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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Blogroll Outacontrol: "Dave Sifry says Technorati is adding up to 9,000 new weblogs a day, or one every 11 seconds." [Doc Searls Weblog]
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SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More: "Apparently attacking one Unix-like OS isn't enough. According to Darl McBride, SCO has plans to target BSD." [Slashdot]
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Shareware: "Snood was quite popular some years ago. Now, they rediscovered the OS X version on my brother's computer and play it – up to level 6 or so when it stops because it's not registered. My mum was quite upset about the game just stopping after a few levels. I told her she just has to register it to unlock the other levels. She went Huh?!or something. [...] I guess, I have an idea for a christmas present now. Although a serial number feels like a strange christmas present." [Quarter Life Crisis]
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Virus tries to con PayPal users: "Computer users are being warned about the latest virus which tries to fool customers into sending credit card details." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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Digital camera sales to near 53 million in 2004: "According to a study by the research group InfoTrends worldwide digital camera sales should reach nearly 53 million units sold in 2004. In addition to this digital camera sales are expected to continue to grow and a compound rate of 15% over the following four years reaching an incredible 82 million units sold in 2008. According to InfoTrends the market leaders in 2003 are expected to be Canon, Sony, Olympus, Fujifilm and Kodak with a combined market share of three quarters (75%)." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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PC Magazine Names Apple Power Mac G5 Winner In 2003 Awards For Technical Excellence: "In a dazzling display of disruptive technology and processor independence, Apple's top-of-the line G5 is the first dual[~]64-bit computer and the first desktop application of the IBM PowerPC 970 CPU. The vast majority of Macintosh apps run flawlessly on this brand-new platform." (MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Top-10 science articles -- Comment()
Check at Science Direct what are the top-10 current articles in the field you are interested in. Here are current top-3 articles in mathematics: Stable nonconforming quadrilateral finite elements for the Stokes problem. Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 115, Issue 2-3, 27 October 2000, Pages 101-112. Yongdeok Kim and Sungyun Lee.
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New worm scams PayPal punters: "If you run the program, a dialog box pops up requesting you to enter a range of information about your credit card. This includes your full credit card number, your PIN, the expiry date. The dialog includes a PayPal logo in a further attempt to appear legitimate [...] As well as attempting to filch financial information, Mimail-J sends itself to everybody whose email addresses appear on a user's hard disk." [The Register]
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SGI sheds light on supercomputer of the future: "Silicon Graphics (SGI) hopes to reinvent its large multiprocessor supercomputers as high-performance machines that can take advantage of a wide variety of processor architectures, the company said Monday at the Supercomputing 2003 conference in Phoenix." [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Smart phones fox frustrated users: "Mobile users are not getting enough help to get the most out of their smartphones which pack in multiple functions, a survey says." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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