February 2, 2004
Washington Post: Flexible Display Screens Readied for Production.
But a more modest rollable display -- the first to be truly mass-produced -- is now being churned out at the rate of 100 per week and may reach production levels of 1 million a year by the end of next year, said Bas J.E. van Rens, general manager of Polymer Vision, the division of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands that makes the display.
InfoWorld: EU launches power line Net initiative.
Even if several high-profile companies have long pulled the plug on a technology that transmits data over power lines at high speeds, the EU hopes its support of power line communications will help overcome technical hurdles and lead to greater competition in the broadband market.
NY Times: Gates Backs E-Mail Stamp in War on Spam.
The idea has been dismissed both as impractical and against the free spirit of the Internet. Now, though, the idea of e-mail postage is getting a second look from the owners of the two largest e-mail systems in the world, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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