April 20, 2001
Business 2.0: Five Questions with Pamela Samuelson.
It's as though the choices are to have no copyright whatsoever or for copyright owners to have the right to control absolutely everything--and for them to have the power to burden any provider of information or even Internet access provider with making sure that no copyright is ever infringed.
ZDNN: Marketers: Don't play games with us.
It turns out that customers want plainer sites that let them rate brands and product features, according to market research firm Information Resources Inc. Currently, many sites for top brands in beauty care, food and household supplies post games and chats of little interest...
Salon: The stat junkie's perfect high.
For the stat-hungry fan -- and baseball breeds stat-hungry fans like wrestling breeds bloodthirsty ones -- Sean Forman's ludicrously informative, lightning-fast site, all of a year old, has already become as much a part of the season as sunshine, natural grass and the infield fly rule.
News.Com: Ruling seen as victory for online speech.
The decision will make it harder to obtain the identities of people who post messages on the Net unless they are directly named in a lawsuit or are essential to a claim. The ruling comes at a time when it's increasingly common for companies to try to silence critics on Internet message boards...
eCompany: Fiber Is Coming Home -- But Not Soon.
Local telecommunications companies already own extensive copper networks that weave from home to home across the country. Naturally, they'd rather provide new high-speed services on a system that they own than sink dollars into enormous new infrastructure investments.
EE Times: Partners seek to improve efficiency in organic EL displays.
Eyeing applications in TV sets and other large displays, Sony Corp. and Universal Display Corp. will jointly develop an active-matrix organic light-emitting device display based on a novel electrophosphorescent technology.
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