Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Wired.  Cyc finds a commercial application in biotech.  Narrow data intensive tasks is where AI will be useful. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 10:41:06 PM

Things a bit thorny for BlackBerry maker. Research In Motion suffers a couple of scrapes as an analyst cuts his outlook and an upstart rival fires the first shot in a patent struggle. [CNET News.com] 10:20:45 PM

Optical gear market shrinks 18 percent. In a sign that a telecom recovery is a long way off, the market for optical gear declined 18 percent in the first quarter. [CNET News.com] 10:15:06 PM

Improving Unix Mail Storage? [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]  More evidence that the e-mail is causing people pain.   This posting lays out some of the alternatives (mbox, maildir, db, etc).   A few useful pointers in the thread that follows. 10:11:22 PM

Bay Area Real Estate Prices Too Hot for Some to Touch. Despite tough economic times, the real estate market in the San Francisco Bay Area, after a very brief cooling off period, is sizzling again. [New York Times: Technology]   This article doesn't really draw any conclusions, but it did include some factors I hadn't considered before -- e.g. that some people are now looking to real estate as an alternative to the stock market.   Still, my read of this is that the bears in the article tended to be the offer the most principled arguments.  9:55:03 PM