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BT Pushes Forward With SDSL Upgrades

BT Pushes Forward With SDSL Upgrades 02/01/2005 09:40 PM
UK telco BT today announced that 500 exchanges around the country would be receiving upgrades to give customers living in those areas access to high speed SDSL. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDSL">SDSL </a>is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Subscriber_Line"& gt;DSL </a>variant, offering high download and upload speeds.

Bruce Stanford, Director of BT Whole sale, today said the move represented BT's continued commitment to broadband. “The wider geographic availability of our wholesale SDSL products will allow more service providers to meet the needs of the growing proportion of smaller businesses, remote office and teleworkers that require business-class broadband services, as well as generating new revenue streams from the introduction of value-added services."

Stanford said that by the end of this financial year 300 exchanges will be able to offer SDSL service, and over four times as many in twelve months time. Once completed, BT will have 1300 exchanges with SDSL services and 2/3 of businesses in the UK will be within reach.

BT have received flack for their slow progress and anti-competitive prices in the broadband department; it emerged last year that the company was charging wholesale resellers of ADSL (like Wanadoo) more than BT customers. OFTEL, the UK telecoms regulator, has raised the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/28/bt_bogeyman/"& gt;possibility of a BT split up</a>, but is attempting to increase competition in other ways. In other BT news, the company recently announced plans to launch a service similar to PayPal, offering online merchants transaction services. The service will formalise the company's efforts in the area, which already amount to 20m transactions per year.

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Motorola pushes forward on talking

Motorola pushes forward on talking 02/12/2004 07:53 AM
infoSync Feb 12 2004 10:27AM GMT

MySpace????

MySpace???? 04/24/2004 03:25 AM

MySpace: The Show. Social networking is definitely going mainstream. I see in Variety that a reality show is being developed based on people meeting through social networking service MySpace. [Note: the article led me to sign up for MySpace, and I will review... [Get Real]

I'd be interested in what Stowe thinks about MySpace.  I call it the "kitchen sink" of social networking.  I'm amazed at just how many features and capabilities it has.  For what it seems to lack in heart, soul and passion - it makes up with Rankings, Blogs and Games.  They even have classifieds!  And Yahoo ads all over the place!

But there's something about that place - which (BTW) they claim they have more traffic than Friendster right now. 

MySpace - is #1

MySpace - is #1 03/06/2004 01:49 AM

According to a PR Newswire this morning Nielsen NetRatings confirms “Myspace.com‘s market leadership in Social Networking category”:

LOS ANGELES, March 1 /PRNewswire/ — MySpace.com, formally launched just over one month ago, today announces it is the number one ranked social networking site in terms of page views, according to Nielsen NetRatings, the leading online measurement tool.

“The latest Nielsen statistics validate what our users have been telling us for months,” said Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and President of MySpace.com. “By allowing our users to dictate the features they want, we’ve been able to develop an offering that keeps them coming back.”

MySpace.com has garnered an ardent and loyal fan base very quickly thanks to the technological superiority of its offering. MySpace.com is the only site of its kind to integrate blogs, instant messaging, classified listings, voting, groups, user forums, music and other user-created content. MySpace.com has also taken an active role in sponsoring music shows, parties and other events for its online users to socialize offline.

“To become the leader in the social networking space in just five months is an accomplishment we’re thrilled about, but we see it as only the beginning,” commented Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace.com. In addition to its technological advantages, MySpace.com allows a level of flexibility that is unmatched in the online social networking world. Users are allowed to create personalized web page profiles, which they can then use to link up and communicate with others of similar hobbies and interests. As the site is entirely advertiser-supported, use of the site is free.

[The Social Software Weblog]

This exposes what we've all known all along - that nobody goes to Friendster anymore.  And that it's lack of funtionality and features - makes it a joke.

Now I'm not sure if its MySpace's features, or people themselves - but they sure look like they're having fun over there.

built for the future + forward-looking,
forward-thinking web design and
development

built for the future + forward-looking,
forward-thinking web design and
development 11/05/2003 06:25 AM
entries of the ReUSEIT! contest .. now on display .. ReUSEIT!

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MySpace continues to kick ass

MySpace continues to kick ass 06/30/2004 02:40 AM

Networking website offers marketing opportunities for musicians.

The networking website trend, while not exactly new anymore, is still thriving. While Friendster.com was the first to reel users into the world of organized online socializing, MySpace.com has since caught up. Many formal Friendster loyalists have since moved over to MySpace for its added features such as instant messaging, blogs, and classifieds. (That~s not to say that Friendster doesn~t still have its own dedicated fan base.) One of the site~s most recently added features, MySpace Music, is utilizing the networking space to spread the word about music artists.

Consumers tell us that they mostly find out about new music through their friends, which is exactly what MySpace Music allows users to do online. While musicians can also create profiles on Friendster for friends-of-friends to see, MySpace Music takes the concept a step further by offering band Web pages and music downloads, thus turning the site into a potential marketing tool. Similar to how Napster users can view other users~ music libraries, MySpace users can view each others ~friends~, thus providing MySpace Music artists with considerable exposure and access to their fans. With the buzz on MySpace Music, we expect to see more networking sites offering similar marketing opportunities in the future.

[trendcentral]

MySpace party tonight

MySpace party tonight 06/04/2004 12:17 PM

This is where I'll be tonight - recruiting Tom to start a DLA TV show.

NBC partners with MySpace to stream

NBC partners with MySpace to stream 03/17/2005 03:19 AM
The Office on MySpace Even though the leaked pilot met poor reviews on Metafilter, it's interesting that NBC turned to massive social networking group MySpace to launch the American version of The Office. MySpace will stream the whole first episode of The Office on March 16th at 8PM while the episode will air for the first time on NBC March 24th. Maybe BitTorrent has really gotten to them.

FORWARD : Forward Forum

FORWARD : Forward Forum 01/12/2004 01:52 AM
his party's candiates can not be trusted with the war on terror .. Ed Koch, former mayor of New York, lifelong Democrat? .. announced last week .. very true

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Forward: ...And More

Forward: ...And More 02/06/2005 01:11 AM
Technology Review Feb 6 2005 4:07AM GMT

Something to look forward to

Something to look forward to 01/04/2005 06:02 PM
The Washington Post front page today lays out the Bush administration's plans to cut promised Social Security benefits by almost a third in the coming decades. The toughest cuts wouldn't come til mid-century, but if Bush's plan actually gets enacted, the consequence is clear: This won't be your grandfather's Social Security. To make up the difference of what retirees won't get every month, the Bush proposal would rely on personal investment accounts. But of course, that's just a hope. Will the federal government give Investing 101 classes to those who need it? It pays for marriage classes, after all.

Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward 12/27/2004 05:59 PM
You can improve America's financial plight one person at a time. Start today.

Is 3G Going to be the Way Forward?

Is 3G Going to be the Way Forward? 04/06/2005 05:14 AM
3G Apr 6 2005 7:46AM GMT

Pay It Forward.

Pay It Forward. 02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Pay It Forward. Rather than sharing in a fun night of drink, dance and cursing with their teenage pals, two girls make cookies for their neighbors . A surprise gift of oven-fresh cookies and homemade hearts decorated with "Have a great day!". Priceless, you say? Try $900.

Forward Slash

Forward Slash 04/01/2005 02:15 PM
Computer Power User Apr 1 2005 6:44PM GMT

RSS Moves Forward

RSS Moves Forward 01/09/2004 09:54 PM

Fast forward

Fast forward 05/17/2004 10:22 AM
USA Today May 17 2004 2:07PM GMT

Mail Forward 2.1

Mail Forward 2.1 12/12/2003 10:09 PM
Forward e-mail from AOL, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, or standard POP accounts to any e-mail address.

PDF/A Moving Forward

PDF/A Moving Forward 05/27/2004 10:46 AM

Feds help create PDF archiving standard: We've writt en about this initiative before. Looks like it's moving ahead.

The committee hopes to release a draft of the PDF/A standard by early next year with a final standard out by the end of 2005, said committee member Stephen Levenson, who works in the administrative office of the U.S. Courts.

Briefly, the idea is to create a simplified subset of the PDF format so that PDF documents created today can still be opened and worked with, say, 20 years from now.

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Golan goes forward -- with your help

Golan goes forward -- with your help 05/21/2004 10:02 AM
As reported, we survived the government's motion to dismiss in Golan v. Ashcroft. Thanks to the excellent work of lawyers at Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, we've now convinced the court of the importance of discovery to demonstrate the actual harms caused by "restored" copyrights. Aaron has built a site to help us collect stories, some of which may become part of the suit. Please help spread the link: the beginning of an archive to the public domain.

Moving Forward

Moving Forward 05/20/2004 01:21 AM
I'm moving to San Francisco. That probably bears some explanation. As I'm sure all of you know, I work for...

Are you looking forward to the election?

Are you looking forward to the election? 04/04/2005 08:02 AM
The prime minister is expected to announce the date for the next general election this week. What is your reaction.

Forward with the format

Forward with the format 04/19/2004 09:47 PM
USA Today Apr 20 2004 1:51AM GMT

Oracle looks forward to SMB

Oracle looks forward to SMB 06/22/2005 02:47 AM
Quocirca's changing channels Will Microsoft get there first?

MCI pushes Wi-Fi to the UK

MCI pushes Wi-Fi to the UK 03/23/2005 11:01 PM
vnunet.com Mar 24 2005 3:17AM GMT

Softbots Stride Forward

Softbots Stride Forward 02/05/2005 09:29 PM
Softbots Stride Forward By Siobhan McBride of ComputerWorld
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1451684505;fp;16;fp id;0

"Can't make next week's videoconference with head office? No problem, your computer-generated avatar will stand in for you; having been created in your image it's a shrewd strategist in complete command of the points you wish to make - including your fallback position. While it sounds like it may be a long time coming, research into intelligent agents, software programs also known as 'softbots', is progressing so quickly scientists predict this scenario could be a reality within 10 years. ... Two researchers headed down this path are Professor Ryszard Kowalczyk, of Swinburne University's faculty of Information and Communication Technology, and Professor Jun Han, also of Swinburne University, who heads a contribution to an Australian-European Union consortium developing service-orientated computing systems of the future. ... The project plan is to develop agents to automate the interchange and composition of software and services via the Internet, including software components to coordinate business activities such as supply, distribution and sales."

Phase Forward Up in Debut, After IPO Cut
(AP)

Phase Forward Up in Debut, After IPO Cut
(AP) 07/15/2004 05:29 PM
AP - Shares of software company Phase Forward Inc. rose sharply in Thursday trading after the software company cut the price of its initial public offering to stimulate demand.

Yet another back/forward key for some
browsers

Yet another back/forward key for some
browsers 05/03/2004 10:44 AM
When you have an internet browser open and you hit a backspace key on keyboard, it will go back one page (hit twice - two pages etc.). It seems to work at least with Safari, IE and Opera under 10.3.3. [robg adds: I thought w...

Research and Markets : Is 3G Going to Be
the Way Forward?

Research and Markets : Is 3G Going to Be
the Way Forward? 04/07/2005 02:30 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15190) has announced the addition of 3G Deployment Update to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]

Forward-Thinking Family

Forward-Thinking Family 05/20/2004 11:34 AM
This mutual fund family vows to keep costs low while giving a solid performance.

Forward Pass for Pocket PC

Forward Pass for Pocket PC 02/16/2004 12:11 PM

Research and Markets: Is 3G Going to Be
the Way Forward?

Research and Markets: Is 3G Going to Be
the Way Forward? 04/05/2005 12:34 PM
Investors Business Daily Apr 5 2005 1:34PM GMT

Great Leap Forward

Great Leap Forward 03/23/2005 10:53 PM
Mo' MAO. "If you stare at a red shape for a long time, when you turn away, your retina will hold the image but you will see a green version of the same shape. In the same way, when I lived in China, I saw the positive image of Mao so many times that my mind now holds a negative image of Mao. In my art I am transferring this psychological feeling to a physical object." --Zhang Hongtu

FCC moving forward on VOIP

FCC moving forward on VOIP 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
The FCC will address two voice over IP items at its February meeting next Thursday:


1 WIRELINE COMPETITION TITLE: Petition for
2 WIRELINE COMPETITION TITLE: IP-Enabled Services.

GautengOnline another step forward

GautengOnline another step forward 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Mar 9 2004 3:17AM GMT

3G/UMTS is the way forward for India

3G/UMTS is the way forward for India 04/26/2004 03:23 AM
3G Apr 26 2004 8:09AM GMT

Clocks go forward for summer

Clocks go forward for summer 03/26/2005 07:43 PM
The clocks are due to go forward in Britain and Europe, marking the beginning of summer time.

Fast-forward e-learning

Fast-forward e-learning 03/25/2005 05:08 PM

A few weeks ago, my blog featured a screencast with Jason Hunter, a Java expert now working for Mark Logic. Jason's current fascination (and now mine) is the XML-oriented query language, XQuery. During our 12-minute demo/discussion, he alternated between applications shown in a browser and code exposition in a command shell.

A few days later, inspired by what Jason had shown me, I began working with the Mark Logic engine myself. As is my custom when learning a new programming environment, I opened up a flock of browser tabs. Some I filled with documentation about the XQuery language, others with code examples.

And then a funny thing happened. I found myself ignoring all those tabs and returning again and again to the screencast. Jason's demos were springboards for the things I wanted to do, and his code narration had shown me how to do them.

...

It wasn't just that Jason had transferred parts of his mental map to me in the ancient way: monkey see, monkey do. His live performance merely showed me what was possible. I still had to revisit scenes in order to learn the details, and thanks to the video, I could.

People with seemingly superhuman memories give us clues about how this works. When asked about their talent, they invariably say they've learned to hang information on a narrative that structures what they know and makes it easy to access. We're hardwired to tell ourselves -- and one another -- stories, and to filter our understanding of the world through them.

Civilization took a great leap forward when we learned how to write stuff down. Now we're learning to film our stories and to TiVo them. Fasten your seat belt. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

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Dell Springs Forward

Dell Springs Forward 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
A higher revenue forecast gives the stock a boost.
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Creating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords

Creating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords 02/05/2005 09:50 PM

I've got several levels of passwords I use, high security, medium, and low, depending on what I need it for (amazon? high. gmail? medium. a random bulletin board? low.). So I'm constantly having to make new ones up and make them good.

Lifehacker has a simple tip to making a good password that involves intertwining two words into one, but the best tip I ever got was from Rusty at kuro5hin.

Think of a classic song. Now write down the first letter of each word in the chorus. At one time, I had a super high security password that was something like "1itlntyed2cbaba1." That stood for

"One is the lonliest number that you'll ever do. Two...can be as bad as one..."

I replaced numbers mentioned in the song with number signs in my password for extra l33t-ness. It was super easy to remember this nearly impossible thing, because I could just sing it and write it down.

10.4: Create safe, simple accounts
without passwords

10.4: Create safe, simple accounts
without passwords 06/24/2005 09:45 PM
If you have young kids, Tiger's Parental Controls (in the Accounts preferences panel) offers choices like Simple Finder and pictures in list of users. The kids just click on their photo and then on the leftmost folder to get ...

