Free Agent: Freedom Is Coming to a Windows Box Near You (PC World)

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Windows XP SP2 Coming Soon (PC World)

Windows XP SP2 Coming Soon (PC World) 07/12/2004 07:28 AM
PC World - Microsoft says the long-awaited update will be finished next month.

The Cost of Freedom (PC World)

The Cost of Freedom (PC World) 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
PC World - You need to read the fine print.

Howard Lovy, free agent

Howard Lovy, free agent 07/12/2004 11:07 AM
For several years, Howard Lovy has been mine and Mark's editor at Small Times. As of last week, Howard is no longer with the magazine. Howard is a top-notch editor and writes about nano with a rare combination of insight, intelligence, clarity, and wit. I can't wait to see what he does next! In just one year, his personal blog, Howard Lovy's NanoBot has become essential reading for anyone interested in nanotechnology, from the deepest nanohackers to future-minded laypeople:

"Here's what I do: I tell stories. I tell them simply. And I tell them in a way that is understandable to the industry's real business and financial leaders – the average consumer, the average voter, the average investor, the average reader. They are my true bosses and, ultimately, they will dictate the future course of nanotechnology as a science, an industry, an idea."

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Bryant to Become Free Agent This Summer
(AP)

Bryant to Become Free Agent This Summer
(AP) 02/13/2004 07:57 PM
AP - Kobe Bryant said repeatedly Friday that he wants to be a Laker "for life," though he still plans to opt out of his contract and become a free agent this summer.

Bush Says U.S. Freedom Can Change the
World

Bush Says U.S. Freedom Can Change the
World 07/04/2004 06:56 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 4 2004 10:43PM GMT

Free Internet calls from Freedom 2 Surf

Free Internet calls from Freedom 2 Surf 07/19/2004 11:21 PM
Net 4 Nowt Jul 20 2004 3:33AM GMT

China Finds Freedom Behind Great
Firewall (PC World)

China Finds Freedom Behind Great
Firewall (PC World) 05/27/2004 04:48 AM
PC World - Country's first decade online has seen changes in restrictions, access.

Woman finds freedom laws mean no free
man (Reuters)

Woman finds freedom laws mean no free
man (Reuters) 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
Reuters - When the government introduced its new freedom of information laws, Angela Wright seized on them as a chance to find an unattached man in uniform.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US
Congress opts for "freedom fries"

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US
Congress opts for "freedom fries" 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Why don't we just ban everything that isn't 100% American .. French Fries and French Toast to Freedom Fries .. the 200W spotlight .. renamed .. That

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Reporters sans frontires - Second world
press freedom ranking

Reporters sans frontires - Second world
press freedom ranking 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
second world press freedom ranking .. Reporters without frontiers

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Britain Woman Finds Freedom Laws Mean No
Free Man (Reuters)

Britain Woman Finds Freedom Laws Mean No
Free Man (Reuters) 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
Reuters - When Britain introduced its new freedom of information laws, Angela Wright seized on them as a chance to find an unattached man in uniform.

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world"

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world" 09/21/2004 04:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: David Weinberger, author of the brilliant and seminal Small Pieces Loosely Joined, has posted a draft of a great speech on copyright that he's giving at the World Economic Forum in NYC tomorrow:

[F]or one moment, I'd like you to perform an exercise in selective attention. Forget every other consideration — even though they're fair and important considerations — and see if you can acknowledge that a world in which everyone has free access to every work of creativity in the world is a better world. Imagine your children could listen to any song ever created anywhere. What a blessing that would be!

...We publish stuff that gets its meaning and its reality by being read, viewed or heard. An unpublished novel is about as meaningful and real as an imaginary novel. It needs its readers to be. But readers aren't passive consumers. We reimagine the book, we complete the vision of the book. Readers appropriate works, make them their own. Listeners and viewers, too. In making a work public, artists enter into partnership with their audience. The work succeeds insofar as the audience makes it their own, takes it up, understands it within their own unpredictable circumstances. It leaves the artist's hands and enters our lives. And that's not a betrayal of the work. That's its success. It succeeds insofar as we hum it, quote it, appropriate it so thoroughly that we no longer remember where the phrase came from. That's artistic success, although it's a branding failure.

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So the world must be coming to an
end

So the world must be coming to an
end 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Because I now have ICQ and AIM accounts. Or maybe it's just the damn fever. Bleah....

DigitalID World coming up again

DigitalID World coming up again 08/27/2004 01:37 PM
The third DigitalID World conference, is set for Oct. 25-28 in Denver. The first one was excellent and I hear the second one was also....

Salford is coming to take over the
world!

Salford is coming to take over the
world! 08/27/2004 01:51 PM
"I was lost, proper lost, but thanks to Cris Formage and the fine folks at The Epsilon Program, I've found a better way to live. No more cocaine, no more heroin, no more ceaselss, boundless self pleasure. henceforth, ladies and mental patients, I am following the words of the tract!" - Maccer

Viral marketing nicely done in advance of the new Rockstar games production of Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (some slightly NSFW words and images)

Microsoft Introduces Windows
Marketplace, Enabling Customers to
Discover A World of Products That Work
With Windows

Microsoft Introduces Windows
Marketplace, Enabling Customers to
Discover A World of Products That Work
With Windows 07/12/2004 09:23 AM
Today at its Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft Corp. introduced Windows® Marketplace, an upcoming shopping and downloading site that will provide customers with one-stop access to software, hardware and peripherals that work with the Windows platform. This new offering provides a cost-effective way for participating partners to work with Microsoft and CNET Networks to gain exposure to millions of potential customers through online shopping and electronic software distribution -- all in one place. Windows Marketplace also will make it easy for customers to navigate, find, try and buy thousands of compelling products to meet their needs and enhance their Windows computing experience. Windows Marketplace is scheduled to launch to end-user customers in the United States this fall, but Microsoft is giving partners an early opportunity to get their products into the Marketplace before it becomes available publicly.

A Linux Island in a C:\ of Windows: Part
3, Playing in the Windows World

A Linux Island in a C:\ of Windows: Part
3, Playing in the Windows World 03/14/2005 05:25 PM
Now that your Linux VM is up, running and connected to the company network, it's time to move corporate work to the Linux side.

Free File: Windows Media Player Bonus
Pack for Windows XP

Free File: Windows Media Player Bonus
Pack for Windows XP 08/03/2004 09:54 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 4 2004 2:15AM GMT

Free WiFi coming to Best Western

Free WiFi coming to Best Western 01/24/2004 08:19 PM
Every Best Western hotel in the US, Canada and the Caribbean will have free open WiFi by Sept 1. Tell you what, I've got a new default choice for hotels when I travel. Let's start finding ways of holding conferences at BW's instead of high-ticket Hyatts and Marriotts with their craptacular $10/day WiFi.

"It's the No. 1 amenity requested by virtually everyone, especially businesspeople, said Tom Higgins, CEO and president of the Phoenix-based hotel chain. "High-speed Internet for free is going to be where it's at."

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Free VOIP service coming?

Free VOIP service coming? 11/05/2003 10:56 AM
Seems that VOIP is so cheap that Labatt's paid for phone service for a bunch of customers in Ontario. The...

Royalty-free postmen coming to UK

Royalty-free postmen coming to UK 01/05/2004 01:36 PM
A new music-licensing scheme in the works in the UK will allow postmen to whistle without paying royalties:

* Spontaneously singing "Happy Birthday" will NOT be illegal.
* Spontaneous pub singalongs will NOT be licensable.
* Carol singers, going from door to door, or turning up unannounced in a pub and singing, will NOT be licensable.
* A postman whistling on his round will NOT be licensable.

Link (Thanks, Lee!)

"Atrios discovers that freedom of the
press also means "freedom to censor.""

