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China agog over crowd of dot-com superstars

China agog over crowd of dot-com superstars - Technology - International Herald Tribune

“These are the Internet legends of China,” said Ho Ben, 28, a participant at the forum and the general manager of a toy company that sells to foreign buyers through Alibaba.com, China’s largest business-to-business Web site. “I’m a great admirer of these guys, not only because they’ve made our lives different but because they’ve made our business much easier.”

China is still the land of opportunity especially in the area of the internet. While internet access continues to grow at an astronomical pace, there’s still plenty of room to grow. This article identifies several of the key leaders as well as some of the key relationships.

14 September, 2005 | No comments

Worry Watch: Cleaning Up Personal Information

Worry Watch: Cleaning Up Personal Information

David Radin and Jes Scherder of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s “Interact: Computers & Technology” column offer rudimentary insights on the manner in which identity thieves are operating in today’s online environment.

20 August, 2005 | No comments

Urine Battery Turns Pee Into Power

Urine Battery Turns Pee Into Power

Urine is one of a number of bodily fluids rich in ions—electrically charged atoms. Researchers in Singapore leveraged this fact to produce a credit card-size battery (bottom) powered by urine. The device produces about 1.5 volts, the same as a standard AA battery, and can last for 90 minutes.

Top photograph copyright Chris Collins/Corbis; bottom photograph courtesy Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

John Roach
National Geographic News
August 18, 2005

Before you next flush the toilet, consider this: Scientists in Singapore have developed a battery powered by urine.

Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology created the credit card-size battery as a disposable power source for medical test kits.

Diagnostic test kits commonly analyze the chemical composition of a person’s urine to detect a malady. Ki Bang Lee and his colleagues realized that the substance being tested—urine—could also power the test.

“In order to address this problem, we have designed a disposable battery on a chip, which is activated by biofluids such as urine,” Lee wrote in an e-mail to National Geographic News.

Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, said the technology is a welcome innovation in a time of rising energy prices.

“All jokes [about] urine aside, what is needed are low-cost batteries. …” he said. “The other neat thing about this is the fact that it’s basically a biodegradable battery.”

Geek.Com users are having a proverbial field day about the notorious “urine power” study.

18 August, 2005 | No comments

Learn The Basics of Online Sales Before Jumping Into The Web

Learn The Basics of Online Sales Before Jumping Into The Web

From the offices of AllBusiness.Com, the champions of small business, the following step-by-step guide will teach you the pathway to financial prosperity on the Information Superhighway.

18 August, 2005 | No comments

Chicago Tribune News : Technology - Time To Explode The Internet?

Chicago Tribune News : Technology - Time To Explode The Internet?

In came the hackers, the viruses, worms, spyware, phishing, and spam; the purveyors of pharmaceuticals and porn sites; and Nairobi bank presidents and generals promising to wire millions of dollars into your bank if you’d kindly give them your account number.

According to a Washington Post report last weekend, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center logged 3,780 new computer security vulnerabilities in 2004. In 2000 the center logged 1,090. In 1995, it was just 171.

“The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the `60s during which people thought the world would be beautiful if you are just nice,” computer scientist Karl Auerbach told the Post. Formerly with Cisco Systems Inc., Auerbach now volunteers with engineering groups to try to improve the Internet. Auerbach is part of a handful of groups now looking into whether the entire Internet needs an overhaul, or, in Web-speak, a Version 2.0.

4 July, 2005 | No comments

Big Media’s Power Plays - New York Times

Big Media’s Power Plays - New York Times

2 July, 2005 | No comments

IBM Wins $850 Million Settlement From Microsoft In Antitrust Case - 07/02/05

IBM Wins $850 Million Settlement From Microsoft In Antitrust Case - 07/02/05

By Brian Bergstein | AP Technology Writer

BOSTON — IBM Corp. will get $775 million in cash and $75 million worth of software from Microsoft Corp. to settle claims still lingering from the federal government’s antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s, the companies announced Friday.

