AARP's New Hangout: KaZaA, Web's Mosh Pit. The computer literacy gap between children and their grandparents may be narrowing. In fact, older people now spend so much time online that the AARP, the association for middle-age and older adults, has begun advertising on KaZaA Media Desktop, software used by millions of teenagers and young adults to swap songs online. By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Technology]
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Commentary: Yahoo's challenge. To match Google's performance, Yahoo must modify its newly acquired Inktomi search engine to factor in editorial judgment. [CNET News.com]
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Apple ends Safari test program. The Mac maker is terminating a program that gave some developers access to the latest test versions of its Web browser, after the software appeared on the Internet. [CNET News.com]
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IT worker burnout gets critical. You're too busy to read this story [The Register]
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Sun adopts Write Once, Revise Anywhere license. Don't like it? Write your own [The Register]
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E-mail patterns map corporate structure. Figuring out a company's power and communication structure may be as simple as examining patterns of e-mail exchanges, according to new research by some Hewlett-Packard scientists. [CNET News.com]
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GNOME, KDE get their kicks from XFree86. Hans Blix diplomacy manual [The Register]
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Linux tip: Hunt the disk hog. This excerpt from Linux Server Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools offers an easy way to find applications that are using too much disk space. [Computerworld News]
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Five Asian carriers to operate regional Wi-Fi service. Five major Asian telecommunications carriers have joined forces to create a group called the Wireless Broadband Alliance which will integrate 8,600 Wi-Fi hotspots in five countries under a single service. [Computerworld News]
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U.K. may build broadband into new homes [CNET News.com]
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