Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Motorola Plans Wi-Fi Cell Phones [Slashdot] 11:55:28 PM      Google It!.

Xythos 'Intellittach'. In a recent column on how we use and abuse email, I mentioned the idea of passing attachments "by reference" rather than "by value." Unfortunately I overlooked a product recently reviewed by InfoWorld that does exactly that. The Xythos WebFile Server has a companion WebFile Client that hooks File Attach (in Notes and Outlook) and replaces attachments with secure links to an access-controlled and versioned instance of the document. Cool! ... [Jon's Radio] 8:06:09 PM      Google It!.

Google will index Extenza ejournals. Extenza announced today that Google will index all its ejournals. Quoting the press release: "Extenza, based in Abingdon, UK, provides conversion and hosting of journals for publishers as well as subscription and usage statistics management for libraries. Google is the foremost search engine on the web and has been expanding its reach into the academic and scholarly journal marketplace. 'Increasingly, users are turning to Google as the place to locate information in the academic marketplace. Extenza has recognized that enabling the indexing of content by Google, with the publishers' agreement, helps users find that important piece of data that they are seeking. For publishers, this drives utilization and traffic to their content, with potential benefits in revenue.' said Ruth Jones, General Manager of Extenza e-Publishing Services." [Open Access News] 8:04:45 PM      Google It!.

The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution [Slashdot] petabyte = million gigs 7:52:39 PM      Google It!.

MIT Aims for the Bottom Line. Media Lab launches an initiative to develop cutting-edge consumer technologies -- called CELab -- but the focus is really on paying the bills. Mark Baard reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Wired News] 9:23:01 AM      Google It!.

A Raft Of New Products From Sony Japan [Slashdot] 9:16:38 AM      Google It!.

Sony unveils colour 'iPod killer'. Reg Kit Watch Music and photos on the move By Tony Smith . [The Register] 9:09:41 AM      Google It!.

Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software [Slashdot] 9:06:31 AM      Google It!.

Boys Prefer Video Games to Toys, Study Says. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Boys would rather play a "G.I. Joe" video game than with "G.I. Joe" action figures, a new study finds. [Reuters: Technology] 9:04:33 AM      Google It!.

Sony PC/DVR Incorporates 7 Tuners & 1TB HD [Slashdot] 9:02:18 AM      Google It!.

Restoring public access to purged post-9/11 government info. A new study by the Rand Corporation concludes that the U.S. federal government took too much open-access information off government web sites after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Quoting an AP news story (May 10): "The Rand Corp. said the overwhelming majority of federal Web sites that reveal information about airports, power plants, military bases and other potential terrorist targets need not be censored because similar or better information is easily available elsewhere....Advocates of open government said the report shows the Bush administration acted rashly after the suicide attacks when it scrubbed numerous government Web sites. 'It was a gigantic mistake, and I hope the study brings some rationality back to this policy,' said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' project on government secrecy. 'Up to now, decisions have been made on a knee-jerk basis.'" (Thanks to Internet Law News.) [Open Access News] 8:59:26 AM      Google It!.