Eric, from what I hear, it was RSA's ISP that was hacked.....but it is ironic :-) None of the other security sites were hacked, so I guess that makes us special since we were singled out!
On a brighter note:
Symbian Talks Wireless
by Leander Kahney
3:00 a.m. 15.Feb.2000 PST
While the Microsoft juggernaut will launch Windows 2000 this week at a San Francisco extravaganza, Bill Gates may have his eye on a much more modest gathering in Silicon Valley organized by a tiny London company.
The UK-based Symbian, which Gates recently described as one of the Microsoft empire's greatest "threats," is holding its first developers conference in the United States during the same three days as Microsoft's Windows 2000 circus.
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Symbian is a joint venture between the world's biggest makers of mobile phones -- Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and Matsushita. Of the five giant cell phone manufacturers, only Qualcomm isn't a member of the Symbian alliance.
Symbian is developing software for the next generation of mobile computing devices, such as smart phones and wireless handhelds.
In an internal memo during last year's antitrust hearings, a somewhat prescient Gates identified Symbian -- then only eight months old -- as a threat to Microsoft.
Launched in June 1998, Symbian started with 130 employees. Since then it has grown to more than 500 staffers with 10 offices worldwide.
More significantly, its developer base has exploded from 1,600 registered developers to more than 22,000.
Many U.S. developers who currently write software for the Palm and Windows CE platforms will be drawn to the conference to learn more about the potentially explosive growth of the Symbian platform, said Paul Cockerton, head of Symbian's corporate communications.
"By the end of 2003 there will be 1 billion people using mobile phones," Cockerton said. "It's going to be a very big market. Right now it's very new. [Developers] are realizing they've got to get a heads up if they're going to be the first out there."
Cockerton said there are already more mobile phones than PCs, and that by 2003, there will be three times as many people using smart mobile phones to surf the Net than PCs.
As a joint venture between the world's biggest cell phone manufacturers, which produce 70 percent of the world's handsets, Symbian will be uniquely positioned as the de facto industry standard platform.
By that time, mobile phones will probably be a hybrid of computers and phones, with built-in browsers and broadband access capable of sending and receiving email, browsing the Web, and managing contacts and phone numbers. Most importantly, they probably will be an essential conduit to e-commerce.
Obviously, this is a piece of action Bill Gates wants. |
