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Dish Network DVR Features Get Stay of Execution
The final day of reckoning in the four-year battle between TiVo and EchoStar has been pushed out a little further. Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted EchoStar's request to stay a contempt order imposed by the U.S. District Court the day before, until its appeal can be heard.

Large Tech Firms: Beware of Obama Administration's Antitrust Plans
In a dramatic repudiation of Bush administration policies, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Justice department withdrew its recent report setting standards for the prosecution of monopolization offenses. The report was controversial from the start. The FTC declined to join it after three of the commissioners called it a "blueprint for radically weakened enforcement" against anticompetitive practices.

8 Steps to Getting Sales and Marketing to Play Nice
There are dozens of webinars, seminars, research reports, whitepapers, and blog postings on the topic of sales and marketing alignment. Despite the endless flow of resources and suggestions, sales and marketing alignment continues to elude many organizations. Misalignment is often a byproduct of a lack of process and a natural result of traditional marketing and sales roles.

Marketers Aim to Self-Regulate Consumer Tracking Online
Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed. It's unclear how much of an effect the new policies will have. One consumer group said the changes don't go far enough, and that extensive profiles of people still will be collected without their complete consent.

Amazon Turns Gears of Internet Tax Wars
More companies are joining in the fight over Internet taxation begun by Amazon.com. Blue Nile and Overstock.com have joined the Web's largest retailer in dropping affiliate programs in North Carolina and Rhode Island, according to numerous press reports. Amazon also reportedly dropped its affiliate program in Hawaii.

New Site Lets Citizens Follow the Government's IT Money Trail
It may not seem like most people's idea of summer reading. Then again, it is the chance to engage in some detective work with billions of dollars and terabytes of sensitive government data at stake. Better yet, you don't have to spend any money to read this latest techno-thriller.

Joost Feels the Squeeze
Just three years after launching in a fanfare of publicity, Joost, which provides professionally made TV on the Web, is shifting directions. It will now provide white label online video platforms to media companies and distributors. Joost is closing down its offices in the Netherlands, retaining offices in the U.S. and the UK.

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Infolets - Internet Innovations Explored
At the intersection between business, technology and the Internet, you have discovered Infolets. The Internet is an incubator of innovation. At Infolets we explore projects, products, and ideas that are interesting, innovative or just plain unique.

 

$4 Billion in Broadband Stimulus Grants Tied to Strict Net Neutrality Rules
Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play fairly with whatever devices, applications and services users want to use.


Clive Thompson on Cuba's Potential Tech Boom

Back in the '80s, Ireland was one of the poorest countries in Western Europe, with unemployment as high as 17 percent. But the scrappy nation had one advantage: It always invested in education, so while the Irish were poor, they were smart.

American tech companies like Dell and Intel eventually realized the island was full of underemployed brainiacs and opened up offices there. The Irish were soon performing tasks such as developing software and working in pharmaceutical manufacturing and research. By the late '90s, the influx of jobs turned the country around: Ireland was filled with people who were smart and also wealthy, among the richest in Europe. The Celtic Tiger was born.

Is there another country today with the same potential, one that could erupt in an intelligence-driven boom? Yep, though it's probably not one you'd expect: Cuba.

I visited Cuba a few years ago and was surprised at how much it reminded me of Ireland. Everyone was smart, skilled, and seemed hungry for opportunities to improve their lives—perhaps even more so than the Irish had been back in the '80s, because they'd spent decades under Fidel Castro's human-rights-crushing thumb. Now that President Obama is talking about opening up trade, Cuba experts predict that the country could explode with creativity and entrepreneurial innovation. "There's tremendous potential," says Gustav Ranis, an economic-development expert at Yale.

Like the '80s Irish, Cubans are eerily well educated, particularly for such an impoverished people. Education is one thing Castro has done right: 99.8 percent of adults are literate, and nearly a third have graduated from high school, many with the sort of vocational training in mechanics and farming the US foolishly let slip a generation ago. Based on UN statistics, one out of five young adults in Cuba graduates college.

Cubans also have a hacker mindset. They've needed it to handle the constant privation. They keep 50-year-old cars running with cobbled-together parts. They cadge gray-market Internet access by making friends with local officials—among the anointed few the government allows online. When Soviet food supplies vanished, Cubans turned to urban gardening.

