Particularly telling is this quote: “So why is the card only available for the T3 and Zire 72, and not other models with SD slots? The official answer from palmOne is: Following market and development-cost analysis, palmOne wanted to develop a Wi-Fi card that will be applicable to its Zire 72 and Tungsten T3 handhelds. [...]
Publishing industry tackles digital rights | CNET News.com: “There’s no Napster for books yet, but creators of text and images still have to deal with a lot of the same digital rights management issues perplexing the movie and music industries.
Publishing industry experts at the Seybold 2004 trade show here considered a variety of digital rights [...]
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home: “Imagine a 520Mhz PDA with a docking station that lets you plug in a regular PC monitor and a keyboard.
That’s the prototype of the Toshiba e830 Pocket PC, which isn’t a certain release but which has made it as far as an FCC submission. Wouldn’t it be a shame if [...]
From Lessig’s Blog, guest-blogged this week by Tim Wu:
“So the question on Grokster-watchers� minds: Cert? (For non-lawyers: will the Supreme Court hear this case?)
My guess is yes, for 7 reasons, ranging from the more to less legal:
1. These is a stated legal conflict on the Sony standard as between the 7th and 9th Circuits;
2. The [...]
Joho the Blog: Markets are (unpaid) conversations: “Blogversations matches bloggers with advertisers. As far as I can tell from the not-enough-informational site, the blogger writes about some topic the advertiser suggests and gets paid for it. It’s clear from the site’s defensive writing, however, that Blogversations knows its project is in danger of being misunderstood [...]
Joho the Blog: Conversational Vigilance: “The free speech crowd ought to extend its concern for preserving the right of individuals to speak their minds. We ought to be just as zealous protecting our right to speak together.”
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Pommie lingo test is unfair dinkum, mate: “They may describe women as ’sheilas’ and use ‘bastard’ as a term of endearment but, apart from pedants, few suggest Australians cannot speak English.
Few, that is, apart from the Home Office. Under rules introduced last month, Australians - and Canadians, New Zealanders, [...]
Boing Boing: EFF wins Grokster! Software doesn’t have to be easy for Hollywood to wiretap!: “EFF has won its Grokster case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — this is the case that establishes that if you make truly decentralized P2P software — like Gnutella — you can’t be held liable for any copyright [...]
Pennovate has recently released version 1.2 of their doodle pad program, Notes v1.2. Its main features are a button activated zoom out and a button activated quick pan that lets the user drag the screen to expose more writing space. However, these features remained inoperable on the Zodiac, owing to the hard-coding of the zoom [...]