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tagesanzeiger.ch: Freies Funken im Seerosenteich „Begonnen hat die Bewegung der freien Funknetze vor ein paar Jahren, als in verschiedenen Orten Europas und Amerikas Quartierbewohner anfingen, mit ihren Computern über die eigenen vier Wände hinaus Nachbarschaftsnetze aufzubauen. Als Katalysator für diese Bewegung gilt die kostengünstige WLAN-Funktechnik. Damit lassen sich direkte Verbindungen zwischen Wohnungen, Häusern und ganzen Wohnvierteln realisieren – ohne teure Leitungen von kommerziellen Anbietern.“ Wired: Being Wireless „Nicholas Negroponte explains why Wi-Fi ‚lily pads and […]

futurezone.ORF.at : Kopierschutz-CDs als „Kunden-Schikane“ KONSUMENT.AT „In der September-Nummer erklärt ‚Konsument‘, wie man trotz des Kopierschutzes für den privaten Gebrauch Kopien anfertigen kann, nennt die technischen Werkzeuge dafür und Websites mit Programmen, die weiterhelfen. Ab 28. August auch online.“ c’t-CD-Register – Un-CDs, nein danke!

Es gibt also auch WiFi Detektoren: „The credit card-sized WFS-1 can sense the presence of both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, and has an operating range of 500 feet outdoors and 150 feet indoors.“ Smart ID: WiFi Detector (WFS-1) Gizmodo: SmartID’s WiFi Detector works Gizmodo: SMART ID’s WiFi detector Gizmodo: WiFi Finder Gizmodo: WiFisense: wearable WiFi detector Gizmodo: Down on Kensington’s WiFi Finder

Ein gutes Zitat von der richtigen Person :-): „This is the time to make investments and to take risks.“ Steve Case in der Businessweek über die Zukunft der Informationstechnologie und des Silicon Valleys.

Wired: Aggregators Attack Info Overload „The next step for aggregators, according to Hutteman and Burton, is including collaborative-filtering capabilities along the lines of Amazon.com’s automated recommendation system.“

Mercury News: New wave of newsreader software makes sense „‚RSS is evolving as a replacement for e-mail publishing and marketing,‘ he says. ‚RSS suddenly makes the Internet work the way it should. Instead of you searching for everything, the Internet comes to you on your terms.“‘

Silicon Valley: Wireless networks, Internet connections keep working during blackout „‚We lost all utility power out there, but we immediately went to battery power for a few seconds, at which point all of our major generators kicked in,‘ said Margie Backaus, chief business officer of Foster City, Calif.-based Equinix, which operates Internet Business Exchange centers that serve more than 90 percent of the world’s Internet routes.“

DaveNet: Nutch, an open source search engine Tim O’Reilly: «Actually, Nutch has no ambitions to dethrone Google. It’s just trying to provide an open source reference implementation of search to help keep Google and other search engines honest, by letting people compare the results of an engine whose algorithms and methodologies are transparent and accessible. It also aims to give a platform for people outside of the search heavyweights to research new search algorithms.» » […]

Google News Alerts „Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify.“

Businessweek beschreibt in einem Special Report den bei Apple stattfindenden Strategiewechsel: BW: Where „Think Different“ Is Taking Apple „Instead of resigning himself to the idea that Apple will never be more than a niche PC supplier, Jobs is slowly transforming it into a high-end consumer-electronics and services company à la Sony – one that he hopes ultimately will be less dependent on sales of the Macintosh PC, which now account for about 80% of revenues.“ […]