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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
April 9, 2001 - ISSUE 10
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I N T H I S I S S U E
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1. New Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus Alerts
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. New Computer Term.
Degauss - Term derived from Johann Gauss who was a
mathematician who studied and worked with electro-magnetic
fields. Degauss is a method of erasing magnetic media and
the removal of remnants of previously recorded signals.
The degauss process is achieved by passing magnetic media
through a magnet field more powerful than the media itself
in order to rearrange the magnetic particles.
Degaussing was first used by the British Royal Navy in the
2nd WW. An electro-magnetic cable was inserted on the inside
and around each warship as a safeguard against magnetic
mines. Each time a ship came into harbor it was degaussed.
An electrical current was passed through this cable and the
magnetic field was neutralized, hence the magnetic
mine was unemployed.
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?
* 4/02/2001 - MSNBC reports The retail version of Office XP
will initially be available in four versions: Standard,
Professional, Professional Special Edition and Developer.
The Standard version will offer new versions of Word, the
Excel spreadsheet, the Outlook collaboration application
and the PowerPoint presentation program. The estimated
retail upgrade price for existing Office 97 and 2000 users
will be $239, while Office 95 and new users will have to pay
the full price of $479, Gurry said.
Office XP Professional includes the Access database, lifting
the upgrade price to $329, or $579 for the full version.
The Professional Special Edition adds the FrontPage Web
creation program, Publisher 2002 and the new Microsoft
IntelliMouse Explorer. It is only available to current
Office users and will sell for $479.
Office XP Developer, which includes FrontPage and
professional tools, will cost $549 as an upgrade and
$799 for the full version.
- Heads up for Microsoft 'Hailstorm'
- SourceXchange programming site expires
- Two Cisco accountants indicated in fraud scheme
- Investment tax glitch in TurboTax affects 150,000 users
- Struggling Egghead lays off more workers
- Xerox bans Windows XP beta after 'major network outages'
- Nokia faces massive cell phone recall
- AIM crashes again
- Yahoo! inks online music deal
- Bibliofind to Unite with Amazon.com
- Winstar cuts 2,000 workers
- Rythms CEO resigns
- AdFlight to stop banner network April 9th
- RealNetworks finds another place to play with Intel
- Microsoft to revise Passport privacy
- Study: There's hope yet for web advertising
- Cisco to discontinue optical router amid week sales
- Napster downloads surge
- TheStreet.com lays off 20% of workforce
- Aspen Tech sees wider-than-expected loss
- MTV to sell Music Files Online
- More flaws found in wireless LAN protocol
- Wine.com cuts 160 jobs, sets streaming plan
- MTV Internet site to trim staff
- Be falls on hard times
- Alcatel cuts 1,100 US jobs, cites slowdown
- Rational cuts jobs, earnings targets
- Glitch downs AOL's instant messaging service
- Larry Wall talks about Perl 6
- MicroStrategy to cut 600 workers and narrow software focus
- Compaq to cut 700 jobs in Scotland
- Lucent to cut 1,000 jobs
- Rational cuts jobs, earnings targets
- Solectron announces more job cuts
- Pilot Network cuts 23 percent of Work Force
- Music Giants, RealNetworks Form Subscriber Venture
- Prince to promote new song on Napster
- April Fool's bug strikes eBay
- Netcentives to cut 120 jobs
- Yahoo Introduces Premium Finance Service for a fee
- Ameritrade lays off staff; President resigns
- drkoop.com loss widens as company looks for cures
- Microsoft squashes bugs in Mac Office
- I2 lowers forecast, to cut to 10 percent of jobs
- Motorola obtains $2 Billion loan
- Ariba warns of loss, to cut one-third of work force
- More than 400,000 tech jobs to go unfilled this year
Find all of the above articles and latest news at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus Alerts
No new virus alerts.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
- Added over 60+ additional computer definitions to our
computer dictionary:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
- Added over 20+ additional computer companies:
http://www.computerhope.com/support.htm
- Corrected various bad links and errors on web site.
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.
* Computer Hope has migrated and moved many of the documents
found on the hardware Q&A page into their appropriate pages.
Additional information and documents that have been changed
can be found on the below new questions and answers link.
- Low speaker volume
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000412.htm
- Error 630: Port disconnected due to hardware failure
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000410.htm
- 1780 or 1790 hard disk error at boot
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000406.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
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6. All Talk
http://www.keykatcher.com/
This week we talk about KEYKatcher hardware product. This
device connects between the keyboard and the computer (PS/2)
and stores data typed in using the keyboard. This device can
be helpful for parents, schools or businesses to log what a
child or employee is using the computer for.
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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