If the US embargo ends, Cuba could become an Ireland-like high tech outsourcing resource. "They've got all the skills you need for software programming," says Kenneth Flamm, professor of international affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Cubans, many of whom study English in school, would be particularly good at "localizing" US software for Latin American markets, Flamm says. Plus, Havana is only an hour's flight from Miami, making it convenient for offshoring.

Medicine would be another potential area of growth. Cuban health care, particularly preventive care, has been amazingly good; Cuban life expectancy is on a par with that of the US. The country has poured millions into biotech, creating vaccines for meningitis B and hepatitis B. "Biotech and health tourism have really serious potential," says Vicki Huddleston, a Brookings Institute expert on Cuba.

Mind you, white-collar jobs aren't enough. Cuba has more than 11 million people, and gainfully employing that many requires tons of jobs in textiles, light industry, and agriculture. Organic farming, interestingly, could be big: Because the embargo has made it hard to get pesticides, Cuba has used comparatively little of them, which means much of the island is organic-ready, so long as it avoids the "resource curse" and stays away from too much mining and oil drilling. Retaining the social welfare net would also be crucial.

Obviously, this is blue-sky thinking. To really open up trade, the Castros will have to liberalize their repressive regime. (An independent journalist I met while visiting in January 2003 was arrested two months later.) There's no telling if or when that will happen. But let's hope it does. In sheer human potential, Cuba is an economic and technological miracle waiting to happen.

Email clive@clivethompson.net


Bing Snags Small Gain From Google
Bing grabs a percentage point in the search wars, stealing a sliver of the search market from Google. Is it the beginning of a long march or just the product of an ad campaign?


Pure Play iPhone App Startups Attract $100 Million in VC Bucks
Venture capitalists drop $100 million into the coffers of software firms seeking to make their fortune selling apps for the iPhone. Clearly, the VCs are expecting consumers to keep falling in love with mobile devices and the apps that extend their usefulness.


Pirate Bay Heading to Davy Jones' Locker
The $7.7 million sale of The Pirate Bay spells its end as a file sharing maverick.


Steven Levy on Neil Young's Massive Blu-ray Project

Neil Young has been working on his Archives project for so long that the big news in the tech world when it was first announced was Windows 3.0. Back in 1988, the curmudgeonly musician conceived the mother of all box sets, a multimedia data dump that presents the breadth of his work—the good, the bad, and the ugly—in hi-def audio. Young envisioned Archives as not just a spiffed-up music collection but a virtual autobiography, including video footage, photos, press clips, and memorabilia such as original lyric sheets and personal correspondence, retained against all odds. To Young fans—and anyone interested in how digital media can enable new means of self-expression—this sounded pretty nifty.

But in preparing this harvest of material, Young has made even Microsoft look like a short-order cook. Year after year, Archives remained in perpetual just-about-there mode. ("It's already together," Young gushed to an interviewer back in 1991.) Then, a couple of years ago, the advent of hi-def optical formats removed a significant barrier. Larry Johnson, Young's media wizard, explains that fans could at last enjoy super hi-fidelity audio while simultaneously poring over set lists from a 1969 coffeehouse appearance and newspaper reviews of Buffalo Springfield.

Well, Archives has finally arrived. The full version includes 10 Blu-ray discs (128 songs in 24-bit/192 kHz stereo and a reissue of the seldom-viewed documentary Journey Through the Past), a 236-page hardbound book, a poster, and code for downloading the music (even though Young regards MP3s as the aural equivalent of Satan). And this is only volume 1, covering his prolific career up to 1972.

Longtime Youngophiles like me will be giddily overwhelmed from the get-go. When you follow an artist closely for many years, your own consciousness inevitably becomes intertwined with theirs, and sudden access to their personal vault of unreleased tunes, alternative mixes, and private paraphernalia is a bounty that requires a lot of unpacking. Archives drops you into the Neil Wide Web. At first I jumped from one gem to another. It thrilled me to hear gorgeous versions of tunes I'd experienced only on fuzzy bootlegs, to discover cheesy instrumentals from Young's high school band, and to view evocative items like the article his father (a well-known Canadian journalist) wrote after seeing his son play Carnegie Hall.

Eventually, though, I got frustrated. The paradox of Archives is that while it breaks ground in exploiting the relatively new Blu-ray format, the very concept of physical media is racing toward obsolescence.

