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The Internet Archive (Reference
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"Why the Archive is Building an 'Internet Library' Libraries exist
to preserve society's cultural artifacts and to provide access to
them. If libraries are to continue to foster education and scholarship
in this era of digital technology, it's essential for them to extend
those functions into the digital world. Many early movies were
recycled to recover the silver in the film. The Library of Alexandria
�?? an ancient center of learning containing a copy of... [Continued]
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Is Encryption Doomed? (Technology)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"Our entire information society rests on a fragile foundation that
mathematicians are racing to dismantle. It's not often that results
from conferences on mathematics make the news, but that's precisely
what happened last month at the annual Crypto conference in Santa
Barbara, CA when researchers from France, Israel, and China all showed
that they had discovered flaws in a widely used algorithm called
MD5--an algorithm that I wrote about in some detail last month. The...
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Spacecrafts powered by thunder (Space)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"Thunderous sound waves could one day propel spacecraft to the
edge of the solar system, say engineers who have developed a new type
of acoustic engine. Current long-range spacecraft - like the
US-European Cassini probe now orbiting Saturn - roam too far from the
Sun to use solar power so instead carry plutonium bricks to fuel their
engines. As the radioactive plutonium decays, it generates heat that
produces an electric current between two different types... [Continued]
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Net ads ring up rising sales (Business)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Jeff Partridge
Sales from online advertising hit $4.6 billion in the first half
of 2004, up more than 40 percent from the same period the previous
year, according to a new U.S. study. And in the second quarter, online
ad sales reached $2.37 billion, up 42.7 percent compared with the same
quarter in 2003, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and auditor
PricewaterhouseCoopers said in the report, released Monday. The
biggest winner was paid search, or ads linked... [Continued]
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Microsoft backs up disk-based backup plans
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Link to Friends | Posted by Jeff Partridge
"Looking to get further into the storage business, Microsoft
announced on Monday that it plans to enter the market for disk-based
backup and recovery products. The company, however, will be entering a
segment of the storage market that is already crowded with such
established players as Veritas Software. Analysts anticipate that
Microsoft will focus on the low end of the market and later try to
penetrate the high end, on which Veritas focuses. "Customers are...
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Is There a Sign Saying "Intel Inseide" on Your
Dream Home? (Hardware)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Jeff Partridge
"Intel announced on Monday fresh investments in five companies
developing technologies for its digital home project. The investments,
from Intel Capital's $200 million Digital Home Fund, will go to five
software and hardware firms: CableMatrix, Mediabolic, Pure Networks,
BridgeCo and Envivio. Intel didn't give specific financial details.
Zurich, Switzerland-based BridgeCo designs chips and software for
wirelessly connecting PCs to consumer electronics devices. CableMatrix
is based in Atlanta and Jerusalem and is working on an "on-demand...
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Security firm looks to hire alleged Sasser
author (Security)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Jeff Partridge
The teenage virus writer arrested for writing the Sasser worm has
been offered a job--at a security firm. Sven Jaschan, an 18-year-old
German, who is also thought to be behind the Netsky virus and is
currently awaiting trial on virus-writing charges, could be about to
enter gainful employment with German firewall company Securepoint.
Securepoint says it would teach the ex-malware maker to be a security
programmer. The security vendor says it would like to hire... [Continued]
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Yahoo! to Challenge iTunes With New
Acquisition (Business)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
Free registration required to read the article. "In a move to
expand its role in the online music business, Yahoo! announced
yesterday that it would buy Musicmatch, a company that sells music
online, for $160 million. The move puts Yahoo! in direct competition
with Apple Computer's iTunes, Microsoft's new music store, and
RealNetworks in the small but growing market for online downloads of
music.... [Continued]
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Are you technophobic? (Misc News)
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"I am a computer geek. I am a coveted person, for I offer mostly
free labour to family, colleagues and friends who aren't so good with
computers. "For anyone out there with an advanced knowledge of
computers, this is your Golden Age.... [Continued]
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50 Tracks (Entertainment)
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"Thousands of CDs are released each year by thousands of artists
in an ever expanding array of genres�?�it's been happening for decades
and it's getting harder and harder to figure out what should be in
your collection! How is a music lover, casual or devoted, to have any
chance of knowing what to buy? What's good? What's going to last? How
can a person find the music that matters? 50 tracks. 100 years. One
great... [Continued]
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