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AMD to chip away at mobile market
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday launched the first play in its new game plan to gain ground in the notebook market. The chipmaker, which said last week it plans to pick up speed in the notebook and server markets in 2002, introduced a new 1.2GHz mobile Athlon 4 chip along with a new 950MHz mobile Duron processor. "2002 will largely be defined by our success in the mobile and server space, and holding ground in the desktop space," Chief Executive Jerry Sanders told attendees at the company's annual analyst meeting last week.
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Europe: Time to crunch the cookies?
In a move that has riled Internet vendors and publishers, the European Commission is backing a plan to prohibit the placement of files on people's computers without their explicit permission. The European Parliament is expected to debate the proposal Monday and vote on it on Tuesday in the context of a controversial draft law governing privacy in electronic communications such as faxing, e-mail and mobile-phone use. The measure would still require review by individual European governments, but already enjoys the support of the commission, the EU's executive branch. The commission says the proposal, contained in an amendment to the privacy bill, would enhance consumers' confidence in the use of the Internet, which got off to a slower start in Europe than in the U.S. in part because of privacy concerns.
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Getting worse: HP-Compaq merger mess
Shareholders opposed to the proposed marriage of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer should be careful what they wish for: Undoing the $20 billion deal would unleash problems for both companies that could be far more debilitating than those related to the complex combination. Last week, descendents of Hewlett-Packard co-founder William Hewlett announced they would vote against the deal. Walter Hewlett, a member of HP's board as well as chairman of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, said the foundation would vote against the merger.
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Plane crashes in NY, Web traffic slows
An American Airlines passenger jet bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republican crashed shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday, officials said. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman William Shumann said American Airlines Flight 587 crashed five miles from the airport in a residential area of Rockaway, in the Queens borough of New York City. He had no information on how many passengers were aboard the wide-body Airbus A-300 twin engine passenger, but said the A-300 plane could carry as many as 275 people, depending on its seating configuration. CNN reported the aircraft had 246 people aboard, including 9 crew members.
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Yahoo pumps out more Web tunes
Yahoo said Monday it has struck a rights agreement to Web stream 140 radio stations that broadcast mainly in mid-sized U.S. markets. The deal with Citadel Broadcasting will increase the number of radio stations hosted on Yahoo to 450 and will boost its technology that inserts Yahoo advertising over local advertising from local stations. Web radio has been a popular application embraced by AOL Time Warner, Microsoft and other media companies. Many services, such as AOL's Spinner, broadcast their own song lists for free. But the record industry has taken issue with the practice, and has undergone hearings with Web radio broadcasters over royalty rights.
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New boost for open-source supercomputing
Platform Computing, a company that tries to harness the collective computing power on computer networks, has signed a deal to commercialize an open-source supercomputing project. Platform is working with the Globus Project to commercialize the Globus Toolkit for governing the use of computers and storage systems joined into a large computing "grid," Platform said Wednesday. Grid computing is a relative of distributed computing, the best known example of which is the SETI@home screen-saver program that searches radio signals for extraterrestrial communications.
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IBM, Sun warm to distributed computing
IBM has begun a partnership with Entropia, a start-up whose software is used to harness the unused computing capability of ordinary networked computers, while Sun Microsystems is backing a related effort. IBM will evaluate Entropia's distributed computing software as part of Big Blue's "grid" computing effort begun earlier this year, the companies said today. Grid computing is a term that originated in academic circles to describe shared networks of everything from PCs to supercomputers that collectively tackle supercomputing tasks, often governed by software such as the "toolkit" from Globus Project.
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Thai software pirates crack Windows XP
Thai computer users are buying thousands of pirated copies of Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system a week ahead of its official launch in Thailand, retailers said Monday. Shops at Bangkok's Pantip Plaza -- a multi-story rabbit's warren of computer goods outlets -- said pirates had found ways of getting around the new operating system's security features. "We've had XP Professional for three weeks and it's selling very well. We sell around 200 copies a day," said one shop owner, who identified himself only as Nop.
