March 6, 2001
USA Today: Copyright fight might narrow TV, music options.
These cyberspace copyright battles are likely to radically affect what can be done in one's own home with movies, music (and soon, books) already purchased and paid for. In the future, what you own might not be a disc or a tape, but rather, the limited right to listen or watch.
Wired News: Napster Fallout: Privacy Loses?
Nevertheless, privacy and legal experts predict that the Napster decision will place increased pressure on ISPs to play a role in stopping illegal file sharing. At the least, they may face a new deluge of requests to identify users accused of copyright violation.
Internet World: Testing Goes Against Japanese Culture.
Jakob Nielsen. The designers told us that Japanese clients don't want to hear what's not working well with their designs, especially in front of all of their colleagues. Problems in designs are dismissed as failures, and the way to regain face is to invent an entirely new direction.
Atlantic Monthly: The Reinvention of Privacy.
Entrepreneurs are realizing that privacy and technology are not fundamentally at odds—and that, in fact, expectations of privacy have in large measure always been created or broadened by the arrival of new technologies.
Darwin: Under the Influence.
But in an industry that touts objectivity as its primary value and sales tool, research companies do little to encourage or police the objectivity of their analysts. These organizations quietly profit from the same technology vendors their analysts cover...
ZDNN: Fee-based services considered for MSN.
As the Redmond, Wash.-based company has done in the past when it starts planning for an operating system upgrade, Microsoft has been surveying consumers about the kind of MSN services they would like and how much they would be willing to pay.
Computerworld: Hack of Amazon.com’s Bibliofind compromises customer data.
Bibliofind.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find books that's owned by Amazon.com Inc., yesterday disclosed that a malicious hacker had broken into its Web site, compromising the security of the customer credit-card information processed on its servers between October and February.
Darwin: Freedom to Roam.
OK, so ubiquitous computing is gonna be big. But what does it really change about consumer and employee behavior? And how can a company shape an intelligent wireless strategy that's based more on ROI than hype and hopefulness?
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