Fingerprint reader does PC passwords one
better

Fingerprint reader does PC passwords one
better 05/10/2004 01:06 PM
USA Today May 10 2004 5:05PM GMT

New Microsoft fingerprint reader does
away with passwords

New Microsoft fingerprint reader does
away with passwords 09/08/2004 08:15 PM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 9 2004 0:24AM GMT

Researcher warns Wi-Fi users of bad
passwords

Researcher warns Wi-Fi users of bad
passwords 11/06/2003 10:47 PM
ZDNet Nov 6 2003 9:15PM ET

Researcher warns users of bad Wi-Fi
passwords

Researcher warns users of bad Wi-Fi
passwords 11/07/2003 01:00 AM
ZDNet Australia Nov 7 2003 0:08AM ET

Do you keep your passwords in a document
file on your computer?

Do you keep your passwords in a document
file on your computer? 04/18/2005 02:31 PM

First of all if you answered that question as yes then you need to smack yourself with a baseball bat. If you have them in an encrypted file don't tell me it's the password protection on a word document! Better yet are you carrying your passwords on a piece of paper in your wallet.

I bet about 50% of you can say yes to those answers. I also bet that about 90% of you use the same password across multiple accounts. How many or you actually use the same password for your bank account that you use for your paypal account..

Imagine you have all of that data in a word document and you try to open it one night and find that it is already opened by someone else. Think it can't happen to you read this.

Ohhh an guess what, you Mac users should probably read this also! [Fortune.com]

Report: some Napster users share
passwords to save money

Report: some Napster users share
passwords to save money 04/09/2005 03:30 AM
Xeni Jardin: An article in the Register today reports that it is possible for more than one person to share a username/password simultaneously on Napster's digital music service, so they don't have to pay for separate accounts.

Over the past couple of days MusicAlly has run several tests, during which we were able to download and stream simultaneously from four separate computers across two separate Internet connections for good stretches of time. Our findings so far suggest this situation is the same whether we use a trial account, a paid-for credit card account or the £14.95 Napster To Go service. By comparison, several other Internet subscription services, including Real's Rhapsody, log the first user out automatically if a second user logs in using the same username and password.

Arguably the fact that one of the subsequent users could order one of Napster's paid-for permanent downloads, thus adding a charge to the original user's card, provides a small disincentive against sharing usernames and passwords. But Napster requires users to insert their credit card security number before making a major purchase, such as the upgrade from the £9.95 service to Napster To Go. What's more, the credit card numbers themselves are not exposed on the accounts page, so there's no danger of having your card details ripped off by someone with whom you're sharing the music service.

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Prizes for passwords: PC-users chomp
chocolate over online security

Prizes for passwords: PC-users chomp
chocolate over online security 04/21/2004 08:59 AM

Users who have expired passwords can
still log on to the domain if the FQDN
is exactly eight characters long in
Windows 2000

Users who have expired passwords can
still log on to the domain if the FQDN
is exactly eight characters long in
Windows 2000 05/31/2004 12:41 PM
albatross_at_tim.it (May 31 2004)

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents is Able to
Recover Passwords to Documents Created
in 14 Applications, and Supports More
Than 30 Types of Password Encryption.

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents is Able to
Recover Passwords to Documents Created
in 14 Applications, and Supports More
Than 30 Types of Password Encryption. 12/24/2004 12:19 PM
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has released Advanced Office Password Recovery (AOPR), an application that allows business managers, information technology support administrators, and law enforcement officials to gain access to Microsoft(R) Office(R) password-protected documents, that have been accidentally or purposefully password protected. New product combines the latest and the most advanced cryptanalysis algorithms developed by Elcomsoft's research department. AOPR is capable of instantly recovering passwords for a wide range of Microsoft's business and office applications, including all components of MS Office, from the very first DOS versions to Office 2003 programs, including the ones for Windows, Mac, Pocket PC and localized versions. Over 30 different types of password encryption methods are supported. [PRWEB Dec 22, 2004]

SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Educate users
about strong passwords

SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Educate users
about strong passwords 07/21/2004 04:22 AM
General concepts in security escape most end users, pointy-haired bosses, and other decision-makers, and even some junior administrators. While the more senior technologists may not ever hope to get them to relate to the finer points of DMZs and VLANs, we should at least continue to push and educate in the area of passwords.

