Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, February 5, 2003

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Nokia bets on game phone: "The company will step into unfamiliar territory, playing the underdog as it unveils a cell phone that doubles as a handheld gaming device, a market dominated by Japan's Nintendo." [CNET News.com Personal Technology]


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Nokia engages with mobile gaming: "Handset giant Nokia is launching a mobile phone that is also a handheld game-playing gadget." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]


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Linux on the iPod: "A new SourceForge project has gotten Linux running on Apple's iPod..." [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-Minute Apple Mac News]


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The Net Is Dangerous, Research Says: "Attacks on company networks decreased over the past six months, but the number of reported software vulnerabilities exploded during that time, creating the possibility of more serious Internet-borne mischief in the future, Symantec says." [Google Technology News]


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Beware: "Mark Frauenfelder almost fell for an identity theft scam. Read and take extra care if you ever encounter a similar thing." [Boing Boing Blog] [The Aardvark Speaks]


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Tiny Whiskers Make Huge Memory Storage: "New, tiny magnetic sensors could help break a technical barrier to ushering in the next generation of computer disk storage capacity, researchers reported. The new sensors, filaments of nickel thinner than a wavelength of visible light, are capable of detecting extremely weak magnetic fields." [osOpinion]