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AOL patents IM?

Begin forwarded message: > From: “Mr. FoRK” > Date: Thu Dec 19, 2002 9:05:58 AM US/Pacific > To: > Subject: AOL patents IM? > > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncidX1&e=1&cidX1&u=/ > nm/20021 >...

Safire: Bush’s Stumble..

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/19/opinion/19SAFI.html Bush’s Stumble: The So San Affair By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under its new chairman, Richard Lugar, should make its first order of business an inquiry into President...

Intel Doling Out Wi-Fi Money…

http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1558861 December 18, 2002 Intel Begins Doling Out Wi-Fi Money By Michael Singer Making good on its promise to spend $150 million on building up smaller Wi-Fi (define) technology companies, Intel (Quote, Company Info)...

Google vs. Evil…

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html Issue 11.01 – January 2003 Google vs. Evil The world’s biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don’t be evil. Now the geek icon is finding...

And Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,861942,00.html Folly of our masters of the universe Global elites must realise that US imperialism isn’t in their interest Michael Hardt Wednesday December 18, 2002 The Guardian Some of the worst tragedies of human...

AC-130 Gunship Footage..

When you can loiter over a “target” with a big, heavy, noisy warplane loaded with howitzers and heavy machine guns, you ARE god. Unfortunately, from that height you can’t really tell who the good guys and the bad guys are, now, can you? Who among...

Cisco Locks Arms With SBC..

This is a watershed event for Cisco — since the quote here is from Roland Acra that tells us that this deal is largely voice-based. SBC is probably putting together an IP-Centrex service using Cisco gear. -Ian. —- http://news.com.com/2100-1033-978126.html...

NYTimes On IP Telephony..

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/technology/16TELE.html Web Calling Roils the Telecom World By SIMON ROMERO Will the price of international telephone calls continue to decline? And will more people choose wireless technology over land lines? The answers lie in...

Elephants Never Forget a Good Beer..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2583891.stm Tuesday, 17 December, 2002, 15:38 GMT Drunk elephants kill six people Drunken elephants have trampled at least six people to death in the northeast Indian state of Assam, local officials say. The herd of wild...