Friday, August 1, 2003

The Economist: Light on the horizon. The first commercial holographic memory should be on the market next year, and more are expected to follow. When that happens, there may be a ballooning of computer storage capacity that will make existing disks look like leaflets compared with the Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Tomalak's Realm] 11:39:04 AM

News.Com: End of the road for SMTP? In other words, SMTP trusts too much--and that has spam foes, security mavens and even an original architect of today's e-mail system agitating for an overhaul, if not an outright replacement, of the omnipresent protocol. [Tomalak's Realm] 11:38:52 AM

Guess what? Microsoft won. CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the "end of Microsoft as we know it" crowd must face the post-antitrust reality that the software giant is more confident and stronger than ever. [CNET News.com] 7:49:37 AM

End of the road for SMTP?. The pioneering e-mail protocol is under intense scrutiny by its critics, one of its originators and standards bodies trying to rescue the Internet from overdosing on spam. [CNET News.com] 7:49:23 AM