2002 April

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“HP has been hit by a class action, claiming it misrepresented the capabilities of its DVD100i drive.”

“Some Internet users have recently received an e-mail message from a dead friend. Others have been subscribed to obscure mailing lists. Some have lost their Internet access after being accused of spamming, and still others have received e-mailed pornography from a priest.”

“FT.com, the online version of the Financial Times, has unveiled details of new subscription packages for its web content, confirming months of speculation about the planned cost of services.”

“Undaunted by the dot-com bust, the Webby Awards has announced its nominees for this year’s best Web sites by emphasizing the medium’s success as a town square and library.”

“Keeping in touch by mobile phone has reached obsessive proportions for some couples in the UK.”

“The internet homepage of the German school gunman was updated hours after his death.”

“The grinding Mideast conflict is sending big ripples into the economies of Israel and the Palestinian territories. But at least one industry — Israel’s fledgling technology sector — attributes its slowdown over the past year less to the violence than to the worldwide technology slump.”

“In a strategic move that could shorten its antitrust case, Microsoft yesterday reduced by half the number of witnesses it plans to call in this latest courtroom chapter.”

“Nine states, including Massachusetts, suing Microsoft tried Tuesday to offer complaints by computer makers as evidence that the company still uses unfair business practices after settling its antitrust case with the federal government.”

“Signaling a new direction for online music services, Liquid Audio launched the BurnITFIRST digital music subscription service this week, offering users the ability to burn CDs and transfer music to portable devices.”

“CELL PHONE executives hype the arrival of their new “3G” networks, but a lowly technology from the computer world has been steadily gaining converts as an alternative path to the nirvana of high-speed mobile access to the Internet.”

“Ernest Hemingway is going online, marking what publisher Simon & Schuster said is the first time the collection of a major literary writer will be made available electronically.”

“Would you pay £8 per month to listen to Classic FM, the stolidly unthreatening classical music radio station? I’d wager not, even if it meant getting rid of the ads.”

“Four years ago the record industry and some technology companies banded together to match wits in a combined effort to stamp out Internet music piracy.”

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“If you saw the world through Steve Mann’s eyes — actually, through the glasses attached to his wearable computer — you’d always have a computer display floating in your field of vision. As you walked across campus, you could simultaneously surf the Web or type notes using a handheld keypad. Or you could look at […]

“As many as three times a week, on average, XP users see a little window pop-up at the bottom of their computer screens announcing the availability of another new update for their system.”

“When America’s ‘dot-us’ Internet suffix opened to the public last week, U.S. Internet users responded in droves, registering more than 200,000 names. But some consumer advocates say certain addresses - like ‘union.us’ and ‘nonprofit.us’ - should not have been sold on a first-come, first-served basis.”

” A new style of film and TV criticism is crawling out of the cyberslime. It’s shamelessly crass and grabs the reader by the eyeballs. It’s aimed at the young.”