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walktalker · 24-07-01, 05:15 PM

New Napster Chief Looks Ahead
Napster may be dead, but its new CEO proclaimed the music-swapping service will live a long time. Appearing in public within hours of the news that he was tabbed to replace interim CEO Hank Barry, Konrad Hilbers didn't reveal much in his first day on the job. But he told a packed hall of music and technology executives at Jupiter Media Metrix's Plug.In Forum that the "Napster brand cannot be killed." Furthermore, Hilbers, the former chief administrative officer of BMG Entertainment and former CEO of CompuServe, said Napster is "on the track toward becoming a legitimate service ... that rewards artists and copyright holders."
http://www.wired.com/news/exec/0,1370,45504,00.html

Sklyarov Release in Feds' Hands

Hundreds of hackers, programmers and system administrators decamped from their cubicles on Monday and took to the streets to argue, in dozens of different ways, that Dmitry Sklyarov should not be in jail for creating code-breaking software. Some geekavists, who turned out in at least 10 cities, targeted FBI and Justice Department offices. The largest crowd, with about 100 demonstrators, marched on the San Jose headquarters of Adobe Systems, whose copy protection scheme Sklyarov has been charged with penetrating. Board members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has taken up Sklyarov's cause, were meeting behind closed doors with Adobe to try to broker a deal that would let the 27-year-old Russian avoid a trial. It seemed to work. After over two hours of tense talks that began at 11 a.m. PDT, Adobe and EFF negotiators struck a deal: Adobe would agree to recommend Sklyarov's release. It was not just a preliminary victory for geek activism, but music to the ears of the Free-Dmitry activists who were hoping that Monday's unusual public outcry would prompt Adobe to say precisely that.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45484,00.html

Human Cloning Ban Advances
Legislation to outlaw creation of cloned human embryos cleared a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Tuesday over objections from Democrats who said the bill's broad scope would hinder promising medical research. The measure written by Florida Republican Rep. Dave Weldon would make it a federal crime to clone humans for reproduction or research with embryos. Punishment would include fines and up to 10 years in prison. The House Judiciary Committee voted 18-11 to approve the measure, with all yes votes coming from Republicans and all Democrats voting no.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,45511,00.html

Plug.In Tunes In to Kids

There's a rule in show business -- never follow the kid act. The first day of Plug.In, the music and technology conference hosted by Jupiter Media Metrix and Billboard magazine, showed why. In a day filled with high-powered rhetoric from high-powered executives and opinion leaders, a panel of teens -- mostly Jupiter analysts' young relatives and their friends -- stole the show with their down-to-earth opinions of the music business that tries so hard to cater to them. Typical of the teens' performance was a response to a question about MTV: "Back in the day, it had music and it was good. Now it's crap," said Dan, a 17-year-old Long Islander. When a stuffed-shirt later asked, "What's your favorite way to consume music?" the panel erupted in giggles as Dan, 17, pantomimed stuffing his face. Once they settled down, the teens made smart comments about how they all prefer live shows to studio recordings. And how they liked trading live show bootlegs on Napster "before it died."
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,45477,00.html

Sounds From the Satellite
It used to be the province of a few lonely scientists who strained to catch strange sounds broadcast from outer space. But this fall, U.S. residents who tune in with special radios will hear different sounds beamed from space -- like Nashville honky-tonk, BBC news and the chatter of teen-age talk shows. On Tuesday, broadcaster XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., one of two satellite radio companies licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, announced a cavalcade of radio programming for its coming 100-channel service. The Washington-based company plans to expand service to the Southwest in October, and across the rest of the nation except for Alaska and Hawaii by November.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45520,00.html

Famous Photos Frozen Forever
Talk about creepy. Bill Gates' minions are currently laying the floor for a 10,000 square foot, tomblike facility in rural Pennsylvania to preserve, in part, an image of Albert Einstein's tongue. It's the future home of the Bettmann Archive, a renowned collection of more than 11 million historic photographs and negatives -- including such iconic images as Einstein sticking out his tongue and the Wright Brothers in flight. It's a symbolic declaration that physical photographs are dead and should literally be buried. Gates' plans call for more than mere burial. The Bettmann Archive will be stored in specially engineered, subzero rooms -- a first in the history of photo preservation.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45379,00.html

