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June 16, 2002 ISSUE 68
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl68.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Qubit ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/q/qubit.htm ) -
Similar to the standard computers binary, a qubit is a fundamental unit of information in quantum computing. Unlike binary a qubit is capable of representing a 0, 1, or both 0 and 1.
See the above link for the remainder of this definition.
See a complete dictionary of computer terms at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last
week?
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Top News Story: EarthLink's up with PeoplePC
* CNET: Internet service provider EarthLink said Monday that it will acquire PeoplePC in a deal valued at about $10 million.
- IBM 'punch cards' set storage record
- How Google searches itself
- Skinny organic LED displays set to grow
- Ask Jeeves gets a face-lift
- Billion dollar deal secures spots for future Apple TV ads
- Beijing cyber cafes closed down
- New virus can infect picture files
- EBay fights to keep customers happy
- More job cuts loom for telecom sector
- Hollow promise for fibre optics
- FoxNews.com disabled by attack
- Ericsson sells chip unit, shares slide
- Apple buys video effects technology
- Faster Gigabit Ethernet standard gets OK
- Microsoft finds dormant virus in Korean software
- Microsoft joins mobile phone alliance
- Blizzard announces WarCraft III to be released July 3, 2002
- Intel paves way for new laptop Pentium
- NVIDIA announces new Pixel and Vertex Shader language
- Hoax release carried on news wire
- MSNBC.com's top editor resigns
- NewsForge: Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled
- Xbox hackers release media player
- Say goodnight Comdisco
- P&G may outsource 5,700 jobs by year's end
- EarthLink's up with PeoplePC
Find all of the above articles and latest news at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
- San Francisco (Reuters): Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it had unwittingly released a Korean-language version of its development software for online services that was infected with the notorious Nimda virus.
- Washington (AP): A new virus threatens
to strike one of the Internet's most common and useful activities: sharing family photos. The malicious program is the first ever to infect picture files, though it is not currently attacking computers. Called "Perrun," it worries researchers because it is the first to be able to cross from infecting a program to infecting data files, long considered safe from such threats.
* Security: No new security news this week.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
Computer Security Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/secureqa.htm
Computer Privacy Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/privacyq.htm
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4.
What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Posted 20+ definitions for dictionary.
- Fixed various minor issues.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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CMOS time and date not set.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000386.htm
Can you type more then one command at one command prompt?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000177.htm
How to disable
power management.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000338.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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http://www.ipl.org/
This week we talk about another great Internet web site known as the Internet Public Library or IPL for short. The IPL is the first public library of and for the Internet community that offers over 20,000 books online
for free.
The above items as well as other new and innovative services and technologies can be found on our What's Hip section on our News page at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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