Brad Hutchings wrote a retrospective on Be. [Hack the Planet]
10:41:55 AM    

Google celebrates fifth birthday. The hugely popular search engine, Google, is turning five years old this weekend. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
10:41:09 AM    

X10  For Weak Remote Signals, a Handy Bedside Boost. Simple, inexpensive and widely available, the X10 remote control system is a residential favorite because it calls for no new wiring. By Ivan Berger. [New York Times: Technology]
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2 Cameras Seek Bliss as a Couple. The first gadget to join a real digital camera and a real camcorder into a single device is now available. Is it worth a grand? By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
10:37:09 AM    

Here is the important bit (The malicious script affects only surfers using unpatched versions of the Internet Explorer 6 browser. )  Security Holes Vex Web Host Firm. More than a thousand websites hosted by Interland, a leading Web-hosting company, appear to have been hacked in the last week, according to a security expert. But Interland denies there's a problem. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News]
10:29:58 AM    

Broadband surge nets 75% of UK population. Few in rural areas, though [The Register]
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How do you make your presentations and to whom?  Full Monty writer premieres new film on Net. Updated Squeezed out of cinemas by blockbusters [The Register]
10:26:09 AM    

RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are a nascent technology with a potentially huge impact, particularly for retailers and distributors. The chips store and transmit data to nearby receivers. SAP to show off RFID's potential. When SAP AG's TechEd gathering kicks off next week in Las Vegas, it will lack one of the traditional trade-show trappings: The conference's attendee badges will be bar-code free. SAP has declared TechEd an RFID zone. [InfoWorld: Top News]
10:22:25 AM    

...an open source platform for building Java development tools. Though the majority of the Eclipse development work has been done by IBM engineers, the project has picked up the endorsement of a number of Java tools vendors, including Borland Software, Oracle and SAP. Eclipse may take new name after reorganization. The group in charge of the open-source Eclipse project approved a three month long restructuring process this week that should reduce IBM's dominant role in the effort and make the project more attractive to Java vendors such as Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems. [InfoWorld: Top News]
10:20:28 AM    

Microsoft settles antitrust suit with Be. Microsoft will pay Be more than $23 million after attorneys' fees to settle an antitrust lawsuit that Be filed against it in February 2002, the companies announced Friday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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