Monday 07 February 2005

Rather Amusing News Stories

KAZAA: Employees at peer-to-peer provider Sharman Networks “hate” installing the company’s own Kazaa software because it has ill effects on their computers, according to an internal document written by Sharman’s chief technology officer.

More here.

GOOGLE: After Google disclosed last week that it had been granted the right to sell domain names, the question in many minds was, “Why?”

Would it use its new registrar status to snap up expired domains and show ads to wayward surfers? Is this a move toward Google world domination?

“In a few years you’ll be driving your Google to the Google to buy some Google for your Google,” read one posting on Slashdot, an online technology forum.

CYBER LOVE: AN INTENSE CYBER affair between a Jordanian man and woman turned ugly when the couple met and turned out to be already married – to each other.

According to the Petra news agency, Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa had been separated for several months and by chance met on an internet chat room.

Rest of the story here.

 

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