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walktalker · 20-08-01, 05:16 PM

Still one week till school time

MS on bundling XP: What's the big deal?
The bundling controversy over Windows XP has been blown "way out of proportion" by a few prominent companies that don't like Microsoft adding to its operating system technologies that compete with their applications, the company says. It may seem like cold consolation to Microsoft competitors, but Greg Sullivan, lead product manager for Windows XP, said there are thousands of developers creating applications for the Windows operating system, and the number of technologies Microsoft chooses to add to its OS is quite small in comparison. "If you look at the PC industry as a whole and the work that Microsoft puts into supporting third-party innovation and development on the Windows platform, the set of companies and individuals working on innovative tools for the platforms so vastly outweighs the opportunities that companies [lost] because things became part of the OS," Sullivan said in a recent interview about Microsoft's OS strategy.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

HP plays first DVD+RW drive
The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, which will cost $599 when it hits store shelves in September, will be the first commercially available drive based on the DVD+RW standard. With it, consumers will be able to record video onto a disc, play it on a typical home DVD player, and then erase and record again on the same disc. HP plans to incorporate the drives into its PCs later this year. PC makers and consumer-electronics makers are hoping these types of drives will perk up holiday sales, in part, on a theory that consumers will rediscover the home movie. Two years ago, recordable/rewritable CD drives propelled PC sales.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Used PCs may leak sensitive secrets
Three weeks ago, Jake Wilson bought a used laptop for $400 at a dot-com liquidation auction. When he booted up the IBM ThinkPad 600E, he got a lot more than he bargained for. There, on the hard drive, was a folder containing sensitive data from a now-defunct network software company called IPHighway Inc. As consumers hunt for computer bargains from failed dot-coms, they are finding all sorts of undeleted surprises. That's because as Internet companies hastily liquidate, the task of jettisoning computer files often falls by the wayside. Meticulous computer cleaning is rare in any business climate, but for managers of imploding dot-coms, it's usually the last thing on their minds. Even if they make a cursory purge, moreover, imprints of deleted files can lurk on the hard drive.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Is Microsoft ready to make a deal?
A harshly worded federal appeals court order and uncertain prospects before a lower court here could nudge Microsoft toward making a deal with the Justice Department in its antitrust case. The software company may be running out of options to avoid coming to terms with the government, antitrust experts said after Friday's terse order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denying a bid to delay further proceedings while the Supreme Court considers whether to intervene. The order places the case back before a lower court to determine a remedy for Microsoft's antitrust violations.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Virus fighters form anti-DDoS alliance
Recent threats such as the code Red and Leave worms are proof that virus writers and hackers are pooling resources to produce hybrid weapons that can cause tremendous damage. Now, a group of security companies is following suit, hoping that by combining their efforts, they'll be better able to combat the new, sophisticated attacks. McAfee, a division of Network Associates, this week will announce a research and development partnership with three anti-DDoS (distributed-denial-of-service) vendors — Arbor Networks, Asta Networks and Mazu Networks Inc. — with the goal of developing innovative technologies and techniques to detect and prevent DDoS attacks. The alliance, a first among the normally isolationist security vendors, will involve the member companies exchanging research — as well as researchers — in an effort that officials said is just the beginning of a far-reaching initiative.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Ballmer says Windows XP ready this week
Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system will be ready for production as early as Friday, said Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, sounding optimistic about an on-schedule launch despite the company's ongoing antitrust case. "Our job now is to get Windows XP done," Ballmer told a news conference at a technology meeting on Monday. "With a little bit of luck, we should have it ready by Friday." If Microsoft's programmers are able to ship the final code to manufacturers by Friday, that would put the software giant on track to release Windows XP as planned in October. Microsoft last week told PC manufacturers to expect final XP code around Aug. 22. Some industry watchers have questioned whether government regulators, citing antitrust concerns, would try to block Windows XP's release or at least request that it be altered.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=mn_hd

The Net Effect: The Undefended Airwaves
Can our cell phones, laptops and pagers ever really be secure? Or are our phone calls, the data on our hard drives, and the messages that we receive inevitably going to be an open book for any suitably motivated government spy — or teenaged hacker? Certainly, nothing can ever be 100 percent protected. Sadly, though, the makers of portable computing devices and wireless communications systems have led us down a false path by failing to make security a top priority. For more than a decade, cryptographers have possessed strong encryption techniques that could virtually guarantee that data falling into the wrong hands — through a stolen laptop, say, or an intercepted radio signal — would be impossible to decode. Unfortunately, these techniques have not made it from the lab into the mainstream.
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/garfinkel.asp

