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walktalker · 17-07-01, 06:25 PM

Webby's Woll With the Punches
Upon hearing plans of this year's Webby Awards media coverage, an Internet observer wondered, "Really? Is there anyone left to nominate?" Point taken. With the beating that the dot-com industry has taken, the idea of an awards show has something of a hollow ring to it. Despite the bloodbath, the fifth annual Webby Awards are soldiering on and will bring their hype-fest to this city's War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco Wednesday night.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45136,00.html

MP3: Sound of Silence
Media players and software systems designed to help consumers make listening to music a simple endeavor all have one flaw: They all make listening to music harder. Thanks to a host of new proprietary systems and security measures, consumers hoping for an easy music-listening experience are about to face a world where music files and services don't work together. No problem, really, if you're an engineer from MIT. For the rest of us, life is going to be hard for awhile.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,45279,00.html

Razorfish's Mistaken How-(Not)-To
Razorfish should have known there could be days like this but they weren't supposed to happen to the Internet consulting firm itself. Razorfish, which advises companies on how to harness technology, scrambled to apologize Tuesday after unleashing a blizzard of unwanted e-mail on scores of clients, including some using language that was far from business-like. The problems apparently began Monday, soon after the New York-based company sent out the first edition of an electronic newsletter to clients on its e-mail list.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45316,00.html

Hackers Secure a Downgraded Storm
Hackers have liberated one of the Internet's most popular security websites from its corporate owners. This time, however, it's perfectly legal. A ragtag group of programmers, system administrators and newly unemployed security consultants said last weekend at the Defcon convention that they purchased the rights to Packet Storm from Securify for just $1.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45275,00.html

Nuke Shield Can't Stop Critics
The National Missile Defense system scored its first unqualified hit last weekend, following three unsuccessful tries. While better news than the previous three attempts, it's too early and information is still too sketchy to assess where the program stands today. The Pentagon has not yet released or analyzed its data on this latest engagement -- all we know is the "kill vehicle" hit the warhead. However, even with this one reported success, the projected $60 billion to $240 billion NMD program continues to face allegations that it's founded on dangerous and "fuzzy" logic.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45273,00.html

ISPs' Free Ride Over in Sweden?
Anders Lövbrand says he's found a steady source of income for indigent content providers: ISPs. Internet service providers would be worthless without the online media they distribute, figures the 26-year-old Swede, yet content providers aren't getting a fair slice of the revenue pie they help bake. He likens the phenomenon to a cable operator refusing to pay for the award-winning sitcoms that boost its ratings.
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,45195,00.html

Company Ready to Sell Milk of Cloned Cows
It seems like science fiction, but it's already a reality: milk from cloned cows, and it's coming to a grocery store near you. Unless the federal government decides to intervene. An experimental dairy farm in Wisconsin is producing some of the world's first milk from a herd of 21 cloned cows, 17 of them from the same original animal, all genetically identical. Infigen, the biotech company that runs the farm, says its cows are normal and healthy, the milk looks and tastes just like any other. The lack of any completed scientific study on the milk's safety doesn't stop Infigen's president, Michael Bishop, from pouring himself a glass. "It's delicious," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...lk_010716.html

Last Week Year's Best For Online Radio Stations
Online radio stations streamed more entertainment and news to listeners last week than during any other week this year, a Web measuring service said today. MeasureCast, a Portland, Ore.-based company that provides third-party audience and demographic data to online broadcasters, advertisers and media buyers, said that 19 of the top 25 online radio stations streamed more hours of radio streams in the week of July 9-15 than during the previous week. Thirteen stations experienced an increase in estimated audience size, the company said.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168048.html

Taliban Net Crackdown Highlights Global Trend
While the recent decision by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government to ban all Internet use probably won't trigger similar moves elsewhere, the edict does highlight a global push to regulate and restrict Internet content, civil liberties experts say.
"Most governments are interested in expanding the use of the Internet but most countries want some kind of control (over) access," Digital Freedom Network Executive Director Bobson Wong said today. "Most countries want to regulate the Internet is some way." Last week, Afghan sources reported that the Taliban had officially banned all Internet use in the country in a bid to control things that are "wrong, obscene immoral and against Islam" from coming into the country.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168050.html

