New & Noteworthy: Apple's Palo Alto store; Excite@Home; Where's the Wireless Revolution?; more
New & Noteworthy: Apple's Palo Alto store; Excite@Home; Where's the Wireless Revolution?; more
Nisus Writer 6.0.3 is the latest update to this full featured, multilingual word processor. This release fixes a bug which will neither print nor display (in Layout) the headers and footers if the document is divided into multiple columns.
Bankruptcy filing imminent for Excite@Home From CNet: "Excite@Home, the leading provider of broadband Internet access, is expected to file a prepackaged bankruptcy filing late Friday that calls for AT&T to acquire its high-speed network, according to sources. Sources said AT&T has no interest in retaining the Excite portal, so it could be sold to another company." More.
Where's the Wireless Revolution? From Broadband Industry News: "If you're still waiting for the wireless Internet revolution to take hold, sit tight. According to recent research conducted by Gartner Dataquest, most of the key wireless technologies are still evolving and won't really take hold until around 2005. So where does that leave wireless broadband?" More.
New MacInstruct tutorial available How to Fax with FAXstf.
Living under an Electronic Eye From the New York Times: "In 1928 Justice Louis D. Brandeis made a prediction. Someday, he wrote in a dissent to a Supreme Court decision on wiretapping, the government may find ways to reproduce documents in court without removing them from 'private drawers.' Such methods, he warned, will expose 'the most intimate occurrences of the home.'" More.
AOL Running Hard From Washington Techway: "It began as the entrepreneurial upstart with a simple 'secret sauce.' Later, it became a media company, selling content and connections, eventually acquiring Time Warner. Now — just as the media behemoth starts focusing — advertising slows, the economy sours and terrorists create uncertainty everywhere. What now for AOL?" More.
[Software] Patents and the W3C From DaveNet: "Software patents are bad. Period. Investment in new practice happens without them, and choice is essential for progress in our art...The economics of software favor small independent developers, patents change that. To develop in the world these companies envision, you'd have to have their legal and financial resources to create and publish software. No more small developers." More.
Costs of Microsoft [Windows] upgrades increase From USA Today: "Costs are going up because Microsoft will no longer allow corporate customers to buy software upgrades at a volume discount whenever they choose. Instead, firms will receive upgrades when they are released, whether they want them or not." More.
'Good Sam' Hacker 'Fesses Up From Wired: "But a guilty plea that West signed tells a far different story -- and shows how easily a well-meaning community of programmers and system administrators can be led astray." More.
Compromise for CD copying is in the works From CNet: "The record industry is experimenting with a new strategy for protecting CDs from being copied in CD burners or on computers. Unlike previous anti-copying measures, this plan will place two versions of an album on a single disc: one in standard CD form, modified so that it can't be transferred to a computer hard drive, and another in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio digital format, rigged so that files can be copied to a PC, but with some restrictions on how they can be used." More.
Sounding off on behalf of copy protection From CNet: "While SunnComm is betting that copy-protected CDs will be the music industry's answer to digital content protection, it's discovering that success stories don't come easy." More.
Meet the world's baddest cyber cops From ZDNet: "They're not the feds, but they're taking down hackers, organized criminals, script kiddies, and other threats to your company. A report from the front lines." More.