For TiVo and Replay, New Reach. Why hasn't the digital video recorder become the must-have, smash-hit, world-changing appliance of the digital age? By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
5:57:12 PM    

Home Schooling in Cyberspace. Some parents seeking home schooling are enrolling their children in schools that exist only in cyberspace. By Bonnie Rothman Morris. [New York Times: Technology]
5:56:13 PM    

If You Behave Yourself, I'll Print You a Toy. Three-dimensional printers use a computer-controlled stream of a chemical or laser light to bind a powdery material, layer by layer, into an object. By Peter Wayner. [New York Times: Technology]
5:55:32 PM    

How to plan a systems migration. In the third and final part of "How to plan a systems migration," Spirian Vice President Scot Steele takes us through the steps necessary to bring such a project to completion. [Computerworld News]
5:54:05 PM    

Do any of you really believe this will come to be?  Online communities get real. Weblogs, e-mail and instant messaging allow people to build close ties through a virtual world, say researchers. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

5:53:24 PM    

The falling dollar and the Tech sector. Pressure on [The Register]
5:51:44 PM    

Behind the Six Degrees of SARS. Researchers are creating mathematical models based upon the 'six degrees of separation' idea to understand how social interaction contributes to the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]
5:50:52 PM    

Reading IT's mind. Tech industry watcher Jon Oltsik speaks with four IT managers whose take on technology reflects a very different reality from the one commonly bandied about as conventional wisdom. [CNET News.com]
5:49:42 PM    

Make way for the contender to Google's crown. Turbo10 really is that good [The Register]
5:48:24 PM    

Bernard Wong, Grzegorz Czajkowski, Laurent Daynes: Dynamically Loaded Classes as Shared Libraries: an Approach to Improving Virtual machine Scalability. I'm glad to see Sun putting some thought into a shared library approach instead of the (IMO) flawed shared VM concept. The authors of this paper are remiss in not mentioning JEFF, though. (In fact, I have a suspicion that Sun goes out of its way not to mention JEFF anywhere, ever.) [Hack the Planet]
5:47:53 PM    

The Register: Sony-Ericsson P800 smartphone review. [Hack the Planet]
5:47:02 PM    

Essay: What makes a weblog a weblog? In progress. [Scripting News]
5:46:35 PM    

AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software. A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly release file-sharing software, AOL pulls the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site. [CNET News.com]
5:45:58 PM    

News.Com: Nullsoft unveils file-sharing software. Called Waste, the software became available on Nullsoft's Web site on Wednesday, just days shy of the four-year anniversary of being acquired by AOL. Waste is a software application that combines peer-to-peer file sharing with instant messaging, chat and file searches. [Tomalak's Realm]
5:45:37 PM    

Special Visa's Use for Tech Workers Is Challenged. American technology workers say their jobs are increasingly going to foreign workers who enter the United States under a little-known visa. By Katie Hafner and Daniel Preysman. [New York Times: Technology]
5:44:47 PM    

Telcos Agree to Lay Fat Pipes. The three biggest U.S. regional phone companies announce standards to construct residential fiber-optic networks. Verizon, SBC and BellSouth have agreed on technical details for how all the parts will be connected, from switching centers to customers' homes. [Wired News]
5:44:10 PM    

Hackers Put 'Bane' in Shadowbane. When a group of hackers force their way into the virtual world of Shadowbane, a popular online game, there's nowhere to run from the destruction. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
5:42:30 PM    

Study: IBM and EDS lead Web hosting market. Meta Group says as the Web-hosting market evolves, large vendors will increasingly dominate. [Computerworld News]
5:41:54 PM    

Ebookers upbeat on bookings. The pan-European online travel agency says bookings are rising despite the impact of Sars and the war in Iraq. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
5:41:06 PM    

BB in Europe 'finally taking off'. Yeah, but does anyone know how to land? [The Register]
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