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Wednesday, May 31, 2000
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posted 11:55:09 AM
Portland 96, LA Lakers 88
posted 10:20:22 AM
Tech-Savvy Gov.: Bush's Mate?
In February, Ridge announced a plan to turn the state's website into a controversial mega-portal called PA PowerPort, which Microsoft has agreed to build at no cost.
The site includes business-to-business e-commerce, secure online bill paying, news feeds, free email accounts (using Microsoft's Hotmail), and online yellow pages, all co-developed with Microsoft.
The portal deal continues Pennsylvania's growing relationship with Microsoft, which started in 1998, when the state announced it would standardize at least 40,000 state agency personal computers to use only Microsoft software for primary desktop functions such as word processing and email.
posted 10:18:09 AM
Tuesday, May 30, 2000
Pacific Bell, Excite@Home pawns in domain hijack
Web surfers going to www.pacificbell.com would expect to find information about the products and services offered by the local phone company that operates primarily on the West Coast. Instead, potential Pacific Bell customers are greeted with a fully operational Web page for Excite@Home, which markets high-speed Net access over cable TV systems.
posted 2:27:58 PM
Silicon name game spreads across the U.S. map
William Shakespeare wrote that a "rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but many communities believe the sweet smell of success is tied to high-tech-sounding names like "Automation Alley," "The Digital Coast" and "e-country."
posted 11:33:26 AM
Friday, May 26, 2000
Across the United States, Internet-Ready Houses Are Finding a Home
To woo the wired generation, conduits for fiber optic lines are laid down next to cable lines at a development in the Leesburg, Va., area.
posted 11:55:26 AM
Thursday, May 25, 2000
Planning A Family Vacation
Summer is just around the corner, and that means one thing: family vacations. Here are some tips to make your brood's next trip a success:
posted 1:02:03 PM
Wednesday, May 24, 2000
AOL's Moviefone.com drops online ticketing fees
In addition, consumers who use personal digital assistants, such as a Palm Pilot, to buy tickets will have the $1.00 to $1.50 fee waived.
But those who use the Moviefone call-in service, such as 777-FILM, will still have to pay the fee, the company said.
posted 5:39:41 PM
Restaurateurs flip over robotic cook
one robot can do 500 hamburgers or 300 orders of french fries in an hour.
posted 9:49:25 AM
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Bubble babies
Ramana Bodepudi, CEO of eDaycare, came by the other day to pitch me on his B2B play to wire day care centers. Right now his mission is to serve day care centers by making it easier for them to communicate with parents, and to handle some of the back-office work like supply requisition and employee management. Soon to come: the capability to monitor your kid over the Web. And after that: two-way toddlervision.
posted 9:19:39 AM
a-matter
"a global online medium for contemporary international
architecture."
posted 9:08:57 AM
Monday, May 22, 2000
Arkansas disciplinary panel recommends Clinton disbarment
President Bill Clinton should be disbarred because of "serious misconduct" in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, a committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court recommended late Monday afternoon.
posted 5:17:49 PM
Microsoft files unexpected motion
In an unexpected court filing Monday, Microsoft Corp. once again asked the federal judge overseeing the antitrust case to reject the government's proposal to break up the company.
In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) says the government admitted in a January 1995 court proceeding that a breakup of the company would be dangerous to the economy's welfare and against the public interest.
Five years ago, various private-sector witnesses filed a memorandum with U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin saying that the court should require Microsoft to divest its applications businesses to create a "Chinese Wall" between the company's applications and operating system personnel. In response, attorneys for the government said that, "the law would not permit the sweeping remedies" that those witnesses suggested and that "remedies such as dismembering Microsoft" would "act against the public interest."
posted 2:48:27 PM
Friday, May 19, 2000
Bryant says he's engaged to marry
Bryant confirmed his plans after practice, but refused to identify his future bride.
He did say, however, she's not an athlete or actress.
"She's my movie star, she's my star," Bryant, 21, said. "She gives me balance, in the past, I've been pretty much all basketball."
posted 6:17:20 PM
Call Your Friend, Hear a Pitch
You live in the United States and need to make a long-distance call.
You punch in the number. Instead of hearing rings, you receive a 21-second pitch on your phone company's latest sweepstakes contest.Sound annoying? AT&T has been airing similar promotions for nearly five years because, a company official says, "people find them helpful."
posted 11:19:36 AM
New virus not spreading as fast as "Love"
A new virus on the loose could make the "Love" bug pale by comparison but so far has not spread nearly as widely or as quickly.
Antivirus firms are closely monitoring the new outbreak this morning and say so far only a handful of instances have been reported to them. But they caution that the virus has the potential to spread rapidly and cause even more damage than its recent predecessor.
posted 10:06:36 AM
Thursday, May 18, 2000
Napster claims another victim : Kid Rock Starves To Death
MP3 piracy of copyrighted music claimed another victim Monday, when the emaciated body of rock-rap superstar Kid Rock was found on the median of La Cienega Boulevard.
posted 1:55:42 PM
Babes Dominate, Virtually
Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather all occupy the top spots in broadcast journalism. So why is Ananova, the first virtual newscaster, a woman?
