friday, april 23, 2004
leading the stained j-glass
bbc tech headlines and their britta tech leads.
- hard drive speed limit is reached
- a serial ata hard drive may attain speeds of up to 65mph on the freeway, according to new studies conducted by the california highway patrol.
- profits soar ahead 92% at ebay
- the ebay cult, quietly gathering members since its successful holiday season, has seen its assets grow tremendously in its off-shore banks.
- curiosity fuels mobile chat anger
- “wtf des ‘prly’ mean??” and similar complaints are a growing problem among parents who use text messages to communicate with offspring.
- china-us talks reach wi-fi deal
- a huge wifi base station is planned for the coast of china, which would effectively turn the entire united states into a wireless hotspot. congress has not yet decided how to tax this.
- hackable bug found in net’s heart
- a fly inside the internet’s pulmonary artery caused its recent heart failure, but doctors believe the insect can be removed with the help of micro-saws.
- pc users ‘fail security tests’
- transportation security agency (tsa) statistics indicate that pc users must be removed from lines at the airport more than twice as often as macintosh people. the suggested remedy is to switch.
- sweet deal for passwords
- pepsi will release a new promotion next week, where one of every three bottles will have a free password printed inside the cap. each password is certified random and worth from 1/100th of a cent to unspeakably precious.
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