Kidney Transplant Operation In Germany To Be Webcast Live
A German Web site that specializes in medical information next week will transmit live video and audio of a kidney transplant operation. The operation, in which a woman will donate one of her kidneys to her husband, will be conducted at the Stuttgart Transplant Center on July 24 beginning at 4 p.m. Germany time (9 a.m. CDT). A Med-World AG, an online medical information company based in Berlin, is handling the logistics of Webcasting the operation. The company currently operates two Web sites, one providing medical information and the other that specializes in Webcasts of surgical operations.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168039.html

Only 11 Percent Of WAP Sites Fully Usable, Says Report
A major mobile Internet survey has concluded that only 11 percent of wireless application protocol (WAP) sites are fully accessible to all mobile Internet users. The study comes from mobile Internet company Argogroup, which produces software to solve problems relating to WAP device interactions. Though not an independent study, it does highlight evolving mobile Internet standards. Just as in the early days of the World Wide Web, when Web site developers used differing applications to create pages, WAP site developers use various editing packages to create wireless markup language (WML) pages.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168034.html

AOL-Coke Contest Has Technical Difficulties
Pamela Carter couldn't believe it when she popped the top on an animated Coca-Cola bottle and saw that she had just won $10,000 in a contest on America Online, sponsored by AOL and Coke. "I kept thinking diapers, paying a few bills, new lawn mower." But thinking was as far as it would go. AOL now says she and several others never really won anything — they were victims of a "computer glitch" in which a "very small number of people" were mistakenly told they'd won a prize, ranging from the cash to vacations and new computers, in the June 1 through July 15 contest, spokesman Andrew Weinstein says.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168030.html

MP3s Hit Open Road
Despite all the recent furor over downloading music from the Net, a group of executives in the digital music industry concluded here last week that none of the portables, PDAs, phones or other mobile devices designed to listen to it can compete with the trusty old CD player — at least not yet. "People are burning (their own) CDs like crazy, and it's only going to get bigger," said Dennis Mudd, CEO of MusicMatch, speaking at the MP3 Summit conference. MusicMatch makes digital jukebox software for computers. Market tracking firm IDC predicts that some 4.5 billion blank recordable CD-R and CD-RW discs will be shipped this year.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168029.html

