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LOW-BUDGET MAC CLONE
Businessman John Fraser has developed a low-budget entry-level Macintosh
clone (currently called iBox); it will sell for about $650 without a display
and can be paired with almost any kind of display: large or small, flat
panel or picture-tube, new or old. Fraser, who is about as polite
businessman as you could ever find, says: "Before I'm a businessman, I'm a
Mac lover. I don't want to hurt Apple. If it says I would do that, I will
back away." He's already volunteering to rename his product, to avoid
confusion with Apple's iMac or iPod. What a guy. (San Jose Mercury News 7
Apr 2003) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5579129.htm
YAHOO REVAMPS SEARCH ENGINE
Yahoo is touting its new, improved search engine, which it hopes will lure
users away from rival/business partner Google. Yahoo says the rebuilt
version will combine Google's index with Yahoo's customized services
spanning sports, driving directions and weather reports, and is designed to
provide easier access to more useful information than Google. "We think
this is going to change the game a bit," says Yahoo senior VP Jeff Weiner.
"This is the first of many steps toward reinforcing our leadership in the
marketplace." Battle lines are being drawn between the two companies, says
Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch. "They are going to be duking
it out. Clearly, Yahoo would like to keep more people from going over to
Google to search and maybe even bring back some of the people that have
previously left." After encouraging Google's founders and licensing its
search technology, Yahoo has found that Google's popularity has eroded its
own user base: Google now fields an average of 112 million searches a day
vs. Yahoo's 42 million. To lessen its dependence on Google, Yahoo recently
bought search engine specialist Inktomi and plans to include some of its
features in its search engine by year's end. (AP 7 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030407/D7Q8MP0G1.html
[Will it call you when dinner is ready?]
MICROWAVE DOUBLES AS FRIDGE WHILE YOU'RE AT WORK
Descriptions of futuristic remote-controlled kitchen appliances have always
seemed a little impractical because it's unsafe to leave your dish
unrefrigerated all day before cooking it in time for dinner. But a company
called Tonight's Menu Intelligent Ovens has solved that dilemma with a
refrigerated microwave that can be controlled by a cell phone or over the
Internet. The company has unveiled a prototype to demonstrate the
technology, using what is called a Peltier cooling device. "It has two
plates of metal over which you pass an electrical current and it either
heats or cools," says TMIO president David Mansbery. "It was somewhat of a
dumb appliance until we put our chips in it and turned it into a smart
appliance." The company uses the same embedded Web technology developed by
NASA to control its experiments without the need for a built-in computer in
every device. TMIO plans to build the ovens itself and sell them over the
Web. The first appliances should be commercially available by the end of
the year priced at about $2,000. (BBC News 6 Apr 2003)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2921413.stm
[Good, but already pushing the price up from $1 per track, and by 25%]
CUSTOM CDs
Sony Music Entertainment has launched a site, www.custommixed.com, where
music lovers will be able to purchase CDs of songs of their choosing from
their favorite artists. A "mixed" CD of this sort will contain up to 12
songs or 78 minutes of music and will cost about $15. Forrester research
music industry analyst Josh Bernoff says, "What consumers have demonstrated
by their use of file-trading services is that they're very interested in
assembling the pieces of music they want from a wide variety of sources for
use in whatever format they want. What they're not willing to do is back up
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NEW SEARCH ENGINE FROM YAHOO TARGETS GOOGLE
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Yahoo is offering a new search engine promoted as more powerful and
easier to use than Google's. The new version will combine Google's
index with Yahoo's customized services for sports, weather reports,
and the like. Industry analysts expect a struggle for dominance to
ensue between Yahoo and Google. Currently Google handles an average of
112 million searches a day compared to Yahoo's 42 million, which are
generated by Google's software. Yahoo supported Google's creation and
licensed its software three years ago for searches on Yahoo's portal.
To wean itself from Google, Yahoo purchased Inktomi and will use its
search-engine tools instead.
Wired News, 7 April 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58368,00.html
NATIONAL ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS GO ONLINE
Fifty million historical records in the National Archives are now
available online. Instead of visiting the Archives or requesting
records by phone, researchers, genealogists, and others can now search
for records ranging from the details of battles to immigration
information remotely and free of charge. Veterans in particular are
expected to welcome the system to search for information on military
action, casualties, and prisoners of war. The database of searchable
records contains only a small portion of the archive's electronic
holdings and is compiled from 20 federal agencies. To ensure their
integrity, the records from the different agencies have not been
altered, so some contain typographical and historical errors.
Associated Press, 4 April 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/840830p-5910961c.html
ENGINEER DESIGNS MAC CLONE
The last time anyone produced an Apple clone was in 1997, when Apple
ended a three-year licensing program. John Fraser, an engineer in
Minnesota, hopes to change that with an Apple clone he has designed,
called the iBox. The iBox, which some have likened to a pizza box in
appearance, is made of a case Fraser designed with components built by
Apple that are sold to repair shops as spare parts. Fraser's plan is
to offer customers many options for configuring the iBox, including
processor speed, hard-drive size, and other pieces. Unlike the current
iMac and eMac choices from Apple, the iBox can be substantially
upgraded. Customers will provide the Macintosh operating system. Fraser
hopes his approach to building clones will avoid licensing or patent
problems, but those questions have yet to be answered. Intellectual
property lawyer Mark Dickson noted there is a wide range of trademarks
and patents that must be observed. He said the look of the machine or
how the pieces are put together could be grounds for legal action if
they fall under patents held by Apple or possibly even by another PC maker.
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Jan 2005 Sou Shen Ji, volume 1-3, by Bao Gan--300 A.D [soushxxx.xxx]7260
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[Full title: Shock and Awe, Achieving Rapid Dominance]
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Jan 2005 Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, Beckford [drwtxxxx.xxx]7258
[Author's Full Name: William Beckford]
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Jan 2005 Reflections and Comments, by Edwin Lawrence Godkin[?rflcxxx.xxx]7257
[Full title: Reflections and Comments 1865-1895]
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[HTM only version in magi10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns [?cambxxx.xxx]7255
Jan 2005 Equinoctial Regions of America V3,von Humboldt[#3][qnct3xxx.xxx]7254
[Full author: Alexander von Humboldt]
Jan 2005 Letters of Lady Spencer-Stanhope, v1, by Stirling [?llssxxx.xxx]7253
[Full title: The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I.]
[Full author: A. M. W. Stirling (compiler)]
Jan 2005 The Women Who Came in the Mayflower, by A. Marble [?wcmfxxx.xxx]7252
[Author's Full Name: Annie Russell Marble]
[Plain text in 7wcmf10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8wcmf10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Sweet Cicely, by Marietta Holley [swcicxxx.xxx]7251
[Full title: Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician]
[Full author: Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v9, by Twain [#121][ynk9wxxx.zip]7250
[Full Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]
[Full Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]
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[Chapters 32 - 35]
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[Full title: The Fables of La Fontaine A New Edition, With Notes]
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[Full title: Das Leben und der Tod des Koenigs Lear]
[Language: German]
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[Language: German] (See also English editions #2235, 1801, 1540, 1135)
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[Subtitle: Founded on an Incident of the Revolution]
[Author's Full Name: Delia Salter Bacon]
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[Full title: Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation]
Jan 2005 Maass fuer Maass, by William Shakespeare [#31][?gs31xxx.xxx]7233
[Full title: Maass fuer Maass (Measure for Measure) Wie einer misst, so
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[Subtitle: The Story of an Irish Girl]
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[Full title: Not George Washington An Autobiographical Novel]
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[Full title: Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. And Other Poems.]
