NY Times: “The MobileStar Network Corporation, a driving force in offering wireless Internet access in public places, said yesterday that it had laid off its entire work force and would sell its assets if it could not find a buyer to continue its service.” MobileStar runs the Internet service at Starbuck's. [Scripting News]
Author: Vince Kimball
Central Tracking Services Joins with Topaz3 to make Big Tracks in Vehicle Tracking Industry
Central Tracking Services Joins with Topaz3 to make Big Tracks in Vehicle Tracking Industry. ComStar AVL services combines Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology with proprietary vehicle tracking transponders… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Kick some Zope tyres
Kick some Zope tyres. The new www.zope.org site, new.zope.org, is under development. Visit and kick the tyres a bit. It's based on the CMF. If we're lucky, sooner rather than later new.zope.org will become www.zope.org. (More because we'll get more CMF docs, we hope, than because the current zope.org site is dreadful – it isn't.)… Continue reading Kick some Zope tyres
Zope Books
Zope Books. Yesterday should have seen the release of Zope: web application construction kit. The Beehive Zope book doesn't yet have a publication date more specific than this month. [ZopeNewbies]
Yahoo News
Yahoo News – Sun Micro CEO Sees More Support for National ID: Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., said Thursday his long-held belief the United States needs a national identity system has gained a lot of traction since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. “Absolute anonymity… Continue reading Yahoo News
Learning Communities:
Learning Communities: – David Carter-Tod provides some down-to-earth insight into the K-Blog issue: “I think that we're talking about an expanded feature set for weblogs that integrate more closely into what you might call a learning community. These include things like better meta-data, searching, better two-way e-mail integration, roles management, etc. Weblogs should be a… Continue reading
How the terror trail went unseen
How the terror trail went unseen. Investigations into how the terror attackers managed to evade detection are producing the unusual situation that statements from the FBI have become more trustworthy than those in the press. In two successive briefings, senior FBI officials have stated that the agency has as yet found no evidence that the… Continue reading How the terror trail went unseen
Joshua Allen
Joshua Allen: We can understand if CNN and the pundits want us to feel safe against all reason. But I cannot understand why CNN and others are having such a difficult time figuring out who we are attacking. I am still seeing headlines about an “attack on Afghanistan”. This is inaccurate, misleading, and dangerous. The… Continue reading Joshua Allen
categories
I have categories now. Very nice. Click on a couple of the links to see my category specific Weblogs. You can get to a category specific RSS feed by clicking on the orange XML button in the margin on the right. Nice. Here is where this is headed. My main Weblog is for me. No… Continue reading categories
Microsoft invests $51 m in Groove
As predicted in this Weblog, Microsoft invests $51 m in Groove. A buy-out is next. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]