Archives shares its central interface metaphor with 1970s computers: a file cabinet. That navigational trope has more miles on it than Old Black, Young's vintage Les Paul guitar. Young plans to add folders to the cabinet by letting users download additional material. Subsequent volumes of Archives will stretch the cabinet to ludicrous proportions. "It will be like a file drawer that goes on for a mile and a half," Johnson says. But this puts limits on the Neil Wide Web that don't exist in Google's world; search functionality would be a welcome addition.

Considering the rate of production at Young's digital operation, it may take a decade or two until Archives gets around to the current period of Young's oeuvre. My guess is that by then the project will quite logically move to the cloud (with access granted via subscription fee or limited-time pass), where all of Young's outtakes and memorabilia—along with photos, sound files, and reminiscences provided by his fans—will be available in an instant. (If the Internet of 2020 can't deliver top-grade audio quality and hi-def images smoothly, all will be lost anyway.) The alternative—a stack of 40 or 50 Blu-ray disks on the verge of irrelevance—would just leave us helpless.

Email steven_levy@wired.com.


Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google
Google may be a verb that means search, but if you aren't seeing other search boxes, you are missing out. Wired.com takes a look at the rest of the search services on the net and finds some beauties.


After Sale, Can Pirate Bay Survive?
The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker, is likely to be lucrative for its new Swedish owners, Global Gaming Factory X AB. The site, which is expected to go legitimate, will probably rake in cash from its VPN venture and its YouTube-like service.


Jackson's Death Puts Lucrative Beatles Copyrights in Play
The King of Pop is dead, but controversy over his interest in the Beatles library lives on.


The Wired Interview: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook's founder and CEO talks about the limitations of walled gardens, the evolution of privacy online and why Home Depot should "humanize" itself.


Wired: Tech Biz
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eBay Sellers Prep for $25K Challenge and Policy Changes
This week in eBay news the company announces a Seller’s Challenge that awards entrepreneurs with $25,000 grants. Also, the auction site’s latest policy changes roll out next week.

HeyButler.com Targets Visitors with Concentri
Concentri, an on-demand direct digital marketing platform, lets you target customers in e-mail, on their mobile phone or even on your Web site—without the hassle of a site redesign.

Microsoft's Bing Starts with a Bang
The new search engine on the block beat out Yahoo…at least for one day. Whether it can gain ground over the long haul remains to be seen.

Open-Source Ecommerce Adoption Obstacles
The classic Web "treasure-hunt" timed test reveals gaps in product information.

EBay Listing Tips and Seller Promotions
This week HammerTap dispels the myth that Sunday is the best day to end listings on eBay, and the auction giant announces June promotions to save sellers listing fees.

Found in the Forum: Advice for Beginners
Just starting out in e-commerce? You’re not alone. One new forum member asks for advice from the small business e-tailers who’ve paved the way.

IMshopping Adds a Human Touch to Online Shopping
With human-powered shopping advice, IMshopping offers benefits for consumers, ad opportunities for retailers—and it’s available on Twitter.

Marketing Tips: A McProblem, Web Design and a Coke
Check out this Webisode of "Help! My Business Sucks!" and watch as marketing maven Andrew Lock shows entrepreneurs how to “get more done and have more fun.”

Site Building with Photoshop and Dreamweaver
Helen Bradley, our Web-design diva, explains how to use Photoshop and Dreamweaver to develop a Web site.

Ebay Watch: eBay and Online Marketplace News
This week eBay wraps up user agreement revisions and iOffer launches a new bulk uploader. Plus we take a look at a new niche site for buying and selling used medical equipment.

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Yahoo Taps New CFO as Reorg Continues
Tim Morse promises to deliver positive results for shareholders amid Bartz's moves to simplify the company's structure.

It's Not Easy Being Green (Tech)
Even in the best economic times, green technologies face challenges. Can the chip industry help?

Gartner: No Real Tech Recovery Until 2010
With 2009 looking like a done deal, the research firm now expects recovery to begin at least a year from now.

Palm, Level 3 Lead Tech Stocks Higher
Deal speculation boosted the Nasdaq on Thursday.

Microsoft and Novell Still Bosom Buddies
Can Linux and Windows really get along?

Microsoft Says Goodbye to Money
Users have until early 2011 to migrate off the company's personal finance software.

Telecom Stocks Limit Tech Losses
A couple of big deals in the telecom sector helped tech stocks on Wednesday.

What's Inside Scoble's Building 43?
New Rackspace-sponsored site launches for small business.