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Jan 2005 Timon von Athen, by William Shakespeare [#37][?gs37xxx.xxx]7226
[Language: German]
Jan 2005 Die Irrungen, by William Shakespeare [#6][?gs06xxx.xxx]7225
[Full title: Die Irrungen (The Comedy of Errors) Die Doppelten Zwillinge]
[Language: German]
Jan 2005 Within You is the Power, by Henry Thomas Hamblin [powerxxx.xxx]7224
Jan 2005 The Belgian Cookbook, by Various [?blgnxxx.xxx]7223
[Editor: Mrs. Brian Luck]
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[Title: Zhu Zhai Ji (The Collections Of Bamboo-House)] [Language: Chinese]
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[Title: Wei Liao Zi (Military Science Of Wei Liao Zi)] [Language: Chinese]
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[Full title: San Lve (three tactics Of Huang Shi Gong)]
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Jan 2005 Ren Wu Zhi (People Recodes), by Liu Shao [rwzhixxx.xxx]7217
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[Full title: Gong Sun Long Zi (Thought Of Gong Sun Long Zi)]
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[Language: Chinese]
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Jan 2005 My Life and Work, by Henry Ford [hnfrdxxx.xxx]7213
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[Subtitle: Ein Buch Fuer Freie Geister] [Language: German]
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E-MAIL TRAFFIC PATTERNS SIGNAL WHO'S IN CHARGE
A new technique developed at Hewlett-Packard's research labs in Palo Alto
can quickly identify online communities and the key people in them. "If the
CIA or another intelligence agency has a lot of intercepted e-mail from
people suspected of being part of a criminal network, they could use the
technique to figure out who the leaders of the network might be," says
researcher Joshua Tyler. Tyler and his colleagues analyzed communications
patterns using the lab's log of nearly 200,000 internal e-mails sent by 485
employees over a couple of months. They plotted lines between people who
had exchanged at least 30 e-mails with each other, and found the grid
included 1,110 links between 367 people. The researchers then used a
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separate groups, which revealed 66 communities within the lab. To identify
the leader in each community, they plotted the same network of e-mails
using a standard algorithm that tries to arrange the connections in the
least tangled way. This step identified the managers, who tended to cluster
in the middle. "This approach puts in the middle the people who have the
most diverse range of contacts in the organization -- and these tend to be
the leaders," says Tyler, who adds that the technique could be used to
identify the ringleaders in criminal or terrorist gangs. (New Scientist 27
Mar 2003)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993550
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INTERNET VS. RECORDING INDUSTRY
Media analyst Eric Garland of Big Champagne has told California lawmakers
that the growth of music file-sharing on the Internet is "fundamentally
unstoppable," because 61 million Americans and millions more worldwide are
already downloading music and only 9% of them think they're doing something
wrong. "We see only one trend. More people are downloading more copyrighted
material." Garland's advice for the recording industry is to embrace
digital distribution rather than institute lawsuits or education campaigns,
but such advice is not well-received by industry executives, who are
routinely urged by Internet enthusiasts to accommodate to technological
realities. Phil Corwin, a lobbyist for Internet music service Kazaa, told
the same group of state legislators: "The record business, in the digital
revolution, has been a day late and a dollar short." [A dollar may not be
the final figure.] The fight goes on. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 28 Mar 2003)
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BRITISH UNIVERSITIES FACE COPYRIGHT LAWSUITS
The British Phonographic Industry and its sister organization, the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, have sent a
letter to every university in Britain highlighting the problem of music
piracy on campuses and raising the specter of legal action against
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school's network sends students a message that conflicts with
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should help pay for filtering efforts on campuses. Another group said
that while universities do not condone piracy, they have better things
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Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v9, by Mark Twain[#104][ppau9xxx.xxx]7162
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Dec 2004 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V6 [JL#6][jl06wxxx.xxx]7138
Dec 2004 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V5 [JL#5][jl05wxxx.xxx]7137
Dec 2004 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V4 [JL#4][jl04wxxx.xxx]7136
Dec 2004 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V3 [JL#3][jl03wxxx.xxx]7135
Dec 2004 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V2 [JL#2][jl02wxxx.xxx]7134
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Mar 2005 Kenelm Chillingly, E. B. Lytton, Book 8 [BL#85][b085wxxx.xxx]7657
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Jan 2005 Gotzen-Dammerung, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [?gtznxxx.xxx]7203
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Jan 2005 Ecce Homo, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [?eccexxx.xxx]7202
[Plain text in 7ecce10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8ecce10.txt/.zip]
[Language: German]
Jan 2005 A History of English Literature, by R. H. Fletcher[?histxxx.xxx]7201
[Full author: Robert Huntington Fletcher]
Jan 2005 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, v8, by Twain [#112][saw8xxxx.zip]7200
[Chapters 32 - End]
[Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]
Dec 2004 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, v7, by Twain [#111][saw7xxxx.zip]7199
[Chapters 28 - 31]
Dec 2004 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, v6, by Twain [#110][saw6xxxx.zip]7198
[Chapters 23 - 27]
Dec 2004 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, v5, by Twain [#109][saw5xxxx.zip]7197
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Dec 2004 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, v3, by Twain [#107][saw3xxxx.zip]7195
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Dec 2004 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, v2, by Twain [#106][saw2xxxx.zip]7194
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Dec 2004 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, v1, by Twain [#105][saw1xxxx.zip]7193
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Dec 2004 Charles Philip Yorke, by Lady Biddulph of Ledbury [?yorkxxx.xxx]7192
[Full title: Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral
R.N., A Memoir]
Dec 2004 Modern Broods, by Charlotte Mary Yonge [mdbrxxxx.xxx]7191
[Plain text in mdbr10.txt/.zip, XHTML in mdbr10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 The Biography of a Rabbit, by Roy Benson, Jr. [rabbtxxx.xxx]7190C
[HTML version in rabbt10h.htm and rabbt10h.zip]
Dec 2004 A Short History of the Great War, A.F. Pollard [2][shogwxxx.xxx]7189
[Plain text in shogw10.txt/.zip; HTML zip only in shogw10h.zip]
[Note: the HTML includes multiple files with images]
Dec 2004 Higher Lessons in English, A. Reed and B. Kellogg [hilesxxx.xxx]7188
[Full author: Alonzo Reed and Braiderd Kellogg]
Dec 2004 Seven English Cities, by W. D. Howells [#58][?sevnxxx.xxx]7187
Dec 2004 Was ihr wollt, by Shakespeare [?gs28xxx.xxx]7186
[Language: German][English Title: Twelfth Night]
Dec 2004 Othello, by William Shakespeare [?gs32xxx.xxx]7185
[Language: German]
Dec 2004 A Heart-Song of To-day, by Annie Gregg Savigny [?hartxxx.xxx]7184
Dec 2004 Doctor Grimshawe's Secret,Nathaniel Hawthorne[#10][?grimxxx.xxx]7183
[Full title: Doctor Grimshawe's Secret, A Romance]
Dec 2004 Principal Navigations, by Richard Hakluyt [#4][?hk01xxx.xxx]7182
[Full title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries
of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe]
Dec 2004 The Bushman, by Edward Wilson Landor [bshmnxxx.xxx]7181
Dec 2004 Handy Andy, Vol. 2, by Samuel Lover [?hnd2xxx.xxx]7180
Dec 2004 Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, by Ian Maclaren [#2][?bushxxx.xxx]7179
Dec 2004 Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust [#5][?swnnxxx.xxx]7178
[Full title: Swann's Way (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past)]
Dec 2004 My Tropic Isle, by E J Banfield [#2][?tropxxx.xxx]7177
Dec 2004 A Letter to a Hindu, by Leo Tolstoy [#17][hinduxxx.xxx]7176
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Dec 2004 The Marquis of Lossie, by George MacDonald [#27][mlossxxx.xxx]7174
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Dec 2004 Life and Genius of Hawthorne,Frank Preston Stearns[?lgnhxxx.xxx]7170
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they bought in 2002. The three greatest beneficiaries of this surge were the
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SUPER DIGITAL WATERMARK IN THE WORKS
SunnComm Technologies is working with Stealth MediaLabs to develop a kind
of super-watermark that could be embedded inside digital music files and
would be robust enough to withstand digital compression, or being recorded
off the radio or rerecorded through an analog connection. The technology,
originally developed at the University of Miami, could also be used to
embed other information. "The intention was for protecting the security of
intellectual property. Adding pictures and liner notes inside a song is
kind of a byproduct," says SunnComm COO Bill Whitmore. The technology works
by encoding binary data inside the stereo audio signal itself, taking
advantage of acoustical properties and human hearing characteristics to
make it imperceptible to the listener. Because the signal is embedded in
the sound itself, the data is hard to remove without significantly changing
the sound of the song. SunnComm plans initially to market the
super-watermark technology to record labels, which could use it to detect
which recipients of advance discs are putting songs online before the
albums' official release dates. "With that anonymity gone, people will be
less willing to put advance songs on file-sharing networks," says Whitmore.
(CNet News.com 20 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-993588.html?tag=fd_top
ONE CHARGER FITS ALL
A UK startup called SplashPower has developed a technology that can
wirelessly charge any handheld gadget, including mobile phones, MP3 players
and PDAs, simply by placing them on a small flat mat that's plugged into
the wall. "You pick up your phone, drop it on the pad and it charges. The
pad does all the thinking for you," says SplashPower VP David Whitewood.
