Google Reader synthesizes blogs and feeds

Trying to manage the daily deluge of new information appearing on the internet is becoming a full time job. Over the past couple of years there have been a number of tools ranging from RSS readers to email alerts that attempt to provide Internet users with the information to keep them updated across particular topics. Search engine Google has now come up with a new information management tool known as the Google Reader which attempts to provide a unified system for keeping feeds from news sources and blogs in a single manageable system via a browser. ...more

GSM Association hands out its 2004 awards in Cannes

The GSM Association has been handing out the gongs in Cannes at its annual Awards ceremony during the 3GSM World Congress. With Cannes dominated by high-tech gadgetry, the most coveted accolade is for the 'Best Mobile Terminal, Handset or Device' in the Technology Innovation category. Well, this garland went to the Sony Ericsson T610. ...more

Red Hat broadens product line with application server

The major distributor of enterprise-scale Linux systems has pressed the Red Hat Application Server into existence. This is designed to be a lightweight and low-cost app server for those building multi-tier programs to run on open source systems. Claiming to be responding to customer demand, interoperability is promised with enterprise-scale J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application platforms from the likes of IBM, BEA and Oracle. ...more

Comment: Microsoft's vision of the future: A Newton

Since he abandoned the Microsoft CEO job in favour of a role as chief software architect, Bill Gates has obviously been thinking hard about the future, and what people will expect from the PC over the next few decades. And he thinks he's found the answer. A truly personal computer Gates used his influential keynote speech at Comdex in Las Vegas yesterday to demonstrate a prototype of the Tablet PC, a machine, running the next version of Windows, that's about the size of an A4 pad, and that forsakes a keyboard in favour of doing everything through pen and voice recognition. ...more

And also today (28-Feb-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. That's one large conglomerate According to a report released by Jupiter Media Metrix, AOL/Time Warner Web sites attracted nearly a third of all time spent online by Americans in January. That's a lot of traffic for a lot of Internet real-estate. ...more