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My Favorite
Buzzword:
Get ready for the
Wireless MAN, baby. Or short for
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.
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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
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Alice & Bill.com|
Everything
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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
Saturday, February 07, 2004
Tower Records Declares Bankruptcy
 Venerable Tower Records announced that it was filing for bankruptcy protection as it gave way to the effects of free downloading. Of course, the name Tower Records was dated 10 years ago when people started buying CDs, but being two jumps behind is simply too much. One has to wonder why they didn't launch Tower Downloads and skip CDs altogether.
# Posted at
12:34 AM
Monday, February 02, 2004
Pranksters Jam Burger King Drive-Through Speaker
 Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. The pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead."
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5:51 PM
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Google Unhappy with Rude Copycat
 Blurring the line between hoot-a-minute paraody, copycat adult search engine Booble is coming under fire from search master Google.com just as Google is preparing its long awaited public stock offering. Booble launched on Jan 20th and is so popular the site has crashed twice. Doesn't sound like most visitors are laughing.
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3:50 AM
Gateway Buys EMachines
Once mighty but now mighty struggling Gateway is planning to buy EMachines for $200 million dollars. That's a lot of green to sell low end machines in very high end stores. Or will Gateway simply kill the stores and use the EMachines brand for a nice mail order comeback? Sounds like an expensive way to kick start the cow boxes again.
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3:50 AM
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