January 13, 2004
EE Times: HP, Dell endorse BD while HD DVD backers stress early production.
At the Blu-ray technology update during the Consumer Electronics Show here, Hewlett Packard and Dell endorsed the Blu-ray disk system, marking the first time the U.S. IT industry has backed the proposal. The companies called BD "revolutionary technology" that provides high capacity while taking full advantage of HDTV.
USA Today: Penn State launches pilot online music service for students.
As spring semester classes got under way Monday at Penn State, more than 2,600 students had registered for the Napster 2.0 service, which comes free with their tuition. All 17,000 on-campus resident students are eligible to use it.
Business Week: Yahoo's Risky Antispam Gambit.
A unilateral move from a powerful commercial entity such as Yahoo, however, threatens to overtake the Internet's governing bodies and could effectively cede control of e-mail technology standards to the mammoth ISPs.
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