2 July, 2005 | No comments

Rumors of Potential CNET Sale Spur Market Speculation - 07/01/05

Rumors of Potential CNET Sale Spur Market Speculation - 07/01/05

By Garance Burke | Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of CNET Networks Inc. surged more than 10 percent Thursday based on a published report that the company is looking for a buyer.

The New York Post reported the technology information portal may be “shopping itself” to investors, including Viacom Inc. and InterActiveCorp, setting off intense speculation among analysts and shareholders.

2 July, 2005 | No comments

Customers Win In War Of Online DVD Rental Firms - The Boston Globe - Boston.Com - Business

Customers Win In War Of Online DVD Rental Firms - The Boston Globe - Boston.Com - Business

Monthly fees have fallen as services have improved

By Bruce Mohl, Globe Staff | June 26, 2005

The battle between Netflix and Blockbuster for supremacy in the fast-growing online DVD rental business is a dream-come-true for consumers.

26 June, 2005 | No comments

Major Advertisers Caught In Spyware Net - 06/25/05

Major Advertisers Caught In Spyware Net - 06/25/05

By Michael Gormley / The Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — Unwanted software slithered into Patti McMann’s home computer over the Internet and unleashed an annoying barrage of pop-up ads that sometimes flashed on her screen faster than she could close them.

Annoying, for sure. But the last straw came a year ago when the pop-ups began plugging such household names as J.C. Penney Co. and Capital One Financial Corp., companies McMann expected to know better.

Didn’t they realize that trying to reach people through spyware and its ad-delivering subset, called adware, would only alienate them?

“It irritated the heck out of me,” said McMann, a 45-year-old former corporate executive from Klamath Falls, Ore. “It took a week to take off every little piece of crap that was put on my computer. Every time I rebooted, it started to come up again.”

25 June, 2005 | No comments

Chicago Tribune News : Technology

Chicago Tribune News : Technology

Web Merchants Learn From Dot-Com Disasters
Retailers regroup, forge partnerships to shave overhead, increase efficiency

By Dennis Nishi
Special to the Tribune
Published June 25, 2005

25 June, 2005 | No comments

Placing Ads Site Unseen Part of Risk on Wild Web

Placing Ads Site Unseen Part of Risk on Wild Web

By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — The Web has flourished as a freewheeling medium that gives any interest an audience. But as big business has tried to capitalize on those audiences, advertisers increasingly find their brands popping up in the Internet’s darkest corners.

24 June, 2005 | 2 comments

Beyond Wi-Fi: Laptop Heaven But A Price - New York Times

Beyond Wi-Fi: Laptop Heaven But A Price - New York Times

By DAVID POGUE
E-mail: Pogue@nytimes.com
Published: June 23, 2005

PLENTY of technologies can get you online wirelessly these days, but there’s always a catch. Wi-Fi Internet hot spots are fast and cheap, but they keep you tethered to the airport, hotel or coffee shop where the hot spot originates. A Bluetooth cellphone can get your laptop online, but at the speed of a slug. And smoke signals - well, you know. The privacy issues are a nightmare.

23 June, 2005 | No comments

HoustonChronicle.Com - eBay Pushes Custom-Built Web Stores

HoustonChronicle.Com - eBay Pushes Custom-Built Web Stores

Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Eager to find new sources of income beyond its popular online auction format, eBay Inc. launched a new service today that encourages small- and medium-sized sellers to build Web stores that operate independent of the e-commerce powerhouse.

23 June, 2005 | No comments

SignOnSanDiego.Com > News > Technology — Who Wants To Buy Windows Without Its Media Player?

SignOnSanDiego.Com > News > Technology — Who Wants To Buy Windows Without Its Media Player?

Associated Press technology writer Sophie Nicholson offers a different perspective on the looming unveiling of the Microsoft XP N operating system.

Originally, I had posted generic information via DigitalStakeholders pertaining to Microsoft’s new Windows XP N operating system. Now, I am interested in sharing insights from the perspective of Microsoft XP N opponents.

By Sophie Nicholson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS – In Microsoft’s new operating system – Windows XP N – the “N” stands for “Not with Media Player.” But it might as well stand for “No Thanks.”

23 June, 2005 | No comments

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