20 December 2002
Scoble enumerates the signs your company is failing. [Scripting News]
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EU wants printer refills made easier to recycle. Group calls for printer makers to stop forcing customers to buy proprietary refills [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Sybase to buy AvantGo. Database company buys mobile device software maker [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Stop Press!! Playboy centerfolds are less curvaceous, according to British study! (Yep, bet those scientists burned the midnight oil researching this one...).
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Beware the Latest MP3 Worms. Newly found holes in Windows XP and the Winamp music program can allow a hacker to control your system, and one worm can be activated simply by letting a cursor hover over an MP3 icon.  [Wired News]
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Sharp's 3D monitors: Look, no glasses. The consumer electronics giant plans to sell next year notebooks and flat-screen LCD monitors that let people see three-dimensional images without the use of special glasses or software. [CNET News.com]
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Putting a Price on Cyber Love. The recent purchase of a small British matchmaking website for $150 million is just the latest indication of users' growing love affair with online dating. [Wired News]
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Some good news: Retreat by Nestle on Ethiopia's $6m debt. Humiliating climbdown over demand for a $6m (£3.7m) payment from Ethiopia. [Guardian Unlimited]
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FCC says broadband growth slowed in U.S.. Both ADSL and cable hit by weak economy [InfoWorld: Top News]
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White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet. The Bush administration wants Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable monitoring and, potentially, surveillance of its users. [New York Times: Technology]
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Scott Rosenberg: "As AOL pursues its patent on instant messaging, people all over the Net are assembling examples of "prior art" -- instant-messaging-like systems that long predated AOL's." [from Scripting News]
10:43:59 AM  #   your two cents []
From Boing Boing Blog: Invisible actors guessing game. FilmWise hosts competitions where readers attempt to name the actors and films associated with stills where all human flesh has been peeled away with the magic photoshop flensing blade. Link
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John J. Plomp. "You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers." [Quotes of the Day]
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Terrorists on the Net? Who Cares?. A former tech expert for the feds claims in a report that the threat that terrorist-hackers might 'bring the nation to its knees' is overblown. Still, the Chicken Littles keep clucking. [Wired News]
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Is there life on Mars?. "At 200 metres from the ground, airbags will inflate to cushion the craft as it smashes into a region of Mars known as Isidis Planitia. This is flattish terrain, marked by relatively recent volcanic eruptions. If it lands upside down, a hinge will flip it up the right way. If all is well, the orphan spaceship will send back an "I have arrived" call sign composed by the Britpop band Blur." [Guardian Unlimited]
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