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DRAM, DIMM Spot Prices Fall in U.S., Europe

Author: JT Smith

August 23, 2000 (TOKYO) — Spot prices of DRAMs and DIMMs have started falling in
North America and Europe, with the decline due to the restraining effects of high prices on
demand, and not any oversupply conditions. Full story at nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com.

Category:

  • Unix

How to spy on your employees

Author: JT Smith

Spying on employees will be a
half-billion dollar industry by 2004. But that may
not be the best thing for business, according to Jesse Berst at ZDNN.

Category:

  • Open Source

Low income users getting on the Web

Author: JT Smith

Low-income Web users drawn to sites
like ValuePay.com and GetPaid4.com are going
online at three to four times the rates of
wealthier groups that favor upscale financial or
travel sites, a U.S. study published Monday
found. From Reuters.

Lie your way to Internet privacy

Author: JT Smith

ZDNN reports that the number of “privacy warriors†may be as high as a
quarter of American Web users, whose most popular epee
is providing a fake name.

Category:

  • Linux

K-Meleon: The Windows answer to Galeon

Author: JT Smith

What looks like Microsoft Internet
Explorer on the outside, but employs Mozilla’s
Gecko rendering engine on the inside? It’s a new
open-source browser called K-Meleon. From ZDNN.

Category:

  • Open Source

Intel backs peer-to-peer concept

Author: JT Smith

According to a PCWorld story, Intel CEO Craig Barrett has firmly planted the Intel flag behind the concept of peer-to-peer networking as pioneered on the consumer side by Napster.

Inprise readies 64-bit tools

Author: JT Smith

Tuesday Inprise/Borland announced that it will port its tools to the 64-bit versions of Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux, as they become available and Intel ships the Itanium chipset. Story from InfoWorld.com via IDG.net

Tech-savvy Europeans find wireless Internet not ready for the masses

Author: JT Smith

An AP story @ FloridaToday.com says, “Yet while the technology promises a new world of convenience, even Bohman – co-founder of
a company that offers wireless business services for handheld computers – admits the wireless
Internet is not yet ready for a mass market.”

Keeping King afloat

Author: JT Smith

Reuters reports that Stephen King
fans frightened about being cut off from the
author’s online serial novel have been sending
extra cash to cover for freeloaders.

Category:

  • Open Source

Speed beyond need: Pentium IV

Author: JT Smith

Intel Corp.’s new,
turbo charged Pentium 4 processor aims to
make computers into hot rods capable of ripping
through even the most demanding applications. From Associated Press.

Category:

  • Unix