December 22, 2003
Useit.Com: Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003.
Many of this year's top design mistakes actually indicate a happy phenomenon: we are making progress in Web usability. Now that sites are doing certain things correctly, we get hit by second-order phenomena that only cause problems because users have progressed past the first-order issues.
Salon: The long road to Longhorn.
Scott Rosenberg. It has succeeded, in a way that no millions spent on Waggener-Edstrom P.R. and trade-press shmooze-fests could, in transcending the Evil Empire stereotypes that inevitably cling to Microsoft -- and highlighting the human faces behind the intimidatingly omnipresent Windows logo.
News.Com: Verizon announces final fiber suppliers.
On Monday the company announced it has selected the last of its equipment suppliers. The four vendors named will supply the carrier with fiber-optic cabling and other outside plant equipment, also known as the "passive" elements of the FTTP system.
News.Com: Norwegian cleared of DVD piracy.
Johansen, called "DVD Jon," had pleaded not guilty to charges that he broke Norwegian law by helping break the code on commercial DVDs. The original court said that he was free to do what he wanted with DVDs he bought legally. Prosecutors, who appealed against the original verdict, had urged a suspended 90-day jail term for Johansen.
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