January 6, 2005
Working Women Inspired Toward "Life Simplication" in 2005: Turn Off The Phone...
Rugged Elegant Living: Baileys reported the results of a recent survey today regarding British working women. Their findings revealed that "information overload" is a major cause of stress in women's lives. In 2005, "Life Simplification" will be the key to...
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December 31, 2004
Internet Sites Allow Gift Card Exchanges
Yahoo! News: The gift card -- often viewed as the little, plastic solution for keeping friends and family out of the return lines -- doesn't always serve as the ideal present. Responding to consumers who don't want to buy themselves...
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June 24, 2004
Digital Impact: Television Advertising
Yahoo! News: With TiVo's fast-forward, viewers' shrinking attention spans and new media choices, the 30-second TV ad has more rivals for consumers' attention. That is pushing marketers' thinking increasingly outside the TV box for ways to make the costly but...
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June 23, 2004
BEDD: Social Networking Meets Bluetooth
Yahoo! News: Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan...
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May 14, 2004
Wireless Broadband: Craig McCaw's Secret Plan
BusinessWeek Online: Although McCaw won't say what he's up to, the deals have again made him the talk of telecom. The wireless broadband technology he's investing in has the potential to be one of the most disruptive forces in the...
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May 13, 2004
Perfecting Yourself Via Digital Photography
Perfect Pictures Students are smiling about a new trend. It's called "Digital Creation,"and it can make your picture perfect. Marc Lattin of Lattin Photography says, "keeping up with the changes in what's involved in technology and what the students and...
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May 11, 2004
Iraq, Digital Photography and The Internet
BBC NEWS: Last year's US-led war in Iraq presented a showcase for the Pentagon's superior military technology - but as the occupation drags on, gadgetry is increasingly showing another side of the American armed forces. Pictures taken by US troops...
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May 10, 2004
Broadband Over Powerlines?
DigitalJournal.com: The Federal Communications Commission is looking into complaints from amateur radio operators about the use of electrical power lines for providing broadband internet service, a concept known as BPL, for Broadband over Power Lines. Many power companies and some...
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DARPA's $2.8 Billion Quantum Computing Project
InformationWeek : At a late-January meeting in a Marriott off the Washington beltway in Falls Church, Va., the Defense Department's main technology-research arm floated a proposal as nearly 100 scientists listened. They'd come from Boeing, IBM, Lockheed Martin, and other...
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May 7, 2004
Australian Teleportation Breaktrhough
The Age (Australia): Superfast computers, unbreakable codes and completely secure communications are a step closer, with Australian scientists demonstrating how to teleport data to multiple receivers. This follows the major breakthrough two years ago when members of the Australian National...
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Iraqi Prisioners And The Impact of Digital Photography
My Way News: The explosive photos of abuse in an Iraqi prison drive home a defining fact of 21st century life - that the pervasiveness of digital photography and the speed of the Internet make it easier to see into...
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May 3, 2004
RFID and Wi-Fi Watch The Kids
Legoland, the Danish equivalent of Disneyland, is the test bed of a new Wi-Fi version of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags, the technology making converts everywhere from the halls of the U.S. Pentagon to the aisles of retail giant...
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April 30, 2004
Internet E-Commerce Poised To Remake Six Major Industries: Jewelry, Bill Payments, Telecom, Hotels, Real Estate & Software
Business Week Online: The Web is threatening to force down the prices charged by traditional players, squeeze their margins, and even put some out of business. New technology, new ways of doing business, and new approaches to cutting out the...
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April 25, 2004
Steve Jobs Turns Apple Towards iPod
The New York Times: Stroll the corridors and the atriums on Apple Computer's corporate campus these days and you will notice that something is missing. Gone are the posters and graphics accenting the company's sleek personal computers. In their place,...
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April 18, 2004
Better Living Through Hacking
Boston.com: Today, a growing hacker culture is not only reclaiming the original meaning of the term but also applying its can-do ethic far beyond computer code to embrace everything from home electronics to home improvements. Just as the first hackers...
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April 17, 2004
Christian Music's New Wave
The New York Times: Sales of praise and worship albums have doubled since 2000, to about 12 million in 2003. While music sales over all slumped last year, including Christian music in general, worship music was up 5 percent. A...