Fees, Missing Features Sour iPhone 3G S Love?
A look at cost, features and how the new iPhone will affect the enterprise and consumer smartphone markets.

Global IP Traffic Not Slowed by Recession
Cisco's Visual Network Index shows a five-fold increase in traffic by 2013, with video leading the charge.

EC Queries PC Makers on Bundling Browsers
Plus the competition directorate is checking to see if Microsoft has been trying to influence PC makers.

Local Mobile Advertising Gains Traction
Mobile search and advertising continue to shine amid wider marketing slumps.

Apple Opens the Show With MacBook News
Apple kicked off its Worldwide Developer's Conference with new MacBook Pro notebooks and a preview of Snow Leopard.

Next Steps for Palm Post Pre Launch?
Now that the Pre is on sale, analysts outline what Palm needs to do to take a place at the head of the smartphone competitor table.

McAfee Takes on Cisco, Checkpoint
New products and a new road map integrate the company's own products with that of its partner ecosystem.

Microsoft's Ozzie: 'The PC's Amazingly Relevant'
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, talks up cloud computing and why the PC still has a role.

Is the Domain Name Biz Recession Proof?
As the total number of domain names reaches 183 million, can China's .cn surpass .com?

Mutter's Cure for Newspapers: Online Ad Co-op
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and veteran newspaper editor details his pitch to save newspapers through an industry-wide ad consortium.

Digg to Debut Ads Based on Your Vote
Digg announces new advertising based on community votes.

Apple Can't Escape Steve Jobs' Shadow
Rumor mill swirls of a possible Video iPhone announcement Monday and the return of Apple's CEO.

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Bing Bucks: Microsoft Sees Paid Click Lift
After a bumpy start, Microsoft's answer to Yahoo's and Google's search nets promising numbers.

Google China Launches Shopping Search
The search giant rolls out a beta shopping search channel in its latest attempt to capitalize on the huge Chinese online market.

What's Inside Scoble's Building 43?
New Rackspace-sponsored site launches for small business.

Lawmaker Plans Digital Royalties Probe
Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers could be setting the stage for a battle between the traditional entertainment industry and digital media giants like Apple and Amazon.

Local Mobile Advertising Gains Traction
Mobile search and advertising continue to shine amid wider marketing slumps.

Digg to Debut Ads Based on Your Vote
Digg announces new advertising based on community votes.

Is the Domain Name Biz Recession Proof?
As the total number of domain names reaches 183 million, can China's .cn surpass .com?

Mutter's Cure for Newspapers: Online Ad Co-op
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and veteran newspaper editor details his pitch to save newspapers through an industry-wide ad consortium.

The Web Will Kill and Save Journalism
Publishing companies must change or they will end up like GM, and journalists must change with them.

Former eBay CEO Whitman Hits Campaign Trail
Now running for governor of California, Meg Whitman stands by eBay's Skype purchase and says her experience can help turn the state around.

How to Use the Web to Succeed in Publishing, Life
Tireless self-promoter and Web evangelist Tim Ferriss talks about how to do what he's done ... and how it's easier than you think.

Amazon's Bezos Entertains; No Color Kindle Near
The e-tailer's ebullient CEO highlights the company's latest trove of successes, from the Kindle to cloud computing.

Java Boosts Salesforce-Google Partnership
The announcement brings e-commerce to Salesforce.com's Force.com platform and it brings enterprise software to the Google App Engine.

Tracing Back Unhappy Customers Online
Every business is online and its in-house databases must now track the online incarnation of the bricks, mortar, and people.

iPhone App Flap Underscores Process in Flux
The latest iPhone app approval snafu involving the Kama Sutra sheds light on the many positions smartphone app stores take in vetting content.

Nokia's Rival to Apple's App Store Hits the U.S.
Finnish phone giant launches its centralized smartphone application store -- though not without a couple stumbles out of the gate.

UK Court Clears eBay in L'Oreal Fakes Case
Online auctioneer wins one in Britain, but counterfeit battles continue.

Sun Gets Into the Java App Store Biz
Sun puts stake in the app store sector with launch slated for June 1.

Growing Ad Networks Shaking Up Online Ad Spend
More online ad dollars are going to ad networks, and the top dog isn't Google or Yahoo.

NebuAd Out of the U.S., Back in the UK?
The company caused such controversy that it continues to inspire legislation in the U.S., but it may survive in some form overseas.

