Irrational rights Mark Gibbs discusses the award of $1.92 million damages to the RIAA in the case of a single mother accused of pirating songs. ZER01, changing the mobile Web game The surprisingly quick rise of "netbooks", laptop-style PCs (usually with relatively low processing power) that rely on the Internet to access SaaS-based personal productivity applications, has also created an interesting issues for users: Notably how inadequate most cellular providers' data services are. It is not that they are too slow (although they frequently are marginal when you move away from urban centers or fail to appease the gods of connectivity before accessing the aether) but rather the connections are artificially limited by the terms of service imposed by the cell providers. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
No comments:
Post a Comment