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April 16, 2004
Wireless Blooms Beyond Wi-Fi
BW Online: It's just one example of how the unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum is turning into a hothouse of technological innovation. For years, these radio frequencies were neglected, the lonely domain of cordless phones and microwave ovens. In...
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April 14, 2004
FTC Says Pornographic 'Spam' Must Be Labeled
Yahoo! News: Pornographic "spam" e-mail will have to contain a warning on the subject line so Internet users can easily filter it out, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. Starting May 19, sexually explicit e-mail will have to...
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April 13, 2004
Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly
TechWeb: While Linux advocates look to desktop software to challenge Microsoft's desktop championship, a new top-ranked contender is coming from a direction that's both unexpected and obvious: Google. But first, Google needs to overcome privacy concerns, as proposed terms of...
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April 8, 2004
Religious Use of the Internet Climbs
San Jose Mercury News: Jimmy Chu sent a mass e-mail to his Bible study group asking for help setting up for Easter services. He posts the group's prayer requests on his Weblog, downloads hymns from his church's Web site and...
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April 7, 2004
Global Music Sales Plummet
Wired News: Global music sales fell 7.6 percent in 2003 to $32 billion, the steepest decline since the advent of the compact disc, the trade body representing the world's largest music companies said on Wednesday. The International Federation of the...
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April 6, 2004
Reaching Out With VoIP
San Jose Mercury News: When was the last time you ooohhed and aaahed at your telephone? Probably never, right? Because let's face it, the traditional home phone may be amazingly reliable, but its coolness factor is almost zero. This might...
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April 3, 2004
Google E-Mail Causes Privacy Concerns
San Jose Marcury News: Internet giant Google caught some flak this week for its new e-mail service, Gmail, which will serve up text ads based on the content of a user's e-mail messages. The concern is that Google will somehow...
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Sony's Chief's View of Change: Broadband as the Big Meteorite
UK Times Online Inteview with Nobuyuki Idei, Sony CEO. ... In an environment changing as quickly as this you have no time to create a business model. People used to talk about "game plans" but you can't even do that...
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March 29, 2004
Parkour: The New Extreme Sport
New York Times: Parkour developed 16 years ago in the suburbs of Paris when sneaker-clad teenagers began navigating public spaces as skateboarders might, but without the skateboards. (The name comes from "parcours," French for circuit or course.) From Paris it...
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Leisure Pursuits of Today's Young Man
New York Times: The television industry was shaken last October when the ratings from Nielsen Media Research showed that a huge part of a highly prized slice of the American population was watching less television. As the fall TV season...
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March 24, 2004
Online Games Surpass $1 Billion
San Jose Mercury News: Online gaming on video game consoles gathered momentum in 2003, with U.S. retail sales of online games exceeding $1 billion. Market researcher NPD Group in Port Washington, N.Y., said sales of games with online features rose...
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March 22, 2004
Video Games: The Battle for the Living Room
New York Times: Even as the Intel Corporation and the Microsoft Corporation, whose chairman is Bill Gates, are pushing a digital future in which they hope that the personal computer will be the hub for a variety of home entertainment...
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March 21, 2004
Get Out of My Namespace
New York Times: The world is running out of names. The roster of possible names seems almost infinite, but the demand is even greater. With the rise of instantaneous communication, business spreading across the globe and the Internet annihilating geography,...
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March 19, 2004
Three Reasons TiVo Will Die
Yahoo! News: #1: Moore's Law The first one, ironically, derives from the same technology that enabled TiVo to live in the first place: Moore's Law. As chips got powerful enough and hard drives cheap enough, the PVR was inevitable. But...
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Mobile Data: WiMax Versus 3G
Yahoo! News: Just when mobile operators are finally getting their costly third-generation (3G) networks up and running, a new wireless technology pushed by the computer industry is about to mess things up. At stake are tens of billions of euros...
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March 16, 2004
Hotels Attempt to Plug $1 Billion Leak
Canada.com: After haphazardly building an Internet sales pipeline, the lodging industry sprang a $1-billion US leak - and major hotel chains are now aggressively working to plug the hole. ...The hotel chains' current revenue leakage, as the industry refers to...
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March 13, 2004
Students Embrace Virtual Communities
Telegraph (UK): Sarah Brown and Linzi Andrews are at the same university and live in the same halls of residence. But rather than leaving their rooms to talk to each other, they simply head for their computers. "The computer is...
