BRUCEB NEWS
Amazon, Apple, And Ambience
Part 1: Ambient Computing - Buzzwords That Are Changing Your World Part 2: Google Wants To Surround You With Invisible Assistants Google, Amazon, and Apple are the only companies capable of surrounding us with connected networks of devices and services. Google hopes...
TIME WARNER HATES AOL SOFTWARE
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that America Online has continued to use Microsoft Internet Explorer as its browser engine, even though it acquired Netscape last year - pretty...
WINDOWS XP HOME vs. PROFESSIONAL
There are relatively few differences between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional for home users and small businesses sharing computers in a workgroup. (If your company...
EARTHLIGHTS
Here's a cool photo of the earth. This is the information that came along with the link by e-mail, for what it's worth. The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new...
NEW NOTEBOOKS
Today Dell is introducing a new notebook under a thousand dollars. The SmartStep 100N isn't configurable, but its specs are darned good for $949 - 1.06GHz Intel Celeron...
MORPHEUS TO ADD ANTI-COPYING TECHNOLOGY
Morpheus was looking like an ally in the fight to keep file trading alive. It didn't include spyware in its software, and its new software tapped into the truly decentralized...
SPYWARE
There's more and more ways to get "spyware" on your system - programs that monitor your web surfing and report back to third parties without your knowledge or consent. In some...
SEARCH ENGINES
This article starts out by explaining the different approaches chosen by Google, Yahoo, and AltaVista for indexing the Internet - and makes it easier to understand why Google is...
COPYRIGHT WARS UPDATE
The voices are getting louder on both sides of the copyright wars. Michael Greene, the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, delivered a lecture...
YAHOO MAPS
Yahoo has created its own web site for maps, instead of relying on AOL's MapQuest. Here's an article about the corporate stuff, and here's the new Yahoo map service.
MORPHEUS/KAZAA UPDATE
There's a marvelous battle going on in the file sharing world. Allegations of denial of service attacks and conspiracies, record companies sniffing around and getting ready to...
PHOTO SOFTWARE
Here's an article about photo editing software that makes good suggestions. The best choice for many non-professionals is Adobe Photoshop Elements, a very powerful program...
WORD 2002 – LEGAL USERS GUIDE
"The Microsoft Word 2002 Legal User's Guide is a reference for legal professionals that describes Word 2002 features useful to the legal industry. Features explored in this...
MORPHEUS AND KAZAA
The world of file sharing changed significantly today. As described in this article, there's been complicated relationships between the three main players for the last few...
WINDOWS LITE
The nine states challenging Microsoft in the antitrust case are pressing for access to Windows source code so they can demonstrate that certain Windows features can be removed...
U.S. GOVERNMENT WEB SITE
The U.S. government has reworked www.firstgov.gov. It's meant to be the entry point for all web resources related to the federal government, as well as providing links to state...