EverAd has designed an encryption technology that places restrictions on the use of downloaded music files so they can be played only when people accept banner
advertising. From CNet.com.
Certain configurations of Microsoft’s
Windows operating system and its Internet Explorer Web browser are open
to a potentially dangerous vulnerability allowing a malicious programmer to
take over a computer through local and remote folders, says CNet.com.
Gnome took
center stage at the LinuxWorld Conference & Exposition on Tuesday as Sun
Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and other industry leaders agreed to make it
the unifying desktop for the Linux and Unix communities. From MacWeek.com.
In June 2000
kids 11-years-old and younger clicked on 0.87 percent of banner ads that popped up on their computer
screens. That figure is nearly double the 0.45 percent average click rate for all U.S. Internet users.
In this Wired.com report, we learn that Forrester Research forecasts all traditional software vendors will need to change their
proprietary business models to open-source ones, or drastically lower the price of enterprise application
licenses.
According to Fairfax IT, research company Jupiter Communications forecasts that at the end of 2004, approximately 95 million cellular handsets will be capable
of accessing interactive services, or seven times the projected number of personal digital assistants
(PDAs), in the US.