April 9, 2001
O'Reilly Network: Backlash!
Clay Shirky. The unspoken premise of both articles is this: if peer-to-peer is neither a technology or a business model, then it must just be hot air. There is, however a third possibility besides "technology" and "business." The third way is simply this: Peer-to-peer is an idea.
Wired News: Online Newsies Gather, Weep.
Forget about spring, it's now the dead of winter in the new media world. At last weekend's fourth annual New Media Conference at the University of California at Berkeley, organizers handed out purple programs with a photograph of a barren forest on the front.
NY Times: Critics Say VeriSign Still Has Advantage.
But the deal, which extends VeriSign's control of the .com database at least through 2007, is raising concerns among the company's competitors and critics, who say VeriSign may have an unfair advantage in the increasingly lucrative market for reselling Internet addresses.
Wired News: Is U.S. History Becoming History?
Records management experts say the problem started around 1985, when U.S. government agencies began using e-mail and word-processing programs as they changed the way they conducted business. But they did it without a system for preserving electronic files.
Internet World: What Happened to the Fuss over Patents?
And then the talk died down. Speaking at this week's Internet and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on Business Method Patents, Rep. Howard Coble said there had been "considerable hype" over business-method patents, but "the excitement exceeds the reality."
Computerworld: 3G wireless speeds fail to match claims.
Carriers acknowledged last week that the average throughput on third-generation mobile wireless networks will be in the range of only one-third to one-half of the peak speeds they hyped in announcements at the recent annual CTIA conference in Las Vegas...
Wired News: Europe Approves Copyright Law.
The new regulations adapt outmoded EU laws to the digital environment, allowing rights holders to prevent the illegal copying of music, films and books protected by copyright. The ministers' adoption follows the European Parliament's approval of the regulations in February.
MIT Technology Review: Remaking the Meeting-Cam.
Apart from cost, the presence of a cameraperson—usually an outsider—has a psychological impact that tends to change the dynamics of group meetings or lectures. The researchers attacked both problems by designing a system that mimics the actions of human camera operators.
|