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US residents at risk for online exploitation
By Juan Carlos Perez

U.S. Internet users are dangerously ignorant about the type of data Web site owners collect from them and how that data is used, a new study has found.

Mobile phone sales reached new records in first quarter
By Peter Sayer

Mobile phone sales hit a new high in the first three months of the year, while the top three manufacturers tightened their grip on the market, according to a study published Wednesday.

Little US interest in next generation Internet
By Grant Gross

IT decision-makers in U.S. businesses and government agencies want better Internet security and easier network management, but few see the next generation Internet Protocol called IPv6 as helping them achieve their goals, according to a survey released Tuesday by Juniper Networks Inc.

First quarter was good to PDA vendors
By Sumner Lemon

The first three months of 2005 were kind to companies that sell PDAs (personal digital assistants), with demand for wireless e-mail leading to a sharp increase in unit shipments during the period, according to market analyst Gartner Inc.

Online advertising up in 2004; search is top segment
By Juan Carlos Perez

Companies spent significantly more money advertising online in 2004 than in 2003, as ads linked to search-engine activities proved to be the most popular category for the second straight year.

China could overtake US in broadband access this year
By Peter Sayer

China will have more broadband Internet access subscribers than the U.S. by the end of the year, if the number of subscribers to broadband Internet access services continues to grow at current rates, according to figures published Monday by market analyst Point Topic Ltd. of London.

Online gaming growing fast in China, study says
By Dan Nystedt

Revenue from China's online gaming market reached US$298 million in 2004, up 48 percent from a year earlier, and could quadruple by 2009 as Internet access becomes more widespread in the region, according to market researcher IDC.

Europeans worry about online banking security
By John Blau

Phishing, keystroke logging and other types of scams are increasingly worrying users of online banking services in Europe while scaring others away, according to a report issued Tuesday from Forrester Research Inc.

File swappers use iPods, IM to trade tunes
By Paul Roberts

Recording industry lawsuits against file swappers and P-to-P (peer-to-peer) software companies may be forcing Internet users onto informal networks to exchange songs and videos, according to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Symantec: spam, phishing grow, botnets shrink in '04
By Paul Roberts

A new report released by security company Symantec Corp. found that incidents of online identity theft scams, also known as 'phishing attacks,' skyrocketed in the second half of 2004, as did spam and new software vulnerabilities. But other Internet blights, such as zombie networks of compromised computers, or 'bots,' actually declined.

Gamers are gluttons for music
By Paul Roberts

Care for an MP3 with that frag? Companies that want to boost sales of music and portable music players should consider marketing to a growing, but untapped audience -- hard-core gamers -- according to the results of a survey by IDC and IGN Entertainment Inc.

Sweden leads EU in offering online public services
By Simon Taylor

Sweden has the best record in offering online public services among the 25 members of the European Union, according to a survey published by the European Commission on Tuesday.

Mobile phones sales jump in '04; Nokia regains footing
By Scarlet Pruitt

Worldwide mobile phone sales jumped 30 percent in 2004, boosted by replacement buys and strong growth in emerging markets, Gartner Inc. said this week.

Powerline broadband set to grow in 2005
By Grant Gross

Broadband customers looking for an alternative to cable-modem or DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) service may not have long to wait for broadband over powerline service (BPL), according to a white paper published Thursday by a technology-focused research group.

IDC likes what it sees inside iPod Shuffle
By Martyn Williams

Analysts at IDC recently took apart an iPod Shuffle and come up with an estimate of how much the diminutive music player costs Apple Computer Inc. to make. They found that Apple makes a healthy 35 percent to 40 percent profit on each player sold, and stands to make even more from iTunes music purchases and expected drops in flash memory pricing.

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Web Gateway appliance adds Stealth Routing
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Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books
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Joost Exits Consumer Online Video Business
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Amazon Drops Another State Over Sales Tax Provision
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California, Hawaii Governors Veto Online Sales Tax
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China Will 'Definitely' Mandate Web Filter Sales - Ministry
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UK Bank pushes iPhone e-commerce forward
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Retailmoves.com launches an Online Guide to Recruitment Consultancies
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Vembu StoreGrid Competitive Trade-Up Promo: Upgrade your Online Backup Software
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World Web Event Services Market
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Canadian operators bet on growing market for online video
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Amazon Drops Another State Over Sales Tax Provision
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Fire in downtown Seattle data center knocks out businesses, online services
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