The New Card Shark | # | The NY Times takes a look at how online gaming is changing the face of real-world poker tournaments. -- While the Las Vegas hype machine focused on the rags-to-riches tale of a man who parlayed a $40 entrance fee into a huge pot, many poker players recognized that the amateur's success signaled the arrival of a new age in the game. Mr. Moneymaker may never have been in the same room as other players in a tournament of Texas Hold'em poker, but he had played extensively online, where the game is faster but the money is just as real. He was as much a rookie as Ichiro Suzuki, who joined the Seattle Mariners after nine years in the Japanese major leagues.
July 09, 2003
MRAM, Finally | # | This is long overdue - With both Motorola and IBM firmly lined up behind a single contender, the five-year search for a "universal RAM" technology offering a combination of non-volatility and high-speed random access appears to be all but over. According to Motorola, samples of the new magnetoresistive random access memory, or MRAM, chips will be distributed to developers by the end of 2003, and cell phones and PDAs incorporating MRAM should be on sale by mid-2004...
Fans who download music buy more CDs | # | The Music Research and Programming survey of 500 British fans aged 13-45 with internet access challenges the received wisdom that downloading is the prime source of a slump in music sales.
Microsoft brains take on Google brawn | # | Microsoft has hired top scientists in its quest for search algorithms that will allow it to compete directly with Google. Microsoft is actively working on new search algorithms it will use to power its own search engine and enter into competition with Google...
July 08, 2003
Hyper Dictionary | # | A dictionary done the right way! Each word in a definition is a hyperlink to its own definition. Makes perfect sense.
July 07, 2003
TypePad Features Revealed | # | A listing of some of the features in TypePad 1.0. I hope some of these make it into Movable Type. (Found via http://kadyellebee.com )
The beta TypePad blogs are now viewable by the public too.
Technorati Pinger | # | Now you can ping Technorati directly when you update your blog.
