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A Fitting Eulogy for BeOS..

..will of course be written by a District Court Judge in the great city of San Francisco. The BeOS community, now washed up on the shore of a nearby deserted island, can watch the captain of their soon-to-be-scuttled ship attempt to extract some sense of pride as he...

Miss Cleo is On The Rocks..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/eo/20020218/en_tv_eo/miss_cle o_s_future_clouded_by_feds&cidy7 Miss Cleo’s Future Clouded by Feds Sun Feb 17,10:15 PM ET It doesn’t take a tarot card master to predict Miss Cleo’s in a heap of...

Qwest’s Two Halves Make A Hole

First Global Crossing, then Worldcom, now Qwest — can Level3 be far behind? -Ian. —— http://www.forbes.com/2002/02/15/0215qwest.html Telecommunications Qwest’s Two Halves Make A Hole Mark Lewis, Forbes.com, 02.15.02, 12:40 PM ET Qwest...

P2P

http://www.bizreport.com/print.php?art_id)76 Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Web Services + P2P = Efficiency: Gartner   If applied in the corporate world, technology made famous by music file-sharing service Napster could help streamline the flow of data within and...

FINALLY Canada Gets Justice @ The Olympics..

…and the amazing thing is that we owe it to the US of A. If this incident had not occurred in front of a seething media desperate for a news story other than the heightened security at the Olympics, we’d have been screwed just like in Ross...

Movies On Demand..

Hey! Check out: http://www.movie88.com/movie88/enmovie/index.php The site is a tad slow, but it truly could be the next Napster model that scares the crap out of the movie industry. -Ian. —- $1 films spook Hollywood By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com...

BT Still Issuing a Middle Finger to the Internet..

I wrote about this on FOIB, I think, a couple of years ago with a similar tirade. This is moronic not only because it is a completely unenforceable and indefensible patent claim, but for so many more reasons. They can’t possibly win. Why? – BT, as a seller...

World Economic Forum: Out with a Whimper.

http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/020205/0205davoswrap_1.html Tuesday February 5, 6:00 pm Eastern Time Forbes.com Davos Slips Out Of Town Quietly By Todd Jatras It was billed as one of the hottest tickets in the world, but the World Economic Forum and its 2,700 delegates barely...

Spam: How do I hate thee…

Tuesday February 05 04:00 PM EST Only worthy of forwarding because of the JMM statistic: 1,400 pieces of spam per day! -Ian. —- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/cn/20020205/tc/net_surfers_set_out_to_squelch _spam_1.html Net surfers set out to squelch spam By...

Exodus Assets Acquired by C&W

…the deal closed last week. This means that C&W’s Digital Island unit is toast. —– http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/cw020102.cfm Cable & Wireless Completes Exodus Acquisition, Re-brands Hosting Division Adam Eisner, theWHIR.com February...