Little Big Science

Almost 100 years after Einstein's insight, the nanometer scale looms large on the research agenda. If Einstein were a graduate student today probing for a career path, a doctoral adviser would enjoin him to think small: "Nanotech, Albert, nanotech" would be the message conveyed. After biomedical research and defense-fighting cancer and building missile shields still take precedence-nanotechnology has become the most highly energized discipline in science and technology. The field is a vast grab bag of stuff that has to do with creating tiny things that sometimes just happen to be useful.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/20.../0901stix.html

HP's Fiorina calls for broader privacy laws
Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina kicked off a conference on resuscitating the New Economy by calling for government legislation to ensure privacy for Web users. Fiorina said her industry had not lived up to its leadership responsibilities in setting such standards. "I think we in the technology industry have fallen in love with technology. And in the end it is not about the technology," Fiorina told a conference organized by the Progress & Freedom Foundation think tank. "Privacy and security, or trust, are vital to consumers, and that is what we should focus on. There is a role for legislation." The privacy issue has largely boiled down to whether the government should make regulations and risk gumming up the Web, or let the industry police itself, perhaps ineffectively.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Toilet paper pokes fun at dot-com bottom

Almost everyone has heard of the dot-com deadpool, but what about the dot-com cesspool? Two entrepreneurs have created a line of novelty toilet paper printed to look like ticker tape spewing the stock prices of struggling dot-coms. Publicly traded companies such as Yahoo, Amazon.com and BroadVision are among the stocks that landed on the company's "roll of shame." All three have plummeted from their all-time highs. "We picked out some real dogs," said John Zappa, a co-creator of the toilet paper. The demand for memorabilia of once haughty, now humbled Internet companies is becoming a cottage industry at a time when the Nasdaq Stock Market is submerged below 2,000.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_pr

Peter Gabriel puts a price on downloads
Rock star Peter Gabriel's record company has launched a subscription service for Internet music downloads, beating major labels in the race to ask fans to pay for digital access to their music. The service, called "Womad Digital Channel," will give fans a monthly package of 40 tracks for about $7.20. "I'm always happy to see David come home ahead of Goliath," former Genesis front man Gabriel said in a statement. "This will allow a lot of people more access to new music." Gabriel's Real World Records is joined in the venture by Womad, the company renowned for bringing world music to millions at festivals around the globe, and the digital music distribution service OD2, co-founded by Gabriel in 1999.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Sony unveils networked camcorders
Sony is offering an alternative to the cables normally required to connect video camcorders to PCs. The consumer-electronics maker unveiled on Monday two networked video cameras that feature Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology that allows devices to communicate with one another without cable connections. Bluetooth will allow the two video camcorders, the Digital Video-format DCR-PC120 and the MicroMV-format DCR-IP7, to send moving and still digital images directly to personal computers or via a mobile phone to the Internet. Sony is dubbing the silver and black DCR-IP7, which is about the size of a hand, the "Network Handycam IP."
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Researchers: Video games hurt brain development

Scientists at Japan's Tohoku University said they've found that computer games stimulate only those parts of the brain devoted to vision and movement and do not aid the development of other important areas of the brain. The researchers are particularly concerned that by spending many hours playing games some children will not develop their frontal lobes, which play a crucial role in controlling behavior and in developing memory, emotion and learning. In contrast, tasks such as arithmetic stimulate brain activity in the frontal lobe, which is thought to continue developing until adulthood. Professor Ryuta Kawashima, who led the team that carried out the research, told The Observer that the discovery is highly important.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh

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TankGirl · 20-08-01, 06:18 PM

Hi WT, nice to see you again!

Here's a

and a

and big thanks for your great news service!
Will we be able to enjoy the newspaper also during your schooltime?

- tg

walktalker · 20-08-01, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TankGirl
Hi WT, nice to see you again!

Here's a and a and big thanks for your great news service!
Will we be able to enjoy the newspaper also during your schooltime?

