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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Increasingly, U.S. Fireworks Come from Overseas. To many Americans, fireworks are a key feature to the Fourth of July, but most of the fireworks used in the United States now come from China. [NPR Topics: Business]
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Blogging While Browsing, but Not Buying. Online merchants are starting to test Web logs in hopes of giving their stores more personality and giving customers a reason to return. By BOB TEDESCHI. [NYT > Technology]
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Oracle Makes JDeveloper 10g Free for All Developers [Oracle Technology Network Headlines]
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Pop-up smut tops spyware chart. Panda's giant list [The Register]
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I like this! I have been collecting "old" computers for years.

Geek Chic: Old Computers As Collectibles . The year was 1986 and Bud Ballos was an eighth-grader, a proud owner of a brand-new computer with what was to him "a weird thing" called a mouse. By Jose Antonio Vargas. [Washtech]


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Classroom Clickers Make the Grade. For students weaned on TV remote controls, it's the perfect classroom interaction gadget: a 'clicker' that lets them respond anonymously to teachers' questions. It serves the 'instant-gratification generation,' says one professor. [Wired News: Technology]
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Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade. Rep. Rick Boucher is the rare legislator who defends file-sharing technology and thinks Congress is way too chummy with the entertainment industry. Boucher chats about content, law and technology in the digital age. Wired News interview by Katie Dean and Evan Hansen. [Wired News]
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Monday, July 04, 2005

When Cockroaches Sieze Controls. Artist Garnet Hertz melds biology and engineering to create a robotic vehicle controlled by a big Madagascan hissing roach. By Rachel Metz. [Wired News: Technology]
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Supercomputer for Dodgy Tickers. Boston's sick and infirm may soon have a new treatment tool at their disposal: one of the world's fastest supercomputers. By Mark Baard. [Wired News: Technology]
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Get a Free Quick Reference Poster to the Latest Antispam Developments. A recent survey shows that spam is the number 1 pain point for IT pros, and spammers find new methods to avoid filters every day. Counter spam by learning the essentials for ensuring user productivity, increasing mail server efficiency, decreasing storage requirements, managing bandwidth, and controlling TCO. [Windows IT Pro Magazine - Mobile & Wireless]
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sentient: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. sentient: capable of perceiving by the senses. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
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Businesses are getting the (instant) message. Three start-ups are helping the world's biggest financial institutions and other companies get a handle on IM. [CNET News.com]
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The coming Web security woes. Do proposed data security laws cause more harm than good? asks CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh. [CNET News.com]
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Sunday, July 03, 2005

CIO survey: IT spending rebounds in June. The majority of CIOs surveyed in a CIO Magazine Tech Poll believe IT spending is stronger than it was a year ago. [Computerworld News]
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Survey: Consumers growing wary of buying online. Worried about the possibility of identity theft and concerned about what they see as lax online security, consumers are scaling back their Internet shopping, according to a report by The Conference Board. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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Nortel to shareholders: We're sorry. Officials at Nortel Networks today apologized to shareholders for an accounting scandal that bruised the telecom equipment supplier's reputation and hit its share price. But better times are ahead, they said. [Computerworld Networking News]
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The awkward smart phone grows up. A look at Palm's latest efforts to make its Treo smart phone more useful and competitive. [CNET News.com]
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Disk storage climbs perpendicularly. Disk drives will be between five and ten times more capacious by 2009, depending on who you believe By mailroomuk@zdnet.com (Peter Judge). [ZDNet UK News]
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