All-Tech Radio Ready to Launch

Silicon Valley commuters who have been complaining about fighting through
traffic without -- gasp! -- the Net for two hours a day now have an
alternative. CNet, the Internet network dedicated to technology, is teaming
up with broadcast company AMFM to launch the first all-tech radio station.
CNet Radio starts airing in the San Francisco Bay Area later this month on
KNEW 910 AM, with plans to roll it out nationally by year's end.

Led by Brian Cooley, who has been heading CNet Radio's streaming-audio Web
site since 1995, the on-air show will initially feature 13 1/2 hours of
programming a day. But it won't be just for geeks, Cooley says. The station
will deliver tech news to people who find themselves dealing with
technology
every day: "Technology found them; they didn't find it," he says. "This is
a
news format that is more explanatory than you usually hear on the radio."

In the past six months, advertisers -- initially cool to the idea of radio
Webcasts -- have started pounding on CNet's doors, Cooley says. "They
finally realized that a lot of people are listening to audio on the Web."
Broadcasts will refer listeners to CNet's Web site for more information and
links, but Cooley says the show will draw news from all sources, not just
CNet.

Leap-year fears: Just when you thought it was safe to log on, here comes
the
dreaded Y2K Leap Year Bug. CERT -- the respected Computer Emergency
Response
Team, based at Carnegie-Mellon University -- has issued an advisory on how
some computers will mistake Feb. 29 for March 1: Having March arrive a day
early could affect some financial systems but "is unlikely to have serious
consequences."

Reported by USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com