- tg

Sure, sure you will... what, it seems like I can't live a decent day without writing one of those paper... and I've wrote a lot of these between two courses

Oh, and there's a

and a

for you too

cornflakeboyee · 20-08-01, 10:12 PM

20-08-01, 05:16 PM	#1
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	The Newspaper Shop -- Monday edition Still one week till school time MS on bundling XP: What's the big deal? The bundling controversy over Windows XP has been blown "way out of proportion" by a few prominent companies that don't like Microsoft adding to its operating system technologies that compete with their applications, the company says. It may seem like cold consolation to Microsoft competitors, but Greg Sullivan, lead product manager for Windows XP, said there are thousands of developers creating applications for the Windows operating system, and the number of technologies Microsoft chooses to add to its OS is quite small in comparison. "If you look at the PC industry as a whole and the work that Microsoft puts into supporting third-party innovation and development on the Windows platform, the set of companies and individuals working on innovative tools for the platforms so vastly outweighs the opportunities that companies [lost] because things became part of the OS," Sullivan said in a recent interview about Microsoft's OS strategy. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 HP plays first DVD+RW drive The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, which will cost $599 when it hits store shelves in September, will be the first commercially available drive based on the DVD+RW standard. With it, consumers will be able to record video onto a disc, play it on a typical home DVD player, and then erase and record again on the same disc. HP plans to incorporate the drives into its PCs later this year. PC makers and consumer-electronics makers are hoping these types of drives will perk up holiday sales, in part, on a theory that consumers will rediscover the home movie. Two years ago, recordable/rewritable CD drives propelled PC sales. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Used PCs may leak sensitive secrets Three weeks ago, Jake Wilson bought a used laptop for $400 at a dot-com liquidation auction. When he booted up the IBM ThinkPad 600E, he got a lot more than he bargained for. There, on the hard drive, was a folder containing sensitive data from a now-defunct network software company called IPHighway Inc. As consumers hunt for computer bargains from failed dot-coms, they are finding all sorts of undeleted surprises. That's because as Internet companies hastily liquidate, the task of jettisoning computer files often falls by the wayside. Meticulous computer cleaning is rare in any business climate, but for managers of imploding dot-coms, it's usually the last thing on their minds. Even if they make a cursory purge, moreover, imprints of deleted files can lurk on the hard drive. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Is Microsoft ready to make a deal? A harshly worded federal appeals court order and uncertain prospects before a lower court here could nudge Microsoft toward making a deal with the Justice Department in its antitrust case. The software company may be running out of options to avoid coming to terms with the government, antitrust experts said after Friday's terse order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denying a bid to delay further proceedings while the Supreme Court considers whether to intervene. The order places the case back before a lower court to determine a remedy for Microsoft's antitrust violations. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Virus fighters form anti-DDoS alliance Recent threats such as the code Red and Leave worms are proof that virus writers and hackers are pooling resources to produce hybrid weapons that can cause tremendous damage. Now, a group of security companies is following suit, hoping that by combining their efforts, they'll be better able to combat the new, sophisticated attacks. McAfee, a division of Network Associates, this week will announce a research and development partnership with three anti-DDoS (distributed-denial-of-service) vendors — Arbor Networks, Asta Networks and Mazu Networks Inc. — with the goal of developing innovative technologies and techniques to detect and prevent DDoS attacks. The alliance, a first among the normally isolationist security vendors, will involve the member companies exchanging research — as well as researchers — in an effort that officials said is just the beginning of a far-reaching initiative. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Ballmer says Windows XP ready this week Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system will be ready for production as early as Friday, said Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, sounding optimistic about an on-schedule launch despite the company's ongoing antitrust case. "Our job now is to get Windows XP done," Ballmer told a news conference at a technology meeting on Monday. "With a little bit of luck, we should have it ready by Friday." If Microsoft's programmers are able to ship the final code to manufacturers by Friday, that would put the software giant on track to release Windows XP as planned in October. Microsoft last week told PC manufacturers to expect final XP code around Aug. 22. Some industry watchers have questioned whether government regulators, citing antitrust concerns, would try to block Windows XP's release or at least request that it be altered. