Word: downloading
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...leaves the e-book field at least temporarily open for an upstart publisher, Rosetta Books, which has licensed electronic-publishing rights to more than 100 books directly from authors. Although consumer demand for e-books is uncertain, Rosetta hopes to become the publisher of choice by persuading consumers to download books online for less than they would have to pay in a store. Protests Linda Steinman, director of litigation for Random House: "This is a directly competitive product. It makes sense that the e-book rights should stay with the original publisher...
Webmail also has the advantages of making sending and recieving attachments easier, as well as allowing users to forgo the hassle of having to download telnet away from Harvard...
Previously this was not possible, because telnet was generally thought to be too complicated for incoming students to download and use on their own without the technical support offered by Harvard...
...filed for bankruptcy last week - a technical move that was part of its takeover by German media giant Bertelsmann - it was music to record executives' ears. It meant that the threat unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning, who had 60 million people using his software to download free music, was finally contained. When Napster returns it will be a "legitimate" corporate site, with orderly, paying customers. That's the plan, but containing Napster is not the same as controlling the file-swapping community. The music industry has tried everything from lawsuits to substitutes, launching sites where subscribers...
...hour lunch and spend the rest of my afternoon waiting for dinner. I fill my time with “meaningful” extracurricular activities, but none require more than 10 hours of my time a week, leaving me with plenty of time to check e-mail incessantly and download music each...