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According to Harvard’s Computer Rules and Responsibilities agreement, a student caught ille-gally downloading songs or movies may have his or her network access revoked. But the experi-ences of two Ryan Adams fans from Wisconsin and Florida might give Harvard downloaders more to worry about.Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Chase Bowser of Jacksonville are accused of posting tracks from “Jacksonville City Nights,” the latest album from Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, on an internet fansite before the album was released.They are the first to be indicted under a provision...
...government; others are maintained by non-profit professional groups such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) or the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They’re all available for free: anyone who wants to can go on to the W3C web site and download the full specification for HTML; thus, anyone who wants to can write a web browser or a web page and expect it to work with the existing infrastructure...
Entertainment isn't the only thing being advertised on digital signs. When Lancme launched its new fragrance, Hypnse, in France last summer on JCDecaux bus-shelter signs, cell-phone users with Bluetooth could download coupons for a sample. The supply ran out in three days. In the fall, British fashion retailer New Look used Hypertags, small electronic devices embedded in billboard panels that sent digital discount vouchers via infrared and Bluetooth technology to customers to spend immediately at nearby stores. Hypertag counts Procter & Gamble, Ford, Nike and Vodafone as clients. "It tends to be big companies who want...
...Blackbird's full talents won't be realized until June, when a major software update will be released. Customers who buy the Blackbird now will be able to download the software for free. Not only will it contain the latest map of the U.S.; it will also activate the real-time traffic receiver built into the product. (Navteq currently tracks traffic in 31 cities, and will most likely charge $60 per year for the service...
...market for a navigation product, the Blackbird certainly holds its own against competition from Garmin, TomTom, Magellan and soon, Sony and Mio. But if you want to get your $750 worth, you had better be ready to upgrade (via Web download or CD-ROM) this summer...