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February 1, 2002
Wired News: Trillian Won't Heed AOL's Message. But after two years of this kind of conflict, the tumult over Trillian indicates something pretty simple: Although instant messaging is more popular than ever, an all-in-one system is something that many users desire -- even if that system is, as AOL claims, jerry-built.

Online Journalism Review: WSJ's $28 Million Renovation. Budde readily admits the new version is "more of a departure from the print publication than in the past." In fact, acknowledging the differences in the media was a core reason for sweeping changes in the way content is organized.

The Economist: How about now? GE's aim is to monitor everything in real time, Mr Reiner explains, calling up a special web page on his PC: a “digital dashboard”. From a distance it looks like a Mondrian canvas in green, yellow and red. A closer look reveals that the colours signal the status of software applications critical to GE's business.

News.Com: Plotting the revival of Ricochet. Our approach is, "Let's build a public-private partnership." We have to rent space on top of light poles to put our antennas on. Most of those poles are either owned by cities or utilities. So we have to lease the space from them. We're trying to get a better lease rate (than what Metricom was paying).

EE Times: Ultrawideband companies gear up for FCC ruling. On the brink of this month's expected FCC ruling on ultrawideband technology, a growing number of startups and established players are aiming their development efforts at leveraging UWB for streaming-multimedia applications in wireless home networking.

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