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America Shops for a President
Media watchers have long learned to pay attention to the Lycos 50 and the Technorati’s Top 100 blogs to get a feel for what is interesting the public at the moment. These indexes show us when a particular teen star…
Google Bombs Itself?
Try this now: Go to Google, enter “out of touch management,” and click “I’m Feeling Lucky.” You might be surprised to see whose executive roster shows up. According to two paragraphs buried in a New York Times story today about…
Gmail Philanthropy for the Troops
Since Gmail’s invitation-only beta launch in April, Google’s free e-mail service has become the hottest ticket on the Web, with techies setting up websites to swap (and even sell) the coveted invites. Now, to help support U.S. troops in Afghanistan…
Hollywood Hires Mind Readers
Here’s some creepy news for those of you who think that brain science has been more than a little over-rated: Hollywood is now working with a researcher at Cal Tech who promises them insights into “neuromarketing,” that is, he uses…
Wireless Isn't What You Think It Is
Dartmouth’s Computer Science Department has released a technical report comparing actual wireless network performance with what both models and most people think wireless performance actually is.Quoting from the abstract: Although it is tempting to assume that all radios have circular…
Akamai Suffers Denial-of-Service Attack
Akamai has suffered a denial-of-service attack affecting its major customers, including Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo. There is a minor report at vnunet.com . A more detailed report can be found at news.netcraft.com.Akamai’s chief scientist Tom Leighton says that the attack,…
The Changing Usage of a Mature Campus-wide Wireless Network
Dartmouth College has put out a really interesting technical report about the way that use of their 802.11 Wi-Fi network has changed over time.Part of their abstract:We employ several measurement techniques, including syslogs, telephone records, SNMP polling and tcpdump packet…
Symbian Mobile Phone Virus
A group of hackers somewhere has created a virus for the Symbian mobile phones. It propagates by Bluetooth, according to this interesting and even somewhat informative article.Is this worrisome? Absolutely. The Symbian operating system has been marketed as a “secure”…
Yahoo's Preemptive Strike against Gmail
While Google continues limited beta tests of its new Gmail service, which offers one gigabyte of online storage, Yahoo has gone the search king one better, offering two gigabytes of storage to subscribers to its premium e-mail package, up from…
Bush Heading for Trouble on Stem Cells?
A survey released today by the Results for America project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute reveals that almost 75 percent of Americans support former First Lady Nancy Reagan’s call for the Bush White House to lift restrictions…