April 28, 2001
InfoWorld: Twist in Intuit's crippleware techniques doubles the cost of its tax-table service.
Some QuickBooks users, particularly very small businesses with a handful of employees, felt the crippled payroll feature was intended to force them to sign up for a service they didn't need. Intuit officials argued it was all for customers' own good...
Wired News: How to Crack Open an E-Book.
A hacker claims he or she has cracked the code and can remove the encryption on e-books in the RocketBook format, allowing the extraction of the content as plain text. At the end of March, the hacker started making this information available publicly...
The Register: Google restores Usenet archive, plans posting.
Google overnight yanked the Deja backup tape out from under the Foosball table, where it had been propping up that wobbly leg, and now much of Deja's historic Usenet archive is online again. Google also plans to add the ability to post Usenet message by mid-May...
Wired News: Optical's Fast Track to Networks.
A new wireless networking technology has been developed by Texas Instruments that could lead to extremely fast broadband networks for homes and offices. TI has developed a new form of wireless Ethernet based on infrared lasers and miniature mirrors.
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