The system is based on the principle of magnetic inductive power transfer
and works by generating a magnetic field which transfers energy into any
gadget equipped with a special SplashPower module. That in turn transforms
the energy into the direct current that the battery uses to recharge. The
company says the cost of adding SplashPower technology to a handheld device
will cost only about 25 cents each, and points out that the benefits for
manufacturers could be considerable. "You don't have to put a charger in
every box if you implement SplashPower in your products," says Whitewood,
"and there's a green pay-off in that. Every time you change your mobile
phone, you perhaps keep your charger in a drawer or throw it away. With
SplashPower you wouldn't have to do that." (BBC News 21 Mar 2003)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2861987.stm
NEW ICANN CHIEF TO CONTINUE POLICY FOCUS
Succeeding Stuart Lynn as CEO of the often-controversial Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in-coming chief Paul
Twomey says that in addition to focusing on technical coordination, the
organization will also have to continue its efforts to deal with the policy
issues such as intellectual property, privacy, and law enforcement: "The
consequences of those technical issues flow into other arenas, like
intellectual property, consumer protection, and privacy, potentially even
into commercial relationships between infrastructure providers. The law
enforcement issues are potentially issues like identification for Whois
databases (which list information on domain name owners), identification of
those people who are committing computer crimes, (and) ensuring that
financial scams don't take place on the Internet." Twomey, an Australian,
has been a consultant and government bureaucrat. (CNet News.com 19 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-993390.html
NEW ANTI-SPAM SYSTEM BEING DEVELOPED
A California start-up company created by well-known software designer Phil
Goldman (formerly of Apple, General Magic, WebTV and Microsoft) has
designed an e-mail service that takes a "challenge-response" approach to
blocking spam. When a user receives a bulkmail message from an unknown
source the system intercepts the message and requires the sender to give
indication (by filling out a form) that the message is not an instance of
spam. The service will cost $9.95 a year, so Forrester Research analyst Jim
Nail note skeptically: "It's a really nice product, and it's pretty easy to
use. The question is how big a market. Do people want to pay anybody
anything for these features?" (New York Times 24 Mar 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/technology/24PHIL.html
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From Edupage:
REPORT SHOWS SHRINKING DIGITAL DIVIDE
A report released March 19 indicates that the digital divide in the
United States is shrinking as children from all ethnic groups and
income levels increasingly use the Internet. The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting reported that children under 17 spend nearly as much time
using computers as watching television, with Internet use among
minority and low-income children surging over the past two years. More
than two-thirds of low-income households have a computer at home,
compared to fewer than half two years ago. Gaps persist, however,
particularly with respect to high-speed Internet access at home.
Washington Post, 19 March 2003
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[?cec3xxx.xxx]7152
[Full title: Cecilia vol. 3 Memoirs of an Heiress]
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[#2][stcabxxx.xxx]7143
[Full title: The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island]
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With 7409 eTexts online as of March 19, 2003 it now takes an average
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Can you imagine 7409 books each costing $0.73 less a year later???
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Can you imagine 7409 books each costing 35% less a year later???
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THE IETF APPROACH TO SPAM
The Internet Research Task Force -- loosely affiliated with the Internet
Engineering Task Force standards group -- has formed an Anti-Spam Research
Group, which will focus on the problem of spam proliferation and make
suggestions on ways to change basic e-mail technology to foil the bulk
e-mailers. "Once considered a nuisance, spam has grown to account for a
large percentage of the mail volume on the Internet," says the group's Web
site. "The purpose of the [research group] is to understand the problem and
collectively propose and evaluate solutions to the problem." First steps
will include classifying different kinds of spam and antispam proposals,
and studying ways to track down spammers, who are often difficult to
identify. A first meeting is set for March 20 at the IETF's San Francisco
gathering. (CNet News.com 6 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-991305.html?tag=3Dfd_top
THE AOL APPROACH TO SPAM
America Online, which says it blocks an average of 28 junk e-mail messages
per account per day, trashed a billion (presumably unsolicited) messages in
a two-day period this week, without letting them arrive at customers'
in-boxes. AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham asserts that only "an extremely
small fraction" of the messages trapped in AOL's spam filters are
legitimate communications. [We hope he's right. See the last message in
today's mailbag, which concerns NewsScan's experience with spam filters --
though not in this case AOL's.] (AP/San Jose Mercury News 6 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5329381.htm
THE AUSTRALIAN APPROACH TO SPAM
Clive Hamilton, the head of an Australian public think tank, thinks that
Australia's method of Internet regulation, managed by the Australian
Broadcasting Authority, is essentially useless. Referring to a survey
finding that 84% of boys ages 16-17 are exposed to pornography on the
Internet, Hamilton complained: "The Internet industry has convinced the
government that there is little that can be done to prevent pornography
coming in from overseas. But this is false. Mandatory filtering by Internet
service providers (ISPs) would severely restrict the availability of
pornography." Labor information technology spokeswoman Kate Luncy
disagrees: "The cost this would place on ISPs would be prohibitive and
Internet speeds would be significantly reduced. The end result for
consumers would be a slower, more expensive Internet." (The Age 4 Mar 2003)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/04/1046540179539.html
WHY IS THIS NEWS? DOESN'T IT HAPPEN EVERY DAY?
A Colorado businessman was arrested earlier this week at his Sportsman's
Bar & Restaurant for firing four bullets into his laptop, which had crashed
just one too many times. After spending a night in jail, the man was
temporarily released but may face charges of felony menacing, reckless
endangerment, and the prohibited use of weapons. (AP/USA Today 5 Mar 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-03-05-laptop-rage_x.htm
SUSPECTS STEAL MONEY VIA KEYSTROKE MONITORING SOFTWARE
Two Japanese men were arrested for allegedly hacking into people's bank
accounts and stealing $136,000. The men are accused of downloading software
that detects the keystrokes made by a computer user and installed it on PCs
at Tokyo cybercaf=E9s. They then figured out the passwords that five=
previous
customers had used to access their bank accounts online, and transferred a
total of $141,000 from those accounts to another bank. One of the men,
27-year-old Goro Nakahashi, then used an alias to withdraw $136,000. If
charged with theft, the two could face up to 10 years in prison. According
to the Asahi newspaper, the men allegedly tried to use about 100 computers
at 13 different Internet cafes around Tokyo. (AP 7 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030307/D7PKA2180.html
TWO JUDGES REJECT FBI TESTIMONY IN INTERNET PORN CASES
Federal district judges Denny Chin in New York and Catherine D. Perry in
St. Louis have rejected evidence obtained by FBI agents who claimed falsely
that anyone signing up with the child porn site "Candyman" would
automatically receive child porn images from other site members. Later, the
agents admitted that people signing up for the group had the ability to opt
out of the member mailing list and therefore did not necessarily receive
pornography through that list. Judge Chin wrote: "If the government is
correct in its position that membership in the Candyman group alone was
sufficient to support a finding of probable cause, then probable cause
existed to intrude into the homes" of thousands of people who had merely
logged onto that Web site. "Here, the intrusion is potentially enormous.
Thousands of individuals would be subject to search, their homes invaded
and their property seized, in one fell swoop, even though their only
activity consisted of entering an e-mail address into a Web site from a
computer located in the confines of their homes." (New York Times 7 Mar=
2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/nyregion/07PORN.html
STARTUP LOADS MP3 TUNES ONTO CELL PHONES
A small startup called Xingtone has developed technology that enables
people to load MP3 files onto their cell phones. The user would take an
audio clip of a recording they already own, load it through the conversion
filter and deliver it to their phone. "It's a simple choice: Do people want
their phone to sound like an old arcade game or a radio playing their
favorite songs?" says Xingtone's Brad Zutaut, who currently has a snippet
of the Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud" on his phone. About 3,000
people have already used the service, which launched a few weeks ago.
Currently, wireless carriers limit clips to 30 seconds, but Xingtone says
as soon as the operators relax these restrictions, it has the capability to
send entire songs to users' cell phones. As an added twist, users can send
their audio clips from the Xingtone Web site to their friends' phones.
