Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Besieged by "Friends". In AMC's "Hollywood in the Muslim World," we find a populace struggling to maintain its identity against the creeping invasion of American entertainment. [Salon.com] 11:18:45 AM

Teaching Computers to Work in Unison. A look at what many computer scientists regard as the next big evolutionary step in the development of the Internet, known as grid computing. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology] 11:18:32 AM

Softbank Gambles Big on Fat Pipes. Masayoshi Son, Softbank's founder, lost $75 billion in the dot-com crash. Now he's spending almost $2 billion to build a giant ethernet network, wagering that he can lure subscribers with superfast, supercheap DSL. By Brendan I. Koerner of Wired magazine. [Wired News] 11:15:32 AM