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Monthly Archives: november 2001

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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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vrijdag, november 16, 2001

ABC News: Now there’s scientific evidence to support what enlightened coffee drinkers have always known… NY Times: The 43-nation Council of Europe is trying to ban racist and hate speech from the Internet by adding a protocol, or side agreement, to its cybercrime convention, which was stamped for ratification on Thursday. The convention is scheduled [...]

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donderdag, november 15, 2001

The Engineer: In a bid to achieve cost and efficiency benefits without having to make large capital outlays, Lear is testing a ‘rented’ web-based supply chain collaboration system at plants in the UK and Belgium as a prelude to what could be a wider roll-out across the group.

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dinsdag, november 13, 2001

BBC: Natalie Imbruglia’s latest album is the first to go on general release with a copy-protection system built in. BBC: A controversial treaty that tries to tackle cybercrime has been adopted by the 43-nation Council of Europe. ZD-Net: The use by some Web site operators of files to track Web surfers’ Internet activity is the [...]

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maandag, november 12, 2001

John Robb: K-Log knowledge networks. This is how Silicon Valley can contribute to this war without stomping on personal privacy PDABuzz: SanDisk has announced their new 1GB CompactFlash card dubbed the “world’s largest capacity CompactFlash card in standard Type I format.” internet.com: On Monday at COMDEX, Ricoh Corporation plans to show just how well its [...]

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vrijdag, november 9, 2001

BBC: A serious weakness has been discovered in the methods used by banks to protect the number that lets you get money from a cash machine. CNN: Germans could be the first people to carry passports and identity cards with encrypted biometric data, meant to enable computerized identification and hinder fraud. The new technology is [...]

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donderdag, november 8, 2001

Dave Winer: At a certain level, I’m just beginning to understand how powerful Microsoft has become. It owns the chokepoint for most of the electronic communication over e-mail and the Web. Salon: In “The Future of Ideas” Lawrence Lessig explains why ham-handed efforts to increase copyright protection are a threat to freedom and prosperity. BBC: [...]

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woensdag, november 7, 2001

Wired: Internet Explorer users could find themselves looking at unwanted websites and endless pop-up ads if a malicious website owner is able to plant a string of code. The Register: Buffalo Technology recently announced a range of 802.11b-based WLAN (Wireless LAN) products that allow a theoretical transfer rate of up to 22Mbps.

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