May 3, 2004
InfoWorld: Microsoft premiers DRM technology.
With an eye to capturing a larger share of the budding market for online music and movie distribution software, Microsoft Corp. announced Monday a new version of its copyright protection software that will allow users to play rented content on portable devices...
Useit.Com: Change the Color of Visited Links.
Even people who believe in usability sometimes question the need for changing link colors. I think this is because they don't pick up on the problems caused by unchanging links when they conduct their own user testing. Unfortunately, the symptoms of these problems are among the most difficult to detect when you observe users.
IT World: If they develop it, will it work? Exploring Gmail.
If one million users, say, take Gmail up then, on the face of it, 1PB, one petabyte -- that's one million gigabytes, of hard disk would be needed. Double that for redundancy, add in more for indexing, and some lucky supplier could find a 2.5PB HDD order in the in-tray. But Google doesn't work like this.
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