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17-07-01, 06:25 PM	#4
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Webby's Woll With the Punches Upon hearing plans of this year's Webby Awards media coverage, an Internet observer wondered, "Really? Is there anyone left to nominate?" Point taken. With the beating that the dot-com industry has taken, the idea of an awards show has something of a hollow ring to it. Despite the bloodbath, the fifth annual Webby Awards are soldiering on and will bring their hype-fest to this city's War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco Wednesday night. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45136,00.html MP3: Sound of Silence Media players and software systems designed to help consumers make listening to music a simple endeavor all have one flaw: They all make listening to music harder. Thanks to a host of new proprietary systems and security measures, consumers hoping for an easy music-listening experience are about to face a world where music files and services don't work together. No problem, really, if you're an engineer from MIT. For the rest of us, life is going to be hard for awhile. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,45279,00.html Razorfish's Mistaken How-(Not)-To Razorfish should have known there could be days like this but they weren't supposed to happen to the Internet consulting firm itself. Razorfish, which advises companies on how to harness technology, scrambled to apologize Tuesday after unleashing a blizzard of unwanted e-mail on scores of clients, including some using language that was far from business-like. The problems apparently began Monday, soon after the New York-based company sent out the first edition of an electronic newsletter to clients on its e-mail list. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45316,00.html Hackers Secure a Downgraded Storm Hackers have liberated one of the Internet's most popular security websites from its corporate owners. This time, however, it's perfectly legal. A ragtag group of programmers, system administrators and newly unemployed security consultants said last weekend at the Defcon convention that they purchased the rights to Packet Storm from Securify for just $1. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45275,00.html Nuke Shield Can't Stop Critics The National Missile Defense system scored its first unqualified hit last weekend, following three unsuccessful tries. While better news than the previous three attempts, it's too early and information is still too sketchy to assess where the program stands today. The Pentagon has not yet released or analyzed its data on this latest engagement -- all we know is the "kill vehicle" hit the warhead. However, even with this one reported success, the projected $60 billion to $240 billion NMD program continues to face allegations that it's founded on dangerous and "fuzzy" logic. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45273,00.html ISPs' Free Ride Over in Sweden? Anders Lövbrand says he's found a steady source of income for indigent content providers: ISPs. Internet service providers would be worthless without the online media they distribute, figures the 26-year-old Swede, yet content providers aren't getting a fair slice of the revenue pie they help bake. He likens the phenomenon to a cable operator refusing to pay for the award-winning sitcoms that boost its ratings. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,45195,00.html Company Ready to Sell Milk of Cloned Cows It seems like science fiction, but it's already a reality: milk from cloned cows, and it's coming to a grocery store near you. Unless the federal government decides to intervene. An experimental dairy farm in Wisconsin is producing some of the world's first milk from a herd of 21 cloned cows, 17 of them from the same original animal, all genetically identical. Infigen, the biotech company that runs the farm, says its cows are normal and healthy, the milk looks and tastes just like any other. The lack of any completed scientific study on the milk's safety doesn't stop Infigen's president, Michael Bishop, from pouring himself a glass. "It's delicious," he said. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...lk_010716.html Last Week Year's Best For Online Radio Stations Online radio stations streamed more entertainment and news to listeners last week than during any other week this year, a Web measuring service said today. MeasureCast, a Portland, Ore.-based company that provides third-party audience and demographic data to online broadcasters, advertisers and media buyers, said that 19 of the top 25 online radio stations streamed more hours of radio streams in the week of July 9-15 than during the previous week. Thirteen stations experienced an increase in estimated audience size, the company said. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168048.html Taliban Net Crackdown Highlights Global Trend While the recent decision by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government to ban all Internet use probably won't trigger similar moves elsewhere, the edict does highlight a global push to regulate and restrict Internet content, civil liberties experts say. "Most governments are interested in expanding the use of the Internet but most countries want some kind of control (over) access," Digital Freedom Network Executive Director Bobson Wong said today. "Most countries want to regulate the Internet is some way." Last week, Afghan sources reported that the Taliban had officially banned all Internet use in the country in a bid to control things that are "wrong, obscene immoral and against Islam" from coming into the country. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168050.html Kidney Transplant Operation In Germany To Be Webcast Live A German Web site that specializes in medical information next week will transmit live video and audio of a kidney transplant operation. The operation, in which a woman will donate one of her kidneys to her husband, will be conducted at the Stuttgart Transplant Center on July 24 beginning at 4 p.m. Germany time (9 a.m. CDT). A Med-World AG, an online medical information company based in Berlin, is handling the logistics of Webcasting the operation. The company currently operates two Web sites, one providing medical information and the other that specializes in Webcasts of surgical operations. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168039.html Only 11 Percent Of WAP Sites Fully Usable, Says Report A major mobile Internet survey has concluded that only 11 percent of wireless application protocol (WAP) sites are fully accessible to all mobile Internet users. The study comes from mobile Internet company Argogroup, which produces software to solve problems relating to WAP device interactions. Though not an independent study, it does highlight evolving mobile Internet standards. Just as in the early days of the World Wide Web, when Web site developers used differing applications to create pages, WAP site developers use various editing packages to create wireless markup language (WML) pages. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168034.html AOL-Coke Contest Has Technical Difficulties Pamela Carter couldn't believe it when she popped the top on an animated Coca-Cola bottle and saw that she had just won $10,000 in a contest on America Online, sponsored by AOL and Coke. "I kept thinking diapers, paying a few bills, new lawn mower." But thinking was as far as it would go. AOL now says she and several others never really won anything — they were victims of a "computer glitch" in which a "very small number of people" were mistakenly told they'd won a prize, ranging from the cash to vacations and new computers, in the June 1 through July 15 contest, spokesman Andrew Weinstein says. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168030.html MP3s Hit Open Road Despite all the recent furor over downloading music from the Net, a group of executives in the digital music industry concluded here last week that none of the portables, PDAs, phones or other mobile devices designed to listen to it can compete with the trusty old CD player — at least not yet. "People are burning (their own) CDs like crazy, and it's only going to get bigger," said Dennis Mudd, CEO of MusicMatch, speaking at the MP3 Summit conference. MusicMatch makes digital jukebox software for computers. Market tracking firm IDC predicts that some 4.5 billion blank recordable CD-R and CD-RW discs will be shipped this year. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168029.html Not even all __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies