e-Clippings 4.21.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
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NEWS

Transcript: Copyright in the Digital Age
Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School
Wednesday, April 14, 2004; 1:00 PM
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig was online to discuss
his book, "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to
Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity." In his book, Lessig argues
that the entertainment industry conspires with Congress to use
copyright law to destroy our traditional notion of freedom in culture.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58249-2004Apr7.html?
referrer=email

Web Inventor Berners-Lee Wins $1.2M Technology Award: World Wide Web
inventor Tim Berners-Lee was awarded $1.23 million today as the first
recipient of the Millennium Technology Prize. It is the largest
single sum he has made from an invention that has made many others
very rich.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92253,00.html?nlid=AM

(from CETIS)
Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In - Garbage Out? One of the
first things I ever learned as a schoolgirl about computers and
computer programming was the acronym GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
As a grownup librarian working in e-learning, I was surprised to find
a few years back that those who were thinking about metadata for
learning objects appeared to have forgotten this truism.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20040402013222

10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis by Nick Wreden April 13, 2004
"The March 15 issue of the AMA Marketing News—usually a
weekly time capsule of conventional wisdom from a decade ago—had
a
cover story concerning how agencies and companies are using blogs to
promote brands and site visits. But the story was actually a case
study in what not to do, plus it failed to even mention wikis as an
emerging branding tool."
http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/wreden5.asp

(from CETIS)
Blackboard files for IPO at SEC: Some suit type acronyms for a
change: it means that Blackboard the VLE maker will be listed on the
stock exchange: as BBBB on Nasdaq, to be precise. Quite an
achievement for an almost pure e-learning vendor.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/03/05/rtr1288641.html

Innovation Futures: Productivity Prognostication
What will be the productivity gain for the first quarter of 2004?
According to our audience, there is a 66 percent probability that
productivity will increase between 3.01% and 3.5%. What do you think?
Join us in predicting the future of technology and business.
http://trif.technologyreview.com/bk/market/grpIndex.html?
_gid=15&trk=nl

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Info standards group releases draft: The proposed protocol from the
National Information Standards Organization defines a way to exchange
data between digital reference service domains.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0412/web-niso-04-16-04.asp

A New Search Engine from...Amazon
On Wednesday, Amazon.com's launched a new Web search
engine—called A9—that combines conventional Web search with
book results from Amazon and traffic information about sites from
Amazon's Alexa subsidiary. But it's still unclear how Amazon plans to
position itself in the great search engine race.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1366&trk=nl

Tearing Down IM Barriers: As enterprise instant messaging gains
momentum, user are running into interoperability barriers. Emerging
standards could help.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92045,00.html?nlid=AM

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

10 Principles of Change Management By John Jones, DeAnne Aguirre, and
Matthew Calderone A strategy is meaningless unless it can be
implemented. In large companies, that takes the sustained, collective
actions of thousands of employees who are responsible for designing,
executing, and living with the changed environment. Senior executives
must have an intimate understanding of the human side of change
management -- the alignment of the company's culture, values, people,
and behaviors -- to encourage the desired results. Booz Allen
Hamilton has identified a set of 10 key practices, tools, and
techniques for managing the human side of change.
http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00006

Sparking the Fire of Invention: Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief
technology officer of Microsoft, argues that big companies tend to
discourage invention—the often subversive effort to isolate new
problems and generate unexpected solutions. At corporate labs, he
says, "Invention is a side effect, not the focus." But Myhrvold
and former Microsoft chief software architect Edward Jung have set
out to establish a new kind of organization—a hothouse of ideas
where
staff have free rein to cross-pollinate insights from information
technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. The new venture,
Myhrvold says, has no mission other than to invent what the inventors
believe should be—or can be—invented.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schwartz0504.asp?trk=nl

Schrage: Much Ado about Invention: We have no shortage of good
inventions, writes columnist Michael Schrage. What we need are better
ways to bring them to customers.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schrage0504.asp?trk=nl