Zutaut acknowledges that the new service may raise the ire of the music
industry. "I know that we'll have licensing issues. But if people take
their own music and put it on their phone, it's not my responsibility." He
sees potential revenue streams from eventually moving toward a pay-per-use
model and from co-branding. (Reuters/CNet 7 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1039-991513.html?tag=3Dfd_top
INTEL BETS BIG ON WI-FI
Intel is investing in four Wi-Fi firms in an effort to boost the wireless
technology and build demand for its Centrino chipset, which offers Wi-Fi
connectivity and improved notebook battery life. Financial terms were not
disclosed, but last October Intel had announced plans to invest $150
million in companies pursuing Wi-Fi technology and so far has funded seven
ventures. The latest recipients of Intel's largess are rovingIP.net,
Vivato, Broadreach Networks and Pronto Networks. In December, Intel teamed
up with AT&T and IBM to form Cometa Networks, which will create a
nationwide network of wireless broadband hotspots in stores, restaurants,
hotels, gas stations and other public venues. (Reuters/CNet 9 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1036-991696.html?tag=3Dfd_top
THE FUTURE OF WEBLOGS
Blogging, which a few years ago was viewed as a lot of inconsequential
chatter, is morphing into a cutting-edge phenomenon that may provide a
platform for the Internet's next wave of innovation and moneymaking
opportunities. "Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is
popular with an underground culture that is doing it for the love and
passion," says Tony Perkins, editor of the recently folded Red Herring
magazine. "Now there are people like me coming along and trying to figure
out how to package it. It's time to take it to the next level." Other heavy
hitters hoping to cash in on the Web's so-called "Blogosphere" include
Terra Lycos, AOL and Google. Last month, Terra introduced publishing tools
to help users launch their own blogs, and AOL plans a similar move later
this year. Meanwhile, Google just snapped up Pyra Labs, which runs
Blogger.com, a network of Weblogs boasting more than 1 million members and
more than 200,000 active blogs. "We want to take what has been an
underground phenomenon and introduce it to the masses," says Charles Kilby,
Terra Lycos' director of product marketing. "This is the 'eBayization' of
the media," says Perkins. "You create a compelling arena and then let the
real entertainment come from the participants themselves." (AP 9 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030309/D7PLQS200.html
AOL'S ANSWER TO TIVO TO BE LIKE TIVO, SORT OF
Recognizing the threat TiVo and similar personal video recording technology
is posing to TV networks and Hollywood studios, AOL Time Warner has been
secretly developing its own version of the technology, called Mystro TV.
Mystro uses the cable system itself to let viewers watch programs on their
own schedules (just as TiVo does), but it lets networks retain a level of
control (dictating which shows users can reschedule) and offers them a way
to insert commercials, which TiVo allows its set-owners to avoid. (New York
Times 10 Mar 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/technology/10AOL.html
LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH DIGITAL COPYING RIGHTS
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D, CA) is reintroducing legislation called the Balance
Act, intended to give people the right to make back-up copies of copyrighted
digital works for use on other devices (such as car CD players) and to
protect consumers who break technological locks in order to view DVD movies
on their computers. Lofgren says, "Most people -- at least, most adults --
don't expect to get content as a freebie. But when people pay good money to
buy something and then can't use it in the way they've become accustomed to,
it makes them mad." The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the
Business Software Alliance (BSA) strongly oppose the proposed legislation,
which is thought to have just a long-shot chance of being passed. Arguing
that such legislation "would provide safe harbor for pirates," Jack Valenti
of the MPAA said, "As drafted, this legislation essentially legalizes
hacking." (San Jose Mercury News 11 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5365373.htm
DELOADER WORM ATTACKS EASY-TO-GUESS PASSWORDS
A new software worm called W32/Deloader-A tries to guess passwords on
machines running many of the Microsoft Windows operating systems: it
attempts to log on to a machine's administrator account by trying likely
passwords such as 'admin', 'password,' '12345', and 'administrator', and so
forth. The worm is thought to have originated in China. Although Deloader is
considered a low risk for infection, many home computers without firewalls
may be vulnerable to its attacks. (IDG/Computerworld 11 Mar 2003) Shorl:
http://shorl.com/bidribatovumu
AT THE BEND IT'S ORACLE, THEN IBM, MICROSOFT, AND NOBODY
Looking at the relational database market, industry analyst Carl Olofson
describes the current situation by noting that "the gap between Oracle and
IBM is narrowing, Microsoft continues to grow, and the three of them are
increasingly well ahead of the rest of the field." Market shares now are
Oracle 39.4%, IBM 33.6%, and Microsoft 11.1%. Compared to market shares a
year ago, Oracle is down 2.3% while IBM is up 2.6% and Microsoft is up by
1.4%. Olofson says that IBM's gain is due largely because many of its
corporate customers (unlike Oracle's customers) are required to renew their
licenses each year. Another factor in the equation is that IBM seems to be
expanding its share of Windows, Unix and Linux environments more rapidly
than Oracle. (San Francisco Chronicle 11 Mar 2003)
http://shorl.com/fyvujygudrotra
AOL DELIVERS USERS FROM 'POP-UP PURGATORY'
America Online is giving its subscribers some relief from the annoying
pop-up ads that seem to be proliferating at an alarming pace across the
Web. In response to complaints from users, AOL will automatically install
its Web Pop-Up Controls onto the desktops of its 33 million subscribers
during the next two weeks. Many AOL users had listed pop-up advertising as
one the most annoying features of surfing the Web. "AOL's new Pop-Up
Controls will allow our members to explore the Web without being trapped in
pop-up purgatory," says an AOL spokesman. The latest move mirrors one made
by rival Earthlink several months ago, and comes as the world's largest
Internet provider is struggling with stagnant subscriber growth over the
past year. (CNet News.com 11 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-992142.html?tag=3Dfd_top
ABC NEWS TO OFFER 24-HOUR BROADBAND NEWS SERVICE
As the drumbeat of war escalates TV-news coverage and competition among
networks, ABC News has announced plans to launch a 24-hour Web-based
service available to broadband users. The service, to be called ABC News
Live, in its initial stage will resemble C-SPAN more closely than CNN,
mixing live feeds of breaking news with some anchored coverage, news
summaries every half hour and rebroadcasts of programs such as "World News
Tonight" and "Nightline." There will also be live coverage of UN debates
and White House news briefings, as well as feature segments by ABC News
correspondents that won't be shown on regular ABC news broadcasts. Senior
VP Bernard Gershon called ABC News Live programming "baby steps toward the
first Internet news network" and said he could "see a situation in two or
three years where the broadband space will be competitive to the cable-news
space." The new channel will be available to subscribers of the existing
ABC News On Demand broadband service and RealNetworks' RealOne SuperPass
service. ABC owner Walt Disney says it may entertain future deals that
would make the service available through other broadband providers, such as
cable systems and telephone companies. (Wall Street Journal 12 Mar 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104743895949865100.djm,00.html (sub=
req'd)
EU SAYS MICROSOFT VIOLATED ANTITRUST RULES
The European Commission has determined that Microsoft violated EU antitrust
rules, and experts on the EC have proposed two major remedies: requiring
Microsoft to share more proprietary information with its rivals and to
unbundle its Media Player software from the Windows operating system. Both
remedies would go beyond the changes agreed to last year by Microsoft and
the Justice Department after courts found Microsoft had abused its monopoly
position in the U.S. operating systems market. The EU's case is still
months from a conclusion, but insiders say an internal commission is
reviewing the recommendations to ensure they will stand up in court and be
technically enforceable. (Wired.com 11 Mar 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57998,00.html
INTERNET BOOKENDS: #1, KAHN ON COPYRIGHT
Internet co-founder (with Vint Cerf) Bob Kahn is head of the Corporation for
National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986. In an
interview with John Gehl for the ACM online publication Ubiquity, Kahn
talks about the state of the Internet, including the need for more education
about copyright law: "We [at CNRI] have been promoting copyright and, more
generally, intellectual property protection in the network probably as much
as anybody in the research world. CNRI built a system for the U.S. Copyright
Office to manage the registration of copyright claims and the attendant
submission of copyright information and digital objects online; the system
is called CORDS (cords.loc.gov). In my view, one of the problems that has
not been satisfactorily dealt with in this country is the widespread lack of
respect for the value of intellectual property. People think that they can
do anything they want with intellectual property just because they
themselves don't happen to see any cost associated with accessing it on the
net and, perhaps sending it to others or otherwise using it. I think this is
clearly an educational issue as much as it is a constitutional issue."
