jupiter, can be seen to have a surface that sits directly opposite from its Valhalla basin, which was rocked by a collision with a major object. The images were taken during a May 25 flyby. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48752,00.html Consumers May Demand VOD Yet For 10 years, the running joke about video on demand over TV sets has been that it's the technology of the future -- and always will be. Countless, expensive trials of the technology failed to blossom into a market. That market now appears to be imminent. Dozens of companies at this year's Western Cable Show -- most compellingly, set-top box leader Motorola -- are demonstrating network-based products that allow consumers to instantly call up movies and TV programs, pause and fast-forward them, and perform other tricks previously relegated to VCRs and TiVo devices. http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,48708,00.html AOL's Wide-Ranging Broadband Plan AOL Time Warner -- with its online service, television, movies, music and print publications all under one roof -- is doing its level best to make the most of its assets and cross-promote them. "For the next layer of growth, we need to think holistically," AOL CEO Robert Pittman said Thursday at The Western Show, the cable industry's annual gathering of content and hardware providers. "One of the mistakes people make when it comes to synergy is to put a bunch of middle managers together and say 'work together.' Well, they're not authorized to work together." http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48729,00.html NASA's Eggs-ellent Experiment When the Space Shuttle Endeavor takes off this week for its rendezvous with the International Space Station, its payload will include hardware, food, three new crew members for the station and 36 Japanese quail eggs. The eggs are part of a new push at NASA to learn more about the effect of near-zero gravity, called microgravity, on biological life. It's an undertaking that the space station, now entering its second year of constant habitation, makes both necessary and feasible. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48656,00.html Digging Deep for Life's Answers A group of American scientists want to convert a South Dakota goldmine into the world's deepest underground laboratory where they'll be able to conduct ground-breaking research into the origins of the universe. But the group must get funding before the mine closes on Dec. 31 and groundwater floods the vast network of tunnels that reach 8,000 feet underground. The United States has no "deep" laboratory -- a facility far enough underground to block interference from cosmic rays, which disrupt sensitive experiments -- and the Americans who forged the field of underground science are forced to reserve time at foreign facilities. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48722,00.html Brit Law Bans Human Cloning British lawmakers have approved an emergency bill barring scientists from using cloning techniques to produce babies, and Queen Elizabeth II is expected to approve the measure next week. The Human Reproductive Cloning Bill, which cleared the House of Commons on Thursday, prohibits the planting of cloned embryos in a womb. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48751,00.html 'Mujihadeen' Hackers Take Out US Government Sites Two Web sites operated by the United States government were attacked Thursday by a group that threatened violence against Americans. The hackers vandalized the home page of the NOAA Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, as well a Web server operated by the National Institute of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute, according to a mirror of the defacements captured by the Alldas defacement archive. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172582.html Scientists warn of 'super athletes' Drug cheats are on the verge of using genetic engineering to increase stamina and speed, sport scientists warn. And they estimate that 2012 could be the first Olympics to have artificially produced super-athletes in action. A conference on Friday on genes in sport warns that gene therapy - originally devised to help treat diseases like cystic fibrosis - could be abused to enhance performance. And some sports scientists believe that work must start now on developing a test to catch them out. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/hea...00/1683873.stm Canadian Marketers Seek Muscle For 'Don't Call' List An organization representing marketing companies in Canada is asking the country's telecommunication regulators to establish a mandatory "dot-not-call" registry to be heeded by all telemarketers. The 800-member Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) also said in a submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that it would volunteer to manage a national do-not-call service if regulators would enforce the same rules for all telemarketers. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172598.html Bill Would Spawn Panel To Review U.S. Security Efforts The chairman of a House Government Reform subcommittee has introduced a bill to examine the privacy and security of information collected by the Bush administration's new antiterrorism agency. Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., introduced legislation on Thursday that would establish a Commission on Homeland Security to scrutinize the government's recent efforts to safeguard U.S. national security. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172597.html Lawmakers Form ID Theft Task Force A pair of congressional leaders wants to make it harder for criminals to abuse the identities and credit ratings of the recently deceased by exploiting a loophole in Social Security Administration (SSA) procedures. Despite advances in technology it still takes as long as six weeks for the SSA to notify financial institutions and credit bureaus of recorded deaths through something called the Death Master File, House Financial Services Committee spokeswoman Peggy Peterson said today. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172593.html Broadband Expense Is Major Barrier To U.K. Adoption Research into broadband services in the U.K. and Germany suggests that their high price in the U.K. is holding back acceptance of the technology. The research, conducted by support services specialist Support.com, and which took in responses from 430 Brits and 580 Germans, found that 58 percent of U.K. respondents thought that broadband services were too expensive. Only 38 percent of German respondents to the survey, in contrast, told researchers they thought their country's broadband services are too expensive. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172589.html Digital Cameras Are Hot For The Holidays By the looks of holiday-shopping statistics released by comparison-shopping site BizRate.com this week, there will be a lot of digital cameras under Christmas trees this year. The Los Angeles company, which collects point-of-sale data from some 2,000 online retailers, said searches for various brands of digital cameras have accounted for at least half of the 10 most popular searches on its own site over the last two weeks. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172579.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies