Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, October 6, 2003

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Computing net promises vast power: "A global network of supercomputers promises to revolutionise not just the way we use the internet, but computing itself." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]


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SGI compares Linux, Unix source code: "An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by The SCO Group." [InfoWorld: Top News]


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High-Tech Surveillance's First Target: Suffragettes: "Photos uncovered by the National Archives show how the police spied on the suffragettes. These covert images - perhaps the UK's first spy pictures - have gone on display to mark the centenary of the votes-for-women movement." [Privacy Digest]


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A million of P800s sold: "According to The Register SonyEricsson sold a million of its P800 smartphone. And P900 will ship on October 26." [Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog]


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Don't talk about Google: "Have you noticed that Google is acting more and more like a stupid marketing/advertising company lately? It's one of the side effects of not really being a search engine company and seems to fly in the face of Sergey Brin's Google rule #1: "Don't be evil". According to this post on Russell Beattie's site, Google recently changed their Terms and Conditions to prohibit criticism of their AdSense "service" terms [...]" [kottke.org]