(Ubiquity 13 Mar 2003) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_kahn_1.html
IRAQ WAR WILL BOOST ONLINE NEWS
"What the first Gulf war was to CNN, this one will be to CNN.com and its
peers," says Josh Macht, editor of Time.com. Taking a cue from media
experts who point to traffic spikes after the September 11 attacks and the
space shuttle Columbia disaster, online news operations are gearing up for
higher visitor volume and expanded news coverage capabilities. News sites
like MSNBC.com and FT.com have spent months building special pages
dedicated to the conflict, complete with interactive maps, exclusive
features and downloadable video. "It is a time to show people we can do
amazing things with graphics and pictures," says Macht. "That is going to
build an audience for the future." In the end, however, it may all come
down to timing. One of the recurring stories about the first Gulf war
suggests that the U.S. timed its bombing raids to fit in with CNN's evening
broadcast schedule. The Internet has a very different audience -- people
who catch the news online during the day at work. With Iraq nine hours
ahead of the U.S. East Coast, it remains to be seen whether the military
will adjust their campaigns to fit in with the daytime viewers' schedules.
(Financial Times 12 Mar 2003)
http://www.ft.com (sub req'd)
YAHOO LAUNCHES VIDEO SERVICE
Yahoo, expanding its push into fee-based services, has launched a Yahoo
Platinum video subscription service that offers entertainment, sports, news
video and programs. The service is similar to one offered by RealNetworks,
but Yahoo is trying to differentiate its Platinum service with exclusive
content, such as outtakes from TV programs like "Survivor" and "American
Idol." Yahoo will charge $9.95 a month for a mix of its exclusive and
non-exclusive content, such as the TV outtakes, Nascar coverage, news and
some NCAA games. A special sports package, which includes exclusive Web
coverage of the NCAA playoffs, will cost $16.95 per month. Yahoo is hoping
that its March Madness coverage will lure workers who might have access to
broadband at work but not a TV, as many of the basketball games are
scheduled during daytime hours. Subscribers to the sports package will get
live webcasts of the first 56 games. (Wall Street Journal 17 Mar 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104768734043719900.djm,00.html (sub=
req'd)
PAYPHONES SEEK NEW LIFE AS INTERNET TERMINALS
Bell Canada is in the midst of a pilot program that offers customers in
Toronto, Montreal and Kingston free Wi-Fi Internet access through hotspots
originating in 16 former payphone booths located in airports, hotels,
libraries, train stations and other public transit locales. As with regular
Wi-Fi access, customers must be within 100 feet of the booth to use the
signal. Bell Canada spokesman Don Blair says the company has received
positive feedback so far: "We've received phone calls and e-mails from
people using the service. The are very positive responses from users, as
well as a lot of calls from location providers -- people wanting to offer
(wireless Internet) hotspots to their customers." Meanwhile, in Singapore,
InfiniTech has a different idea for resuscitating the payphone booth. The
company is looking for U.S. partners to help roll out booths where people
could recharge their cell phones when their batteries run down. Users would
deposit coins and then recharge their phones. (Wired.com 17 Mar 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58050,00.html
BEWARE THE SPELLCHECKER
A study at the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the ubiquitous
spellchecker software may be doing as much harm as good, when it comes to
writing. In the study, 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread a
one-page business letter -- half of them using Microsoft Word, with its
spell- and grammar-checking features and the other half using only their
brains. Without the software, students with higher SAT verbal scores made,
on average, five errors, compared with 12.3 errors made by students with
lower scores. However, using the software, the two groups made about the
same number of errors -- 16 vs. 17. Dennis Galletta, a professor of
information systems at the Katz Business School, says people have come to
rely on spellchecking software too completely. "It's not a software
problem, it's a behavior problem." (AP 14 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030314/D7POQ7R80.html
RECORD LABELS WARN COMPANIES OF 'SIGNIFICANT LEGAL DAMAGES'
The Recording Industry Association of America has sent letters to about 300
companies, informing them that their computers were being used by workers
for illegal file-swapping and threatening "significant legal damages" for
employers and employees alike. The new tactic is the RIAA's first
systematic effort to tackle digital music piracy that occurs using
corporate networks, following a similar effort to enlist universities in
the fight against illegal file-sharing. Copyright law experts said
companies might be liable for piracy on their networks if they know about
it and don't intervene, but it's unclear whether companies have an
obligation to police their networks and remove unauthorized copies of songs
without being asked to. "I think what they're trying to do is get people
thinking 'Gee, I'm in this gray area, and I don't want to be the guy who
gets fingered for the test case,'" says one intellectual property attorney.
"As a corporation, do you really want to be in the news defending the right
of your employees to have pirated music on your network?" About 35% of the
letters went to information technology companies, 20% to healthcare firms,
20% to manufacturers, and the rest to miscellaneous industries. (Los
Angeles Times 18 Mar 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-riaa18mar18001438,1,4897793.story?co
ll=3Dla%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
PROFILE OF A VIRUS WRITER
According to the UK's Sophos, one of the world's largest antivirus
companies, about 1,000 viruses are created every month, and in almost all
cases the perpetrators are computer-obsessed males between the ages of 14
and 34. "They have a chronic lack of girlfriends, are usually socially
inadequate and are drawn compulsively to write self-replicating codes. It's
a form of original graffiti to them," says Sophos CEO Jan Hruska. Virus
writers tend to explore known bugs in existing software or look for
vulnerabilities in new versions in order to create and spread their
infections, and Hruska notes that the next target for the virus writing
community could be Microsoft's .Net platform for Web services. To boost the
impact of their creations, virus writers also tend to share information to
create variants of the same infection, such as the infamous Klez worm,
which has been among the world's most prolific viruses in the last year.
(Reuters/CNet News.com 18 Mar 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-993023.html?tag=3Dfd_top
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BOSTON BUSINESSMAN OFFERS FREE WIRELESS NETWORK
Michael Oh, CEO of Apple reseller Tech Superpowers in Boston, has
launched a free Wi-Fi network along the city's Newbury Street,
described as Boston's Rodeo Drive. NewburyOpen.net is a free,
high-speed wireless network that uses access points in eight cafes,
restaurants, and bookstores along the street. Users who take advantage
of the free network to browse the Internet are shown pop-up ads every
three to four hours. Oh said the network cost about $3,000 to set up
and offers his business a means of reaching consumers that otherwise
would be unavailable. Wi-Fi expert Glenn Fleishman said the Boston
network is the first he knows of that is wholly run by an individual,
commercial company. He said that many companies, however, are beginning
to understand that offering such network access typically does not cost
much and is a way for them to "give something back to the community."
Wired News, 12 March 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58011,00.html
CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD BAN ALL SPAM
A bill before the California legislature would ban all unsolicited
messages sent to e-mail addresses in that state. Consumers who received
spam would be able to sue the sender for at least $500 per violation.
Critics of the measure said that it will do little to stem the flow of
spam because many spammers use hijacked systems to send e-mail or are
outside of the country. An analyst with Jupiter Research said that a
spammer in China is not going to care what the laws are in California.
Debra Bowen, the state senator who wrote the bill, acknowledged that
the measure would not end spam, but she said something needs to be
done. Her bill, she said, would give individual consumers the authority
to tackle spam without having to depend on technology or on a district
attorney. In 1998, Bowen wrote the state's first bill to limit spam,
which requires unsolicited mail to include "ADV" in the subject line.
Louis Mastria of the Direct Marketing Association said that law is
generally ignored and counterproductive.
Los Angeles Times, 11 March 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/801135p-5710829c.html
FACIAL-RECOGNITION SOFTWARE TESTS RELEASED
According to test data released by the federal government,
facial-recognition systems have become significantly more accurate and
reliable since 2000. The tests, which were overseen by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology and covered products from 10
companies, also showed, however, that in certain conditions the
accuracy of the systems dropped to 50 percent. In "reasonable,
controlled indoor lighting," the best of the systems was able to
correctly match facial images with those in a database 90 percent of
the time. The results are expected to support efforts to add
facial-recognition systems, as well as other biometric identification
technologies, in situations where security is vital, such as at
airports.
New York Times, 14 March 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/technolo
MARKETERS AND CONSUMERS PREPARE FOR NATIONAL NO-CALL LIST
President Bush this week signed a bill that will establish a national
do-not-call list, similar to lists already enacted in 32 states. The
lists are designed to limit unwanted calls from telephone solicitors.
