April 11, 2001
Business 2.0: The Real Wireless Innovators.
Clay Shirky. Wireless telcos would like you to believe that these are all just growing pains, but there is another explanation for the current difficulties of the wireless sector: Telephone companies are not very good at producing anything but telephones.
NY Times: Humor Is at Center of Microsoft's New Campaign.
Although the campaign is likely to be greeted warmly by many white- collar office workers who have long grumbled about the paper clip, it has worried at least one Microsoft researcher who is most closely credited with being the father of the technology underlying the paper clip.
Industry Standard: Just Compensation.
Lawrence Lessig. Congress, from both sides of the aisle, are beginning to wonder whether these laws make sense. We didn't deliver control over FedEx into the hands of the Post Office; should we deliver control over Internet distribution into the hands of the labels?
Business Week: Schools Are Joining the Digital Copyright Battle.
should online colleges be held to a different standard, wonder educators looking to kick-start online programs. Hence, UMUC, which has one of the largest online student bodies in the country, is now leading a charge on Capitol Hill to rewrite copyright law.
USA Today: Internet sites offer their visitors real sense of place.
Several start-ups and tech researchers are betting the Internet is a place, and the future is in treating it that way. In recent weeks, I've talked with two such companies, ViOS and Antarcti.ca. There are lots of others, including start-up UBUBU and researchers in corporate labs...
Publish: Interstitials in the balance.
Usability and profitability are locked in a head-on collision course, giving rise to a basic question: Have surfers convinced advertisers and ad-supported sites that pop-up ads aren’t worth the annoyance they cause?
InfoWorld: E Ink demos first active-matrix electronic ink display.
The new active-matrix electronic ink display provides greater readability, uses less power, and is thinner and lighter than traditional LCDs, CRTs, LEDs, and OLEDs, E Ink said. The technology will be 30 percent thinner and lighter than traditional LCD displays...
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