Year: 2003

WiebeTech introduces FireWire/USB 2.0 MicroGB+ drive

Posted by | Apr 14, 2003 | |

WiebeTech today announced a combo FireWire/USB 2.0 version of its MicroGB+ hard drive. The compact drive sports a case made of anodized aluminum and offers both FireWire and USB 2.0 (compatible with USB 1.1) ports. The MicroGB+Combo is available in the following configurations: 20GB/5400RPM (US$229.95), 30GB/4200RPM ($249.95), 40GB/4200RPM ($269.95), 40GB/5400RPM/8MB cache ($299.95), 40GB/5400RPM/16MB ($349.95), 60GB/4200RPM ($379.95), 60GB/5400RPM/8MB ($429.95), and 80GB/4200RPM/8MB ($459.95).

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Microsoft also looking at Universal Music?

Posted by | Apr 13, 2003 | |

The New York Post is claiming that Microsoft has also expressed interest in buying Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, “setting up a possible bidding war between the software maker and rival Apple.” Microsoft’s interest is said to be at the level of “poking around, kicking the tires,” but has had conversations with Vivendi executives about buying the music unit, according to the Post.

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NYT: Apple-Universal Music talks “not too serious”

Posted by | Apr 12, 2003 | |

The New York Times (free registration required) is reporting today that people close to the Apple and Universal Music discussions have cautioned that a deal was unlikely to be concluded. “The talks between Apple and Vivendi covered the concept of buying as much as a third of the music unit, according to people close to the discussions. But the talks appear to have been just exploratory discussions that did not go far.

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Report: Why Am I Getting All This Spam?

Posted by | Apr 12, 2003 | , |

There was a posting on http://slashdot.org this morning that pointed to a
report on Spam that was quite interesting.

Why Am I Getting All This Spam?
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research Six Month Report
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml

The Macintosh has a utility for encoding email addresses on the web as
talked about in the article. See
http://www.railheaddesign.com/pages/software.html and check out
“SpamStopper”

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