What an e-tailer learned from Dell. FreshDirect has a made-to-order philosophy that eliminates the middleman and creates a more efficient supply chain. Heard that line before? This time it may actually work. [CNET News.com]
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

March 2003, vol. 93, no. 3.

Technology, p. 46: Database Dynamics by James L. Sipes, ASLA

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Police raids following Texas University ID cyber-heist. 55,200 swiped social security numbers prompt tough action [The Register]
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NEC, Hitachi prep notebook fuel cells. Does your laptop run on unleaded? [The Register]
10:28:07 AM    

Don't mess with 802.11g, researcher warns. Wait for certification - Gartner [The Register]
10:27:45 AM    

Drp yr WMDs now plse! - debunking Iraqi text psyops. No carrier [The Register]
10:26:55 AM    

InfoWorld: Take the mesh-networking route. Just watch out for the capacity limits. [Hack the Planet]
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Week ahead: It's CeBit time. Tech heads will get their fill of new products and services this week as CeBit, the world's largest trade show, rolls into Hannover, Germany. [CNET News.com]
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Wind River to power wind farm. Embedded software provider Wind River Systems, announces that its operating system will control a new fleet of Danish wind-powered electricity generators. [CNET News.com]
10:23:07 AM    

RealNetworks ups baseball Webcast fee. The company will charge up to one-third more for people to listen to Net broadcasts of Major League Baseball games, a sign of growing confidence in making money from subscriptions. [CNET News.com]
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MIT Technology Review: Untapped Networks. Q&A with Duncan Watts, Columbia University sociologist. Theories of networks have been around for a long time, so the science itself really isn't new. What is new is the synthesis of ideas from a variety of disciplines: math, computer science, sociology, biology. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Future PDAs: Savvier Tour Guides?. Hewlett-Packard introduces a concept technology that outfits a handheld computer with wireless access, GPS and a bar-code scanner. The result is a device that knows where you are -- and where you want to go. Elisa Batista reports from Palo Alto, California. [Wired News]
10:15:53 AM    

Joi Ito raves about NoteTaker for Mac OS X. [Scripting News]
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Worlds of Ends is a Cluetrainish manifesto by Searls and Weinberger. Of course what they write is right. The Internet is not complex and it resists being made complex. [Scripting News]
10:12:45 AM    

David Maizenberg: If Bork Had Blogged. [Scripting News]
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Filtering the garden of good and evil [InfoWorld: Top News]
10:08:22 AM    

Harnessing Atoms to Create Superfast Computers. George Johnson's book makes the arcane topic of quantum computing accessible and understandable. By Ian Foster. [New York Times: Technology]
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Silicon offers double the battery life, lab says. The change could be useful for extending battery life in mobile devices such as laptop computers, PDAs and cell phones. [Computerworld News]
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States rush to pass laws to fight spam. By the end of this year, all 50 states may have adopted antispam laws, and demand for a national, uniform law to regulate unsolicited e-mail is growing among industry groups. [Computerworld News]
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Canadian credit union goes wireless to replicate data. Steinbach Credit Union, which is based in Manitoba, has begun using a wireless IP network to replicate information between two data centers for disaster recovery purposes. [Computerworld News]
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