May 1, 2001
Inside: In Lively Oral Arguments, Lawyers Put Digital Copyright Act on Trial.
The members of the three-judge federal appeals court in Manhattan seemed fascinated by the arguments they heard Tuesday in a constitutional challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, permitting the session to extend about 30 minutes longer than its scheduled hour.
Internet World: Is Usability Really Worth Anything?
Jakob Nielsen. Is usability really that bad for business? Basically, all usability does is generate more sales, more traffic, and more loyal users. If you lose money on every order you ship or every page view you serve, then increasing the volume will indeed result in a flood of red ink.
Forbes: PDA Phones Multiply.
Among the latest to join the game is Trium, the France-based unit of Japan's Mitsubishi Electric. The company announced its Mondo phone at the CeBIT trade show in Germany in March, and it should begin showing up on the European market in the next month or so.
Time: Why Tax on Internet Sales Could Be Slower Than a 28K Modem.
But anything that shows up in the Senate this week still has to pass both houses of Congress, and anything that increases tax collection — even a tax-law simplification effort like this one — still smells like new taxes in the Republican-led House.
IBM developerWorks: The usability world according to Tog.
When most systems programmers thought the command line was just fine, Tognazzini was thinking about how a well-designed graphical user interface could help boost user productivity -- something very different from computer productivity.
Wired News: MS May Have File-Trading Answer.
During a security workshop on Friday, a Microsoft Research scientist demonstrated how the hidden copyright fingerprint is so securely affixed to the audio that it remains intact even if a jazz song is played aloud on speakers in a noisy room and then re-recorded.
EE Times: Task force asks FCC to open 94-GHz band for commercial use.
Capitalizing on the wide availability of spectrum in the 94-GHz realm, the WCA's Engineering Task Force hopes to make several gigabits of spectrum available to give inexpensive radios an ability to achieve point-to-point data rates of 1, 10 or 100 Gbits/second.
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