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=mn_hd The Net Effect: The Undefended Airwaves Can our cell phones, laptops and pagers ever really be secure? Or are our phone calls, the data on our hard drives, and the messages that we receive inevitably going to be an open book for any suitably motivated government spy — or teenaged hacker? Certainly, nothing can ever be 100 percent protected. Sadly, though, the makers of portable computing devices and wireless communications systems have led us down a false path by failing to make security a top priority. For more than a decade, cryptographers have possessed strong encryption techniques that could virtually guarantee that data falling into the wrong hands — through a stolen laptop, say, or an intercepted radio signal — would be impossible to decode. Unfortunately, these techniques have not made it from the lab into the mainstream. http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/garfinkel.asp Little Big Science Almost 100 years after Einstein's insight, the nanometer scale looms large on the research agenda. If Einstein were a graduate student today probing for a career path, a doctoral adviser would enjoin him to think small: "Nanotech, Albert, nanotech" would be the message conveyed. After biomedical research and defense-fighting cancer and building missile shields still take precedence-nanotechnology has become the most highly energized discipline in science and technology. The field is a vast grab bag of stuff that has to do with creating tiny things that sometimes just happen to be useful. http://www.scientificamerican.com/20.../0901stix.html HP's Fiorina calls for broader privacy laws Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina kicked off a conference on resuscitating the New Economy by calling for government legislation to ensure privacy for Web users. Fiorina said her industry had not lived up to its leadership responsibilities in setting such standards. "I think we in the technology industry have fallen in love with technology. And in the end it is not about the technology," Fiorina told a conference organized by the Progress & Freedom Foundation think tank. "Privacy and security, or trust, are vital to consumers, and that is what we should focus on. There is a role for legislation." The privacy issue has largely boiled down to whether the government should make regulations and risk gumming up the Web, or let the industry police itself, perhaps ineffectively. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_mh Toilet paper pokes fun at dot-com bottom Almost everyone has heard of the dot-com deadpool, but what about the dot-com cesspool? Two entrepreneurs have created a line of novelty toilet paper printed to look like ticker tape spewing the stock prices of struggling dot-coms. Publicly traded companies such as Yahoo, Amazon.com and BroadVision are among the stocks that landed on the company's "roll of shame." All three have plummeted from their all-time highs. "We picked out some real dogs," said John Zappa, a co-creator of the toilet paper. The demand for memorabilia of once haughty, now humbled Internet companies is becoming a cottage industry at a time when the Nasdaq Stock Market is submerged below 2,000. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_pr Peter Gabriel puts a price on downloads Rock star Peter Gabriel's record company has launched a subscription service for Internet music downloads, beating major labels in the race to ask fans to pay for digital access to their music. The service, called "Womad Digital Channel," will give fans a monthly package of 40 tracks for about $7.20. "I'm always happy to see David come home ahead of Goliath," former Genesis front man Gabriel said in a statement. "This will allow a lot of people more access to new music." Gabriel's Real World Records is joined in the venture by Womad, the company renowned for bringing world music to millions at festivals around the globe, and the digital music distribution service OD2, co-founded by Gabriel in 1999. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh Sony unveils networked camcorders Sony is offering an alternative to the cables normally required to connect video camcorders to PCs. The consumer-electronics maker unveiled on Monday two networked video cameras that feature Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology that allows devices to communicate with one another without cable connections. Bluetooth will allow the two video camcorders, the Digital Video-format DCR-PC120 and the MicroMV-format DCR-IP7, to send moving and still digital images directly to personal computers or via a mobile phone to the Internet. Sony is dubbing the silver and black DCR-IP7, which is about the size of a hand, the "Network Handycam IP." http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh Researchers: Video games hurt brain development Scientists at Japan's Tohoku University said they've found that computer games stimulate only those parts of the brain devoted to vision and movement and do not aid the development of other important areas of the brain. The researchers are particularly concerned that by spending many hours playing games some children will not develop their frontal lobes, which play a crucial role in controlling behavior and in developing memory, emotion and learning. In contrast, tasks such as arithmetic stimulate brain activity in the frontal lobe, which is thought to continue developing until adulthood. Professor Ryuta Kawashima, who led the team that carried out the research, told The Observer that the discovery is highly important. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies

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20-08-01, 06:18 PM	#2
TankGirl Madame Comrade Join Date: May 2000 Location: Area 25 Posts: 5,587	Hi WT, nice to see you again! Here's a and a and big thanks for your great news service! Will we be able to enjoy the newspaper also during your schooltime? - tg

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