by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
World’s First Designer Baby. Yet another science fiction tale has passed recently from the fanciful to the present; this time the story in question is genetically predesigned babies. Seventeen months ago, a woman in Chicago gave birth to the first designer baby....
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Is software innovation gone?. According to an article by Rob Pike from Bell Labs, software innovation is more or less dead (and Microsoft isn’t at fault). For example: high-end PC hardware went from 33Mhz/32MB RAM in 1990 to 600Mhz/512MB RAM in 2000, but in that...
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Google now does PhoneBook searches!
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Nice article on the storage repercussions of move to home digital centers.
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Intel backs consumers over Hollywood. Finally, someone is doing the right thing.
by Tom | Feb 28, 2002 | General
Gap pins loss on poor fashion sense / CEO apologizes for bright leather jackets and ’some very strange-looking jeans’ . “We probably got a little bored at being consistent and simple,” said Drexler, in a conference call with investors....
