March 30, 2004
WIRED: Moore's Second Law.
What we need is a fourth axis of development - a systematic improvement of overall system efficiency, from the individual silicon gate, through motherboards and displays, all the way up to the Internet itself. How do we do it? Exhaustively.
eWEEK: Google Getting Personal with Search.
Both of the services are available from the Google Labs site; Google did not provide details on when they would be launched as full products. "Today, Google takes the first step in providing personal search results based on users' preferences," Larry Page...
NY Times: Broad Gains in Online Shopping.
The data provide context for the maturation of the online retail industry, which is expected to sell roughly $120 billion worth of goods this year, according to Forrester Research. The data also indicate that lofty expectations of broad e-commerce by the late 1990's were not unrealistic, just premature.
EE Times: Sony studio bets on Blu-Ray; Nokia mixes radio, TV and cellular.
A studio affiliated with Sony Corp. on Monday became the first to officially commit to launching its new titles on the Blu-ray high definition disk format. Meanwhile, a new business unit of Nokia said it is developing separate services that mix cellular data with FM radio and digital broadcast TV.
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