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...cable with bottle-shaped plugs. This isn't just the physical manifestation of the vodkamaker's latest hip ad campaign; it's also a display of advanced technology. At the bottom of the sign, Absolut invites passersby to send a text message or enable their Bluetooth cell phones to download a free 4-min. MP3 track where they're standing. "We always try to be edgy and different with our ads, but this time we wanted to go beyond the traditional," says Jeffrey Moran, a spokesman for Absolut, which has a similar sign up on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles...
...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...
...biggest hassles was ensuring that students had access to fax machines or scanners to send in their hand-written math homework. For Lewis, a major problem for his online students was somewhat ironic. A handful of students had trouble accessing videos because of government restrictions on downloading. “That’s exactly the sort of stuff this class talks about,” Lewis says. “Here is this wonderful invention (the Internet) that can democratize information, and foreign governments have quickly figured out how to put various kinds of filters and blocks...
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...