Google Search Tools in Beta Testing Other Price Comparison Tools Search Term Snap Shot of 2002
Google Zeitgeist — Google rundown of search patterns for 2002
Top Ten Gaining (spiderman, shakira, winter Olympics, world cup, avril lavigne, star wars, eminem, American idol, morrowind, warcraft3) Top women (J Lo, Britney Spears, Shakira, Halle Berry, Jennifer Love Lewitt) Top men (eminem, brad pitt, nelly, 2pac, vin diesel) Top brands (Ferrari, Sony, nokia, Disney, Ikea) Top Tech (mp3, sms, winzip, linux, ftp, dell, xbox, realplayer, microsoft, Java) SMS is Short Message Service (text messages for cell phones)
Lycos 50 — Lycos rundown of search patterns for 2002
Top Ten (Dragonball, KaZaA, Tattoos, Britney Spears, Morpheus, NFL, IRS, Halloween, Christmas, Pamela Anderson) Dragonball was top in 2001
Forbes List of Top 85 Innovations
Great List that includes sneakers, Tupperware, integrated circuit, Internet, Viagra Can be found online on Forbes.com
eBay Chief Leaves Goldman Sachs after IPO Revelations
Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, resigned from Board She received 100 pre-IPO offering, sold quickly for substantial gains Goldman Sachs offered these to CEOs that did investment banking with them FTC Details Plans to Curb Telemarketers
FTC wants to curb 80% of telemarketing calls
Set up a list of banned numbers Telemarketers could be fined $11,000 for each banned call Will charge telemarketing licensing fee to pay for $16M program
Dimitry Sklyarov is Acquitted
First test case of new Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) Sklykarov worked for ElcomSoft, which developed code to crack Adobe Systems eBook copy protection He also taught in a Moscow university Tricked to visit US for conference presentation Testified that he created software for backup or transfer purposes
2002 — Technology Year In Review
Year of the Copyright Fight (Death of Napster) Year of SPAM Rise of the Blog (short for Weblog) Year of the Microsoft triumph End of Free Software AOL-Time Warner Merger Troubles Backlash against Pop-Ups (even at AOL) Rise of Big Brother Monitoring the Internet IT Grows Up (Moves into the Boardroom)
Sharp?s 3D Monitor
Will provide 3D effect without special glasses Can be thought of as a TFT sandwich Thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display Contains two TFT panels separated by a parallax barrier which directs pixel images to two separate regions
Rat-Brained Robot
Steve Potter of Georgia Tech combines electronics and neurons Placed a droplet of solution containing thousands of rat neurons onto silicon chip Chip is embedded with 60 electrodes connected to an amplifier Robot sends signals back to the neurons for training Trying to develop concepts for self-healing computers
Got a Robot Kit for My Birthday
Lego Mindstorms Robot Invention System Lego Robotics Inventions System 2.0 ($189.00) Lego Ultimate Accessory Kit ($58.00) 10 Cool Lego Mindstorms Projects, Syngress Press, ($29.00) Programming LEGO? Mindstorms? with Java, Syngress Press ($29.00)
IT Career Trends
Web Applications and e-Business Networking and Security Distributed Computing Long Term Health on Sector
Stratford News
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