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Monthly Archives: september 2004

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dinsdag, september 28, 2004

Tom Liston: “And there I stood: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, armed only with a bucket of water. Which is, curiously enough, almost exactly the position that Windows users find themselves in today: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, but in their case, having a bucket of water would be an improvement.”

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maandag, september 27, 2004

InfoWorld: Not expecting a rush of IT spending during the last three months of 2004, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina said Thursday that IT buyers have become smarter and more discriminating in their IT purchasing than they were just five years ago, and that they now realize that technology spending [...]

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dinsdag, september 21, 2004

News.com: “We realized that the MPAA must be doing blind keyword matching against Internet content and then sending out automatic take-down notices with no real research or double checks,” Smith said. “This seems to be a huge misuse of resources, an infringement upon various global spam laws, an infringement upon our own Copyright Act under [...]

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vrijdag, september 17, 2004

InstantMessaging Planet: IMlogic, a Waltham, Mass.-based IM management software provider … today announced IM Detector Pro, free downloadable software designed to detect and block unmanaged IM, P2P and VoIP activity.
BetaNews: Amazon’s independent A9 unit is ready to officially unveil its customized search engine, which debuted in preview form last April. A9.com combines Web and image [...]

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maandag, september 13, 2004

Beta News: Instead of the familiar Plug and Play (PNP), which has seen little change in function since Windows 95, a new technology called “Plug and Play Extensions” will make its debut in Longhorn to allow businesses to regain their rightful jurisdiction over PNP devices.
Lou Dobbs: “American working men and women who once had decent [...]

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donderdag, september 9, 2004

BetaNews: The clock is ticking for organizations that chose to delay the deployment of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Come April 12, 2005, a tool that temporarily blocks the delivery of the Service Pack through automatic updating will cease to operate, thus allowing the upgrade to download.
Wi-Fi Net News: As expected, the Wi-Fi Alliance is [...]

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woensdag, september 8, 2004

Security Focus: A Los Angeles man accused of using other people’s wi-fi networks to send thousands of unsolicited adult-themed e-mails has entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors in a case filed under the criminal provisions of the federal CAN SPAM Act, officials confirmed Friday.
InfoWorld: If spam could talk, it would spit. SPIT stands [...]

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maandag, september 6, 2004

CNN Money: Meet the Human Locator. It’s a new technology developed by Canadian ad agency Freeset Interactive that purports to detect when humans are near, track their movement, and then broadcast messages directed at them on a nearby screen.

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vrijdag, september 3, 2004

Wi-Fi Networking News: “Bluetooth is still supported by many other big name companies, but having its creator (Ericsson) pull back isn

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donderdag, september 2, 2004

Microsoft’s Kevin Larson: “Word shape is no longer a viable model of word recognition. The bulk of scientific evidence says that we recognize a word

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