Wired News: A Kinder, Gentler Copyright Bill?: “The Senate passed a scaled-back version of a controversial copyright bill Saturday, keeping a provision that imposes severe penalties on people caught with camcorders in movie theaters but scrapping other provisions that copyright-reform activists had criticized.
On Saturday, the Senate met and passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act [...]
Kent Pribbernow has gone off on a bit of a rant about the state of the PDA industry in general, explaining why he bought a Pocket PC and why it will probably be his last PDA. I found this comment particularly interesting: “It’s almost too funny to watch Palm and Pocket PC users go at [...]
NewsGator Online: “You could spend your entire day searching for information on the web. With more news, blogs and other content added every day, it gets harder and harder to sift through and track the information that�s important to you. Plus, the volume of content makes it harder to find the good stuff. With NewsGator [...]
Tapland - Tapwave Zodiac News: Would You Like Fry’s With That?: “Tapland has received information from Tapwave that the Zodiac is heading to the electronics retailer Fry’s Electronics within the next week or so. The Sunnyvale, California-based retailer with 28 stores in 5 states will become the newest brick and mortar partner, joining CompUSA’s [...]
Tapland - Tapwave Zodiac News: Audible Player Coming Soon: “According to sources at Tapwave, a Zodiac-enhanced and Tapwave Certified version of Audible.com’s Audible Player is under development and should be available within two weeks. The Zodiac optimized version will offer exclusive features that aren’t available in the standard Palm OS version including support for the [...]
Tom Stoneham’s Palm Blog: “I work in a humanities department at a university and I can tell you that only about 30% of my colleagues know what a flash drive is. And those who do know about them see them as simple replacements for floppy disks: easier to carry and higher capacity, but essentially no [...]
: “palmOne’s Treo 650 is now available through Sprint, and it will be released by many other wireless carriers in the coming months. While this is an eagerly-awaited smartphone, the first people to receive them have discovered that the Treo 650 can hold fewer applications and files than they expected.”
Vision: Digital Media: “The means of media are now in the hands of the people.
The people we used to call consumers, readers, or viewers (let’s call them citizens now) will take more and more control of what we used to call media (I don’t know what new name to give it, but now it’s as [...]
The Gripe Line Weblog by Ed Foster: “Members of the jury, it is my sad duty today to now present the closing arguments in the prosecution’s case against the defendant you know as Ms. X. I say it’s sad because we all hoped that the passage of new copyright statutes last year — popularly known [...]