Last post of the year folks, so I couldn’t resist talking about a lot of news.
First off, the New York Times is running a report on Mozilla’s Firefox browser in the wake of the recent 2-page Firefox ad in the NY Times. It’s time to stop using IE people. Firefox is at 1.0 or you can use the Mozilla suite. CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team) recommends dumping IE. If you have the bandwidth, check out this video of a machine being infected with 16 different pieces of Spyware by visting 1 web page. 1 web page.
NY Times Report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html
Firefox Ad: http://www.mozilla.org/images/nyt_ad_large_2004.png
Get Firefox: http://getfirefox.com
Mozilla Suite: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
CERT: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/cert_ditch_explorer/
Spyware Infection video: http://www.benedelman.org/news/111804-1.html
Cringley wonders what would happen if a company with lots of real estate (like Wal-Mart or McDonalds) around the country (or around the world for that matter) decided to get into the WiMax game? Imagine them blanketing the countryside with wireless hotspots.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20041125.html
In other news, Yahoo! is now superimposing real-time traffic conditions onto their maps. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Thx Yahoo!
http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic
Google is working with Harvard University to digitize about 40,000 of the 15 million volumes held in the University’s extensive library system and make it searchable.
http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/041213faq.html
Lots of huge tech mergers recently:
Oracle bought Peoplesoft: http://tinyurl.com/4g78r
Symantec bought Veritas: http://tinyurl.com/5jmsk
Sprint bought Nextel: http://tinyurl.com/6fsol
And on the entertainment side, all Star Wars related, Lego has just released a video game based on Lego Star Wars characters. Yep, the characters in the game are Lego minfigs. Gamespot has a review.
Lego game: http://www.lego.com/eng/starwars/videogame/default.asp
Gamespot review: http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/legostarwars/preview_6114511.html
And if you’re wondering about Star Wars game to date, take a look at UGO’s Star Wars video game timeline.
http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/starwarshistory/default.asp
As if that wasn’t enough, Charlie Ross, a writer/performer has his own one-man Star Wars trilogy stage show.
http://onemanstarwars.com/one_man_star_wars1.html
