Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest, Talks Up Computing as a Career. Bill Gates went on a campaign tour last week to convince wary students to pursue computer science. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]
Month: March 2004
Domain Names Are Big Again
Domain Names Are Big Again. Dot-com domain names are fetching respectable prices again, after more than three years of attracting scant interest. Some are crossing the million-dollar threshold. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology]
IBM's WebFountain of Knowledge
IBM's WebFountain of Knowledge. There is a world where Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft compete to build better search engines and — also — for our money. Then there is a completely different world, the corporate market. And the next big thing in Web search in this other world might be the WebFountain supercomputing project from… Continue reading IBM's WebFountain of Knowledge
Tories quit WMD intelligence inquiry
Tories quit WMD intelligence inquiry. The Conservatives have withdrawn support for Tony Blair's inquiry into intelligence used in the run up to the Iraq war – saying they now realise that the government is preparing another whitewash. [The Scotsman]