AOL Begins to Explore IM Sharing
AOL Time Warner Inc. said Monday that it has recently begun an internal test to open its coveted instant-messaging service to rivals, and it remains on track to launch a trial with another firm later this summer. The long-awaited trial could lead the way for a major overhaul in instant messaging, allowing different services to communicate in one massive network. Instant messaging allows Internet users to receive notes almost as fast as they are sent. The notes appear as pop-up windows on a user’s computer screen. AOL said its trial involves a "leading technology company" it did not name in a report to the Federal Communications Commission. The New York media giant said it is drafting a contract to address such issues as system-performance requirements and cost sharing.
http://www.washtech.com/news/media/11362-1.html

Noisy solution to crime problem
Scientists in Britain have developed a new kind of noise which they hope will help to catch criminals. Leeds University
It is already being used to make security alarms more effective, and to stop mobile phone users being confused by other people's phones ringing. The new sound has been developed by Professor Deborah Withington of Leeds University, UK, for use in conjunction with security cameras. It works by using a rich mixture of frequencies that enables listeners to pinpoint exactly where it is coming from.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1454737.stm

Technology thins the plot
Modern telephony has robbed film and TV thrillers of many tried and trusted plot devices writes BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward Distraught parents cling to each other on the sofa. Flanked by frowning detectives, the couple stare at their phone waiting for the kidnappers to call. The dramatic logic of countless films and TV shows demand that the kidnapper must talk for at least 30 seconds to allow the call to be traced. But always the taunting villain hangs up before being pinpointed. Well, no longer. Caller ID has made all calls instantly traceable.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_...00/1452800.stm

Fault-Tolerant File Storage
For Marvin Theimer, it all started with an earthquake. The aftermath of 1989's massive Loma Prieta earthquake in Silicon Valley "was sort of surreal," Theimer remembers. "I got in my car and had my radio on . . . silence! The radio stations within a 20-mile radius were out." And so were almost all the computers. That earth-shaking experience got Theimer, then an operating systems researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, thinking about how to make computer file storage systems radically more fault tolerant. His work has helped to lead to Farsite, a fail-safe storage technology being created at Microsoft.
http://www.techreview.com/web/johnst...ston072401.asp

