When Kip Frey sent 10 Duke University law students out to 10 Triangle startups last January,
the results were predictable. “They all said they wanted to stay with the companies they were working with,” Frey says. By the end of the
semester, the dotcom bubble had burst, “All, except maybe one, went off to law firms and clerkships.” From UpsideToday.com.

Deep Blue is an IBM supercomputer made famous by
its victory over world chess
champion Garry Kasparov
in 1997. MSNBC.com reports.

From a WiredNews.com report: Whether reeling in
stock option wealth or hovering on the brink of bankruptcy, Net workers are finding their place in the lexicon
of stereotyping terminology.

LinuxPR tells us that, beginning Friday August 25th, contestants may enter their worst stories from
dealing with Windows NT. The deadline for the contest is Monday October 14.

If you’re lucky in your choice of locale, you could be
among the first to get 100 channels of digital
video-on-demand, telephone service, videoconferencing,
and high-speed Internet access all across fiber-optic
cable to your home as soon as next year. From PCWorld.com.

An article at Themestream reports that the Palm-compatible
PDA you have might still be extremely useful to you just in helping you get organized
to meet your schedule.

A Reuters report says that high-tech offenses like
Internet fraud, e-mail abuse, computer hacking
and virus spreading look set to increase during
the next 20 years, according to a survey of
British crime trends.

From Salon.com: If peer-to-peer networking becomes the “next computing frontier,” guess who stands to benefit?

Rob Kramer and Ian Clarke’s new venture, Uprizer, wants to be the Red Hat of peer-to-peer networks. What’s behind their wall of secrecy? From Salon.com.

According to a report at xtra.com, Intel believes the chip microarchitecture has the flexibility to handle requirements for both
ultra-low power and high performance in devices ranging from Internet-ready cell
phones to Internet infrastructure equipment.