Month: <span>April 2001</span>

CNET: Cisco’s Chambers cuts salary to $1. The company’s chief executive cuts his salary to $1 in order to save a few jobs at Cisco Systems, which is in the midst of laying off up to 8,500 employees.
10:42:35 PM  

SF Gate: Fired Cisco exec charged with fraud.
10:42:22 PM  

The Register: Apple Powerbook is not airport ‘ bomb’. Owner ‘very drunk’, something in the bag
10:42:04 PM  

CNET: Wake-up call. Cell phone makers are learning the relatively unfamiliar realm of software the hard way.
10:41:54 PM  

Wall Street Journal via Hack the Planet: Start-up adds locks to media files. Proof that everything repeats, the next big thing in copy protection is now dongles. Ho hum.
8:55:29 PM  

Wired: Gates Wealth Second to Walmart. Who is the world’s richest man? It’s not Bill Gates, according to a British newspaper’s annual rich list.
8:53:36 PM  

Jeff: “What if the Hokey Pokey is what it’s all about?” Indeed…
8:53:00 PM  

CNN: Gunmen storm Turkish hotel.
2:21:03 AM  

Dictionary.com Word of the Day: rapprochement.
2:20:10 AM  

Inside.com: Secure-Music Group Threatens Researchers Who Plan to Publish on Hacking Success. “The SDMI invited challenges to its technology to prevent unauthorized copying, but now it says academics who took part could be taken to court if they explain what they did.” Gotta love “Freedom of Speech”.
11:50:34 PM  

CNET: Perlman’s Rearden Steel raises $67 million. Two years after leaving Microsoft and his struggling brainchild WebTV, Steve Perlman scores one of the largest Series A funding rounds in history. There’s still money out there…
10:34:49 PM  

CNN: Nigeria prepares to host African AIDS summit.
10:34:24 PM  

Dictionary.com Word of the Day: undulant.
3:14:27 AM