March 30, 2001
Interactive Week: Sony vs. Sony.
The media behemoth is the umbrella for both Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Electronics — and their increasingly conflicted copyright policies. Copyright has always been a point of friction between content and consumer electronics companies.
Web Review: Transmedia Pioneers: The Future According to Nielsen and Laurel.
According to Web usability gurus Jakob Nielsen and Brenda Laurel of the Nielsen Norman Group, these and other unlikely pioneers are connecting experience, technology, and content in ways that put them years ahead of the fold.
Interactive Week: Beyond The Browser.
Bruce Tognazzini and Jakob Nielsen. Browsers kicked off the Web revolution, but it's time to retire them to their rightful place in the Computer Museum and get more powerful tools to support the hours of work and play we are all going to spend on the Internet every day in the future.
EE Times: Microsoft shuts Windows on Bluetooth support.
Microsoft Corp. will not support Bluetooth in the next major version of Windows, executives said this week, portraying the technology as not ready for prime time. Nor will Windows XP, a version of the operating system aimed broadly at consumer and business users...
ZDNN: Will Real's MusicNet play for pay?
In the latest step toward developing online music subscriptions, three big record companies are negotiating to license their music to RealNetworks Inc. for use in its planned subscription service, tentatively called MusicNet.
Inside: New York Times Digital Sees Subscriptions as Key to Its Future.
The New York Times is climbing aboard the online subscription bandwagon, sort of. Its online unit, the New York Times Digital, is prepping an array of new, paid products for its 15 million registered users. But the core news of its sites, which include NYTimes.com and Boston.com, will remain free.
Interactive Week: AltaVista Adds Asian Languages To BabelFish.
BabelFish, which can be found at world.altavista.com, already performs more than a million translations per day, and is the first translation service to support traditional Asian characters in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
NY Times: Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery.
Meanwhile the gallery continues to grow. Programmers have been competing to come up with the shortest possible code for descrambling DVD encryption. The record-holder is now just 434 bytes long, small enough to fit on a business card.
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