March 8, 2001
Internet Week: Cut The Cord.
The future is wireless, or so we're told. While vendors work out the formula for devices and services that will put wireless clients into every consumer's hands, at least one wireless networking technology has moved out of the early-adopter stage.
eWEEK: Microsoft's Hailstorm to hit.
The Hailstorm design preview, restricted to a group of developers and content providers, ties into Microsoft's .Net strategy to have computers, devices and services collaborate directly with each other in a peer-to-peer format.
Computerworld: Users, vendors face off over UCITA law in Texas.
A titanic struggle over the proposed new Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act -- one that pits large corporate users against a group of major technology vendors -- is under way in Texas and could become a key showdown for the controversial software licensing measure.
Wired News: The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet?
Though distributed computing evokes associations with populist initiatives like SETI@home, where individuals donate their spare computing power to worthy projects, the Grid will link PCs to each other and the scientific community like never before.
Interactive Week: DeCSS 2? DVD code broken again.
Last week, a Web site published the pair's seven-line program, which unscrambles the protection around a DVD so quickly that a movie can play at the same time, although the film appears choppy. It's the shortest program to break DVD defenses to date.
News.Com: Inktomi gives Web sites control--for a price.
The introduction Wednesday of Inktomi's Index Connect lets large Web sites pay to make sure they're included in the company's search index. The service gives sites control over how often their sites are indexed and what specific pages are included.
NY Times: Forget Net Taxes. Forget Sales Taxes Altogether.
Hal R. Varian. But allow me to propose a more radical solution: states should drop the sales tax entirely and substitute other ways of raising revenue. The sales tax is one of the worst taxes we have, and no amount of chewing gum and bailing wire will fix it.
Red Herring: Software agents get smart.
How do businesses and consumers protect their computer systems from being abused or destroyed? Dr. Steven Goldsmith, a former research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, believes he has the solution. It involves using a team of autonomous software agents...
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