Monthly Archives: October 2001

Oct 25

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Accord­ing to Yahoo!, MSN​.com shuts out non-Microsoft browsers. In fact the arti­cle makes it look like this is part of an over­all push for MSN. Gee, that’s unex­pected. Not!

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Oct 25

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Oh, those crazy Euro­peans. Their 3G phone mobile phone sys­tems are look­ing for the so-called “killer apps”. So far it looks like Mobile Porn is the frontrunner.

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Oct 24

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For­give me for not men­tion­ing this sooner, but Apple released their iPod dig­i­tal music device. This was cov­ered live by Jason Snell. I might buy one even though I’ll have to buy a FireWire board for my G3

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Oct 24

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Win­dows XP Win­dows XP Win­dows XP You must buy it. You must install it. You must acti­vate it. You must. You.

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Oct 23

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There is some oppo­si­tion to the SSSCA bill which Dis­ney is try­ing to get passed in Con­gress. It’s luke­warm at best, though. Remem­ber, it would require PC man­u­fac­tur­ers to build in anti-pirating tech­nolo­gies. Guess who would pay for that?

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Oct 23

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Com­puter World is talk­ing about ubiq­ui­tous com­put­ing. Xerox PARC has been doing that for years, with lit­tle impact to the rest of the com­pany or the world. Not sure why any­one thinks that will change.

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