Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Virtual Keyboard a Reality "Yahoo has a photo and blurb here about a Virtual Keyboard That shows a photo and bit of text on a virtual keyboard for Palm and other mobile devices. Applications seen for mobile computing, as well as areas where a standard, physical keyboard are not practical. Very cool stuff from Siemens!"  [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
2:10:46 PM    

EBay to Drop Proposed Privacy Change. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Bowing to protests, online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Tuesday it will drop a proposed privacy policy change that privacy advocates claimed would weaken the rights of eBay users. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
1:47:08 PM    

Microsoft Warns of Java Security Hole in Windows. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) has released a bulletin advising of a second vulnerability in software that allows Windows users to run programs written in Java, a Microsoft program manager said on Tuesday. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
1:46:55 PM    

Chinese Outdid Columbus, Briton Says. A British historian says he has gathered evidence showing that the Chinese beat Columbus to America and also circumnavigated the globe before the Magellan voyage. By John Noble Wilford. [New York Times: Education]
1:46:34 PM    

President of Cornell to Step Down in 2003. Hunter R. Rawlings III, who since 1995 has presided over a period of financial prosperity and growth at Cornell University, announced he would step down as president. By Karen W. Arenson. [New York Times: Education]
1:46:07 PM    

Gates to Create 70 Schools for Disadvantaged. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is putting up more than $40 million to create high schools that will give disadvantaged students college-level work. By Karen W. Arenson. [New York Times: Education]
1:45:56 PM    

Supreme Court Seems Ready to Extend School Drug Tests. The Supreme Court, hearing arguments in an Oklahoma case, appeared inclined toward authorizing an expansion in drug testing beyond the category of student athletes. By Linda Greenhouse. [New York Times: Education]
1:45:32 PM    

Woolly Mammoths and Tigers and Sloths, Oh My!. Because it lacks the comic sophistication of pictures like "Monsters, Inc." and "Shrek," this blandly likable computer-animation extravaganza seems like a relic from another era. By Elvis Mitchell. [New York Times: Movies]
1:40:32 PM    

Making Fun of Cop Movies. Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy star in what is meant to be a satire of cop movies and reality television. But satire is not a vaccine against stupidity. By A. O. Scott. [New York Times: Movies]
1:40:14 PM    

ORBZ shuts up shop, cites criminal charges  ORBZ, the anti-spam blacklisting service, is shutting down.

Ian Gulliver, the administrator of ORBZ (Open Relay Blocking Zone), sent a message to its mailing list explaining that the service was been shut down because of "criminal charges for denial of service relating to the Lotus Domino issue".

Last August, Gulliver sent a message to the BugTraq mailing list stating that the ORBZ scanner creates "oddly formed mail envelopes that can cause Lotus Domino to enter a mail routing loop" resulted in the crash of a mail server.

The issue, which we're told was never particularly serious, was fixed in Lotus Domino version R5.0.9 [The Register]
1:30:17 PM    

Pay for Content? Ha, Say Users. Online publishers who think subscriptions are the key to their success are wrong, wrong, wrong, according to a panel at the Jupiter Media Forum. Noah Shachtman reports from New York. [Wired News]


8:11:27 AM    

To online publishing and entertainment firms looking to start charging for their content, there was a simple message from today's Jupiter Media Forum: Don't hold your breath.

In a flat advertising market, many Internet content companies are hoping to get consumers to pay a subscription fee for their news, music or video programming. But Jupiter Media Metrix analyst David Card quickly dashed that dream in the opening session of this conference of media and marketing executives.

Seventy percent of online adults surveyed by Jupiter, he said, can't understand why anyone would pay for any online content

SEUL.org: Linux in Education Report #66 [Linux Today]
8:08:04 AM    

Small Disc Makes Big Music. A 500 MB DataPlay disc will hold 11 hours of MP3 files. That's five hours of CD-quality music, and it'll be available in media players this May. By Andy Patrizio. [Wired News]

DataPlay has secured four major record labels, representing more than half of the popular music market, to support its new digital media, which promises to be far less expensive and offer higher capacity than flash memory.

DataPlay's blank media are very small, about the size of a quarter, but hold 500 MB of data. The company is aiming to put its discs in music players, digital cameras, digital camcorders, PCs, PDAs and handheld games -- but will start with music players.

The format will handle music and video.  Players will be $300-$400, will include a small LCD screen capable of showing video and can be plugged into your home audio system.


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