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My Favorite
Buzzword:
Get ready for the
Wireless MAN, baby. Or short for
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.
>
All About The MAN
Spam Overload Dept:
According
to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes
or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get
100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
Source:
Symantec and Insightexpress
Tech
Essentials:
Ben Sullivan's
Tech Blog
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Beta News
| Gizmodo|
Alice & Bill.com|
Everything
Burns |
CNET
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News.com
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NY Times
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SiliconValley
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Slashdot
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The Register
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Tom's Hardware
|Walt Mossberg
Business Magazines:
Business 2.0
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Business Week
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CFO
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Economist
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Fast Company
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Forbes
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Fortune
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Inc.
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Newsweek
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Red Herring
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Smart Money
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Time
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US News
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Wired
 Syndicate
my Site
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Alice Hill's Technology
Watch
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Virtual Gaming Worlds Overtake Namibia
Source BBC: "You may think that when you spend time in online game worlds such as Everquest or Star Wars Galaxies, you are just enjoying yourself. Gaming has economic value too, even if it is virtual. But analysis of how long people spend in the games and what they do there has shown that game-playing has a significant economic value too.
"According to the analysis this gaming activity has a gross economic impact equivalent to the GDP of the Southern African nation of Namibia."
Not sure wha that means, but if I were Nmibia, I would feel oddly disturbed by the news.
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8:56 AM
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