Topic: COMPUTER - on May 27, 2004 at 1:56:00 PM CEST
Yahoo Adds Anti-Spyware Feature to Browser Toolbar
Internet media company Yahoo Inc. unveiled a feature on Wednesday for its Web browser toolbar aimed at making it easier for users to remove unwanted "spyware" programs that snoop on Web surfing habits and other activities. Yahoo's move comes amid increasing competition for Web surfers against rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which also offer popular browser toolbars, in the market for search and information services, along with related advertising.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 27, 2004 at 12:56:00 PM CEST
Where Have All The Users Gone?
One of my favorite tools for studying trends on the web is Alexa's traffic anlaysis tool. (From that link, select a "site info" for one of the sites listed on that page, and then click on the "see traffic details" link on the subsequent page and you'll see what I'm talking about.)
From time to time I take a look up various sites within Alexa's tool to see how things are doing. I was astonished to see what the trends are in the past six months, for many of the sites I visit.
In a word, the trend is down.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 26, 2004 at 7:51:00 PM CEST
Get Rich Playing Computer Games
A 24 yr old South Korea man plays computer games all day and makes a six figure sum doing it.
Computer games are now becoming a spectator sport and is televised as spectators admire the stars.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 26, 2004 at 3:10:00 PM CEST
USB adaptors & DIY antenna = "Poor Man's WiFi" ?
Make 2.4GHz parabolic mesh dishes from cheap but sturdy Chinese cookware scoops & a USB WiFi adaptor ! The largest (300mm diam)shows 15-18dB gain (enough for a LOS range extension to 3-5km), costs ~US$5 & comes with a user friendly bamboo handle that suits WLAN fieldwork- if you can handle the curious stares!
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 25, 2004 at 7:57:00 PM CEST
Slashdot visitors give us a break
Welcome Slashdot visitors, again. Can’t you guys give us a break? ;)
You know the drill, some parts of the site will be static while the wave rides out.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 25, 2004 at 7:42:00 PM CEST
MS: Windows für Supercomputer
Microsoft gründete ein Team, das damit beauftragt ist, eine Windows-Version für Supercomputer zu schreiben. Dieses Betriebssystem soll dann den Namen 'Windows Server HPC Edition' tragen.
Damit reagiert Microsoft auf Linux, das bisher bei Supercomputern und auf Clustern weitestgehend zum Einsatz kam. Derzeit werden neue Manager, Programmierer, Tester und weitere Team-Mitglieder gesucht und angeheuert.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 25, 2004 at 2:35:00 PM CEST
Roboter faltet Papierflieger
Ein amerikanischer Student hat einen Roboter entwickelt, der in der japanischen Origami-Tradition Papierflugzeuge oder -hüte faltet.
Was ein achtjähriges Kind spielend beherrscht, musste Devin Balkcom von der Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh mühevoll in Programmcode abbilden. Eine weitere Herausforderung war die technische Umsetzung.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 25, 2004 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Cisco Systems präsentiert das schnellste Router-System: 92 Terabit/Sekunde
Der Netzwerkspezialist Cisco hat laut eigenen Angaben das derzeit schnellste Router-System vorgestellt. Das System mit der Bezeichnung 'Carrier Routing System CRS-1' ist in der Lage maximal 92 Terabits pro Sekunde zu übertragen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 24, 2004 at 6:57:00 PM CEST
Internettelefonie (VoIP) für alle Anwender
Der Voice-over-IP-Provider PURtel hat die Internettelefonie grundlegend erweitert. Ab Ende Mai soll es auch für 56kBit/s-Modem und ISDN-Anbindungen möglich sein, qualitative und komfortable Telefonate zu führen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 24, 2004 at 6:29:00 PM CEST
Microsoft loses Lindows appeal
Microsoft has been refused permission to appeal its case against Lindows.
The verdict means that the case will go before the district courts in Seattle in the second half of this year. The case should last about two weeks.
Microsoft is taking Lindows to court in several countries claiming the Linux company is infringing its trademarks. Lindows changed its name to Lin---s but Microsoft lawyers claimed this was pronounced "Lindash", which "bears an auditive resemblance to Windows."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 24, 2004 at 3:54:00 PM CEST
Microsoft behind $12 million payment to Opera
Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software $12.75 million to head off a threatened lawsuit over code that made some Web pages on MSN look bad in certain versions of Opera's Web browser, CNET News.com has learned.
Opera disclosed the payment last week in a terse press release that omitted other details, including the name of the settling party and the nature of the dispute.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 24, 2004 at 3:17:00 PM CEST
Tarnadresse des BKA nach GMX-Fehlermeldung aufgeflogen
Wie die Betreiber der Internetseite www.linkeseite.de heute durch einen Fehler bei der Newsletterzustellung herausfanden, ist die Emailadresse gipfelsturm11@gmx.net dem BKA zuzuordnen.
Der heutige Newsletter konnte nicht wie gewohnt zugestellt werden. Stattdessen erhielten die Betreiber eine automatisch erstellte GMX-Fehlermeldung, aus der eine Weiterleitung an die Adresse ST11ISAGipfel@bka.bund.de hervorgeht.
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