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March 28, 2001

Napster’s Million Download March

“Used to be they’d gather in Washington, D.C. to discuss civil rights and freedom. These days, it’s all about the right to download copyrighted material. Will you join Napster in its ’teach-in’ next Tuesday at the Capitol? Declan McCullagh reports from Washington.”

From: Wired News

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March 28, 2001

Virus hits both Linux and Windows

i got this one from john: “A computer virus that can infect PCs running either the ubiquitous Windows operating system or the increasingly popular Linux operating system emerged on Tuesday, which its discoverers say is a world first.”

From: News: Virus hits both Linux and Windows

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March 28, 2001

Give us all your money – or we shoot 100k DSL customers

it doesn’t look like the NorthPoint / AT&T DSL debacle is getting any better!

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March 27, 2001

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Public Preview

Internet Explorer 6 Public Preview

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March 27, 2001

DSL’s single point of falure

more fallout from Northpoint’s bankruptcy … “Some of Northpoint’s larger ISP customers, like Telocity Inc., are in the process of switching to other wholesale carriers. But the uncertainty is leading some ISPs with smaller DSL operations to get out of the business.”

From: Quicken.com NewsCenter

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March 27, 2001

Freedom Controller

I’m not sure what this is, but aparently Adam Curry is trying to create his own version of MTV with the Personal Television Transceiver: The FreedomController

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March 27, 2001

Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc

“Finding and organizing information is the No. 1 problem in technology”

MWT’s mission: “to help people gain control of their digital data through software that lets them find their files more easily.”

Their product, Scopeware, is basically a P2P client, like gnutella, but designed for corporate use.

They have an interesting solution to the document management issue, because documents are stored on employees’ hard drives, but it doesn’t help document collaboration.

Here’s the Business Week article about them. (thanks kim)

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March 26, 2001

Circumvent the telcos!

Build a community wireless network! A mention of it on GeekNews led me to some interesting “open source-ish” projects where by groups of people are connecting their SoHo WANs together to create P2P wireless backbones. Sweet!

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March 23, 2001

AT&T Acquires Assets of NorthPoint Communications

eek … time to find a new DSL provider: AT&T Acquires Assets of NorthPoint Communications

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March 23, 2001

Study tracks Net’s social implications

A three-year study, conducted by Pew Internet and American Life Project, has some interesting results … like, “People worry about online privacy but easily give it away” and “57 percent of the people still without Internet access have no intention of getting it” … change is hard :-)

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