"Atrios discovers that freedom of the
press also means "freedom to censor."" 05/01/2004 09:27 PM

Sports Agent Index Offers Agent
Information

Sports Agent Index Offers Agent
Information 10/28/2003 11:09 PM

Windows coming to a car near you

Windows coming to a car near you 07/19/2004 11:44 AM

More Patent Battles Coming In The
Anti-Spam World

More Patent Battles Coming In The
Anti-Spam World 09/14/2004 12:29 PM
An anti-spam company has purchased an early anti-spam patent, which they now hope to use to collect a bit of cash from plenty of other anti-spam firms. The concept seems ridiculously obvious: monitor email, note emails that appear to be the same, create a signature for that email and use it to pick out other messages that match that signature. Why this should be patentable in the first place is unclear. In the meantime, it's just going to make it more difficult and more expensive to use this obvious technique to stop spam.

Today's Specials: Freedom Fries and
Freedom Toast

Today's Specials: Freedom Fries and
Freedom Toast 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
Today's New York Times reports that Congressman Bob Ney (R-Ohio) ordered the cafeterias in the House of Representative to remove the word "French" from all menus. Now being served: Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast. Seriously.
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WinFS coming to Windows XP

WinFS coming to Windows XP 03/14/2005 04:52 PM
Originally planned to be part of Longhorn, delays caused WinFS to fall by the wayside. When it does get here, it will be available for Windows XP.

Mac applets coming soon to Windows

Mac applets coming soon to Windows 12/16/2003 08:54 PM
CNET Dec 16 2003 8:23PM ET

Mac Applets Coming Soon To Windows

Mac Applets Coming Soon To Windows 12/16/2003 11:05 PM
A Web site that offers desktop applets for the Macintosh desktop is gearing up to provide similar gadgets for Windows. By Paul Festa (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)

Windows XP SP2 Coming in August

Windows XP SP2 Coming in August 07/13/2004 08:42 AM
“Windows XP Service Pack 2, arguably Microsoft’s biggest service pack yet and the company’s most important security project since the Trustworthy Computing initiative, will be released in August, the company announced Monday. ‘We are on track to RTM [Release to Manufacturing] Service Pack 2 in August,’ a Microsoft spokesperson said. The spokesperson declined to be more specific on whether Microsoft was aiming for early, mid- or late August.”

New Windows Mobile Section Coming

New Windows Mobile Section Coming 07/22/2004 11:08 AM
We are going to be launching a new Windows Mobile section in the next couple of weeks, it will cover both Pocket PC's as well as the Microsoft Smartphone range which is avaliable in various places. We are looking for any tips you have that you want to send in, as well as looking for Background images for Smartphones Home screens (they need to be in 176x200 format and as a JPG) so if you want to send any in - mail them to me Byron Hinson.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is coming

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is coming 11/03/2003 09:33 PM
Microsoft has outlined what the major improvements are going to be for XP Service Pack 2 [Microsoft]...

Coming Soon: Virtual PC for Mac with
Windows XP Professional

Coming Soon: Virtual PC for Mac with
Windows XP Professional 05/18/2004 01:30 PM
Virtual PC for Mac with Windows XP Professional lets you easily run Windows-based applications on your OS X-based Mac. Enhanced features include better graphics-handling and faster boot time, allowing software programs to launch and run more smoothly.

Apple widgets coming to Windows

Apple widgets coming to Windows 12/17/2003 05:00 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 17 2003 4:15AM ET

Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming
(AP)

Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming
(AP) 08/05/2004 03:42 AM
AP - Microsoft Corp. is close to releasing the biggest update ever for the Windows operating system, aiming to plug holes that have led to massive security problems for computer users the world over.

Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming

Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming 08/05/2004 03:12 AM
San Jose Mercury News Aug 5 2004 7:54AM GMT

CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red
Hat Linux coming

CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red
Hat Linux coming 06/07/2004 05:34 PM
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered.

