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Sub-Topics Economy News -07-25-05 Japan Plans World's Fastest Computer (Fox News) "The American Blue Gene/L system supercomputer developed by International Business Machine Corp. at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, currently holds the title of the world's fastest. That machine is capable of 136.8 teraflops, or 136.8 trillion calculations per second, according to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology." "Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene, an official of the ministry said on condition of anonymity." 7-05   -08-22-05 Hackers Fight Hackers (CBS News) "In today's murky world of digital viruses, worms, and Trojan horses, the idea is to stay quiet and use hijacked computers to flood the Internet with spam, spread destructive viruses, or disgorge e-mail to choke corporate systems. Not only can networks of these compromised computers be leased or sold, experts say, they are becoming more valuable as the number of vulnerable computers slowly shrinks." 8-05 -09-10-05 Energy from Backpack to Replace Batteries (ScienceDaily.com) "If you already have a little spring in your step, a team of biologists at the University of Pennsylvania would like to put it to good use by adding a few more springs in the form of a power-generating backpack. Details of their prototype "Suspended-load Backpack" were announced today in the journal Science. The device converts mechanical energy from walking into electricity up to 7.4 Watts more than enough energy to power a number of portable electronic devices at once." 9-05 -10-11-04 Americans Win at World Cyber Games (ABC News) "Winners at this year's event, which took over the streets near San Francisco City Hall, took home a combined $400,000, according to organizers. The video game industry rakes in $10 billion annually in the United States alone." 10-04 -10-26-04 Court Rules on Refilled Printer Cartridges (ZDNet.com) "In a closely watched case involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a federal court has ruled that a small North Carolina company can continue selling a chip that makes it possible to use refilled toner cartridges in Lexmark printers." 10-04 -11-04-04 Amazon Sued Over Patent to Recommend (ZDNet.com) "The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del., claims that the online giant infringed on Cendant's '370 patent' for providing people with recommendations of goods or services to purchase based on a database of previous purchasing histories of other customers. The suit was filed Oct. 29." 10-04 01-12-03 Case Resigns as Chairman of AOL Time Warner (CNN) "Steve Case will step down as chairman of AOL Time Warner in May. However, he will continue as a board member, the company said Sunday in a news release." "Case was the driving force behind the 2001 merger of then-booming Internet portal America Online and Time Warner, the media giant that owned an array of film, TV, music and publishing companies, to form one of the world's largest media companies."  "However, the company has experienced a severe drop in its market value since the merger, which came at the peak of the Internet stock price boom, and disgruntled shareholders had directed their ire at Case." 1-06 01-25-03 International Internet Attack Stopped (USAToday.com) "A fast-spreading, virus-like infection dramatically slowed Internet traffic Saturday, overwhelming the world's digital pipelines and interfering with Web browsing and e-mail delivery." 1-03 01-29-03 AOL Loses Turner and $99 Billion (USAToday.com) "AOL Time Warner (AOL) rocked Wall Street on Wednesday as it reported a $99 billion loss for 2002 — the largest annual loss ever by a U.S. company — and said Ted Turner is resigning as vice chairman." 07-21-03 Intel Introduces Pentium 4 (HardwareAnalysis.com) Describes the speed of the new processor. 7-03 07-21-03 Microsoft Introduces Mobil OS for 2003 (HardwareAnalysis.com) Describes the new version of Windows for pocket PCs. 7-03 08-18-04 Google Closes Auction and Goes Public (FoxNews.com) "Google Inc. (search) got the official green light to go ahead with a downsized version of its much-hyped initial public offering, and its shares could trade on Nasdaq as early as Thursday." 8-04 10-23-03 Mini-ITX Computers (mini-ITX.com) Provides news on uses of the mini-size motherboard. 10-03 Book Publishing Changed by Amazon (CNN News) "With its limitless shelf space, Seattle-based Amazon has helped countless other authors and small publishers earn the same bragging rights in the past decade, giving readers throughout the world instant access to books they might never have found." 8-05 Electrified Clothes (CNN News) "A new generation of 'soft' electrical devices has been made possible by a fabric with built-in touch sensor technology." "The innovative material, known as ElekTex, could be used to incorporate phones or music players into clothes, remote controls into sofas, or light switches into walls or carpets." 3-05 New Fuel Cell Technology for Phones (ABC News) "On Wednesday, New York-based Medis Technologies will demonstrate what it claims is the first commercial portable fuel cell, solving many of the problems that have plagued developers over the past few years." 3-05 Papers Chip Breakthrough by Intel (BusinessWeek.com) Describes a much smaller transistor developed by Intel, making much faster and smaller computers possible. 6-01 Chips - IBM Announces New Silicon Chip Breakthrough (CNET) Describes a new method for making computer chips much faster and use less power. 6-01 DNA-Based Computer (BBC News) Describes a new nanocomputer developed at the Weizmann Institute in Israel by Professor Ehud Shapiro. A trillion of the computers will fit in a standard test tube. 11-01 Fastest Computer Now From Japan (International Herald Tribune - Markoff) Describes a new computer for climate monitoring that was developed in Japan. Law to Stop Pornography in Libraries and Schools Is Challenged (NewsFactor.com - Gill) Describes why the American Library Association, Multnomah County Public Library (the Plaintiff), and others oppose a new law for filtering Internet content. 3-02 Microsoft Announces Visual Studio.Net (ZDNet.com - Knorr) Announces new Web tools from Microsoft. 2-02 Rivals Unite to Set Web Services Standards (ZDNet.com - Wong) "The idea is to sell software as a subscription-based service over the Web instead of through traditional methods such as boxed copies at retail stores." 2-02 Smart Tags - New Microsoft Offering on XP Version (NewsFactorNetwork - McNeill) Describes Microsoft's new Smart Tags, included in its XP version of Office and Windows. In Office XP, Smart Tags will be active. In Windows XP, the user will need to turn Smart Tags on. Smart Tags allow Microsoft to place its choice of links to any word it wishes on anyone's Web pages or documents, without the authors' permission. For example, Microsoft could sell the word "education" so that every time a user of XP finds the word on anyone's Web pages or documents, the word "education" would link to Microsoft's customer. 6-01

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