August 13, 2001
Industry Standard: Visible Hand.
Lawrence Lessig. The harder issue - so far forgotten in this debate - is privacy. In real space, stores collect sales tax without necessarily collecting personal information. That's because there's "cash" in real space, and cash is a privacy-enhancing technology.
SJ Mercury: Living where the Net is a threat.
This startling admission from a senior technocrat doesn't mean it's curtains for Hanoi's Internet Iron Curtain. The ruling Communist Party here still takes many of its political and ideological lessons from China, and Beijing has recently reinforced its already draconian restrictions on Internet use.
MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online Work.
Q&A with Ray Ozzie. From a personal perspective, our goal has been to create an environment that securely brings together the right people, the relevant information, the appropriate tools to manipulate that information, at the right time—whether spontaneously or over a long period of time.
NY Times: Software Double Bind.
A question, of course, is how anyone would ever be able to obtain and use the tools that would legally allow them to circumvent copy-protection technology if the people that make and distribute them are thrown in jail or prosecuted in civil trials.
Computerworld: Tulane University launches $1.7M wireless initiative.
When students at Tulane University in New Orleans return to classes later this month, IT managers at the university hope they will have at least part of a new wireless LAN up and running. The LAN will ultimately employ up to 1,000 wireless access points from Enterasys Networks Inc.
Interactive Week: Fueling Bandwidth Trading.
But the energy giant and a few of its neighbors in downtown Houston believe that - regardless of the current wreckage - they are going to transform the telecommunications business and the way bandwidth is bought, sold and traded.
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