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NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker also shared a lengthy attack plan in a speech at the antipiracy summit. Copyright holders are "losing the battle" against piracy and will never prevail unless a wide swath of governments and industries gets proactive, Zucker said.
He wants alleged intellectual property violations to take center stage at all levels of government, from the White House to U.S. embassies around the world. He wants Congress to create dedicated IP enforcement departments and to offer federal grants for state and local governments to escalate their own policing efforts.
Washington returns to Net
With only weeks to go before a federal halt to Internet access taxes expires, a handful of Senate Republicans is applying a new form of pressure on the Democratic leadership. Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) reintroduced an identical version of his bill from January that would make permanent an existing moratorium set to end November 1. Unless Congress passes his proposal--or at least another temporary extension--there won't be anything stopping most state and local governments from taxing Internet access, including DSL, cable modem and BlackBerry-type wireless transmission services.
The difference this time is that Sununu filed the proposal under a Senate procedure known as Rule 14, which makes it eligible for immediate consideration on the Senate floor. That's significant because bills typically must first be cleared through subcommittee and committee votes--a process that can be time-consuming, as has been the case this year.
More than a year since reports surfaced that certain major U.S. telephone companies had granted government spies access to customer records as part of a Bush administration warrantless wiretapping program, a congressional committee has decided to investigate those claims. The Democratic leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to AT&T, Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications International posing a detailed set of questions about their procedures for supplying records in response to government demands.
The questions seek information on a variety of topics, including how companies receive and comply with government requests for information, whether they've ever been asked to hand over information without certain court orders, what legal justifications the government has used in its quest for customer data, whether companies have ever been asked to install equipment that sends copies of Internet traffic to third parties, and whether the companies have ever been offered legal immunity by the government in exchange for their efforts.
And there's some good news for anyone regularly engaged in "journalism," which would seem to include some bloggers: you won't generally be forced to divulge confidential sources in federal cases under a bill approved by a U.S. Senate committee.
Some form of "reporter's privilege," either through laws or court decisions, already exists in 49 states and the District of Columbia. This bill would extend that protection to federal cases, shielding anyone engaged in the practice of "journalism"--with a number of exceptions, naturally--from being forced to give up confidential information or provide testimony.
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When the Soviet Union launched its "October surprise" in 1957, it began a space race with the United States largely driven by politics and fear. Now, as the 50th anniversary of the October 4 launch of Sputnik 1 rolls around, the face of space exploration has changed dramatically.
In a multipart series, CNET News.com looks at how space exploration has evolved and how it has affected private business, as well as the state of the satellite industry and how governments and private businesspeople are struggling to define their roles in space.
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Skype co-founder and Chief Executive Niklas Zennstrom has stepped down and eBay said it will take a $900 million so-called impairment write-down against the value of the Internet telephone company it acquired two years ago...In another clear sign that Microsoft sees the threat posed by its traditional business moving online, the company is readying a rival to Google's Documents and Spreadsheets...Adobe Systems is aggressively expanding into online services as it seeks to garner more revenue from the Web...This week's Japanese trade show brought together all the big names in consumer electronics and puts the country's weakness for high tech on full display.
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I'm actually surprised that this has occurred. I think we're beginning to realize that the amount of extremely intelligent and creative people in the world are lower than we had originally anticipated, or they've already been employed by companies like Apple and Google. Now we're turning to college students for ideas because if anyone else in the world had a good idea, they would've done it by now, and college students are fresh, untapped sources of liberal, creative solutions.
Companies like Apple and Google are the creative juggernauts driving technological innovation. Creativity and innovation is not an easy resource to simply tap into. If that were the case, Microsoft and Sony would be in a much better positions than they are now. So it's amazing that Apple is completely saturated in innovation and is not just moving forward, but is taking us into the future in huge leaps and bounds.
been about innovation. They have not always created the
technology they use, but more times then not they have introduced
it in a way that makes people WANT to use it. Apple has jokingly
been called the R&D department for the rest of the industry for
years and history shows us why. If you want to be on the cutting
edge of technology go to work for Apple. There is a lot of talent
that has realized this and done just that.
In my opinion Apple, their innovation and user interface and overall quality in the user's experience is so superior it reminds me of a sensational luxury car compared to cheap junk that detroit tries to pass off.
So what if you can't change a battery? So what if it doesn't do everything all the time. I have bought countless PC's in the past and every time I wanted to change the memory a new standard had arrived. In the end I may as well bought an all encompassing system and replaced it every few years. People don't want to be tinkerers any more they just want a great product that is rock solid.
Apple's products and consumer electronics should NOT be modified, it just ruins the experience. You don't change the engine in your car or globes in a TV. You don't buy a Ferrari to carry luggage, sometimes things left out make it a better experience. The sooner makers learn this the better products are going to be.
Apple has kept tight control and for it we have got usb, firewire, ipods, magnetic power supply, mouse, gui and dozens of firsts. Leave it to those that want everything and the likes of MS will keep churning out the same junk for years to come only with a modified so called clock added!
and the microsoft music player same thing .Please do not insult our intelligence.Yes the iPhone is 5 years ahead and just can't wait to buy the new iPhone 2 when it comes out.
The fact is that features are not necessarily benefits. Apple knows this, but Microsoft refuses to accept the truth. It's the benefits that matter, not the features.
Get a Mac. You can always run Windows on it if you need to, but you probably won't. You very likely won't want to either!
I thought about getting an Iphone but realized that it's not worth it.. AT&T upgrades their networks to full 3G you've got a phone that's stuck on EDGE. If I spend that much money on a phone I don't plan upgrade it within the next year or two.
Ipods, there are mp3 players that do much more and don't require a proprietary software to add music to them. I could care less if it's touch sensitive or I can sit at starbucks and download music.. Fact is.. there's no starbucks where I live.
Macs.. No thanks, I'm a tinkerer I like knowing my system inside and out.
- Look to China for the Apple iKiller
- by Troll Hard October 8, 2007 7:59 AM PDT
- http://www.intomobile.com/2007/04/18/another-apple-iphone-clone-from-china.html
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(17 Comments)http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/29/meizus-m8-apple-lawyers-start-your-engines/
http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/08/a-chinese-iphon.html
http://gadgets.fosfor.se/iphone-clone-out-in-china/
The Chinese iPhone and iPod clones should hit the USA sometime in 2008.