Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, March 24, 2004

[Item Permalink] Media training -- Comment()
I'll attend tomorrow a media training course in the MTV building in Helsinki (MTV is a Finnish commercial tv company). There will be lectures, discussions, and practise sessions which will be recorded for later review on video.


[Item Permalink] Can EU control Microsoft? -- Comment()
My new net column on the EU vs. Microsoft fight appeared today (in Finnish, Saako EU Microsoftin kuriin?). My guess is that it will be extremely difficult for EU to control Microsoft. At least we know that USA couldn't.


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Richard Clarke's new book on counter-terrorism has sales rank number 1 at Amazon: Inside the White House's War on Terror--What Really Happened. Here is an exerpt from a review: "What Clark describes as being tantamount to treason is the fashion in which President Bush has politicized the situation for short-term political benefit without taking serious and meaningful action to actually meaningfully combat the set of threats themselves."


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Apple Introduces Bio Sciences Cluster: "Apple has also introduced the Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics, a turnkey, high-performance computing cluster that allows any scientist to configure, operate and maintain the system. The workgroup cluster solution offers outstanding price-performance with unrivaled ease of setup and includes iNquiry, a 3rd-party bioinformatics package from The BioTeam that provides 200 ready-to-use bioinformatics applications optimized for Apple's industry-leading Xserve G5."