james
06-02-2003, 11:39 AM
The Inquirer
Kazaa, Brilliant move will spanner MPAA, RIAA
"This is where Brilliant is, well, brilliant. Their plan is to send out content to users of Kazaa, in an encrypted form, and 'hide' it on their machines. The users don't have any idea what content they have on the computers, and while technical details are still scarce, any single user will probably not have anything close to the full file on their system, this would only encourage hacking."
Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9801)
AMD Opterons to power fastest Japanese supercomputer:
Visual Tech machine runs at 1000 gigaflops plus
"A PARALLEL PROCESSING supercomputer which uses 512 AMD Opteron processors will be delivered to a Japanese university using this year."
Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9790)
AOL assimilated by the Microsoft Borg
"WHILE SOME technology-impaired Wall Street "analysts", pro-Microsoft lobby groups, like the Association for Competitive Technology, and "easy-money" stockholders cheered the recent AOL-Microsoft settlement, people on the open source front have been experiencing lots of fear and uncertainty after news of this deal broke out. There is a record level of internal turnoil at Netscape, sources say."
Full Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9802)
Sony outlines Playstation 3 CELL plans
"SONY IS TO plunge at least ¥300 billion into developing, testing and making its CELL semiconductors, an integral feature of future Playstations.
And it also will debut a new Clie personal digital assistant (PDA) which will rely heavily upon in house semiconductor expertise, which will have audio/visual and IT functions." Check out the linked article on the Inquirer page for more information.
Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9794)
Kazaa, Brilliant move will spanner MPAA, RIAA
"This is where Brilliant is, well, brilliant. Their plan is to send out content to users of Kazaa, in an encrypted form, and 'hide' it on their machines. The users don't have any idea what content they have on the computers, and while technical details are still scarce, any single user will probably not have anything close to the full file on their system, this would only encourage hacking."
Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9801)
AMD Opterons to power fastest Japanese supercomputer:
Visual Tech machine runs at 1000 gigaflops plus
"A PARALLEL PROCESSING supercomputer which uses 512 AMD Opteron processors will be delivered to a Japanese university using this year."
Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9790)
AOL assimilated by the Microsoft Borg
"WHILE SOME technology-impaired Wall Street "analysts", pro-Microsoft lobby groups, like the Association for Competitive Technology, and "easy-money" stockholders cheered the recent AOL-Microsoft settlement, people on the open source front have been experiencing lots of fear and uncertainty after news of this deal broke out. There is a record level of internal turnoil at Netscape, sources say."
Full Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9802)
Sony outlines Playstation 3 CELL plans
"SONY IS TO plunge at least ¥300 billion into developing, testing and making its CELL semiconductors, an integral feature of future Playstations.
And it also will debut a new Clie personal digital assistant (PDA) which will rely heavily upon in house semiconductor expertise, which will have audio/visual and IT functions." Check out the linked article on the Inquirer page for more information.
Article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9794)