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Technology News Tech enthusiasts and professionals, webmasters and not - discuss latest news, technologies, related services and tools, programs, websites, etc. Share your knowledge and give tips. > Join TheWorldJournal.com community! Oracle is cutting its database price by 25% Oracle announced that it is cutting prices by 25%. This was done to better compete with IBM. "If IBM wants to fight on price, we'll fight on price," said Oracle Senior VP Mark Jarvis. "IBM was creating the impression in the marketplace that Oracle was too expensive." Now a database from Oracle will be 65% less expensive than a similar one from IBM. According to market researchers Gartner Dataquest, Oracle holds 33.8 percent of the database market while IBM has 30.1 percent and Microsoft has 14.9 percent. | The Industry Standard House Committee Strips Spam Bill in the U.S. A U.S. House of Representatives committee last week stripped key elements out of a bill designed to curb unsolicited e-mail, or spam. Members of the House Judiciary Committee dropped provisions in the bill that would allow consumers to sue companies that fail to take them off lists for bulk e-mailings. But ISPs (Internet Service Providers) would be allowed to sue unrelenting spammers who have caused provable damages. The bill is known as The Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2001. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Internet Tax ban extension proposed Washington lawmakers last week introduced two Internet tax bills aimed at banning for five years any new taxes on online purchases. The legislation would also impose a permanent ban on new taxes attached to Internet access. The two pieces of legislation, introduced by Rep. Chris Cox (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), also direct states to begin tackling the complexity of their differing sales tax systems, which has been a sticking point in Internet tax debates. The current Internet tax moratorium is due to run out in October, 2001. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Windows 2000 will sell millionth license Microsoft expects to mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 2000 by selling the millionth license for the server operating system, a company official was quoted as saying last week. Pete Conway, director of large enterprise servers at Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft's Windows business division, said the pace of Windows 2000 sales has "pleasantly surprised" the company since it was released Feb. 17, 2000. The predecessor to Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, did not sell 1 million licenses until 17 months after it was released, Conway said. "This is the fastest rate of adoption we have ever had for a server operating system platform," Conway said. "We should easily eclipse the 1 million server licenses mark by the anniversary date. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Covad cuts DSL connections DSL provider Covad Communications last week disconnected broadband Internet services leased to two ISPs for lack of payment, Covad officials confirmed. The connections were severed because DSL networks and Internet Express had fallen behind in payments and could not offer a sustainable solution for this problem. The move left thousands of ISPs' customers without service, but Covad officials said the DSL connection was not switched off to the end-user, so users could easily switch to another Covad partner ISP. Covad said it has terminated business partnership relations with DSL networks and Internet Express. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Telleo creates Internet "cyberhoods" Telleo, a San Jose, California-based startup, is enabling everyone in the United States with phone service to have a free Web site. The company has created a database that allows users to access the company's Web site, enter their phone numbers and area codes, and "claim" their own individual web page. The page can be personalized and viewed by anyone with Internet access. Although Telleo will make its official announcement, Feb 20th, the service is already live nationally and has more than 100 million Web sites tied to the phone numbers of 85 million individuals and 15 million businesses. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Italian "Love Bug" has inoffensive bite An Italian version of the "Love Bug" computer virus has affected a small number of European companies but appears to have a benign bite, industry sources have said. The bug began spreading Wednesday night and has affected a small number of companies in Italy, Germany, and France. Tagged Cartolina (Italian for postcard), the virus changes the default page of Internet Explorer to that of an Italian music Web site, www.vije.it , and sends copies of itself to everyone in the ictim's address book. The virus was unlikely to spread globally or affect the United States because it is written in Italian. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Lotus reorganization planned Lotus Development is being restructured, with the bulk of the reorganization due to occur this quarter, a company official confirmed on the 5th of January 2001. Details of the reorganization were not immediately provided, and will not be provided until the company's annual user conference, Lotusphere, held the week of January 14th in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., according to Mary Rose Greenough, director of worldwide public relations for the software maker, which is wholly owned by IBM. The company management team decided that because of "evolving market needs: and to "enhance performance" and meet customer demand, Lotus should be restructured, Greenough said. News of the restructuring was given to Lotus employees in e-mail from Lotus' President/CEO Al Zollar, sources revealed. