Hardware
Computerworld, 12/27/02: Removable hard-disk system to be unveiled at CES
By Kuriko Miyake, IDG News Service
A consortium of companies developing a removable hard-disk system for consumer use called the Information Versatile Disk for Removable (iVDR) usage plans to unveil a prototype 1.8-in. drive with a serial ATA interface for the first time at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) next month, an iVDR consortium representative said this week.
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Tilting @ Windmills
The New York Times, 12/30/02: Glass Panes and Software: Windows Name Is Challenged
By STEVE LOHR
There is no question that Microsoft Windows, the name of the dominant personal computer operating system, is one of the leading brands in the world. Today, Windows is the face of computing for nearly 400 million people worldwide — the software that determines the look and basic operations of more than 90 percent of all PC's.
But success, money and monopoly, it seems, do not put even so familiar a name as Microsoft Windows beyond challenge. An upstart company, Lindows.com, is trying to persuade the Federal District Court in Seattle to invalidate Microsoft's trademark on Windows.
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Security
Wired, 12/30/02: So Many Holes, So Few Hacks
By Michelle Delio
Experts who discover and report security holes seem to be far more industrious than the malicious hackers willing or able to exploit those holes.
Despite the thousands of hackable holes that lurk in e-mail, on websites, in files and operating systems, most users' computers are never afflicted with more than the virtual version of a sniffle.
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Internet Culture
The New York Times, 12/29/02: Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
SOMETHING will be missing when Joseph Turow's book about families and the Internet is published by M.I.T. Press next spring: The capital I that usually begins the word "Internet."
Mr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, studies how people use online technology and how that affects their lives. He has begun a small crusade to de-capitalize Internet — and, by extension, to acknowledge a deep shift in the way that we think about the online world.
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Surfing the Zeitgeist
The New York Times, 12/30/02: Trends Worth Watching in Media and Technology
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
PREDICTING the future of business for the new year may be like peering into a crystal ball, trying to discern images amid a cloudy background.
But certainly there are some important competitors and trends in the information technology and media industries that will emerge from the haze in 2003.
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