Linked Out: blogging, equality, and the future by Melanie McBride
With the mainstream media's interest in blogging at a fever pitch,
Mindjack's Melanie McBride takes a critical look at the future of
blogging and talks to some of the bloggers trying to shape it.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/linkedout.html

Survey: Denmark Is Web-savviest Nation; U.S. Drops: Denmark is more
aggressive than any other country in taking advantage of the
Internet, according to research carried out by IBM and the
intelligence unit of British magazine The Economist.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92393,00.html?nlid=PM

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Portables sizzle at FOSE
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0405/tec-fose-04-05-04.asp

Symbol launches ruggedized Windows devices: Posted April 19, 7:00
a.m. Pacific Time: Promising that you can drop its newest model
handheld from six feet without damage, use it in the rain, and have
it tumble 2,000 times from a height of 1 meter, Symbol Technologies
on
Monday unveiled two ruggedized Windows-based devices, the MC9000K and
MC9000S.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=60943A:1F4D50E

Intel XScale Chips Grow Up: Intel has its eye on wireless broadband
applications for cell phones and PDAs. The company has announced a
new family of processors in the XScale line, saying the devices can
handle various forms of wireless broadband with enough muscle for
applications such as DVD-quality full-motion video conferencing on
cell phones. The chips include a new multimedia accelerator for 3D
rendering, and there is optimized software that could let mobile
device manufacturers bring XScale products to market faster. The chip
series, formerly known as Bulverde, will be called the Intel PXA27x
XScale family of processors.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-673-3-3-187403-55863-1

You Want MP3s With That?: McDonald's plans to use its Wi-Fi network
to deliver digital content, including music files, to customers as
well as to support in-house business applications.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92233,00.html?nlid=PM

McDonald's: The Winner is Wayport
The fast-food chain's face-off between Wi-Fi hotspot providers comes
to an end with Wayport winning the contract to take the network
nation-wide.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,u6c,1,3dxd,bk11,kdcl,8t40

Linksys, Boingo ease Wi-Fi hotspot setup
Posted April 14, 3:57 p.m. Pacific Time
Small businesses can now turn on Wi-Fi hotspots to compete with
better known rivals without the hassle of setting up the whole
service themselves, according to Cisco Systems' Linksys division and
Boingo Wireless, which on Wednesday announced what they call Hot Spot
in a Box.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5FB210:1F4D50E

IAnywhere updates Web application software
Posted April 12, 2:12 p.m. Pacific Time
IAnywhere Solutions Inc. released an upgrade to M-Business Anywhere
on Monday with features designed to make the mobile application
software more attractive to corporate users.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5FB20F:1F4D50E


GAMING SECTION

An Engaging N-Gage?
It's a cell phone! It's a video game machine! And it's
not selling! Blogger David Kushner is doubtful that Nokia's
new-and-improved version of the N-Gage handheld gaming system will
cause many sleepless nights at rivals Nintendo and Sony.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1364&trk=nl

Ubisoft Joins America's Army
Ubisoft and the U.S. Army have entered into a deal that will see the
publisher develop and publish America's Army videogames for
consoles. The long-term agreement "marks the first time that the
U.S. Army has ever exclusively licensed its brand to a game
maker."
Ubisoft also stated that it would receive "unprecedented"
access to
Army resources as it attempts to transfer the hallmarks of the free PC
game to its new format. The first products to emerge from the
agreement are expected to be released in the summer of 2005. Nokia
has
unveiled its N-Gage QD mobile gaming deck, which will introduce a
variety of improvements over the original handheld. The QD will offer
a hot-swappable multimedia slot for "instant gaming,"
apparently meaning that gamers will no longer have to take the device
apart in order to change game media. Also on hand will be longer
battery life, a brighter screen, and "improved" gaming
controls. The
company will also include a new N-Gage Arena launcher application,
which it will also make available for download to current owners of
its N-Gage. The software will allow members to communicate with each
other, take part in events and activities, access exclusive content
and check rankings and stats. "After six months on the market
with
the N-Gage platform, we wanted to expand our device portfolio based
on
the feedback we've received," noted Nokia's senior vice
president of
games, Ilkka Raiskinen The updated device is due out in North America
in June and is scheduled for release in Europe, Africa and Asia
Pacific in May. In the latter regions, the N-Gage QD will be offered
in two variants, GSM 900 and GSM 1800, while in North America it will
come as either a GSM 850 or GSM 1900. The decks will retail beginning
at $99.00 when a service contract is included, or starting at $199.00
in an unsubsidized form. The N-Gage QD will play existing N-Gage game
titles.

