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When a knife-wielding madman attacked and killed eight children at an Elite elementary school in Ikeda, some Internet users in Japan had a sinking feeling. Six days before the bloody rampage on June 8, visitors to a popular bulletin board server called Channel 2 had seen an ominous rant. "My pride has been destroyed. I hate university-affiliated schools," the anonymous writer raged. "Some may say my anger is misplaced and misdirected, but it's all their fault. I am very vindictive...
Public-auction websites like eBay are doing a fire-sale business in surplus tech hardware. A new Cisco AS5300 access server with a recommended retail price of $50,000 was auctioned off for less than $2,500. Even busier these days is Virtual Chip Exchange, a private marketplace for 4,200 established buyers and sellers of computer chips and semiconductors in 40 countries. VCE is currently the planet's largest electronics B2B exchange, as rated by Jupiter Media Metrix. The privately held company reports that revenues rose past $37 million in the first quarter, up 238% from the same period...
...inventory of former dotcoms accounts for only 20% of Overstock's sales. It's also profiting from other ailing sectors of the tech world. Remember that $50,000 Cisco server that brought $2,500 on eBay? One just like it went on sale for $6,900 at Overstock.com having cost the site $3,500. Total sales on the site leaped from $4 million in November 2000 to $9 million in December, the crucial month for e-tailers...
...write on the paper, scribble an e-mail address (say, mine) on the designated panel and then check the send box. Then, in a blink of an eye, my written note would be sent by the pen to my mobile phone, my phone would send it to the Anoto server, the server would recognize which set of dots the note came from - but not the contents of the note itself - and pass it on to the server of the manufacturer of the paper I've written on. The manufacturer's server would execute the send command, zap the note...
...test all of this today because the local mobile network operator doesn't offer Anoto-enabled services. So for this demonstration a laptop computer will have to play the part of the mobile phone, the Anoto server and the manufacturer's server...