Under the federal statute, companies that do not comply with the list
can be fined up to $11,000 per call they make to someone who is on the
list. Certain calls are excepted from the regulation, including those
concerning surveys, charities, and calls on behalf of politicians. The
Federal Trade Commission will collect fees to pay for creating and
maintaining the list. VeriSign and a company called Call Compliance
have developed a call-blocking application called TeleBlock, which was
recently sold to PaeTec. Gryphon Networks also markets a product for
the burgeoning call-blocking industry. Some have speculated that a
similar approach could be an effective way to tackle the growing
problem of unwanted e-mail.
Internet News, 13 March 2003
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/2109271
TECHNOLOGY GRANTS FOR MINORITY INSTITUTIONS APPROVED
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
approved a bill to create a $250 million grant program to help
minority-serving institutions develop digital and wireless
technologies. The full Senate is expected to consider the bill. If the
bill passes, Congress will be challenged to figure out how to fund the
program. The bill, S.196, was sponsored by Sen. George Allen (R-Va.).
The National Science Foundation would be authorized to oversee the
grants for five years. Recipients must match a minimum of a quarter of
the grant money with their own funds, a requirement that would be
waived for institutions with endowments of less than $50 million.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 March 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003031401t.htm
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prior to 1998, occasionally a new eBook number.
VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, xxxxx10a.txt, as
well as a new eBook number.
--Please note the following changes, corrections and improvements:
Last week we announced the posting of Illustrated HTML versions of
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, eBooks #7100 - #7107; it should
be noted that each of those files are approximately 2.2MB in size.
One more time: the following was corrected last week for the
author's last name; this week we're correcting the author's
first name ("Benjamin", not "Benjamim":
Feb 2003 Sybil, or the Two Nations, by Benjamin Disraeli [sybilxxx.xxx]3760
{Please no more on this!!!}
The following is being re-indexed to correct author's last
name ("Henty", not "Henry"):
Nov 2004 By Pike and Dyke, Dutch Republic, by Henty [#11][bpikexxx.xxx]6952
The following has be re-posted in new formats as indicated:
Oct 1999 Penguin Island, by Anatole France [pngwnxxx.xxx]1930
[HTM in pngwn10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 When a Man Comes to Himself, by Woodrow Wilson[#3][mnhslxxx.xxx]5078
[HTM in mnhsl10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 On Being Human, by Woodrow Wilson [Wilson#2][nbhmnxxx.xxx]5068
[HTM in nbhmn10h.htm/.zip]
The following have been posted in an updated edition 11, and new
format as indicated:
Feb 2004 State of the Union, John F. Kennedy [sukenxxx.xxx]5041
[HTM in suken11h.htm/.zip]
Jul 1997 Beowulf, Anonymous, Translated by Gummere [bwulfxxx.xxx] 981
[XHTML in bwulf11h.txt/.zip]
The following has also been posted in an updated edition 11, and also
a new format as indicated:
Jul 1999 The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain [MT#14][prpprxxx.xxx]1837
[Illustrated HTM in prppr11h.zip]
(Note: The illustrated HTML file, zipped only, is 20mb in size. It
includes all of the 192 original drawings from a first edition of "The
Prince and The Pauper". This file has also been split into nine parts
in today's new postings of #7154-7162 for easier downloading.)
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Feb 2005 Images from Saint Simon's Louis XIV, by D. Widger [dw49wxxh.zip]7565
Feb 2005 Images from Memoirs Cardinal de Retz, by D. Widger[dw48wxxh.zip]7564
Feb 2005 Images from Duch. d'Orleans' Louis XIV, by Widger [dw47wxxh.zip]7563
Feb 2005 Images from Memoirs Madame de Montespan, by Widger[dw46wxxh.zip]7562
Feb 2005 Images from Hausset's Louis XIV and XV, by Widger [dw45wxxh.zip]7561
[Author: David Widger][Illustrated HTML files in zipped format only]
Dec 2004 Guide to Reading, by Abbott and Dickenson [?readxxx.xxx]7167
[Full title: The Guide to Reading The Pocket University Volume XXIII]
[Full author: Edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott, Asa Don Dickenson, and Others]
Dec 2004 Home and the World, by Rabindranath Tagore [RT#12][?wrldxxx.xxx]7166
Dec 2004 The Legends of Saint Patrick, by Aubrey de Vere [lgspxxx.xxx]7165
[Plain text in lgsp10.txt/.zip, XHTML in lgsp10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Gitanjali, by Rabindranath Tagore [#11][gitnjxxx.xxx]7164
Dec 2004 History of Australian Exploration,by Ernest Favenc[?hstrxxx.xxx]7163
[Full title: The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v9, by Mark Twain[#104][hfin9xxx.xxx]7162
[Chapters 32 - Conclusion]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v8, by Mark Twain[#103][hfin8xxx.xxx]7161
[Chapters 27 - 31]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v7, by Mark Twain[#102][hfin7xxx.xxx]7160
[Chapters 22 - 26]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v6, by Mark Twain[#101][hfin6xxx.xxx]7159
[Chapters 18 - 21]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v5, by Mark Twain[#100][hfin5xxx.xxx]7158
[Chapters 15 - 17]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v4, by Mark Twain [#99][hfin4xxx.xxx]7157
[Chapters 12 - 14]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v3, by Mark Twain [#98][hfin3xxx.xxx]7156
[Chapters 8 - 11]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v2, by Mark Twain [#97][hfin2xxx.xxx]7155
[Chapters 5 - 7]
Dec 2004 The Prince and The Pauper, v1, by Mark Twain [#96][hfin1xxx.xxx]7154
[Chapters 1 - 4]
[The above nine files are Illustrated HTML, zipped only, in hfin?10h.zip]
[Note: The files average 2.5mb each]
{See note above for updated eBook #1837)
Dec 2004 Elder Conklin and Other Stories, by Frank Harris [?conkxxx.xxx]7153
Dec 2004 Cecilia Vol. 3, by Frances Burney [?cec3xxx.xxx]7152
[Full title: Cecilia vol. 3 Memoirs of an Heiress]
[Full author: Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)]
Dec 2004 Clelia, by Giuseppe Garibaldi [?clelxxx.xxx]7151
[Subtitle: Il governo dei preti - Romanzo storico politico]
[Language: Italian]
[Plain text in 7clel10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8clel10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 Science & Education, by Thomas H. Huxley [?scedxxx.xxx]7150
[Subtitle: Collected Essays Volume III]
[Plain text in 7sced10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8sced10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version in 8sced10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Poetical Works, by Henry Kirk White [?pwhwxxx.xxx]7149
[Full title: The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White With a Memoir
by Sir Harris Nicolas]
[Also posted HTM version in 8pwhw10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Lectures on Dramatic Art, by A. W. Schlegel [?ldalxxx.xxx]7148
[Full title: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature]
[Full author: August Wilhelm Schlegel, trans: John Black]
Dec 2004 The French in the Heart of America, by John Finley[?fhamxxx.xxx]7147
Dec 2004 Memoirs of an Heiress, by Frances Burney [?ceclxxx.xxx]7146
[Full title: Cecilia vol. 2 Memoirs of an Heiress]
[Full author: Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)]
Dec 2004 The Book of the Dead, by E. A. Wallis Budge [#2][?bkddxxx.xxx]7145
[Also posted: HTML in 8bkdd10h.htm/.zip; XML in 8bkdd10x.zip only]
Dec 2004 While the Billy Boils, by Henry Lawson [#5][wtblbxxx.xxx]7144
Dec 2004 Cabin on Catamount Island, Lawrence J. Leslie [#2][stcabxxx.xxx]7143
[Full title: The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island]
[Plain text in stcab10.txt/.zip; Illustrated HTML in stcab10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides [plpwrxxx.xxx]7142
Dec 2004 Suburban Sketches, by W.D. Howells [#58][?sbrbxxx.xxx]7141
[Plain text in 7sbrb10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8sbrb10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by J. Logan, Complete [JL#8][jl08wxxx.xxx]7140
[Author: John A. Logan] (Note: Illustrated HTML jl08w10h.zip is 3.5mb)
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V7 [JL#7][jl07wxxx.xxx]7139
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V6 [JL#6][jl06wxxx.xxx]7138
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V5 [JL#5][jl05wxxx.xxx]7137
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V4 [JL#4][jl04wxxx.xxx]7136
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V3 [JL#3][jl03wxxx.xxx]7135
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V2 [JL#2][jl02wxxx.xxx]7134
Dec 2005 The Great Conspiracy, by John A. Logan, V1 [JL#1][jl01wxxx.xxx]7133
[Above eight plain text files in j1??w10.txt/.zip]
(Note: above eight eBooks in HTML only, with images, zip format.)