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In Google We Trust
New York Times: With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, Google, the most popular Internet search engine, "has a near-religious quality in the minds of many users," said Joseph Janes, an associate professor at the University of Washington in...
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March 11, 2004
A Profound Change in the U.S. Economy?
Deleware New Journal: For months, economists have been reassuring Americans that the employment market drought would soon end. With corporate profits surging and economic indicators improving, they said, it wouldn't be long before there was a downpour of jobs. After...
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March 9, 2004
Multimedia Messaging (MMS) Booming In China
Taipei Times: China's top dotcoms believe multimedia messaging services (MMS) will become a gold mine sustaining their profit growth, and have earmarked large sums for aggressive development, state Chinese media said yesterday. Sohu.com Inc, one of China's three large NADAQ-listed...
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March 8, 2004
Indian Outsourcers Move Up Value Chain
InfoWorld: Although some American executives have begun to express reservations about offshore outsourcing, confidence abounds here as Indian technology leaders see burgeoning demand for increasingly sophisticated services. "It's unlikely that anything can go wrong for the Indian outsourcing industry," said...
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March 6, 2004
Microsoft SenseCam
San Jose Mercury News: It begins with the SenseCam, a device Microsoft researcher Lyndsay Williams calls "a black box recorder for the human body.'' SenseCam was one of dozens of new technologies on display this week at Microsoft's TechFest, an...
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March 5, 2004
Cyber Literarure Takes Off in China
People's Daily (China) It was not until 1998 that online writing's popularity really skyrocketed. A modern love story entitled "First Close Touch" written by Taiwan writer Pizi Tsai got widely spread on the net. Its free writing style and modern...
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March 4, 2004
Digital Slide Slows on HDTV
New York Times: Thanks to the wonders of technology, now you, too, can live like Bill Gates. No, you can't suddenly afford to build a $50 million house overlooking Lake Washington. You will not have heated floors, sidewalks and driveways....
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February 27, 2004
Technology Jobs Moving To Asia
Yahoo! News: Technology companies are seeing a rebound in business, but top executives this week said any jobs added to meet growing demand will likely be in countries where labor is cheaper than the United States. Executives speaking at the...
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February 26, 2004
China To Stifle Online Speech
Los Angeles Times: China on Monday launched a major crackdown on one of the most vibrant parts of the Internet, the news discussion groups that have pushed the boundary of free speech. The new rules ban independent reporting that has...
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February 23, 2004
Blogs: Lasting Impact On Politics
WSJ.com (subscription): Blogs, for instance, have been closely identified with the Dean campaign from the start. These are personal, frequently updated Web pages that typically contain short essays on sundry topics. The early Dean blogs, created by backers of the...
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February 22, 2004
Privacy and The Information Explosion
San Jose Mercury News: Feel overwhelmed by the deluge of information flooding the world today? No wonder. Researchers say that the amount of new words, sounds, pictures and numbers produced and stored on paper, film or computer disks has almost...
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February 21, 2004
The Internet Political Attack Ad
New York Times: When the Web was in its infancy, Internet utopians envisioned a political revolution, predicting that the new medium would engage and empower voters as never before. Much of what they envisioned has come to pass, with the...
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February 20, 2004
Women Tailor Sex Industry to Their Eyes
New York Times: Experts say demand by women -- both heterosexual and lesbian -- is driving the growth of all sorts of sex-related ventures, from stores, catalogs and sex toy companies to adult Web sites, pornographic films and cable television...
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February 18, 2004
"Smart Dust:" The Next Big Thing?
Mercury News: Imagine swarms of tiny sensors sitting in your office, seeing, listening and maybe even smelling everything that goes on around you. Such "smart dust'' sensors are under development by start-ups like Dust of Berkeley, to be used in...
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February 16, 2004
Local Search: New Market for Search Engines
New York Times: Can small businesses be persuaded to pay for online advertising even if they do not sell their products or services on the Web? That is a big question for Internet companies like Google and Yahoo, as well...
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Instant Messaging A Fact of Life For Kids
Mercury News: These days, when Alex wants to go to a friend's house or to play video games, he'll go to his computer and shoot me a quick instant message. It's easier -- and far safer -- than bursting into...
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February 15, 2004
Corporate Travel: Online Booking Soars
CNN: For many business travelers planning a trip still means reaching for a telephone instead of keyboarding onto the Internet. But that is changing, according to a new report, which suggests that online travel booking is capturing an increasing share...
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