More news very very soon, my dear readers

24-07-01, 05:15 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	<---- No no, don't fall asleep yet New Napster Chief Looks Ahead Napster may be dead, but its new CEO proclaimed the music-swapping service will live a long time. Appearing in public within hours of the news that he was tabbed to replace interim CEO Hank Barry, Konrad Hilbers didn't reveal much in his first day on the job. But he told a packed hall of music and technology executives at Jupiter Media Metrix's Plug.In Forum that the "Napster brand cannot be killed." Furthermore, Hilbers, the former chief administrative officer of BMG Entertainment and former CEO of CompuServe, said Napster is "on the track toward becoming a legitimate service ... that rewards artists and copyright holders." http://www.wired.com/news/exec/0,1370,45504,00.html Sklyarov Release in Feds' Hands Hundreds of hackers, programmers and system administrators decamped from their cubicles on Monday and took to the streets to argue, in dozens of different ways, that Dmitry Sklyarov should not be in jail for creating code-breaking software. Some geekavists, who turned out in at least 10 cities, targeted FBI and Justice Department offices. The largest crowd, with about 100 demonstrators, marched on the San Jose headquarters of Adobe Systems, whose copy protection scheme Sklyarov has been charged with penetrating. Board members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has taken up Sklyarov's cause, were meeting behind closed doors with Adobe to try to broker a deal that would let the 27-year-old Russian avoid a trial. It seemed to work. After over two hours of tense talks that began at 11 a.m. PDT, Adobe and EFF negotiators struck a deal: Adobe would agree to recommend Sklyarov's release. It was not just a preliminary victory for geek activism, but music to the ears of the Free-Dmitry activists who were hoping that Monday's unusual public outcry would prompt Adobe to say precisely that. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45484,00.html Human Cloning Ban Advances Legislation to outlaw creation of cloned human embryos cleared a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Tuesday over objections from Democrats who said the bill's broad scope would hinder promising medical research. The measure written by Florida Republican Rep. Dave Weldon would make it a federal crime to clone humans for reproduction or research with embryos. Punishment would include fines and up to 10 years in prison. The House Judiciary Committee voted 18-11 to approve the measure, with all yes votes coming from Republicans and all Democrats voting no. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,45511,00.html Plug.In Tunes In to Kids There's a rule in show business -- never follow the kid act. The first day of Plug.In, the music and technology conference hosted by Jupiter Media Metrix and Billboard magazine, showed why. In a day filled with high-powered rhetoric from high-powered executives and opinion leaders, a panel of teens -- mostly Jupiter analysts' young relatives and their friends -- stole the show with their down-to-earth opinions of the music business that tries so hard to cater to them. Typical of the teens' performance was a response to a question about MTV: "Back in the day, it had music and it was good. Now it's crap," said Dan, a 17-year-old Long Islander. When a stuffed-shirt later asked, "What's your favorite way to consume music?" the panel erupted in giggles as Dan, 17, pantomimed stuffing his face. Once they settled down, the teens made smart comments about how they all prefer live shows to studio recordings. And how they liked trading live show bootlegs on Napster "before it died." http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,45477,00.html Sounds From the Satellite It used to be the province of a few lonely scientists who strained to catch strange sounds broadcast from outer space. But this fall, U.S. residents who tune in with special radios will hear different sounds beamed from space -- like Nashville honky-tonk, BBC news and the chatter of teen-age talk shows. On Tuesday, broadcaster XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., one of two satellite radio companies licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, announced a cavalcade of radio programming for its coming 100-channel service. The Washington-based company plans to expand service to the Southwest in October, and across the rest of the nation except for Alaska and Hawaii by November. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45520,00.html Famous Photos Frozen Forever Talk about creepy. Bill Gates' minions are currently laying the floor for a 10,000 square foot, tomblike facility in rural Pennsylvania to preserve, in part, an image of Albert Einstein's tongue. It's the future home of the Bettmann Archive, a renowned collection of more than 11 million historic photographs and negatives -- including such iconic images as Einstein sticking out his tongue and the Wright Brothers in flight. It's a symbolic declaration that physical photographs are dead and should literally be buried. Gates' plans call for more than mere burial. The Bettmann Archive will be stored in specially engineered, subzero rooms -- a first in the history of photo preservation. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45379,00.html AOL Begins to Explore IM Sharing AOL Time Warner Inc. said Monday that it has recently begun an internal test to open its coveted instant-messaging service to rivals, and it remains on track to launch a trial with another firm later this summer. The long-awaited trial could lead the way for a major overhaul in instant messaging, allowing different services to communicate in one massive network. Instant messaging allows Internet users to receive notes almost as fast as they are sent. The notes appear as pop-up windows on a user’s computer screen. AOL said its trial involves a "leading technology company" it did not name in a report to the Federal Communications Commission. The New York media giant said it is drafting a contract to address such issues as system-performance requirements and cost sharing. http://www.washtech.com/news/media/11362-1.html Noisy solution to crime problem Scientists in Britain have developed a new kind of noise which they hope will help to catch criminals. Leeds University It is already being used to make security alarms more effective, and to stop mobile phone users being confused by other people's phones ringing. The new sound has been developed by Professor Deborah Withington of Leeds University, UK, for use in conjunction with security cameras. It works by using a rich mixture of frequencies that enables listeners to pinpoint exactly where it is coming from. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1454737.stm Technology thins the plot Modern telephony has robbed film and TV thrillers of many tried and trusted plot devices writes BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward Distraught parents cling to each other on the sofa. Flanked by frowning detectives, the couple stare at their phone waiting for the kidnappers to call. The dramatic logic of countless films and TV shows demand that the kidnapper must talk for at least 30 seconds to allow the call to be traced. But always the taunting villain hangs up before being pinpointed. Well, no longer. Caller ID has made all calls instantly traceable. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_...00/1452800.stm Fault-Tolerant File Storage For Marvin Theimer, it all started with an earthquake. The aftermath of 1989's massive Loma Prieta earthquake in Silicon Valley "was sort of surreal," Theimer remembers. "I got in my car and had my radio on . . . silence! The radio stations within a 20-mile radius were out." And so were almost all the computers. That earth-shaking experience got Theimer, then an operating systems researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, thinking about how to make computer file storage systems radically more fault tolerant. His work has helped to lead to Farsite, a fail-safe storage technology being created at Microsoft. http://www.techreview.com/web/johnst...ston072401.asp More news very very soon, my dear readers __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies