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 Friday, April 11, 2003
After three years of Wi-Fi, hurdles remain. Although wireless networking holds out the promise of changing how people use computers and Internet, it's a promise not yet fulfilled. [Computerworld News]
10:18:44 PM    

Apple boosts Bluetooth - Bluetooth boosts Apple. P800, Series 60 support added in OS X rev [The Register]
10:17:53 PM    

To Live and Die in Los Angeles. Information leaks, bid-rigging, pumping and dumping. Just another day inside the secret online network that will make or break you in Hollywood. By Ben Mezrich from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
10:17:14 PM    

The end of tech history?. Against the backdrop of worries about the imminent demise of Moore's Law, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether Silicon Valley is really in for a big fall. [CNET News.com]
10:16:14 PM    

Wireless switching paves new application path. App vendors explore the uses of new smart phone technology [InfoWorld: Top News]
10:15:39 PM    

DaveNet: Shaking our faith in Google. [Scripting News]
10:14:47 PM    

Why we love the Iraqi information minister. Updated Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, come on down! [The Register]
10:13:51 PM    

Vibrating Nokia self-pleasure - yours for £1.50. Something for the weekend, Madam? [The Register]
10:13:22 PM    

Week in review: Windows cracks. Microsoft reveals some of its coveted Windows source code, but a backdoor leak at the software maker releases a different type of code that is sure to please pirates. [CNET News.com]
10:11:22 PM    

Jarrett House: "What the heck is Jobs thinking." [Scripting News]
10:10:05 PM    

BBC: "Apple Computer is in discussions to buy Universal Music, one of the world's leading record companies, according to press reports." Wow. [Scripting News]
10:09:35 PM    

Can open source win big business?. Getting Fortune 500 companies to adopt open source would be a lot easier if open-source advocates put their business hats on, say Sun Microsystems and MySQL executives. [CNET News.com]
10:08:41 PM    

Open-source team fights buffer overflows. The OpenBSD project hopes new changes to its latest release will eliminate a software issue that has been plaguing security experts for more than three decades. [CNET News.com]
10:07:39 PM    

The self-healing, self-hopping landmine. Welcome to Extreme Networking [The Register]
10:06:55 PM