"Research in general pointed us in the direction of the female," said Ananova's creative director Mark Spanton. "Both sexes respond to instruction and information better from a woman."
posted 11:51:40 AM
Could Victoria's Secret's Web fashion show paralyze the Internet?
When the lingerie retailer hosted its first Web fashion show last year, it set a record for a Webcast audience, as about 1.5 million logged on. So many tried to access the show at once, in fact, that download times slowed to a crawl, and in some cases, the show was completely unavailable. And last year's show was broadcast in the evening; imagine what might happen when an estimated 3 million people try to see this year's show, scheduled for 3 p.m. ET.
posted 11:19:09 AM
Wednesday, May 17, 2000
MP3 player "sale" exposes Amazon's flexible prices
Customers are upset that Amazon.com has been offering random discounts on a popular MP3 player, revealing a little-known marketing practice that is gaining popularity among e-tailers.
Known as "dynamic pricing," the practice was revealed recently when customers comparing prices on a bargain hunter message board discovered that Amazon was randomly offering the Diamond Rio MP3 player for up to $51 less than the usual $233.95 price.
posted 10:36:43 PM
Tuesday, May 16, 2000
X.com CEO Gets the Boot
A source says Bill Harris was asked to resign because of 'personality conflicts at the top.'
posted 11:39:34 PM
Monday, May 15, 2000
Sony's handheld plans start to take shape
This fall, Sony will introduce a sub-$200 PDA with color display, limited wireless Internet access, multimedia capabilities and add-on storage capabilities through its Memory Stick technology, sources say. At the same time, the company will likely announce another, lower-end device with more limited capabilities.
The family of products eventually will range from an inexpensive messaging device to a high-end voice-centric product with smart cell phone capabilities, sources say, which can easily be adapted to a range of operating systems, including Palm and the Epoc OS from the Symbian group.
This first device, which will look like a typical PDA, will most likely include the limited wireless messaging capabilities of the Palm VII.
posted 2:41:57 PM
Friday, May 12, 2000
Slashdot | Cisco's IP Phones - Seven Digits And Cat5
IDEO, a small close-knit development firm (they are responsible for products such as the Visor, Transmeta Webslate, and a variety of other cool things) has developed Cisco's new IP Phone. This device (which looks like a normal phone) plugs directly into a 10-baseT connection and has a phone # associated with it. When you plug the phone in somewhere else it takes the # with it. I'm planning on getting some eval units to try out. Should the PBX guys start reading up on TCP/IP? :)" Doesn't look like these things are available just now, but the concept is long, long overdue. Bypass the phone company -- in fact, just ignore the phone company.
posted 10:44:34 PM
Blazers turn back Jazz for 3-0 lead
posted 10:51:30 AM
Webby Awards: The Winners
posted 10:32:03 AM
Thursday, May 11, 2000
Sony sets date for PlayStation2 debut
Sony said today that its PlayStation2 will hit U.S. stores Oct. 26 with a suggested price tag of $299.
posted 8:39:07 PM
IE hole exposes Web surfers' private data
"The vulnerability could allow a malicious Web site to read, change or delete cookies that belong to another Web site," Microsoft said in a statement. "We expect to deliver the patch shortly. A security bulletin will be published...to discuss the issue and advise customers how to obtain and apply the patch."
posted 4:04:25 PM
Portrait Of The Blogger As A Young Man
A Web log really, then, is a Wunderkammer. That is to say, the genealogy of Web logs points not to the world of letters but to the early history of museums -- to the "cabinet of wonders," or Wunderkammer, that marked the scientific landscape of Renaissance modernity: a random collection of strange, compelling objects, typically compiled and owned by a learned, well-off gentleman. A set of ostrich feathers, a few rare shells, a South Pacific coral carving, a mummified mermaid -- the Wunderkammer mingled fact and legend promiscuously, reflecting European civilization’s dazed and wondering attempts to assimilate the glut of physical data that science and exploration were then unleashing.
Just so, the Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world.
posted 10:45:42 AM
Bryant's clutch jumper gives L.A. 2-0 series edge
"Nobody was really happy with the effort that we put forth tonight," O'Neal said. "But Kobe hit a fabulous shot, and we got lucky."
posted 9:31:21 AM
Tuesday, May 09, 2000
Hayden Christensen (Who?) Does Darth
posted 1:25:35 PM
Billy Bob Thornton, Angelina Jolie wed in Las Vegas
Oscar winners Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie were married here in a no-frills, quickie ceremony.
The actors married about 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Little Church of the West on the Las Vegas Strip, chapel owner Greg Smith said Saturday. The bride and groom both wore jeans for the 20-minute ceremony, he said.
The Clark County Marriage License Bureau confirmed Saturday that Thornton, 44, and Jolie, 24, received a marriage license Friday.
This is the fifth marriage for Thornton and the second for Jolie.
posted 1:18:55 PM
Yahoo, others move to diffuse email password-stealing threat
The exploit, demonstrated and described by security enthusiast Bennett Haselton, head of anti-filtering organization Peacefire.org, is the latest in a string of password-thieving schemes set up by bug hunters to demonstrate the hazards of HTML messages that can mimic the legitimate password-collection mechanisms of Web-based email sites.
