Monthly Archives: June 2001

Mercury News: Targeting piracy of music CDs. “In the next 12 months, different studios are going to protect CDs so you wouldn’t be able to rip or burn them,” said Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI. … Continue reading →

Brett Glass sent along a link to this story from the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, Student removed from class because of drawings, in which an 11-year-old boy was taken out in handcuffs — for his own protection, according to … Continue reading →

Mercury News: New market overwhelms U.S. agency. “That sort of gave me a clue as to where he is heading on this,” Stern said. “He’s trying to find ways not to find market power.” Comments

Lawrence Lee, editor of the invaluable Tomalak’s Realm weblog — his “Daily links to strategic Web design news” — announced today that he’s retiring the page at the end of the week. Tomalak’s Realm was one of the early, and … Continue reading →

Dave Winer: Respect, Microsoft and Whatever. And I wonder if Microsoft would do better, and the rest of us as well, if there were open interfaces in the operating system that allowed a variety of different competitive products and services … Continue reading →

Mercury News: Newcomers, lifetime residents say farewell. Disillusioned dot-commers not the only ones high-tailing out of town as the economy turns sour. The people across the street from me have lived in Silicon Valley for a long, long time. They … Continue reading →

SF Chronicle: Privacy measures advancing to defeat. Corporate hostility is likely to doom the bank and insurance privacy measure in the Assembly, and Gov. Gray Davis is expected to veto the e-mail bill if it reaches him. Comments

Salon: The music revolution will not be digitized. The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers. For the moment, anyway. But the industry is still kidding itself if it thinks it … Continue reading →

The world of displays doesn’t move at the pace we’ve come to expect in other technology markets, but there’s been some dramatic progress nonetheless. Some of it will be visible this week at the Society for Information Display’s conference this … Continue reading →

Online Journalism Review: Synergy and the Day of Infamy. But when does synergy morph into conflict of interest? What happens when a news operation begins to internalize some of the traits of an entertainment giant that happens to be its … Continue reading →