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...increase and camcorder technology continues to improve, studios will be forced to put down the night-vision goggles and invent a new business model for a new world. "Nobody believes you're going to dissuade people from downloading," says Garland of BigChampagne. "It's all about co-opting that content and building businesses around...
...months from now, it seems likely that Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow-based rock band that's hotter this second than a Paris Hilton download, will travel from gig to gig via a record company's limousine. But for now, the quartet seems content to carry their own guitars on the London Underground. On a January afternoon, they boarded in north London, stumbling through the barriers with kit and overnight bags like well-equipped buskers. A few stops down the line and Franz Ferdinand - no relation to the assassinated Archduke - emerges on a rainy Charing Cross Road in the city center...
...MORE WIRES The Philips Streamium FlatTV with built-in wi-fi pulls music, photos and even MPEG video content from your computer and displays it on an LCD screen. Sony is also introducing a wireless TV, the LocationFree flat panel. Plug the transmitter into a DVD player and take the screen for a stroll. The cool thing is, it's also a networked Internet appliance, so you can check your e-mail when the movie is over...
...most users say sex online is nothing more than good (if not quite clean) fun. According to a 2001 online survey of 7,037 adults, two-thirds of those who visit websites with sexual content say their Internet activities haven't affected their level of sexual activity with their partners, though three-quarters report masturbating while online. The vast majority of respondents--85% to 90%--according to Cooper, who heads the San Jose Marital and Sexuality Center, which conducted the study, are what he calls "recreational users," people who view pornography as a curiosity or diversion...
Instead, Peljto had to be content with tying the school record for points in a game (39) and setting new Harvard records both in field goals (16) and field goals attempted...