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Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Jeremy Zawodny on Yahoo getting Slashdotted. [Scripting News]
3:05:19 PM

Dell: Who needs a floppy disk?. The PC maker offers an alternative to floppy disks ("They will eventually go away," an exec says): a small, removable storage device called a USB Memory Key. [CNET News.com]
9:58:36 AM

AIM And ICQ to be Integrated

AIM And ICQ to be Integrated
Posted by CowboyNeal on Tuesday October 29, @07:06PM
from the annoying-desktop-sounds-increased dept.
sam writes "According to this InfoWorld article the next version of America Online's Instant Messenger will allow users to communicate with ICQ users in a move that will bridge the gap between the company's two popular chat services. Maybe AOL finally woke up and realized people were using IM clients that have both in them." I still use only IRC for messaging, but this is gonna make things easier for a lot of users.

[Slashdot]

9:54:07 AM

RealNetworks Releases Digital Media Player Code. SEATTLE (Reuters) - RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK.O) on Tuesday made the source code for its Internet media playing software available for other software and hardware makers to use in their products, in a push to make its technology the industry standard before rival Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) does. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
9:50:32 AM

Luck of the draw - Computerworld - Our 2002 survey of IT professionals shows more than half (59.7%) of the 9,138 respondents had an average 6% uptick in their salaries, although more than 70% of respondents were flatlined on bonuses. Conversely, the average increase in pay for U.S. workers was just 4% this year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
9:37:44 AM

ICANN critics may create rival Internet administration group - Computerworld -
The idea, Courtney said, is that a number of TLD holders may want to take over some of the Internet's administrative work now done by ICANN under a contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The so-called Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) maintains administrative contacts for the Internet, updates name servers and completes other administrative tasks, he said.
Under an idea being floated at the ICANN meetings, some TLD holders are thinking of making their own bid for the next IANA contract, which expires at the end of March.
9:28:46 AM

eWEEK - Office 11 Snubs Windows 9x, Me
Microsoft Corp. has told beta testers of Office 11, its next-version Office desktop productivity suite, that the product will only work with the Windows 2000 operating system with Service Pack 3 installed, Windows XP and later desktop releases.
This means that the more than 50 percent of the Redmond, Wash., software company's installed customer base, who still run Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium, will not be able to upgrade to Office 11 when it is released next year without first upgrading to at least Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 installed.
9:21:30 AM

TheOpenEnterprise.com - MySQL Takes on the Enterprise - There have been open source databases available for some time, but none has arguably reached a level of use and popularity as MySQL. The source code for the database is now maintained by MySQL AB, a highly-distributed company with a novel go-to-market strategy: it offers the database completely free under a General Public License and for a fee without the GPL requirements. For both cases, the company also provides for-fee -- as well as large doses of free -- support.
9:07:14 AM