Here is my weekly selection of articles that were not mentioned here — except if I missed them

Aruba edges Cisco for Microsoft Wi-Fi deal
Aruba Networks has won a major wireless contract with Microsoft, beating out Cisco Systems. Microsoft will use Aruba’s wireless switches and roughly 5,000 Wi-Fi access points to replace its 6-year-old wireless gear from Cisco.
Source: Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com, June 12, 2005

The Art of Street Talk
Next time you’re walking down a city sidewalk, look out for the internet. It’s all around you — and not just in the phone lines and cables running under the streets or in the airborne Wi-Fi streams. In recent months, several services have sprung up to allow a communion between the real world and the internet, with cell phones acting as the medium.
Source: Associated Press, via Wired News, June 12, 2005

Diabetics get ‘Intel Inside’
Computerised sensors are to be used to monitor the health of patients in a UK trial due to begin by Christmas. The devices, powered by Pentium processors and invented by boffins at Scientists at Imperial College London, can measure changes in an individual’s condition and send the data to doctors using a Bluetooth connection and a mobile phone link.
Source: John Leyden, The Register, June 13, 2005

Ericsson touts cell network for planes
Amid growing interest in relaxing the ban on cell phone use on airplanes, Ericsson said Monday that it has created a mini cell phone network for commercial aircraft. Ericsson says the new network can accommodate as many as 60 people at a time using GSM.
Source: Ben Charny, CNET News.com, June 13, 2005

Sony researchers create ‘curious’ Aibos
Sony Corp. has succeeded in giving selected Aibo pet robots curiosity, researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratory (SCSL) in Paris said last week. Their research won’t lead to conscious robots soon, if ever, but it could help other fields such as child developmental psychology, they said during an open day in Tokyo.
Source: Paul Kallender, IDG News Service, June 14, 2005

Intelligent Carpet Directs Robot Vacuum
Robotic vacuum cleaners automatically sweep up messes, but the random path they travel across the floor can sometimes leave dirt untouched. Now the manufacturing company Vorwerk in Hamlin, Germany, has partnered with Infineon in Munich to develop an electronic carpet that wirelessly navigates a self-propelled robot over every square inch of a floor, and can even direct the machine to revisit sections it unintentionally missed.
Source: Tracy Staedter, Discovery News, June 15, 2005

Boohoo, and pass me that éclair
They cry and eat while millions watch and click. This wacky, weeping site is an Internet phenomenon.
[Please check Crying while eating to see why.]
Source: Gina Piccalo, Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2005 (Free registration)

An impromptu test in Ann Arbor reveals vulnerable networks
We drove down the streets of Ann Arbor, tallying the sins of computer users as we went. [...] At the end of the drive from I-94 to downtown Ann Arbor, the tally was shocking: about 900 wireless computer networks, all detected from the street inside a moving car. More than half had no security whatsoever.
Source: Heather Newman, Detroit Free Press, June 15, 2005

Who Knows Whom, And Who Knows What?
Employees’ personal connections can be as valuable as their individual knowledge base. Social network analysis, or SNA, helps maximize a company’s collective smarts.
Source: Susannah Patton, CIO Magazine, June 15, 2005 Issue

DIY TV
Most discussions of citizen journalism assume that the Internet is the best medium for people who want to come together to produce news stories. But a new media company has a vision that’s more, well, visual: it hopes to bring the concept of citizen journalism to television.
Source: Eric Hellweg, Technology Review, June 17, 2005

Credit card breach exposes 40 million accounts
In what could be the largest data security breach to date, MasterCard International on Friday said information on more than 40 million credit cards may have been stolen.
Of those exposed accounts, about 13.9 million are for MasterCard-branded cards, the company said in a statement. Some 20 million Visa-branded cards may have been affected and the remaining accounts were other brands, including American Express and Discover.
Source: Joris Evers, CNET News.com, June 17, 2005

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