September 25th, 2002
Microsoft security issues are problem for everyone including Microsoft itself. Quoting a Sr. VP in Microsoft “We really haven’t done everything we could to protect our customers … Our products just aren’t engineered for security.”
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
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September 20th, 2002
The ultimate geek meet is on in California, providing a forum for multi-displinary interaction. One more reason why India produces brains and not cutting -edge technology our education system and society in general lloks down on a multi-displinary approach.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,55267,00.html
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September 20th, 2002
Infrasonic, ultrasonic are words that you may have come across but what is hypersonic? Check out how it has the potential to revolutionize audio technology.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,351353,00.html
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September 20th, 2002
Nicholas Negroponte explains why Wi-Fi “lily pads and frogs” will transform the future of telecom. He by the way is the Founder and Director of the MIT Media Labs as well as one of the founders of the Wired magazine.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/wireless.html
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September 20th, 2002
Earth’s climate will warm up over the next 50 years, whether or not greenhouse gases are curbed soon, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a NASA study.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/09/20/climate.change.reut/index.html
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September 19th, 2002
How would want to spend a billion dollars?? Read this hilarious article- Five Ways To Spend $1 Billion
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/09/13/0913fiveways.html
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September 17th, 2002
Pentium 4 full of undocumented features, bugs? Looks like Intel is trying to imitate Microsoft
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5407
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September 17th, 2002
Have you heard about the new serial ATA standard over which the hard-disk manufacturers are going ga-ga? Promises of true 150Mbps to start with and going upto 600Mbps, looks like the SCSI standard finally has competition.
http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/sata150/
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September 17th, 2002
Looks like the Minority Report world is fast approaching.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55037,00.html
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September 16th, 2002
No posts yesterday as my company had sent me on a Microsoft partner training programme.What I found interesting was how it has now started targeting the small and medium businesses with business software and tools. And on this what i found on the net about its new business software strategy.
http://redherring.com/insider/2002/09/fieldday091302.html
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September 14th, 2002
USB took longer to develop than to win World War II
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5367
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September 14th, 2002
Star Trek fans beware “Captain Kirk meets Intel in quest to understand toilets.”
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5378
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September 14th, 2002
Portable, inexpensive medical diagnostic equipment could be critical for doctors trying to diagnose disease in remote regions of the world–or for soldiers trying to identify a biological agent they’ve encountered in the field.The miniature Hermes device uses magnetic levitation to perform biomedical testing, even in remote locations.
http://redherring.com/columns/2002/wednesday/labrat091102.html
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September 14th, 2002
Miniature engines and electricity generators are being carved out of silicon with the help of chip-making tools. Far from being toys, these micromachines have real work to do in industry and defence
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1020811
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September 14th, 2002
Times are not good for industrial research centres, especially in computing and telecoms. Rick Rashid runs one of the few corporate laboratories that is still expanding. But despite its money, talent and experience, can Microsoft Research live up to expectations?
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1020799
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