Watch out Friendster, here comes
Google's Orkut

Watch out Friendster, here comes
Google's Orkut 01/22/2004 09:51 PM
News.com says: Google tip-toed into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com on Thursday, CNET News.com has learned. The search company, which is expected to go public this year, is flexing its power with its Internet fans by constantly offering new services, including comparison shopping and news search. Orkut could be the clearest signal that Google's aspirations don't end with search. "Orkut is an online trusted community Web site designed for friends. The main...

Cool potential for Orkut or Friendster

Cool potential for Orkut or Friendster 07/16/2004 01:28 AM
Whole Lotta Nothing has sent out a lazyweb request for a blogging plug-in that would allow a blogger's close friends to correct typos in his or her posts. I sure could use something like this.

I want a MT plugin that will let a select group of my closest, most trusted friends correct typos in text and URLs on my blog posts and republish their changes without my intervention. If I'm gone for a couple days and improperly used your when I meant you're, I'd love it if a friend fixed that while I was away. I first got the idea when I was trying to think of ways to make Orkut or Friendster useful. If there was some API to those apps that let MT know if someone was a best friend or life partner-level connection, they could be granted temporary edit rights on my blog (maybe Flickr's API could let this work for people I designate as a friend and family member, which seems to be the closest form of relationship there).

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Google debuts Friendster-clone Orkut

Google debuts Friendster-clone Orkut 01/22/2004 11:04 PM
Exclusive Will you be my friend?

Google Launches Orkut to combat
Friendster

Google Launches Orkut to combat
Friendster 01/24/2004 03:30 AM
I4U Jan 24 2004 8:10AM GMT

Don't take passwords to the grave

Don't take passwords to the grave 01/08/2004 08:27 PM

Passwords Decrypter for UPB <= 1.9.6

Passwords Decrypter for UPB <= 1.9.6 06/17/2005 04:53 PM
Posted by Alberto Trivero, Thursday, 16 June

Microsoft to end passwords?

Microsoft to end passwords? 06/03/2004 06:50 PM
ZDNet Jun 3 2004 10:21PM GMT

Darn! Passwords! v3.0.0.22

Darn! Passwords! v3.0.0.22 12/20/2003 06:13 PM
Darn! Passwords! keeps track of your Internet passwords. It also remembers URLs of password-protected web sites. [Shareware $15.00 30 Days 4.09 MB]

AOL Moves Beyond Passwords for Log-Ons

AOL Moves Beyond Passwords for Log-Ons 09/20/2004 07:05 PM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 20 2004 11:40PM GMT

AOL Moves Beyond Passwords for Log-Ons
(AP)

AOL Moves Beyond Passwords for Log-Ons
(AP) 09/20/2004 06:52 PM
AP - Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security.

How Do You Manage Your Passwords?

How Do You Manage Your Passwords? 02/10/2003 08:14 PM
"Sure, I jot them down. But with passwords for this, passwords for that and different passwords for those, that adds up to a lot of different jottings and many nooks and crannies..."

OS X Bug Exposes .Mac Passwords?

OS X Bug Exposes .Mac Passwords? 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
OS X 10.2.4 can potentially expose .Mac members' passwords. MacNN reports that this is a bug that occurs in the Keychain application and only affects .Mac users. But before you get all panicky, according to Mac OSX Hints, this is not so much a bug as it is just an insecure setting, and they provide easy instructions for solving the problem.

MySpace pushes it all forward

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