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Thursday, June 5, 2003
Virgin Mobile Begins a Campaign. The company hopes to make itself the premier wireless company for young people. [New York Times: Technology]
7:33:01 PM
Communications Central in a Small, Colorful Package. Danger now comes in 65,536 colors - that is, the new T-Mobile Sidekick from Danger Inc. The Sidekick, a wireless communicator for telephone, e-mail, Web browsing and instant messaging tasks, first appeared last year with a monochrome screen but has upgraded to a 240-by-160-pixel color display. That is not the only improvement: the new Sidekick packs twice as much of everything under the hood. It now has 32 megabytes of memory and can hold 2,000 contacts and 50 text notes. By J.d. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology]
7:32:16 PM
Ballmer targets Linux in annual memo. The memo covered several issues, from innovation and product development to people and productivity, but it clearly labeled Linux and open-source software as a threat to the company. [Computerworld News]
7:31:16 PM
BBC News: Virtual future for ancient relics. Copying this many objects using traditional resin moulds would take several years. But using the new laser scanner, the production time would be cut to weeks. A Scottish company called Kestrel 3D has been given two tablets to create samples. [Tomalak's Realm]
7:30:34 PM
Let's all move to India (China, Vietnam, Eastern Europe etc.). Offshore IT services [The Register]
7:29:47 PM
Apple design guru honoured. Jonathan Ive is named UK Designer of the Year for his groundbreaking work for Apple computers. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:29:07 PM
Is this about inventories of plants or paving materials or street furnishings? Wal-Mart to throw its weight behind RFID. Executives from the retail giant will push for the adoption of RFID technology throughout the retail industry in a presentation at an upcoming conference. [CNET News.com]
7:28:08 PM
IBM eyes smaller businesses with database. DB2 UDB Express ships [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:25:23 PM
IBM to boost grid capabilities. Oracle also eyes enhancements [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:24:59 PM
7:33:01 PM
Communications Central in a Small, Colorful Package. Danger now comes in 65,536 colors - that is, the new T-Mobile Sidekick from Danger Inc. The Sidekick, a wireless communicator for telephone, e-mail, Web browsing and instant messaging tasks, first appeared last year with a monochrome screen but has upgraded to a 240-by-160-pixel color display. That is not the only improvement: the new Sidekick packs twice as much of everything under the hood. It now has 32 megabytes of memory and can hold 2,000 contacts and 50 text notes. By J.d. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology]
7:32:16 PM
Ballmer targets Linux in annual memo. The memo covered several issues, from innovation and product development to people and productivity, but it clearly labeled Linux and open-source software as a threat to the company. [Computerworld News]
7:31:16 PM
BBC News: Virtual future for ancient relics. Copying this many objects using traditional resin moulds would take several years. But using the new laser scanner, the production time would be cut to weeks. A Scottish company called Kestrel 3D has been given two tablets to create samples. [Tomalak's Realm]
7:30:34 PM
Let's all move to India (China, Vietnam, Eastern Europe etc.). Offshore IT services [The Register]
7:29:47 PM
Apple design guru honoured. Jonathan Ive is named UK Designer of the Year for his groundbreaking work for Apple computers. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:29:07 PM
Is this about inventories of plants or paving materials or street furnishings? Wal-Mart to throw its weight behind RFID. Executives from the retail giant will push for the adoption of RFID technology throughout the retail industry in a presentation at an upcoming conference. [CNET News.com]
7:28:08 PM
IBM eyes smaller businesses with database. DB2 UDB Express ships [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:25:23 PM
IBM to boost grid capabilities. Oracle also eyes enhancements [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:24:59 PM
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