October 29, 2003
NY Times: Web Group Backs Microsoft in Patent Suit.
The Web consortium has representatives from many technology companies, including competitors of Microsoft. But after discussions among the consortium members, the group agreed that there was an overriding broader interest in challenging the patent, thus helping Microsoft.
SJ Mercury: 5 'exabytes' of information created in '02, report says.
That task appealed to two masters of the megabyte, Peter Lyman and Hal Varian, professors at the University of California-Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. Their first project to quantify the world's information in 2000 attracted so much interest that they decided to count it all over again this year.
EE Times: Nortel to test public WLAN architecture with BT, MIT.
The P-WLAN architecture includes peer-to-peer access point capabilities; with smart antennas, integrated routers and adaptive routing and security capabilities — to backhaul data wirelessly to wired broadband networks.
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