October 27, 2003
Slate: The Best Search Idea Since Google.
Steven Johnson. For logical reasons, Amazon seems to have designed "search inside" to help readers find text in books that they haven't bought yet. But there's just as much opportunity to apply "search inside" to books you already own.
NY Times: Web Redesigns for the Holidays.
Analysts say the efforts are improving online shopping for millions of consumers, who this holiday season will be doing business with an industry that increasingly understands how to help customers shop with a minimum of frustration.
Computerworld: DNS servers prove resilient.
But the lack of security at lower levels of the DNS stack remains worrisome, according to security experts. And progress on a critical security enhancement designed to add data authentication and integrity services to the DNS protocol remains disappointingly slow, they added.
InfoWorld: Cerf: ICANN finally working on 'substantive issues'.
Speaking during a conference call from Carthage Monday, Cerf said that the organization has been bogged down in organization issues and is just now able to deal with "substantive issues" such as how to expand the Internet and shore up its security.
NY Times: With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster?
Major music industry groups are reserving comment, while some legal experts say the M.I.T. system mainly demonstrates how unwieldy copyright laws have become. A novel approach to serving up music on demand from one of the nation's leading technical institutions is only fitting, admirers of the project say.
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