Monday, February 2, 2004

A Lure to Leap Time Zones. As foreign phone carriers eye the U.S. market, questions are arising about the potential for profit. By Matt Richtel and Andrew Ross Sorkin. [New York Times: Technology]
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Washington Post: Flexible Display Screens Readied for Production. But a more modest rollable display -- the first to be truly mass-produced -- is now being churned out at the rate of 100 per week and may reach production levels of 1 million a year by the end of next year, said Bas J.E. van Rens, general manager of Polymer Vision, the division of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands that makes the display. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Phones, Too, Get TV Time. Camera-cellphone users are no longer limited to still pictures. New Sprint phones can take and send video. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
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Verizon Wireless Outpaces Rivals in New Subscribers. Verizon Wireless outpaced its rivals in adding new subscribers in the fourth quarter as new rules allowed consumers to keep their phone numbers when switching carriers. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]
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Industry group launches wireless DRM initiative. Industry group, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) on Monday launched its newest Digital Rights Management (DRM) system for protecting digital music, video, and software from illegal file sharing over mobile devices. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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IBM's Grady Booch on solving complexity - Infoworld Staff. With IBM's acquisition of Rational Software, Grady Booch -- one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language and a thought leader in the area of architectural software -- has become the proverbial kid in the candy store. In his role as an IBM Fellow, Booch will help invent IBM's software future. He believes IBM's large cash reserves and a close working relationship with the high-voltage brain power of IBM Research will significantly quicken to market a range of technical innovations in the area of tooling.

[InfoWorld: Top News]
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Old people need computers too. None of us is getting any younger [The Register]
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