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Torvalds releases Linux kernel update The much-anticipated 2.4.0 version of the Linux kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open-source operating system. The 2.4 kernel has been keenly awaited by Linux users and Linux companies such as Red Hat, Caldera Systems, and SuSE Linux for the past year due to the fact that it will offer increased SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) scalability, making it easier for users to run corporate applications on Linux-based servers. The kernel source is available for download at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Sun building Web apps framework Continuing its mantra of "network as the computer," Sun Microsystem is at work on a development framework for building Web-enabled applications. The project will inevitably help sun move further into the Web services fray and to compete with Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard. Code-named Brazil, Sun's application development toolkit is still under development, and officials declined to comment on when the tools would become available. The early version of the toolkit, however, is designed to enable developers to reuse components and to build applications that are available via the Internet. A prerelease of Brazil is available for download at http://www.sun.com/research/brazil. | Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com Shoemaker landing on the asteroid was broadcasting live on the Internet American Space Agency NASA has informed, that for the first time in the history of space a probe has made a successful landing on an asteroid. It took place yesterday when the probe NEAR Shoemaker landed on the asteroid Eros. And also for the first time the Internet users had an opportunity to observe this landing. Translation of this event was conducted online on NASA and NEAR websites. Users of the Internet had observed the event in a real time mode. The probe was on the orbit of this asteroid for several years and it was not intended to land. Nevertheless scientists managed to carry out this operation and they are sure that they did with a big luck. Currently, Eros is 196 million miles away from the Earth. The total cost of this historic project is $223 millions. | TheWorldJournal.com Hosting services launched OracleMobile, the wireless subsidiary of Oracle, has launched a hosting service for companies looking to deliver content via data-enabled cell phones and other wireless devices. Using products developed by its parent company, OracleMobile can offer applications for building wireless Web portals as well as consulting, development, and hosting services. | TheWorldJournal.com Hackers are fighting for Napster The Independent Music Industry supporters hacked several TDK corporation web sites, Indonesian bank and other. Hacker or group of hackers has changed home pages of several organizations all around the world. The point of these actions is to support Napster company. Their slogans are against the main enemy of Napster - Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) and music group "Metallica". Among the sites-victims are: France National Library, The Norway Post, Bank International Indonesia, Models Network International, Thai Students Online, TDK USA Corp. and Nike Taiwan. Virtual fighter's position based on just Internet users in general, but not concreter Napster's users. | TheWorldJournal.com Thursday is the last day for Napster The Journal has just found out that Napster Inc. will shut down their server on Friday this week. Napster Inc. offers special software that allows its users to download any song in the MP3 format. The unique option connects users computers in one big source where Napster users can download any song for free. This judicial process has been going on for a long time, but only now they could be able to stop Napster’s service. Napster is the largest music online community by downloading MP3 files. It is attracting millions of users all around the world. | TheWorldJournal.com Internet in 2010 With huge variety of today’s literature about Internet cyber culture, books won’t give you a direct image of Internet even in 2002. Most writers just aren’t able to foresee future of online technology. The Journal asked one of the expert of Internet cyber culture about what would the Internet look like in the year 2010? Where and how people will use Internet? And that is what he said: “in 2010, the Internet will be everywhere. Websites will be as common as refrigerators for every family, person etc. Modems will be obsolete, I believe that isdn will take over, unless by then a new form of low cost internet access will emerge, possibly using fiber optics, cable will have passed by then, due to the over population, it will be forced to cease to exist. Every person/business will have a website, there will be new domain extensions, like .web, .online, .shop, .cc is already starting this trend and there will be more to follow. Cell phones are already able to surf the net, public net stations are already available in the US (at airports), and rest stops on the freeway. Cars will be equipped to some sort of wireless WAN, that will be connected to the net - to help driving and directions.” | TheWorldJournal.com MyCaster.com stopped broadcasting for several hours MyCaster.com closed public access this night to their site. MyCaster.com offers to create an online radio station using their software. All the stations couldn’t connect to their server. They closed the access to their site due to their new release of MyCaster 2.0 version software. Also, now all members can log in into the site and edit their profile. Unfortunately, not every page is still working, but they promise to fix it fast. | TheWorldJournal.com Online ad sales will eclipse TV by 2005 After making lots of different calculations, some experts reached terms on that by 2005, online ad sales will top $32.5 billion, eclipsing even network TV ad sales. The "FocusIN", an online Ad Network company has given this fact. | TheWorldJournal.com Back to top |
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