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Los Angeles officials has asked manufacturers to stop using the terms ?master? and ?slave? on computer equipment
Affects all hard drives with where the term applies to primary and secondary hard drives
Affects networks that collect information via polling
Request made by Joe Sanoval, Division Manager of Purchasing and Contract Services. He directive said, ?Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label.?
Number Portability ? Week One
Only 80,000 switched phone number to another carrier
TIS Telecomm Services, the firm that processes over 80% of such orders, expected ?hundreds of thousands? on the first day
Early estimates expected around one million to switch
Program has not encountered any reported problems.
Buying Songs on the Internet ? An Update
iTunes is getting some competition
Prices are as low as 79 cents per song
Expect it to drop to around 50 cents per song so that an album is sold a half price
RIAA legal actions against twelve year olds is getting results
June (7 million members in Kazaa)
September (4.2 million members in Kazaa) after lawsuits were filed
VTech assembled 1,100 Apple Macintosh G5 computers
Each G5 has two 64-bit IBM PowerPC9 processors
Clocked at 10.3 trillion operations per second
Cost $7 million to build and maintain
Can?t handle applications yet, need additional software development
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