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Jul 2003 A Briefe and True Report, Thomas Hariot [Hariot 2][7brtrxxx.xxx]4273
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Jul 2003 An Introduction to Yoga, by Annie Besant [inyogxxx.xxx]4278
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[Title: Supplemental Nights, Volume 2]
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V11 by Richard Burton[b1001xxx.xxx]3445
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January Total 100
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[In case you wondered who was buying up your telephone company
without much of any real media coverage, it is Southwestern Bell
Corporation, rarely, if ever, mentioned now other than as SBC.
They bought Southwestern Bell, Ameritech, PacificBell, Nevada Bell,
SNET, Cingular, Sterling Commerce, and Prodigy Communications,
as far as I can tell, and are now starting on Yahoo!. . .let's
just hope Google never sells out.]
SBC ACQUIRES STAKE IN YAHOO
SBC Communications, the No. 2 U.S. local telecom operator, is buying a 3%
stake in Yahoo from Softbank America for undisclosed terms. The move comes
on the heels of last month's agreement between the two companies to connect
Yahoo's content with SBC's 3.6 million Internet customers. "This purchase
will strengthen the new SBC and Yahoo relationship, further solidifying the
premier alliance between the nation's leading DSL Internet provider and the
number one global Internet destination," says SBC chairman and CEO Edward
Whitacre. (Financial Times 28 Dec 2001)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/media
[Meanwhile, talk about eating while being eaten [see "Trenco"]
YAHOO WINS HOTJOBS AFTER RIVAL BIDDER DROPS OUT
Yahoo has been successful in its attempt to acquire HotJobs, the Internet's
second-largest site devoted to job-seeking. TMP Worldwide, which had agreed
to buy HotJobs six months ago, decided it was not interested in engaging in
a bidding war. (New York Times 28 Dec 2001)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/technology/28NET.html
["When R&D Bugdets Go, You Can Be Sure All Else Will Follow"]
[Quote from a Zenith employee when Sony killed of their R&D]
U.S. R&D SPENDING TO GROW JUST 3.2% NEXT YEAR
Corporate spending on research and development will grow by just 3.2% in
2002, for a total of about $195 billion, according to research compiled by
Battelle Memorial Institute and R&D Magazine. The growth rate is down from
an estimated 5.4% in 2001 and 10.8% in 2000. Meanwhile, with corporate
spending down, that means that for the first time in years, the government
is expected to increase its R&D spending more than industry next year.
According to Battelle, government R&D expenditures will increase 4.7% to
$75.5 billion next year, up from 1.3% in 2001. (Wall Street Journal 28 Dec
2001)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1009492193571530640.htm (sub req'd)
THE FUTURE OF E-PUBLISHING
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"In 2002 the number of e-books available for free download on the Net will
pass 20,000 and the number of Net users will start heading towards 1 billion."
Librarian Cynthia Orr, a co-founder of BookBrowser.com, thinks e-publishers
should pay more attention to libraries, and says that if the major
publishers worked with librarians or distributors "to figure out how to let
libraries purchase or license their e-books, and let readers 'check them
out' for free," that would help build "a market that otherwise threatens to
just collapse for lack of interest. Librarians have been careful defenders
of copyright over the years ... and our budgets are far higher than they
realize." And Mark Gross, president of Data Conversion Laboratory, thinks
that the e-publishing has already won a stealth war: ""What people forget is
e-books were going strong before they were called e-books and they went on
to sweep into many aspects of business and publishing. Most of this has gone
unnoticed by the media. Probably because it has been a kind of backdoor
revolution. To cite one example: Print law books are just about gone. People
don't use them in law firms anymore. It's all electronic books or online. A
revolution has occurred, but no one's noticed." (Wired 25 Dec 2001)
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49297,00.html
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[Not to mention that cellphones will be reporting locations in 2002]
THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
In the battle between privacy and security, the events of Sept.
11 may favor security, but the United States was leaning toward
surveillance even before that. Americans now seem more willing
to accept technologies that can be used to track them, as long
as they offer protection. Cameras mounted on traffic lights,
electronic cards that record users' locations, and computerized
financial records are only the tip of the surveillance iceberg.
Law enforcement agencies are taking advantage of tools that
allow them to follow data trails to apprehend criminals and
suspects. Cameras that use face-recognition software are widely
accepted in Britain, where about 1.5 million police surveillance
units are in operation, with more on the way. Researchers are
developing software that can gather information from a wide
variety of disparate sources based on user requests. The level
of protection that society desires raises fears that a giant
surveillance network could be created--one that could erase
personal privacy and public anonymity. However, citizens can
use the same technology to make sure that the government does
not exceed its authority and acts responsibly. (Wired, December 2001)
[Not to mention Disney's totally obvious control of the ABC TV Network]
A TROUBLING TREND
Even as the Internet population continues to surge, there are
fewer channels for Web content to flow through as smaller Internet
firms close up and carriers begin restricting broadcasting
capabilities. Part of the reason for the limited content is
that Internet users are becoming more savvy about where to
find exactly what they need and surfing fewer sites as a result.
But now there is the threat that companies that own both the
infrastructure and content will keep smaller companies and
individuals from publishing on the Web. Stanford professor
Lawrence Lessig warns of corporations such as AOL that will
leverage their ownership of cable lines to favor their own
content. He gives the example of some cable Internet providers
that prevent users from running Web servers and broadcasting
large numbers of video streams.
(International Herald Tribune, 31 December 2001)
[Now you know why so many people refuse to enter their
real names when starting up various operating systems,
since those names can never be deleted, even if you do
a complete reinstall. . .they mention Thought Police.]
A WATCH LIST FOR 2002: COPYRIGHTS
In 2001 the entertainment industry tried to staunch the flow
of pirated material over the Internet by suing the Internet
companies over whose networks such copyright infringement took
place. That strategy proved ineffective, so the new target for
2002 will be the pirates--namely, consumers--themselves. "It's
not companies doing this; it's hobbyists in their garage,"
explained Forrester Research analyst Eric Scheirer. "To stop
hobbyists requires a whole new level of copyright enforcement."
Scheirer expects to see entertainment-industry lawsuits aimed
at consumers next year. Meanwhile, the industry is pressuring
computer and consumer electronics manufacturers to enhance their
products with technology that can block consumers from playing
pirated software. Several movie studios are backing a proposal
from Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) that would make such
technologies a requirement.
(New York Times, 31 December 2001)
[Do you really think the government will try to stop Hollywood?]
FEDS PROBE HOLLYWOOD INTERNET MOVIE VENTURES
Two separate ventures by Hollywood studios to offer Web-based
video-on-demand are being investigated by the Justice Department.
Both efforts "may substantially lessen competition or tend to
create a monopoly in the market for video-on-demand services and
related movie products," according to a civil subpoena obtained
by the Wall Street Journal. Competitors are concerned that the
ventures will use their influence to raise fees, or will refuse
to license their films to other digital movie companies. One of
the efforts, MovieFly, includes Sony, Warner, Paramount, MGM,
and Universal; Disney and 20th Century Fox have teamed up for
the second service, Movies.com. Video-on-demand customers can
download movies on set-top boxes or on their computers from the
Internet. The service is expected to boom with a projected surge
in broadband use.
(NewsFactor Network, 21 December 2001)
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