Tom Leonard, AI Programmer for Valve
Software is Coming to the University of
Utah for a Free Lecture

Tom Leonard, AI Programmer for Valve
Software is Coming to the University of
Utah for a Free Lecture 03/25/2005 06:30 AM
Tom Leonard, AI Programmer for Valve Software is coming to the University of Utah for a free lecture [PRWEB Mar 25, 2005]

News: Missing Sync for Windows Mobile
coming soon

News: Missing Sync for Windows Mobile
coming soon 04/05/2005 09:28 AM
Mark/Space Inc. announced Tuesday the forthcoming release of Missing Sync for Windows Mobile, an update coming this June that will replace its Missing Sync for Pocket PC product. The software lets Macintosh computers synchronize data with Pocket PCs and Windows Mobile Smartphones, including the Audiovox SMT5600, Orange SPVC C500,, i-Mate SP3i and Motorola MPx220.
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AOL gets the WeatherBug

AOL gets the WeatherBug 04/19/2004 12:13 AM
CNET Apr 19 2004 4:16AM GMT

WeatherBug v6.04

WeatherBug v6.04 09/24/2004 10:12 PM
WeatherBug gives you access to weather conditions, forecasts, camera images, radar, storm alerts and more. [Freeware 288 KB]

WeatherBug: Bugged? A second look

WeatherBug: Bugged? A second look 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
A number of you might remember this post regarding Weather Bug from Sept. 23rd of this year. Well Jay from Weather Bug has contacted me regarding this and wanted to make sure I allowed him to respond. Here is the official Weather Bug Response regarding the accusations of Weather Bug being spyware….

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WeatherBug: Bugged?

WeatherBug: Bugged? 09/24/2004 03:33 AM

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According to WeatherBug, their program is totally harmless. Well then that settles it! If they state this on their Web site, then it must be true! I think not. Folks, there is a lesson to be learned here folks. Just because something sounding really official on a Web site states that something is so, does not mean that it is. In my experience, WeatherBug is anything but benign….

WeatherBug 6.0 Beta Released

WeatherBug 6.0 Beta Released 05/06/2004 02:50 AM

WeatherBug is NOT spyware or adware

WeatherBug is NOT spyware or adware 07/01/2004 03:35 AM
WeatherBug made it a point to explain why they do not consider themselves to be spyware nor adware. While my feelings on the matter differ, the WeatherBug rep went to great lengths to explain that he and his team are committed to the prevention of such annoyances as spyware and promises that WeatherBug will not install any on our PCs. If this is in fact true, then this is great news. Personally, I have found another product that more than meets my needs.

WeatherBug Blogs Hurricane Charley

WeatherBug Blogs Hurricane Charley 08/15/2004 04:20 AM
Meteorologist Ryan Towell following Charley .. blog/cover/meet .. A Charley Blog .. blog

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WeatherBug Groundhog Day Blog 2004

WeatherBug Groundhog Day Blog 2004 08/13/2004 10:42 AM
WeatherBug Groundhog Day 2004 .. blogging Hurricane Charley .. How cool is this? .. Ryan Towell .. blog

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WeatherBug Upgrades with Search Tool

WeatherBug Upgrades with Search Tool 06/25/2004 02:36 AM
WeatherBug has begun to roll out WeatherBug 6.0 which includes the new WeatherBug Browser Companion. In addition to displaying the current temperature, the Browser Companion docks on top of Internet Explorer windows and features a search function powered by Ask Jeeves. Initially, only 20,000 select users will be given the opportunity to upgrade before the upgrade process is gradually completed before the end of the summer. WeatherBug 6 zeros in on providing users with highly precise local weather conditions in real-time.

AOL to Link WeatherBug to Instant
Messaging (Reuters)

AOL to Link WeatherBug to Instant
Messaging (Reuters) 04/19/2004 12:22 AM
Reuters - America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, on Monday said it plans to offer up-to-the-minute weather information on its instant messaging service.

Yahoo! Search APIs Inspire WeatherBug
APIs?

Yahoo! Search APIs Inspire WeatherBug
APIs? 03/14/2005 05:02 PM
Steve Rubel just sent me a note to point at this post on the WeatherBug blog: The main reason the Yahoo API story grabbed my attention is because I have always thought about creating a developers API for WeatherBug. There are so many applications that can be developed with WeatherBug data, but there is no way that we have enough time and resources to develop them all on our own. So, why not give developers out there a chance to...

Free Agent: Freedom Is Coming to a Windows Box Near You (PC World)

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