NEWS, ETC.
16-31 December 2000
12/31 Notebook
Price Wars to Flare up in 2001. I think the wars will not be
limited to notebooks. There are some mighty hungry companies in
the technology sector.
12/31 Microsoft's
Alter Egos. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer form two sides
of a high-tech brain trust.
12/31 Spacecraft
Makes Flyby of Jupiter.
More
with pictures.
12/31 Congress
Could See Early Rural Internet Bill
12/31 U.S.
Warns of Possible New Year's Computer Blitzes
12/31 Storage
Moving To Front Of Tech Pack
12/31
NY Times...
Slower
Than Its Predecessor: Pentium 4.
2/29 Great
Plains Buy Raises Antitrust Issue. Microsoft's planned purchase
of Great Plains Software is attracting antitrust attention.
12/29
Death of the PC? Requiem
for a Desktop.
12/29 Life
With Windows Me: First 100 Days
12/29 Beware
of Happy New Year Virus
12/28 DNA-based
Sensor Chip Detects Metals in Real-time. Technology
harnesses living DNA to detect dangerous metals such as lead, mercury
and cadmium.
12/28 CPU
Speed: How Much Is Enough?
12/28 Plastic
Chips, Brain Machines: What Will the Future Hold?
12/28 Bandwidth
Demand Could Spare Networkers Woe
12/28 Schools
Expand Online Education
12/28 Hong
Kong Leads in Net Surfing
12/27 Companies
Reevaluate 2001 IT Spending. Chief financial officers rethink
the mantra that new information technology will always pay for itself.
12/27 AMD's
New Battleground: The Office
12/27 Network
Associates shares plunge 66 Percent
12/27 Study:
E-Holiday Spending Doubled. $8.7
billion.
12/27 Silicon
Neurons in an Analog World. Good
read.
12/27 Analysts
See PC Price War on Horizon
12/27 Test
Uncovers Pentium 4 Chipset Flaw
12/26 Net
Retailers Take Ax to Price Tags
12/26 Acer
Group Restructures After Tough 2000
12/24 Internet
video lets baby Chance see his father, Chief Ted Smith, USA, stationed
in Hungary, for the first time. The
USO, SpotLife and Logitech Team Up to Bring U.S. Military "Home for
the Holidays." SpotLife will
develop, host and provide technical support to a dedicated USO (United
Service Organizations) Personal Video Broadcasting channel specifically
designed for military personnel and their families. Logitech will
donate its QuickCam Internet video cameras to more than 100 USO facilities
around the world. "We can think of no better
use of our service than to help those that serve our country while being
separated from their family and friends," said Amit Goswamy, president
and CEO of SpotLife. "If a picture is worth a thousand words, what
is a video worth? To be able to see and hear a loved one share personal
news and thoughts is a wonderful gift indeed." Outstanding!
12/22 'Tis
the Season for Credit-card Heists.
12/22 Kriz
Virus To Make Christmas Comeback. Virus threatens to cause significantly
more damage than it did a year ago.
12/22 Firewalls
Becoming Ineffective, Experts Say
12/22 Flat-Panel
Displays Show Desktop Gains
12/22 Search
Engines Contribute Little to Site Traffic. According to
StatMarket, search engines account for less than 7% of referrals.
12/22 DSL
Upstarts Can't Compete With Phone Giants. Despite strong
efforts to lay down service lines across the U.S., many DSL providers
are faced with closing down or selling out to their rivals.
12/22 Students
Can Win $25,000 in IBM's VoiceXML Challenge
12/22 Intel
to Introduce Product Changes: New D0 Core Stepping
12/22 Microsoft
to Acquire Great Plains Software Inc. Business
management software, aimed at small to medium-sized companies, is its
next big growth area. More here.
12/22 McAfee
Virus Update Damages NT 4.0 Files
12/19 Iraq
Buys 4000 PlayStation 2s in World Conquest Bid.
12/19 Serial
ATA Draft Specification 1.0 Now Available
12/19 Selected
Linux Games Available for Download
12/19 HDTV
Vendors Target New Markets
12/18 Vendors
Pushing Ethernet as Computer Bus Option. Interesting concept...
Networked expansion boards...
12/18 3dfx
to Liquidate, Sell Assets to NVIDIA. NVIDIA
news release.
12/18 Time
Warner Chases Road Runner. By increasing its stake and
restructuring the operating platform for Road Runner, Time Warner Cable
is clearing the way to offering multiple ISPs on its systems on an accelerated
basis.
12/18 The
Year the Bubble Burst. 2000 started off with a bug, then
the Street went bang and we're ending with a bear market. What happened,
exactly?
12/18 Falling
Shares Force PC Price Cuts. Economic slowdowns find U.S. computer
makers in a rush to get their inventory out the door before the holidays.
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