August 4, 2003
Newsweek: Pirates of the Internet.
Steven Levy. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, giving the opening testimony, argued otherwise, calling file-sharing networks a grave security risk to this nation. In reality, the hearing was nothing but one of several signs of a new hardball offensive against file-sharing for the same old reasons: protecting the business model of the record labels.
News.Com: The future of a scare campaign.
But the most daunting obstacle to the recording industry's dogged efforts to rid the Internet of music piracy is a lawsuit that Pacific Bell Internet Services (also known as SBC Communications) filed against the RIAA last week.
NY Times: If You Liked the Web Page, You'll Love the Ad.
Two Internet companies, Google and Overture, have made a brisk business of selling ads that appear alongside Web search results. But so far, the big customers for these ad services have been online merchants and operators of search sites.
Boston Globe: Testing the Tablet.
Marketing professor Philip M. ''Perry'' Lowe, 59, leans forward at his table and taps on the screen of a Toshiba Portege 3500 Tablet computer with a thick stylus. To most people, the Microsoft-powered Tablet is another high-tech gadget. To Lowe, it's a piece of marketing history. And he is working to make sure.
NY Times: Phone Access Charges Scrutinized.
Now that investigators are scrutinizing MCI over its reported tactics for avoiding paying network access fees to local telephone companies, some analysts and executives are suggesting that it is also time to look more closely at the access charges themselves.
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