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 Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Of what value might be your small wired office?  Meet the 40 Most Wired Companies. These masters of innovation, technology and strategic vision are reshaping the global economy. By Kevin Kelleher from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
6:00:47 PM    

Unix's courtroom adventures continue. As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself. [CNET News.com]
6:00:07 PM    

ADV: Read this news in Outlook with NewsGator. NewsGator is a news aggregator that runs in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to subscribe to various syndicated news feeds (such as weblogs, news sites, etc.) and have news from these sites be delivered right into your Outlook folders. There are thousands of sites that syndicate their content - and more are added every day. [InfoWorld: Top News]
5:59:26 PM    

EE Times: U.S. high-speed access nears 20 million subscribers. High-speed Internet access connecting U.S. homes and businesses increased 23 percent during the second half of 2002, according to government figures released Tuesday. The Federal Communications Commission said there were 19.9 million high-speed lines as of the end of 2002. [Tomalak's Realm]
5:58:42 PM    

A Passion to Build a Better Robot, One With Social Skills and a Smile. Dr. Cynthia L. Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous because her robots seem to have emotional as well as physical reactions. By Claudia Dreifus. [New York Times: Technology]
5:58:02 PM    

Glass That Glows and Gives Stock Information. Ambient Devices, a start-up in Cambridge, Mass., is producing devices that display limited information that can be understood with a glance. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Technology]
5:57:05 PM    

Paul Boutin: Wi-Fi for Dummies. [Scripting News]
5:56:08 PM    

Is IM better than cell phones for small office communication?  Yahoo bolsters its enterprise IM offering. With the upgrade, Yahoo hopes to tap the growing use of corporate instant messaging and Web conferencing. [Computerworld News]
5:55:22 PM    

Cybercorps grads aim to boost federal IT security. The Cybercorps program offers up to two years of scholarship funding for students studying information security in return for a commitment to work an equal amount of time for the U.S. government. [Computerworld News]
5:53:12 PM    

New Sun workstation lurks in the channel. Jalepeno on your desktop [The Register]
5:52:24 PM    

Busy buyers dial a home. Mobile phone picture messages are being used by busy workers to view properties on the market. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
5:51:43 PM