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...there is one group of road warriors for whom wireless works well: Starbucks' employees. Before wi-fi, the 600 regional managers--all of whom work with laptops--had to drive back to the office every day to file reports and order supplies for the six to 10 shops that each of them oversees. Now they can do all that during their store visits. The company says wi-fi has increased its managers' presence in stores as much as 25%, since they spend less time shuttling back and forth from the office...
...There are still plenty of economic problems, including a bloated public sector that employs more than a million Sri Lankans and a tax system so riddled with loopholes that evasion is rampant. Of about 32,000 registered businesses in the country, only some 9,000 file tax returns. "Paying corporate income tax in this country is almost voluntary," says Jeremy Carter, the top representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sri Lanka. The combination of high governmental spending on defense and the civil service along with a low revenue base meant that national debt had swelled to alarming levels...
...cable television network for free. But by the end of the week, the idea had been withdrawn; apparently, it would have illegal for MIT to broadcast the files—3,500 CDs worth of music—that had been purchased for this purpose. As file-sharing download systems continue to flourish on the web, however, it is clear that the music industry needs to abandon the methods it has used in the past—regulation and litigation—and develop new ways to generate revenue in a world of high-speed Internet connections. The plan developed...
...better system would allow schools, Harvard included, to allow streaming play—but not downloads—of digital music files over their Ethernet networks. Like premium cable television stations that provide an “on-demand” service—with which viewers can play, fast-forward, pause and rewind any of the “Sex and the City” episodes that are in the database—record labels should allow college students to have on-demand access to files. The record labels could charge the schools for the right to stream...
Guilt-free file sharing has finally arrived. But be warned—between exhausting a stranger’s Bjork collection and finding true love, iTunes has made the library the new KaZaA, minus the shady legal qualms. What was once a procrastination device for the dorm room has now expanded to even that most hallowed of study spaces. I guess we’ll just have to learn to discipline ourselves…but first I’m going to finish listening to The White Album. Sorry...