Dec 2004 The Purple Land, by W. H. Hudson [#5][?purpxxx.xxx]7132
[Plain text in 7purp10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8purp10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 U.S. History, V1, by Julian Hawthorne [#5][?ushxxxx.xxx]7131
[Full Title: The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1]
[Subtitle: From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of
Lexington April 19, 1775]
[Plain text in 7ushx10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8ushx10.txt/.zip]
Dec 2004 London Films, by W.D. Howells [#58][?lonfxxx.xxx]7130
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7lonf10.txt and 7lonf10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8lonf10.txt and 8lonf10.zip]
Dec 2004 The Prospective Mother, by J. Morris Slemons [pmothxxx.xxx]7129
[Subtitle: A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy]
Dec 2004 Indian Fairy Tales, by Collected by Joseph Jacobs [?iftlxxx.xxx]7128
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7iftl10.txt and 7iftl10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8iftl10.txt and 8iftl10.zip]
Dec 2004 Malcolm, by George MacDonald [#27][malcmxxx.xxx]7127
[Plain text in malcm10.txt/.zip; HTM in malcm10h.htm/.zip]
Dec 2004 Treaties of Canada with Indians, Alexander Morris [tcnndxxx.xxx]7126
[Full title: The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba and the
North-West Territories]
[Also posted HTML in tcnnd10h.zip and tcnnd10h.htm]
Dec 2004 Catherine Booth, by Colonel Mildred Duff [?cbthxxx.xxx]7125
[Plain text in 7cbth10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8cbth10.txt/.zip]
[XHTM version with accented characters in 8cbth10h.htm and 8cbth10h.zip]
Dec 2004 The Coral Island, by R. M. Ballantyne [#3][corilxxa.xxx]7124
[Subtitle: A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean] [See also #0646]
Dec 2004 Home Vegetable Gardening, by F. P. Rockwell [?hmvgxxx.xxx]7123
Dec 2004 The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Verse, by Cowherd [emgrtxxx.xxx]7122
[Full Title: The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse]
[Full Author: Thomas Cowherd]
Dec 2004 Da Firenze a Digione, by Ettore Socci [dfrnzxxx.xxx]7121
[Subtitle: Impressioni di un reduce Garidaldino]
[Language: Italian]
Dec 2004 Knock, Knock and Others, by Ivan Turgenev [7knckxxx.xxx]7120
[Full title: Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories]
[Plain text in 7knck10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8knck10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8knck10h.htm and 8knck10h.zip]
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Mar 2003 The Old Maid, by Edith Wharton [EW#09][030037xx.xxx]0186A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300371.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 The Abbess of Castro, by Stendahl [ST#04][030036xx.xxx]0185A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300361.txt or .ZIP]
[Full title: The Abbess of Castro and Other Shorter Novels]
[Author's real name: Henri Beyle]
Mar 2003 Armance, by Stendahl [ST#03][030035xx.xxx]0184A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300351.txt or .ZIP]
[Author's real name: Henri Beyle]
Mar 2003 Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams [CW#01][030034xx.xxx]0183A
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300331.txt or .ZIP]
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300321.txt or .ZIP]
[Author's full name: Luigi Pirandello]
Mar 2003 Experiments, by Norman Douglas [ND#03][030031xx.xxx]0180A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300311.txt or .ZIP]
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300301.txt or .ZIP]
[Author's real name: Henri Beyle]
Mar 2003 Good-bye to Western Culture, by N Douglas [ND#02][030029xx.xxx]0178A
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That's how close it is to the great 200 for life +50 etext countries this week. So send in those contributions please, and let's get them through 200 by next week.
A huge THANK YOU to all those contributing and WELL DONE.
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Coming to our attention this week, with thanks to Alev Akman.
Author Uzanne predicted "The End Of Books" back in '94...
1894, that is. A scholar at the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies has digitized an article from the July-December 1894 issue of Scribner's Magazine Illustrated. It's actually a broad set of predictions of what life will be like in the 21st Century, but the author's predictions about books and reading are of most interest to us: "My friend James Whittemore interrupted me. "And what will become of the libraries, dear friend, and of the books?" "Librarieswill be transformed into phonographotecks, or rather, phonostereoteks; they will contain the works of human genius on properly labelled cylinders, methodically arranged in little cases, rows upon rows, on shelves.
This is a fascinating site, beautifully put together, and the ideas are fabulous, a must read for any PGer. You can find out more at http://www.uiowa.edu/~obermann
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4) Readers letters
Favourite Book
From: Tonya Allen
The Haunted Bookshop, a book-lover's book
I love discovering books and authors in a serendipitous and random way. If a book I'm reading mentions another book, you can be sure I'll try to track it down. A book about the Titanic led me to Project Gutenberg, mentioning that among the passengers of that ill-fated ship was John Jacob Astor IV, the builder of New York's Astoria hotel, and also the author of a science fiction novel, A Journey In Other Worlds. I started off on the trail of this 1894 book, and my search led me to PG and the world of etexts.
One of my favorite PG etexts is Christopher Morley's The Haunted Bookshop. Steeped in the immediate post-World War I mood of uncertainty and intrigue, the plot revolves around a copy of Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell which appears and disappears mysteriously from its place on the shelf. By the time the mystery is resolved, the bookshop's proprietor has strolled among many yards of shelves and pointed out many of his favorite books, which he regards more as living forces than inanimate objects:
"Did you ever notice how books track you down and hunt you out?
They follow you like the hound in Francis Thompson's poem.
They know their quarry! Look at that book The Education of Henry Adams!
Just watch the way it's hounding out thinking people this winter.
And The Four Horsemen--you can see it racing in the veins
of the reading people. It's one of the uncanniest things I know
to watch a real book on its career--it follows you and follows
you and drives you into a corner and MAKES you read it.
There's a queer old book that's been chasing me for years:
The Life and Opinions of John Buncle, Esq., it's called.
I've tried to escape it, but every now and then it sticks up
its head somewhere. It'll get me some day, and I'll be compelled
to read it. Ten Thousand a Year trailed me the same way until
I surrendered. Words can't describe the cunning of some books.
You'll think you've shaken them off your trail, and then one day
some innocent-looking customer will pop in and begin to talk,
and you'll know he's an unconscious agent of book-destiny."
The list of books mentioned in The Haunted Bookshop is wonderfully random and includes many genres and topics--mysteries, romances, social history, a study of tea. Many have intriguing titles ("Confessions of a Thug", "Whispers about Women", "Somebody's Luggage", "The Story of My Heart"). The power of the written word in shaping history is expressed in a dramatic catalog of World War I writing:
"In regard to the War, think what books have accomplished.
What was the first thing all the governments started to do--
publish books! Blue Books, Yellow Books, White Books, Red Books--
everything but Black Books, which would have been appropriate in Berlin.
They knew that guns and troops were helpless unless they could get the books
on their side, too. Books did as much as anything else
to bring America into the war. Some German books helped to wipe
the Kaiser off his throne--_I_ Accuse, and Dr. Muehlon's magnificent
outburst The Vandal of Europe, and Lichnowsky's private memorandum,
that shook Germany to her foundations, simply because he told the truth.
Here's that book Men in War, written I believe by a Hungarian officer, with
its noble dedication "To Friend and Foe." Here are some of
the French books--books in which the clear, passionate intellect
of that race, with its savage irony, burns like a flame.
Romain Rolland's Au-Dessus de la Melee, written in exile in Switzerland;
Barbusse's terrible Le Feu; Duhamel's bitter Civilization;
Bourget's strangely fascinating novel The Meaning of Death.
And the noble books that have come out of England: A Student in Arms;
The Tree of Heaven; Why Men Fight, by Bertrand Russell--I'm hoping
he'll write one on Why Men Are Imprisoned: you know he was locked
up for his sentiments! And here's one of the most moving of all--
The Letters of Arthur Heath, a gentle, sensitive young Oxford tutor
who was killed on the Western front. You ought to read that book.
It shows the entire lack of hatred on the part of the English.
Heath and his friends, the night before they enlisted, sat up singing
the German music they had loved, as a kind of farewell to the old,
friendly joyous life. Yes, that's the kind of thing War does--
wipes out spirits like Arthur Heath. Please read it.