Microsoft's Hotmail, with more than 50 million accounts, has grappled with the problem numerous times, most recently last month.
Because it is presumed to be the Web's largest provider of free email, Hotmail gets pounded the hardest by bug hunters. But thanks to measures implemented in the past to secure the Hotmail service against similar exploits, this latest scheme is ineffective against Hotmail and Mail.com, which licenses its service to Snap.com and other portals.
posted 12:56:00 PM
Monday, May 08, 2000
Philippine Couple Key 'Love Bug' Suspects; Man Held
A young Philippine couple, both bank workers, were named Monday as the main suspects in the creation of the devastating "Love Bug" computer virus and the man was arrested after a search of their dilapidated Manila flat.
Irene de Guzman, the man's 23-year-old girlfriend, will present herself to authorities later Monday or Tuesday, Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) chief Federico Opinion told reporters.
posted 11:21:41 AM
Friday, May 05, 2000
Apache site defaced in "embarrassing" hacker attack
A group of intruders broke into the server by exploiting a series of weaknesses, said Rasmus Lerdorf, a member of the Apache Software Foundation board of directors and a programmer at Linuxcare. The intruders limited themselves to inserting the Microsoft advertisement at the bottom of the page, though they could have done much worse damage because they had gained complete control over the computer, he said.
posted 1:37:07 PM
TV Guide Online - [In The News]
OLDMAN CAST AS HANNIBAL VICTIM: Gary Oldman is the latest Hollywood heavyweight to join the cast of Hannibal, the long-awaited sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. Variety reports that the actor will play one of Hannibal Lecter's victims determined to exact revenge. Meanwhile, Ray Liotta has signed on as a senior FBI agent. Yum!
posted 11:08:23 AM
Miller lifts Indiana in Game 5 thriller
Reggie Miller scored 41 points, including 18 in the fourth quarter, and Travis
Best hit the biggest shot of the game, a 3-pointer with 16 seconds left, as the
Indiana Pacers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 96-95 Thursday night in Game 5 of their
first-round series.
posted 10:43:21 AM
Thursday, May 04, 2000
Scientists: No doomsday in store when planets align Friday
An unusual alignment this week of eight major bodies in the solar system, including Earth, is no cause for panic, NASA scientists said.
Our planet will join the moon, sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in an approximate line for several days beginning Wednesday. The grouping will come closest to forming a straight line on Friday at 4:08 a.m. EDT.
Some prophets of doom expect the worst: cataclysmic floods, earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanic eruptions triggered by gravitational forces from Earth's neighbors.
A few apocalyptic numerologists even link the event to the "powerful astrological pattern" of 5/5/2000 or the biblical beast sign of 666.
posted 4:59:24 PM
Vindigo
Vindigo is a personal navigation tool. Tell it where you are or where you're going and it can find the nearest and best places to eat, shop, and play.
Vindigo knows about every great restaurant in New York City, every bar, club, and pool hall, and every movie playing.
posted 3:00:33 PM
'Love' Worm Spreading Fast
A new, virulent worm known as the "Love Bug" is infesting computer networks throughout the world and has shut down major email servers, including the Pentagon's.
Experts say it might exceed the infamous Melissa worm in both speed and destructiveness.
The virus, spread through an email visual basic script attachment with the subject header "ILOVEYOU," began invading U.S. networks overnight Thursday after being first detected in Europe.
posted 10:45:06 AM
Wednesday, May 03, 2000
DSL Provider Backs Off on Ads
Pacific Bell spokesman John Britton said the company will modify its ads to clarify that the connection to the Internet is only dedicated from a user's home to a central server. From there, the connection will be shared.
posted 4:04:33 PM
Tuesday, May 02, 2000
Your Eyes Are Windows to MS
Future Windows users will, in theory, log on to their computers and verify e-commerce transactions with a swipe of the finger, the blink of an eye, or a word or two of the inimitable voice. No more pesky passwords, and better security, Microsoft said.
posted 1:52:41 PM
New Express Tellers A Misnomer?
Wells Fargo Bank is "enhancing" your ATM experience with ... advertising!
Wells Fargo unveiled four ATM machines in California on Tuesday that will not only dispense money but provide commercials, news from MSNBC.com, and movie trailers, too.
posted 1:50:41 PM
Excite@Home asks Pac Bell to can DSL ads
Excite@Home is threatening to sue Pacific Bell over TV advertisements that depict people who use high-speed cable modems to access the Internet as "Web hogs."
these commericals are really funny
posted 12:14:03 PM
Monday, May 01, 2000
Handspring beats Palm during first week in stores
For the week of April 15, Handspring had the top-selling personal digital assistant (PDA), with its Visor Deluxe model claiming 26.8 percent of the retail market for PDAs, according PC Data, a Virginia-based market research firm. The Palm IIIe came in second, with 14.6 percent, followed by the Palm IIIxe, with 14.1 percent. The Palm Vx was next, with 10.9 percent, and the entry-level Visor followed, with 10.7 percent of the market.
posted 12:53:53 PM
