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At 5977 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged At 1677 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan INTERNET 'INDISPENSIBLE' TO TODAY'S STUDENTS Eighty-six percent of today's college students are hooked up to the Web, and 79% say being online has had a positive influence on their lives overall, according to the latest survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Not surprisingly, nearly three out of four college students check their e-mail every day and use the Web for library research. A majority of students report improved relationships with classmates, thanks to the Internet, and nearly half say that using e-mail allows them to voice an idea to a professor that they likely would not have expressed in class. And while the high-speed connections on most college campuses do enable more media downloading, students use the Internet just as frequently for academic purposes, making use of course-related mail lists, e-mail and Web sites. "Today's 18-year-old college freshmen were born the same year as the PC was introduced, and they have grown up with these technologies," says the report's author, Steve Jones. "To them, the Internet and e-mail are as commonplace as telephones and television -- and equally as indispensable. This generation is going to end up making the Internet a major part of their lives as they go into the work force. The folks who are trying to market broadband are missing out if they're not targeting this wired market." (CNet News.com 15 Sep 2002) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957874.html?tag=fd_top LINUX IN THE CORPORATE WORLD The Linux operating system, which has already found a secure place in academic and government computing environments, is becoming increasingly attractive to corporate information technology managers seeking less-costly alternatives to the offerings of Microsoft and Sun. IBM is now expanding its foray into the corporate Linux world, by announcing a multi-year alliance with Red Hat, the largest company in the marketplace that sells professional support for Linux, an "open-source" product available free (without support). Alliances such as these will ease the fears of corporate IT managers concerned about the compatibility issues of unsupported software. (New York Times 16 Sep 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/technology/16LINU.html CHINA ENDS BLOCKING OF GOOGLE Chinese authorities have ended their policy of preventing citizens in that country from accessing the Google search engine, which is especially popular there because of its ability to make it easy to find Chinese-language material online. In its usual style, the government gave no indication of why it was removing the restrictions (nor, for that matter, why it had imposed them in the first place). But censorship in China continues, as evidenced by an increase in selective blocking, which prevents visitors to a Web site from seeing specific items which the government finds politically incorrect. 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