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...over soon” attitude, but somehow I doubt that. I think it’s deeper. During the Napster lawsuits in the late 90’s I made a $20 bet with my father that 18 months later, people would still be able to download copyrighted music easily and freely on the Internet. I won, and now it’s been something like four or five years, and the pirates are stronger than they’ve ever been...
Tired of text messaging? Watch a one-minute episode of 24 instead. Fox is developing a spin-off of Kiefer Sutherland's TV drama, with a new cast and 24 one-minute shows, available only via cell-phone download...
...designed to challenge Google for users and a piece of the growing search-related advertising market. While not as powerful as Google, MSN search is close--fast, accurate and nearly as comprehensive as its rival. The not-so-good: a new challenger arose with the release of Firefox 1.0 (download it at mozilla.org) a Web browser that offers real improvements over Microsoft's Internet Explorer. On Firefox, Web pages load faster, and there are an excellent pop-up blocker and a number of innovative features like tabbed browsing, which displays multiple sites in one window. More important, Firefox has shown...
...customized black iPod and the now ubiquitous Vertigo silhouette ads, though they didn't do it solely for a payday. "A big car company once offered us $25 million for one of our songs," says Bono, "and we turned them down. No money changed hands in this deal. Downloading is the future, and we want to be King Canute. Let's get on the surfboard and ride the wave." As of last week, Vertigo had ruled the iTunes download chart for most of the past month. "We shall not go gently," says Bono...
Pollack doesn’t even have leave his office to find specimen to study. Dozens of head lice evaluation request forms flow into his office daily. Worried locals download the form from the school’s website and tape on samples of what they think might be head lice for analysis. But less than half actually are—the vast majority of samples are debris, dandruff and insect appendages mistaken for the tiny parasite...