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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
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Alice Hill's Technology
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Friday, July 09, 2004
Video Toombstones?
 This must be bizarre technology week, but Robert Barrows has filed a patent application for a hollow headstone sporting a touchscreen LCD panel. Powered by the cemetery's lighting system, the headstone also has a storage device with the departed's final message.
We will skip the obvious comments on hard drive failures, the inevitable and especially ironic blue screen of death, and of course the fact that gravestones are OUTDOORS, or perhaps the worst place for an LCD you can actually see, but this does do one thing you have to think the tech world will love- force you to upgrade even after you are dead.
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1:33 PM
Bizarre Automatic Blood Donation Machine
Maybe it's just us, but automation and blood don't seem like a healthy combination. That said, it looks like Japan is rolling out the first automatic blood donation machine.
We would imagine that these would be located in hospitals and blood drive areas, and not just on the street next to an ATM machine, but you never know.
Which brings up the biggest question of all: does juice and a little cookie pop out of slot somewhere?
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12:32 PM
Google Bombs Itself?
 The term "Google bombing" may be old news, but a recent search term has surfaced and raised some eyebrows. Try it yourself: do a Google search on "out of touch management" and click the "Im Feeling Lucky" button. Oh my!
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12:12 PM
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