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Nortel Lowers Revenue Expectations |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
8:44 am EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
Nortel lowered its expectations for Q3 revenue, citing further deterioration in spending by service providers in the US and for wireless networks in Asia. Q3 revenues will be 15% below Q2 revenues. Nortel Lowers Revenue Expectations |
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Fifth Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension |
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| Topic: Science |
7:49 pm EDT, Sep 25, 2002 |
We live longer and healthier lives today than in centuries past because of remarkable advances in medical technology. We've already sequenced the human genome, cloned mammals, and replaced the human heart with an artificial pump. Soon we will understand the basic mechanisms of life. Not only is our understanding deepening, we are also gaining the ability to modify, control and repair the fundamental molecular and cellular structures from which we are made. The Fifth Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension is a meeting of scientists and individuals who are working toward the expansion of human health and longevity. The Foresight Institute sent me an announcement for this conference, which offers the following speakers, among others: Ray Kurzweil, author, inventor, and scientist; Gregory Benford, author and UC Irvine physics professor; Robert Freitas, author of _Nanomedicine_ and chief scientist at Zyvex; Ralph Merkle, formerly at Zyvex, now an Alcor director, and a VP for the Foresight Institute; Max More, of the Extropy Institute; Michael West, CEO of Advanced Cell Technology. Fifth Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension |
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Smart Mobs - The Next Social Revolution |
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| Topic: Society |
9:15 pm EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
Tom: Howard Rheingold is now running a weblog about Smart Mobs. (Back in July, I logged www.rheingold.com/smartmobs/, which is now being forwarded to smartmobs.com. They're the same site.) Howard is doing a book tour -- he has five days of events planned in SF, and one day each in a number of other cities, including Boston, DC, and LA. (Howard will also be attending Pop!Tech, which I logged a few months ago.) Smart Mobs - The Next Social Revolution |
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| Topic: Computers |
9:14 pm EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
I was immediately attracted by a very intriguing and pleasant desktop on the laptop's gorgeous screen. I watched in jealous disgust as the guy next to me fired up a terminal window and ssh'ed to some server and ran a pine mail session. That's it, I decided. I am going to get a Mac OS X laptop, too. That was a few weeks ago. Unix guru Moshe Bar loves his titanium G4 PowerBook (even though he skimped on the RAM). Who settles for 512 MB when you can have 1 GB? Flirting With Mac OS X |
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AT&T May Buy Out Its Latin Unit |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
7:08 am EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
AT&T is considering absorbing its two-year-old Latin American subsidiary and retiring the unit's publicly traded shares. If the company proceeds with the proposal, it would be yet another case of a North American company's having stumbled with its investments in the Latin American telecommunications industry. AT&T Latin America had hoped to benefit from telecommunications deregulation in the region. Those hopes died fast. ... AT&T Latin America is still losing money; ... the operation's big problem is its huge debt load; ... Two options: 1) cut it loose, and let it die; 2) buy it back in a fire sale, and suck it up. Choose your poison; either way, another one bites the dust. AT&T May Buy Out Its Latin Unit |
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7:04 am EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
When Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, steps out of an Air Force Gulfstream into the Kansas heat, it is not just an overdue courtesy call and not just a peace overture to a rankled service. (He has just killed the Army's prized new $11 billion artillery piece, the Crusader.) It is one more engagement in the war over the coming war. A profile of DepSecDef Paul Wolfowitz, in the Sunday New York Times Magazine. The Sunshine Warrior |
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Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments |
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| Topic: Physics |
7:00 am EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
Ultimately, science comes down to the individual mind grappling with something mysterious. Physics World magazine recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. The 10 winners were largely solo performances, involving at most a few assistants. What they have in common is that they epitomize the elusive quality scientists call beauty. This is beauty in the classical sense; confusion and ambiguity are momentarily swept aside, and something new about nature becomes clear. Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments |
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All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print |
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6:57 am EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
Google, the rapidly growing online search engine, introduced a service yesterday that uses its search algorithms -- but no human editors -- to create a news page that looks not much different from those of many news Web sites. "We are trying to leverage the experience of all the editors out there," said Larry Page. WashPost editor: "It's a useful service, but it's not going to drive me to the unemployment office tomorrow." All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print |
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British Dossier on Iraq's WMD |
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| Topic: International Relations |
5:16 am EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government Tony Blair: It is unprecedented for the Government to publish this kind of document. But in light of the debate about Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), I wanted to share with the British public the reasons why I believe this issue to be a current and serious threat to the UK national interest. British Dossier on Iraq's WMD |
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Dilbert on Interface design |
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| Topic: Tech Industry |
11:29 pm EDT, Sep 23, 2002 |
[Nano: I *heart* Dilbert cartoons!] Ditto. Dilbert on Interface design |
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