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...director of physical-activity research at Brown University's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. "You don't take a sedentary person and say, 'O.K., go to the gym every day, or go run five miles.' You help them set realistic short-term goals so they are successful." A user-friendly class at a Y, community center or health club can ease a first-timer into a routine, she says...
...country's leading telescope makers, reported a 20% increase in sales from 2001 to 2002. Celestron, another giant, reports a threefold boost in five years, though the privately held company does not get more specific about its revenues. As with all electronic gadgetry, the better and more user friendly the toys become, the more people want them. "Ten years ago, the number of amateurs taking pictures with CCD imaging would have been 5%," says Alan Hale, Celestron chairman. "Now it's 50% or more, because we've made it easier...
First order of business: evolve some claws. Some labels (they're reluctant to identify themselves) hire professional counterhackers, companies like Overpeer, based in Manhattan, that specialize in electronic countermeasures such as "spoofing"--releasing dummy versions of popular songs onto file-sharing networks. To your average Kazaa user they look like the real thing, but when you download them, they turn out to be unplayable. Movie studios, meanwhile, staff screenings with ushers wearing night-vision goggles to suss out would-be pirates with camcorders. When Epic Records distributed review copies of the new Pearl Jam album last fall, it sent them...
Pressplay and the other "legitimate" music services are more reliable than Kazaa and its ilk. For one thing, there's no porn and no spoofing, and Apple's new offering is expected to give the whole process a more streamlined, user-friendly feel. These services also give customers the peace of mind that comes with not breaking the law. It will be interesting to see how much that's worth. But for now listeners are staying away in droves; industry analysts estimate that the legitimate downloading services have fewer than 300,000 users in all. Still, if the retail-music...
...Harvard complies with certain terms of the DMCA, it will not be held responsible when a user downloads, distributes or displays…copyrighted material,” Lewis wrote in the message. “To obtain protection under the DMCA, Harvard must, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the network access of any user who repeatedly infringes the copyrights of others...