Sunday, September 12, 2004

Much ado about Bard's texts online - Will Sturgeon, CNET News.com. William Shakespeare, the Warwickshire wordsmith, was paid a posthumous compliment this week, when the British Library made available 21 of his works on the Internet. High-resolution images of 21 original texts, in 93 different versions, are available [Online Learning Update] 10:44:10 PM      Google It!.

Cringely's P2P Backup Idea [Slashdot:] 10:40:51 PM      Google It!.

P2P Web searches [Slashdot:] 10:34:44 PM      Google It!.

Speech Code From I.B.M. to Become Open Source. I.B.M. plans to announce that it will contribute some of its speech-recognition software to two open-source software groups. By By STEVE LOHR. [The New York Times > Technology] 10:33:13 PM      Google It!.

IBM Rolls Out New Linux Server Using Power5 Chip. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp IBM.N on Sunday announced a new computer server using its Power5 microprocessor tuned for the popular Linux operating system, as the No. 1 computer maker aims to broaden the adoption of Linux in broader corporate computing markets. [Reuters: Technology] 10:31:49 PM      Google It!.