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At 7802 eBooks in 31.8 Years We Averaged Approximately 245 Per Year [About how many we do per month these days!] 20 Per Month .7 Per Day At 1059 eBooks Done In 2003 We Averaged 9 Per Day 62 Per Week 278 Per Month ***Headline News*** From Newsscan JOBS: 'WE BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE OF MUSIC' Apple Computer launched its iTunes Music Store on Monday in a move that CEO Steve Jobs called "a major milestone in the evolution of the real digital music age. We believe in the future of music." iTunes offers 200,000 downloadable songs for 99 cents apiece and is the first industry-endorsed online music service to forgo subscription fees in favor of a "pay-per-download" business model. Jobs said the real draw for music fans will be the easy-to-use interface and high-quality files available at the iTunes Music Store. "Using current piracy services is very frustrating. 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"Working together, we will have better information about who are the kingpins that are sending the largest volume of spam to our users," says an AOL spokesman. (New York Times 28 Apr 2003) http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28AOL.html [GROKSTER AND STREAMCAST: THEY DIDN'T DO IT] GROKSTER AND STREAMCAST: WE DIDN'T DO IT A federal judge has ruled that two Internet music services that offer peer-to-peer software used by millions of people to share copyrighted music illegally are not themselves guilty of copyright infringement. The judge's reasoning was that, since the technology is also used for many perfectly legal purposes, the two services should not be held responsible in those cases when it happens to be used for illegal purposes. The ruling will be appealed. The music industry insists that the two services, Grokster and StreamCast, are overwhelmingly used by people to exchange copyrighted material, and that legal uses are insignificant. Many industry analysts predict that the industry will soon have to change fundamentally and begin providing inexpensive, easy-to-access music over the Internet. (New York Times 26 Apr 2003) http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/technology/26MUSI.html You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. 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Some administrators and business leaders in the state argue that such cuts are likely to exacerbate the economic problems that have led to the cuts in the first place. Washington State, they said, lacks adequate numbers of graduates with high-tech training, and restricting the capacity of technology programs will hamper efforts to fill the high-tech jobs in the state. Ken Myer, president of the Technology Alliance, a consortium of state businesses and institutions, said what the state needs is to expand, not contract, those programs, which will ultimately benefit the state's economy. Chronicle of Higher Education, 24 April 2003 http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003042401t.htm SALES OF HANDHELD DEVICES DROP SHARPLY A report from International Data Corp. shows a sharp decline in the numbers of handheld computing devices shipped in the first quarter of the year. Shipments were down 21 percent from the same quarter last year and 27 percent from the fourth quarter of 2002. According to the data, Palm held the largest portion of the handheld market, with 36 percent, followed by Hewlett-Packard and Sony. Dell moved into fourth place with 6.5 percent of the market. Kevin Burden of IDC said, "The handheld market is a victim of its own early success." He said the target audience has not changed much, and large numbers are choosing not to upgrade to newer devices. The data do not include devices that combine handheld computing with cellular phones. Wall Street Journal, 23 April 2003 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10511221451575700,00.html FEARING PROSECUTION, STUDENT MOVES RESEARCH TO NETHERLANDS Fearing prosecution under a new Michigan law, a graduate student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has relocated his research to a Web server in the Netherlands. Niels Provos, a German citizen, is conducting doctoral research in steganography, which involves developing software that can find concealed messages in image files and prevent messages from being detected. The law, which Provos says is extremely broad, prohibits technology that can "conceal the existence or place of origin or destination of any telecommunications service." Visitors to Provos's site are now asked if they are residents of the United States. Unless they answer No, they are not admitted. Provos said the law should be changed to allow researchers to work without risking prosecution. In the meantime, he said, he will do what is necessary to comply with the law. 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