Journalist Earns Significant Salary Trading Virtual Goods: Julian
Dibbell reports that his year-long experiment in virtual item trading
from the fantasy world of Ultima Online netted him, in its final
month, a tidy profit of $3,917. Over the course of a year, that would
be $47,000. The self-imposed challenge here was to beat his best-ever
earnings as a writer, but that's not the only benchmark one could
apply.
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/04/journalist_earn.html

GDC 04 Notes from Greg Costikyan owner of Games * Design * Art *
Culture
http://costik.com/weblog/2004_03_01_blogchive.html#108057810865079041

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

Chat Logs Are Protected
A New Hampshire court has ruled that the recording of chat logs
requires the consent of all chat participants.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1363&trk=nl

Insurance Group: Linux Free Of Copyright Violations: Legal experts at
Open Source Risk Management LLC studied the Linux code for six months
for potential copyright violations and found none after tracing the
origins of the code.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92390,00.html?nlid=PM

Google Sparks Trademark Debate: From eWEEK: Google is planning to
change its policy governing the use of trademarks in the keywords
that trigger its sponsored listings, stoking the debate over where
the lines should be drawn in the use of trademarks in search-based
advertising. Google has begun sending e-mails about the policy change
to advertisers and trademark holders who had filed past trademark
complaints, officials confirmed last Tuesday. The change should occur
in the next few weeks.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-673-3-3-187403-55866-1

Restrictions and Price Remain iTunes Turnoffs: A flock of competitors
have followed Apple without catching up, but the iTunes Music Store's
success hides a couple of unsettling trends
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W3RH05896E56F2C97E3623E00B1AB


SECURITY SECTION

Cisco Releases WLAN Security Protocol: Cisco Systems released a
protocol and related patch designed to defeat dictionary attacks
targeting wireless LAN passwords.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92203,00.html?nlid=VVR

ETCETERA

Muller: Alaska is Melting. Can Kyoto Save It?
To residents of Alaska, the prospect of even a small rise in the
average temperature is a looming catastrophe. In fact, Alaska may
well be a particularly sensitive alarm—like a canary in a mine
shaft. The solution to global climate change, writes TechnologyReview.
com columnist Richard Muller, lies not so much in the
emissions-limiting
Kyoto Treaty (which would not restrain mega-polluters China and
India) but rather in supercharged R&D on efficiency technologies.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_muller041604.asp?trk=nl

(from boingboing)
"Sony's QRIO in action: The first time I saw a video clip of
QRIO, I thought it was neat, but not a big improvement over Honda's
ASIMO. However, this video clip of four dancing QRIO robots is mind
blowing."
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1218/sony_06.wmv

Duke University Cuts 8 A.m. Classes - Associated Press
Duke University is eliminating 8 a.m. classes and trying to come up
with other ways help its sleep-deprived students, who too often are
struggling to survive on a mix of caffeine, adrenaline and ambition.
The school is also considering new orientation programs this fall
that would help freshmen understand the importance of sleep.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040418/ap_on_he_me/sleepless_students_1

KEEPING WINDOWS SQUEAKY CLEAN By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: One of the leading causes of system slowdowns and
crashes: a dirty Registry. Jason has some utilities that scan this
system database, find errant entries, and let you get rid of them.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e7-2y~GQmVQfNpZ7DTkRY~CdHW799dR
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