Then you'll have to read Philip Gibbs, and Lowes Dickinson
and all the young poets. Of course you've read Wells already.
Everybody has."
This was the perfect book for me, and for any book-lover. I followed the example of the bookshop's proprietor, who during one journey along the shelves "took out a memorandum book and began jotting down the books that intrigued him." I opened a computer file and made my own list. I've been following it up ever since, and have found many of the titles at PG. All of the books mentioned qualify for PG at least as far as publication date goes, so anyone looking for ideas for new etexts might drop by.... The Haunted Bookshop.
Tonya Allen
{Thank you to Tonya for a wonderful piece. If you have a favourite you would like people to know about please get in touch with us at the address above.}
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The first in our 'Please explain this...' series.
We start with everyone's favourite question.
Hey, Alice,
Just to let you know I like the letters section -- it's always nice to hear about books...
This may sound stupid, but maybe someone, sometime, could explain how the numbering system works, and why books being processed now have dates two years heance, what reserved numbers are, etc.
I've only been doing this for about a year, so maybe I've overlooked some info somewhere...
Regards from "wrong snow" UK
Delphine
So, thanks to Brett for the following:
Why do books have numbers 2 years hence?
Simple answer: We didn't expect to do so well. At some point or other, Michael set up 100 books/month as the standard PG production month {We have to start somewhere}. Well, production picked up and soon we were over a year ahead, then two years. The theory was that there was a delay between posting and release to allow the readers of the newsletter to read these new books and find any mistakes. The practice is that so few people offer corrections it doesn't matter. As time went on, we were soon rushing ahead and anticipated being three years ahead. It was proposed that we increase the number per month to 150 with the thinking that we would soon catch up. I think that we are now within a year and in about two more years should catch these numbers.
What are reserved numbers?
Simple answer: Reserved numbers are book numbers grabbed in advance. We have some "special numbers" usually the numbers ending in "000" that are "reserved" for special books. In addition, we have some volunteers who do tens of books a month. They do this consistently and usually work on a group of books by the same author. Thus, we offer them a block of numbers which are reserved for their use. There are also some numbers reserved for books Michael anticipated getting but hasn't gotten yet.
I hope this helps, Alice
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And yet more in 'How to read your etext', an email that may be of interest to our readers.
To: ebook-community@yahoogroups.com
Cc: xml-ebook@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ebook-community] Web based eBook Reading interface
For those whom are interested:
I have recently completed a web-based eBook reading GUI using CSS and
XHTML. Naturally, how well it works will depend on your particular browser,
but I have gotten workable results using the following browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Opera 7.0
Mozilla 1.0
Netscape 7.0
This interface is the type of thing can could be easily implemented on a
floppy or CD for distribution, providing the user with a nice workable
reading environment, without the need for an application install (assuming
they have the appropriate browser).
Feel free to try the GUI out at http://www.raptorbook.org/.
When you view a book, you will see a link labeled "Read using the
RaptorBook Reader web interface". Click that, and you are off. :-)
Quick examples:
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn ->
http://www.raptorbook.org/book.php?r=89
Gettysburg Address -> http://www.raptorbook.org/book.php?r=90
The Wisdom Of Father Brown ->
http://www.raptorbook.org/book.php?r=103
If you try it, and find that it works in other browsers, feel free to
let me know -- any other comments are appreciated as well.
Sincerely,
James Linden
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Another related to our series of 'Reading ebooks' with a development from Literature Emporter.
Dear Alice
In my last email I told you that I wanted to buy a Palm m130 computer and to
add ebooks to my site. This is now true, I upload ebooks every days :
- the Sherlock Holmes adventures will soon be finished
- 18 of the 20 books of Emile Zola Les Rougon-Marquart are done (the 2
last will soon be done)
- other titles from various authors are also readable in the PDB format
The Ebooks in the PDB format requires Palm Reader, this program is available
on
- on Palm computers : Palm Reader v1.2.2 (freeware)
- on Pocket PC : Palm Reader v1.2.3 (freeware)
- on Windows : Palm Reader for Windows v1.2.2 (freeware)
- on MAC : Palm Reader for MAC v 1.2.2 (freeware)
These programs can be found at this address :
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/
Best wishes from Fred
{If you haven't taken a look yet, go on over to http://litteratureaemporter.free.fr}
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5) This week in history
Literary Dates of Interest this week
Birthdays this week:
19th Minna Canth, Aksel Sandemose, J.J. Wecksell, Philip Roth
20th Ovidius, Friedrich Holderlin, Henrik Ibsen ("Put it on the radio"), Vera Panova
21st Gustaf von Numers, Nizar Quabbani
22nd Louis L'Amour
23rd Ama Ata Aidoo, Roger Martin du Gard, Akira Kurosawa
24th Dario Fo, William Morris, Donald Hamilton
25th Anne Bronte, Flannery O'Connor, Paul Scott
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6) Headline News from around the world
BEWARE THE SPELLCHECKER
A study at the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the ubiquitous
spellchecker software may be doing as much harm as good, when it comes to
writing. In the study, 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread a
one-page business letter -- half of them using Microsoft Word, with its
spell- and grammar-checking features and the other half using only their
brains. Without the software, students with higher SAT verbal scores made,
on average, five errors, compared with 12.3 errors made by students with
lower scores. However, using the software, the two groups made about the
same number of errors -- 16 vs. 17. Dennis Galletta, a professor of
information systems at the Katz Business School, says people have come to
rely on spellchecking software too completely. "It's not a software
problem, it's a behavior problem." (AP 14 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030314/D7POQ7R80.html
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RECORD LABELS WARN COMPANIES OF 'SIGNIFICANT LEGAL DAMAGES'
The Recording Industry Association of America has sent letters to about 300
companies, informing them that their computers were being used by workers
for illegal file-swapping and threatening "significant legal damages" for
employers and employees alike. The new tactic is the RIAA's first
systematic effort to tackle digital music piracy that occurs using
corporate networks, following a similar effort to enlist universities in
the fight against illegal file-sharing. Copyright law experts said
companies might be liable for piracy on their networks if they know about
it and don't intervene, but it's unclear whether companies have an
obligation to police their networks and remove unauthorized copies of songs
without being asked to. "I think what they're trying to do is get people
thinking 'Gee, I'm in this gray area, and I don't want to be the guy who
gets fingered for the test case,'" says one intellectual property attorney.
"As a corporation, do you really want to be in the news defending the right
of your employees to have pirated music on your network?" About 35% of the
letters went to information technology companies, 20% to healthcare firms,
20% to manufacturers, and the rest to miscellaneous industries. (Los
Angeles Times 18 Mar 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-riaa18mar18001438,1,4897793.story?co
ll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
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NEW TARGET FOR COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT: ORGANIZED CRIME
Representatives from the Motion Picture Association of America and
Microsoft testified before Congress that organized gangs operating in
countries like Russia and Malaysia are stealing intellectual property
and profiting from making counterfeit software and DVDs. In addition to
counterfeit labels and discs covered under current federal
anticounterfeiting laws, Microsoft supports a change to the law to
cover fake holograms and other packaging material. Recent versions of
Microsoft Office have an edge-to-edge hologram etched into an entire
side of a CD-ROM. Counterfeiters can't replicate the technology, so
they deceive consumers with high-quality holographic stickers instead.
The importance of prosecuting such criminal activity was argued by a
Justice Department official who sees a link between copyright piracy
and terrorism.
CNET, 13 March 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-992468.html
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SPELLING AND GRAMMAR CHECKERS ADD ERRORS
In a study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, computer spelling
and grammar checkers actually increased the number of errors for most
students. The study looked at the performance of two groups of
students: one with relatively high SAT verbal scores and one with
relatively lower scores. The group with lower SAT scores made an
average of 12.3 mistakes without the spelling and grammar tools turned
on and 17 mistakes with the tools. The students with higher SAT scores
made an average of 5 mistakes without the tools and an average of 16
errors with the tools. According to Dennis Galletta, a professor of
information systems at the Katz Business School, the problem is one of
behavior rather than of technology. Some students, he said, trust the
software too much. Richard Stern, a speech-recognition technology
researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, said that when computers
attempt to identify proper grammar, the computer has to make some
guesses. It becomes "a percentage game," he said.
Wired News, 14 March 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58058,00.html
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Credits
Thanks this time go to Brett and George for the booklists and the number crunching, Mark and Larry Wall. Greg and Michael are still on holiday (I'm still digging my garden).