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| August 23, 2000
Broadband bickering hits Silicon Valley
Author: JT Smith
From InfoWorld.com: ATT is pondering legal action in an attempt to force San Jose to release about 40 permits for cable modem service.
Category:
Linux
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| August 23, 2000
High-tech players warm to privacy legislation
Author: JT Smith
From IDG.net: Fearing multiple state efforts, vendors back federal regulation, if given a big enough stake in the process.
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| August 23, 2000
3COM to offer Web gadgets to stadium
Author: JT Smith
This Reuters report tells how 3Com Corp.
is unveiling a steno pad-sized ''Web pad'' that
can access the Web, but only in the stadium, formerly known as Candlestick
Park.
Category:
Unix
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| August 23, 2000
Open Source Library Card-Catalog Apps?
Author: JT Smith
Ask Slashdot Question about using and/or writing Open Source software for libraries. More than just a database? (Many thoughtful reader responses.)
Category:
Open Source
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| August 23, 2000
Study: Taiwan, Estonia emerge as good places for online business
Author: JT Smith
"The study rated 42 developing countries on their 'e-readiness,' based on factors such as government support for e-commerce, availability of wireline and wireless communications services, worker skills and laws against cybercrime and software piracy." Best bets: Taiwan and Estonia...
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| August 23, 2000
Opinion: Unix and Mac OS X
Author: JT Smith
MacWeek.com says that in the late 80s, calling a kernel plus a shell an "operating system" was anachronistic; today it is prehistoric.
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| August 23, 2000
Seybold to shine light on Web
Author: JT Smith
Internet publishing technologies will be in the spotlight next week as Seybold
San Francisco 2000 takes over San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center
from August 28 to September 1. From MacWeek.com.
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| August 23, 2000
Compaq to develop supercomputer
Author: JT Smith
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday it
has selected Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ - news) to develop the
world's fastest supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in
New Mexico. From an Associated Press...
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| August 23, 2000
Napster site among Web's top 50
Author: JT Smith
Associated Press reports that the embattled music file-swapping company's site had 5.4 million visitors in
July, making it the 47th most-visited site.
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| August 23, 2000
Forbes tries embedded Web links
Author: JT Smith
The magazine, according to an Associated Press report, is mailing out free handheld digital readers to all 810,000 of its
subscribers to see if they'll take to the idea of jumping around the Net byscanning little bar codes in ads and stories.
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