Saturday, July 17, 2004
acquisitions
Yahoo Mail bought Oddpost - one of the best web based email programs out there. Oddpost uses DHTML to create a very rich client, like a streamlined Outlook. It's Windows IE only, unfortunately. But combine that with the 2GB of storage Yahoo Mail is offering paid customers and you have a very compelling offering. No word on when the second generation Mail will debut.
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Bright idea: LEDs poised to replace light bulbs
By R. Colin Johnson
EE Times
July 23, 2004 (1:00 PM EDT)
PORTLAND, Ore. — A recent advance in light-emitting diodes may illuminate the path to replacing light bulbs with LEDs within the next five years, according to researchers.
Fred Schubert, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.), claims to have invented a 99-percent efficient reflector that promises to speed the replacement of light bulbs with LEDs.
"Until now, all lighting systems, especially incandescent bulbs, generated more heat than light. But our 99-percent efficient reflectors for LEDs makes them the first candidate for light-bulb replacement that generates more light than heat," said Schubert.
By tipping the scales towards more light than heat, Schubert said, there's also light at the end of the tunnel. He envisions white LEDs beginning to replace incandescent light bulbs within five years. Schubert has so far only demonstrated his omnidirectional reflector LEDs in red and blue, achieving more than twice the brightness of earlier LEDs. The next step is to demonstrate white LEDs for light- bulb replacement.
The rest of the story
And just in case you miss it, this is an investment idea!
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Friday, July 16, 2004
NoW with Bill Moyer tonight on your local PBS station
NoW with Bill Moyer tonight on your local PBS station
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IE May Share Shell Hole Found in Mozilla
On the same day that Microsoft released seven new security bulletins for the Windows operating system, four new "extremely critical" vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer Web browser were announced Tuesday by a Denmark-based computer security firm.
The vulnerabilities discovered by Secunia aren't based on errors in the code of IE, according to Jerry Brady, chief services officer at VeriSign's Managed Security Services (formerly Guardent). Instead, he said, they're caused by weaknesses in the design of IE and of Web browsers in general.
"You have to wonder if it ever makes sense in any case to accept code from a server and run it without authentication," Brady said in an interview with eWEEK.com. "Web browsers have lots of things in their functionality now that are well beyond what their original purpose was. It's hard to imagine a Web browser ever being very secure."
The rest of the story . Im looking for info on Opera, but no one is talking about that browser.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
OK ! It's back to the Airport. They now have her Laptop. And they'll gave her $100 voucher for
Picking it up, cause she really doesn't want them to have an longer then they need to. More on why NOT to travel ATA Air. So, here's something to hold on to for today...
It's just like flying ATA Air.
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Creating Web Page Shortcuts
Instead of adding a Web page to the Internet Explorer Favorites folder, you can create a shortcut to the Web on your computer's desktop (and after that put in a folder for "web sites"). That way, you can open the Web page (and launch your default browser at the same time, (if it's not already open) simply by clicking the shortcut icon.
To place a shortcut to a Web page on your desktop, follow these steps:
In the browser, open the Web page to which you want to create a shortcut.
Choose File, Send, Shortcut to Desktop.
Your browser creates a shortcut to the current Web page, with the title of the page beneath a Web icon.
To rename the Web page shortcut, click the Show Desktop button on the Quick Launch toolbar to display the desktop and then right-click the new shortcut icon and choose Rename from its shortcut menu.
After editing characters or replacing the entire name, press Enter.
If the browsing window isn't full size (as is the case when you click the Restore button in the upper-right corner of the window), you can create a shortcut to the Web page that you're currently viewing by dragging the Web page icon to the desktop. (This icon appears at the beginning of the Address bar, in front of the URL of the current Web page.)
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Monday, July 12, 2004
Sorry about that but I was pick up someone at the Airport
You know 3 hrs. round trip and when one is in the BIG city you just have to doing something "BigCityish". Look Mom, I invented a new word
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Run, Don't Walk, from Internet Explorer
July 12, 2004 By Brian Livingston
I'm afraid it's time this week for me to speak the unspeakable — you have to stop using Internet Explorer. You have to stop using it now.
Usually in this space, I write about some secret or little-known technology that I can reveal to my readers. This time, I'm forced to cover a topic that many computer security experts have been talking about for months or years: we need to drive a stake through Internet Explorer's heart.
From Healthy Competition to a Monolithic Shell
The latest and greatest security threat, in which Russian hackers were able to infect hundreds if not thousands of corporate Web sites and use them to install Trojan horse programs on visitors' PCs, marked a turning point. Even US-CERT, a respected nonprofit security clearinghouse, recommended in June that Windows users "use a different Web browser" than Microsoft's free IE program.
In my view, the Firefox browser is coming on as a strong threat to IE. Emerging from the Mozilla team, Firefox is still at a beta level of development. But it's well into the 0.9x stage and should "go gold" with its slick tabbed interface as early as September.
The older Mozilla browser itself is currently the most widely used of all the IE alternatives. But that number of users merely represents low single digits of market share and the product may soon be eclipsed by Firefox.
Opera, developed by a Norwegian company, has had some success providing Web access in advanced cell phones, but it's still stuck at only about 1% of desktop PC users. Even so, with major IE users desperate to get off the treadmill of constant updates and patches, any alternative — even a little-used browser — starts to look good.
The hold story
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Sunday, July 11, 2004
Wi-Fi Industry Sees First Shakeout of HOTSPOTS
From a newsletter by
jwire.com
Two of the leading national Wi-Fi hotspot
brands shut down in April
and May: Toshiba SurfHere decided to exit the Wi-Fi
market moving some of
its venues to Cometa Networks; Cometa Networks then
announced that it
couldn't raise money to continue its efforts.
Both Toshiba and Cometa were in trials with
McDonald's to unwire the
chain's 12,000-plus U.S. restaurants. The third
member of the trial,
Wayport, won the contract, leading to Toshiba's
exit and apparently to
Cometa's demise.
Analysts don't see Toshiba and Cometa's
departure as significant. Both
networks had just over 300 hotspots before losing
their McDonald's locations
to Wayport. Cometa had 100 locations in the Seattle
area split among several
regional chains and a few malls.
The expectation is that there will be fewer
companies building Wi-Fi
hotspots, but that the ones remaining, with less
competition, should have an
easier time and spend less effort signing up more
locations.THANKS STEELHOOF
D
jwire.com
Two of the leading national Wi-Fi hotspot
brands shut down in April
and May: Toshiba SurfHere decided to exit the Wi-Fi
market moving some of
its venues to Cometa Networks; Cometa Networks then
announced that it
couldn't raise money to continue its efforts.
Both Toshiba and Cometa were in trials with
McDonald's to unwire the
chain's 12,000-plus U.S. restaurants. The third
member of the trial,
Wayport, won the contract, leading to Toshiba's
exit and apparently to
Cometa's demise.
Analysts don't see Toshiba and Cometa's
departure as significant. Both
networks had just over 300 hotspots before losing
their McDonald's locations
to Wayport. Cometa had 100 locations in the Seattle
area split among several
regional chains and a few malls.
The expectation is that there will be fewer
companies building Wi-Fi
hotspots, but that the ones remaining, with less
competition, should have an
easier time and spend less effort signing up more
locations.THANKS STEELHOOF
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