Wednesday, February 27, 2002



George Scriban: "The most complete solution out there is commercial. It's damned frustrating." This is a must-read. The same conclusion was reached in the last couple of weeks on the Apache Cocoon mail list. It's good to be surprised. There has been so much We Crushed You noise in the last few years. Open source certainly hurt, but we seem to have survived it, in some manner. We're still developing, pushing the envelope, and according to this philosophy, have been making substantial contributions to community development over the years. The Open Source Crushes Everything philosophy clearly isn't the right one. Let's work together. OK?  [Scripting News]
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HTTP a barrier to Web services?. A bedrock of the Internet, HTTP is reaching its limitations and posing a major challenge for Web services, peer-to-peer applications and even security, according to a Microsoft architect. [CNET News.com]
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BellSouth counts on portal play. The last stand-alone "Baby Bell" hopes Net radio, online video and other features will bring customers to its broadband Internet service. [CNET News.com]
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O'Reilly Network: Steven Johnson on "Emergence". Q&A with Steven Johnson. Emergence is what happens when the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts. It's what happens when you have a system of relatively simple-minded component parts -- often there are thousands or millions of them -- and they interact in relatively simple ways. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Business Week: Software That Asks "Who Goes There?" It's enough to give any business a headache, let alone a health-insurance company. Tech-support staffers at insurer Wellpoint say they receive 14,000 calls every month from employees who have forgotten their computer-access passwords for the company's Intranet site and need a manual reset. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Useit.Com: From November 26, 2000; Security & Human Factors [Tomalak's Realm]
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Wireless LANS: Phooey to 3G. Wireless local area network providers pose a competitive threat to 3G operators. Also: Afghans will get cell phone service.... Sprint PCS to sell wireless postcards.... and more, in this week's Unwired News. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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MS takes a tilt at mid-market CRM. A foot in the door [The Register]
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DoCoMo 3G to hit 60% coverage in April. DoCoMoGoGo [The Register]
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Caspian bags $120 million in funding. The telecom equipment maker announces that it has raised $120 million in its fourth round of funding, bringing the company's total financing to $262 million. [CNET News.com]
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Microsoft lays out Win CE.Net road map [IDG InfoWorld]
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Vendor Updates Microbrowser, Server. Supports real-time access to data [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Metrowerks Promises ARM Support. To support Dragonball, Intel, TI [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Home Networks Pace WLAN Growth. Unit sales up sharply, revenues down [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Research: Operators Repeating 2G Mistakes. Says 2.5G, 3G offerings not yet attractive [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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