Google revs Dashboard widgets for Tiger

The Blogger widget enables quick and easy posting to your blog. The Gmail widget, as you might expect, checks your Gmail inbox; and the Search History Widget, well the name says it all. All three can be downloaded from Mac Dashboard Widgets. ...more

And also today (28-Feb-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. That's one large conglomerate According to a report released by Jupiter Media Metrix, AOL/Time Warner Web sites attracted nearly a third of all time spent online by Americans in January. That's a lot of traffic for a lot of Internet real-estate. ...more

IEEE revises 802.11n but final approval delayed to mid-2008

The IEEE has adopted a new draft specification of 802.11n, the next-generation wireless standard, but the anticipated date for final approval has been moved from January to July 2008 with the standard due to be published the following October. The new specification has been temporarily labelled as version 1. ...more

Google moves to protect user privacy

Google, with mountains of data on its users' search habits, is taking steps to boost consumer privacy protections in coming months, the company said late on Wednesday. The world's leading provider of Web search said it is taking steps to anonymize, or obscure details, after 18 to 24 months on the surfing habits of tens of millions of Web users that could potentially be used to identify individuals. The Mountain View, California-based company collects information on Web searches, such as the keyword queries, Internet addresses and 'cookies' used by Web sites and advertisers, to track Web surfing habits. ...more

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...

The Computer Entertainment Show in Las Vegas saw a product that seems to be very appropriate for 2001. Home Automated Living (or 'HAL') won the Tech TV Best of Show Award in the Home Automation and Networking category for its HALdeluxe software. The software allows users to control all manner of devices in their homes from anywhere in the world using their voice. ...more