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...game is the $60 billion television industry. When the savvy producer pitched a new crime show called Power to NBC, he made sure to play up its download-ready qualities. In Wolf's words: "I drank the Kool-Aid." As Wolf and other producers sell their wares in the annual TV-industry ritual known as development season, new technologies are changing the way they do business. With high-quality video available on 200 million PCs via broadband, 200 million 3-GB mobile phones, an estimated 4 million iPods and other devices, the Big Four networks...
...switched “Infinite Lives” out of the stereo. Blanks. usually pride themselves on not being stingy about their music. Anyone anxious to hear their work can find it for free on the web. Four of the EP’s eight tracks are available for download on the Blanks.’ website, www.loveromp.com. Blanks. is also streaming themselves on their MySpace profile at www.myspace.com/blanks. Boch explains: “Internet radio and podcasting are changing the way music is distributed. You don’t need commercial radio or record labels to get your...
...favorite head-scratcher occurs when I open a Hotmail message. I read down until I see a link to download the rest of the message. I click it, and the link generates this alert: "Message will download next time you connect and receive e-mail." Excuse me? I want the rest of the message now! It's remedied fairly quickly by a "Send/Receive," but it's a good example of the digital red tape you might encounter...
...times be frustrating, the Microsoft connection may pay off. If your e-mail is managed via a Microsoft Exchange server, your SDA could become one of the eagerly anticipated BlackBerry killers. According to early reports, Microsoft's Direct Push e-mail system will be available as a free download on Windows Mobile devices, first from Cingular and then later from other carriers. For details, check out this report by PC Mag's Sascha Segan...
...lecture attendance will drop in the absence of any tangible harm from skipping class. Such concerns, however, are misguided. While students’ attendance at lectures is generally more pedagogically beneficial than their watching or listening to a recording, students are aware of the potential harms of choosing to download rather than attend a lecture. Even with the tape rolling, those lectures that provide a genuinely interactive learning experience will continue to draw students. Others may suffer lower attendance. But a drop in the number of filled seats is preferable to students’ being coerced into attending poor-quality...