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Cable modem use rises, trade group says
The number of subscribers getting high-speed access to the Internet through cable television lines jumped 15 percent during the third quarter, a telecommunications group said Monday. The 825,000 new subscribers brings the total number of U.S. cable modem customers to 6.4 million, about 9.1 percent of the 70 million homes able to receive the service, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) said in a survey.
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Legislator keeps eye on domain sales
Internet domain-name sellers need to keep better track of their customers, a U.S. lawmaker said Monday, or Congress may be forced to step in. Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., said domain-name sellers had an obligation to keep accurate records of their customers to ensure they can be contacted if they are improperly using trademarked names or engaging in other illegal activity. Internet users currently must provide a contact name, address and other information if they wish to buy a Web address.
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Europe hopes to outlaw hate speech online
The Council of Europe is pressing ahead with a protocol to criminalize hate speech on the Internet. After the Cybercrime Convention -- the world's first international treaty on cybercrime -- was approved Thursday, the Standing Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly voted unanimously to back it with a protocol that defines and outlaws hate speech on computer networks. Publishing material likely to incite racial hatred is already illegal in the United Kingdom under the Public Order Act 1986, but there is nothing that can be done under U.K. law if the company's servers are located in another country, such as the United States.
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ReplayTV lawsuit: Napster redux?
Have you heard about the lawsuit in which a number of big players in the entertainment industry allege that a technology enabling the widespread distribution of digital files via the Internet is illegal because it constitutes copyright infringement? The plaintiffs believe that, among other things, extensive use of the technology could adversely affect their sale of entertainment products on traditional media sold in stores. If you're saying to yourself, "Of course, I know all about the Napster case," don't stop reading yet. Because I'm not talking about Napster, or any of the other lawsuits involving peer-to-peer MP3 file swapping. Instead, I'm talking about a new lawsuit, filed Oct. 31 by a number of companies in the television industry -- including the three major broadcast networks -- against Sonicblue, which markets the ReplayTV devices.
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How to win the war: Osama.com!
Conventional military methods, and even sneaky assassination attempts have proven ineffective in removing the problem of Osama bin Laden. But our nation has the means to destroy him right now, and it should be employed. Bin Laden operates as a sort of venture capitalist for terrorists. Terrorists approach him with their proposals, and he decides whether or not they should be funded, much like a Silicon Valley V.C. man might decide to fund a new computer chip. Of course, it's a bit eerie to imagine how these sales pitches might go. "Our scheme will kill twice as many of the infidels and at a lower cost! The cost per infidel is shown on the bar chart in section B of the prospectus." But we do have a veritable army of soldiers to deal with his ilk, and by odd fortune, many of them are currently unemployed due to the dot-com collapse.
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2001/1...den/index.html
Seeing the future in the web's past
What was the internet like last year? Or even last week? A scheme to keep a copy of the entire web could give valuable lessons for the future, writes Maggie Shiels from Silicon Valley. One of the three passions that governed Bertrand Russell's life was the search for knowledge. As the other two were love and an unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind, it was undoubtedly the easiest of the three to satisfy. Today for a 41-year-old computer scientist from California's Silicon Valley, it is the collection of knowledge and its dissemination which is at the core of a project he believes will define the digital information age.
FullAudio channels online music deals
Online music company FullAudio said Monday it clinched a licensing deal with Universal Music Group and a distribution pact with top radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications as deal-making picked up in the Web music sector. The agreements came as federal regulators scrutinized several ventures involving big music companies. FullAudio's deal with Vivendi Universal's Universal Music comes a week after AOL Time Warner's Warner Music signed a pact with Echo Networks in its first outside licensing deal with a subscription provider.
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Dell silences Net-music appliance
For Dell Computer's Digital Audio Receiver, it's the day the music died. The company has quietly dispatched the Internet music box, an audio receiver launched in June 2000 that played MP3 files stored on a PC via a home network. Dell began shipping the device in August 2000 near the peak of the Internet music craze as part of an effort to expand beyond the PC. But lack of growth in the home networking arena and the sagging PC market conspired to restrict sales, a company representative said.
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