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Yearly Archives: 2001

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woensdag, december 19, 2001

LA Times: A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell microchips designed to be implanted into human beings, an achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening. Wired: Take the stamp, stick it on the letter, place it in the mailbox … and it can be [...]

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vrijdag, december 14, 2001

C-Net: The United States agreed Thursday to free Russian software programmer Dmitry Sklyarov in exchange for testimony against his company about alleged violations of U.S. copyright law, his defense team said. MSNBC: A dispute between Sprint and Internet hosting service Conxion has cut off some corporate Internet users from Conxion-hosted Web sites. C-Net: Microsoft next [...]

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donderdag, december 13, 2001

Reuters: An FBI spokesman confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. government is working on a controversial Internet spying technology, code-named “Magic Lantern”, which could be used to eavesdrop on computer communications by suspected criminals. The Register: Microsoft admits it still hasn’t upgraded its Hotmail system to Windows, almost four years after embarking on the task, [...]

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woensdag, december 12, 2001

BBC: Authorities in six countries have launched the largest anti-piracy operation ever to bring down a transatlantic ring of hackers believed to be the major providers of illegal software on the internet. Wired: A new, high-resolution map of the Earth’s surface can be used for everything from predicting floods to military targeting — and the [...]

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dinsdag, december 11, 2001

Wired: The website for the city of Villa Hills, Kentucky, currently features a picture of 19-year-old Tina clutching her bare breasts. Images of “Euro Teen Sluts” appear where Manchester, Iowa’s city government information used to be. And teachers looking for Home Education Magazine at its former online address will find a link to “gang bang [...]

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maandag, december 10, 2001

LA Times: Representatives of the global music giants said they never sought permission from most of their artists because they didn’t have to. According to the companies, recording contracts typically grant labels exclusive distribution rights to an artist’s entire catalog. Companies contend that those rights cover all forms of distribution, including digital streaming and download [...]

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vrijdag, december 7, 2001

The World At War: “Hitler was asked by a corespondent of the Daily Express whether the suspension of liberties was permanent. He answered in the negative saying that full rights would be restored as soon as the Communist danger was over.” Motley Fool: When you’re done with the book, you’ll have a real appreciation for [...]

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vrijdag, november 30, 2001

Keven Werbach: Bandwidth isn’t as scarce as you think. The cure for the broadband blues is right in front of our faces, but we don’t see it because we’ve trained ourselves to look elsewhere. The answer is something called open spectrum. LA Times: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by a Princeton University computer scientist [...]

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dinsdag, november 20, 2001

NY Times: Nearly a dozen software companies, most of them American, are competing for a contract to help Saudi Arabia block access to Web sites the Saudi government deems inappropriate for that nation’s half- million Internet users. C-Net: The ideological purity of the open-source software movement is being diluted by a new era of pragmatism [...]

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maandag, november 19, 2001

Internet.com: At the eleventh hour, the trade group finally agrees to terms for standard that would triple wireless LAN data rates. The Times: OSAMA BIN LADEN was left isolated and on the run in Afghanistan last night after the routed Taleban leadership left him to his fate. Tomalak: Yahoo, LookSmart and others used paid editors [...]

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