Wednesday, January 9, 2002

Richard Parsons at AOL Time Warner: "I have a theory of life: things never get easier, they only get harder. I think the current environment makes it more interesting, certainly more challenging." [NY Times]

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Scripting News - Skipping Dot Net: SOAP Linkfest.[sgl dagger]

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EE Times - Injectable chip opens door to 'human bar code'. Radio-frequency identification chips, which have found a home in applications ranging from toll road passes to smart retail shelves, may be close to taking up residence in the human body.

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The Register - Hush - do you want to store a secret?. Online secure storage service

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Security Focus - Seven elements of highly effective security policies (Article)

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Online Spending Reaches $13.8 Billion For 2001 Holiday Season, According to Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings.

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Fat protocols slow Web services. "You see, there's an evil little secret about Web services that most vendors don't talk about. Web services' protocols are very fat, and that means that Web services interactions over the network will be slow and eat up a large chunk of bandwidth." [ZDNet Tech Update]

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diveintomark - Watson. Real live web services, with a pretty GUI. TV listings, package tracking, auction tracking, movie tickets, stock portfolios, image search, flight tracking, recipe lookup, phone number lookup, zip code lookup. Mac OS X only. If Microsoft would stop trying to offer user authentication services (which nobody wants except Microsoft) and start offering useful web services, maybe more people would Get It.

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The New York Times: Technology - Court Orders Motorola to Pay $300 Million to Banks. A federal judge has ordered Motorola to pay $300 million to Chase Manhattan Bank and several other lenders to repay part of a loan to the company's troubled satellite telephone venture, Iridium. It's amazing that Motorola tried to avoid repaying this! Speaks volumes, IMHO!

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CNET News.com: Communications - Satellite field of dreams. If you build it, will they buy? That's what the two companies comprising the nascent industry wonder after spending more than $1 billion each to launch satellite broadcast networks.

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The Washington Post : Business - Despite NeuStar Cuts, It's '.biz' as Usual. NeuStar Inc.'s decision to lay off about 10 percent of its staff in late December barely registers on the Washington area technology scene at first blush, given the seemingly endless announcements of cutbacks in the technology sector.

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