i always wished there was a search engine-like system to help me find my keys. now it seems like Woz’s new company might be able to pull it off using inexpensive GPS … Satellite Start-Up for Apple Co-Founder

Corporate spending on technology is expected to inch ahead 3 percent in 2002, Merrill Lynch said, as companies refocus their priorities amid ever-tightening budgets and a heightened emphasis on security.

From: Merrill sees 3 percent IT spending spur – Tech News – CNET.com

NY Times article talks about how “the current confluence of crisis and technology appears to be prompting a reassessment of old thinking about the way big organizations should organize people.”

for example, “Procter & Gamble aims to use alternative workplace arrangements to save $300 million annually in reduced real estate costs and higher productivity …”

and it’s comforting to know that our skills are sill “marketable” :-)

“Failed dot-commers are moving into the online porn business”
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2094687,00.html

i’d like to believe this is true: “…venture capitalists say for the first time since January they expect the technology investing climate to stabilize and set the stage for more investment activity”
From: VCs: Tech-investing gloom to clear – Tech News – CNET.com

will there be any consumer focused broadband providers left?
“Excite@Home and its accountants said Monday that the company may not be
able to continue operations, especially if the Nasdaq Stock Market delists
its shares.”
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6928152.html?tag=mn_hd

no shit … “According to a paper released last month by the School of
Information Management and Systems at the University of California at
Berkeley, the regional Bell operating companies … have maintained
‘unreasonable delays’ in providing D.S.L. connections to Internet service
providers while charging wholesale prices that are ‘unjustifiably high.’”
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/06/technology/06DSL.html

From Doc Searls BuzzPhraser ™

hey … i think i know this guy … found on Slashdot: jfruhlinger writes: “The San Francisco Chronicle ran this story about the very first laptop, and the fact that it’s still in use by non-hobbyists. It’s biggest selling point is apparently its indestructable nature.”

found on Geeknews: “Stephen Chou …a Princeton University electrical engineer has created CDs that can concentrate data 800 times more efficiently than current discs.” [more here]