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FTC Sues Sellers of Cell Phone "Radio Shield"
Microsoft Tracks Users' Songs, Movies
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Subject: NewsScan Daily, 21 February 2002 ("Above The Fold")
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:06:34 -0700
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NewsScan Daily, 21 February 2002 ("Above The Fold")
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
Web Radio Services Dealt Blow by Arbitration Panel
FTC Sues Sellers of Cell Phone "Radio Shield"
Microsoft Tracks Users' Songs, Movies
Online Sales Up 20% in 2001
New Service Delivers Paper Mail Electronically
Do the Police Need a Court Order to Inspect a Suspect's E-Mail?
FEATURES
Flash Card
Worth Thinking About: News Schools for a New Century
WEB RADIO SERVICES DEALT BLOW BY ARBITRATION PANEL
A government arbitration panel has recommended that online radio
stations
should be required to pay about ten times what the stations themselves
had
suggested. Musicmatch chief executive Dennis Mudd says that "over a
million
people play our free service every month and it's going to be impossible
to
even come close to breaking even with these new rates. Radio on the Web
should be able to serve the same function that radio over terrestrial
airwaves performs, and it's not going to be able to do that because of
these rules." The recommendations just add to the worries of the
fledgling
Webcasting industry, which has had trouble getting the attention of
advertisers and is struggling to afford bandwidth costs. But Hilary B.
Rosen of the Recording Industry Association of America is pleased with
the
panel's recommendation because "artists and labels, who have supported
these new businesses from the start with their music, are one step
closer
to getting paid." However, some critics of the panel's findings believe
that this may the beginning of the end of free radio on the Internet.
(New
York Times 21 Feb 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/ebusiness/21MUSI.html
FTC SUES SELLERS OF CELL PHONE "RADIO SHIELD"
The Federal Trade Commission is suing two companies for selling devices
purporting, without good evidence, to shield people from harmful
radiation
emitted by their cell phones. The small metallic devices were sold under
such names as WaveShield 1000, NoDanger, and SafeTShield. The FTC said
that
by claiming that their products could "block up to 97% to 99%" of
electromagnetic radiation," the companies were actually "using a shield
of
misrepresentation to block consumers from the facts." Among the facts
missing in company sales materials is any mention of a 2001 General
Accounting Office report indicating that "scientific research to date
does
not demonstrate that the radio frequency energy emitted from mobile
phones
has adverse health effects, but the findings of some studies have raised
questions indicating the need for further investigation."
(Newsbytes/Washington Post 20 Feb 2002)
http://www.washtech.com/news/telecom/15264-1.html
MICROSOFT TRACKS USERS' SONGS, MOVIES
The newest version of Microsoft's MediaPlayer software, which comes free
with the Windows XP operating system, is designed to create a log of the
songs and movies that users play. When a CD or DVD movie is played, the
MediaPlayer 8 software stores that information in a file on the user's
PC,
in addition to transmitting an identifier number unique to each user on
the
computer. That function creates the possibility that information on user
habits could be tracked and sold for marketing purposes. Privacy experts
say the log file could be used by investigators, lawyers, snooping
family
members, or companies interested in finding out an individual's personal
entertainment habits. Microsoft said the program creates the log so that
a
user does not have to repeatedly download the same track, CD or movie
information, and that the ID number was created simply to enable
MediaPlayer users to have a personal account on the Web site dealing
with
software. The company says it has no plans to share that information
with
others. (AP/Miami Herald 21 Feb 2002)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2712422.htm
ONLINE SALES UP 20% IN 2001
U.S. consumers spent an estimated $32.6 billion online last year,
boosting
sales figures by 20% over the previous year's numbers. The growth is
due,
in part, to merchants' efforts to simplify online shopping by storing
billing and shipping information and offering one-click checkout
features,
says E-Tailing Group President Lauren Freedman: "Once you get into it I
think people get hooked." To put the numbers in perspective, catalog
sales,
which have been around for decades, totaled about $72 billion last year,
double the amount generated through online shopping. "It's fairly
significant in a fairly short time span," said Freedman. The online
sales
estimates do not include sales from ticket agencies, online travel
services
and financial brokers. (Los Angeles Times 21 Feb 2002)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000013194feb21.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
NEW SERVICE DELIVERS PAPER MAIL ELECTRONICALLY
PaperlessPOBox offers a service that delivers 100% of your mail
electronically, whether it starts out that way or not. Customers who
sign
up have their snail mail forwarded to an outside P.O. Box address, where
it
is picked up by PaperlessPOBox, scanned, and transmitted to users'
e-mail
accounts on the same day. The user receives exact replicas of whatever
mail
was sent, including hand-written notes and photos. "Personal notes
translate very well," says PaperlessPOBox President David Nale. "We use
state-of-the-art scanners." The service is targeted toward business
travelers who have difficulty keeping up with overflowing mail boxes and
received a boost last fall during the anthrax scare when people were
fearful of contamination via paper mail. (Reuters 20 Feb 2002)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020220/tc_nm/column_nettrends_dc_14
DO THE POLICE NEED A COURT ORDER TO INSPECT A SUSPECT'S E-MAIL?
In a case involving the admissibility of Internet evidence used to
convict
he a man for solicitation of a 15-year-old girl he met in a chat room,
the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide whether police authorities need a
court order (as they would if they wanted to set up a telephone wiretap
operation) before looking at a suspect's e-mail and instant messages.
The
lower court took the position that the wiretapping law did not apply
because the police did not intercept the messages but looked at them
after
they had been received, and it suggested that the defendant had given
implied consent to the inspection of his messages: "Any reasonably
intelligent person, savvy enough to be using the Internet, would be
aware
that messages are received in a recorded format, by their very nature,
and
can be downloaded or printed." (AP/USA Today 20 Feb 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/02/20/internet-wiretap.htm
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FLASH CARD
" For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." (Richard Feynmann)
WORTH THINKING ABOUT: NEW SCHOOLS FOR A NEW CENTURY'
Based on their study of New York City's public school system,
education scholars Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Vitteriti reinforce the
call
for education reform:
"It is difficult to imagine an organizational structure as hapless
or
incorrigible as the New York City public school system. By any
reasonable
measure of educational effectiveness, the system is not working well.
Sprawling, rigid, machinelike, uncompromising, it is the premiere
example
of factory model schooling. Its centennial in 1996 passed uncelebrated
and
unremarked, possibly because its multitude of embarrassments made
celebration unseemly. The school system has become a symbol of
unresponsive
bureaucracy that somehow rebuffs all efforts to change it. It is the
creature of another era, designed as a machine in which orders flowed
from
the top and were quickly implemented below with no regard for the ideas
or
opinions of either its workers or customers.
"The system worked well enough in an earlier age. In its first
half
century, the percentage of graduates increased in each decade, and
steady
progress seemed the order of the day. The economy also had good jobs for
students who left school without graduating. But today, progress has
stalled: little more than 50 percent of the youngsters who start high
school reach graduation, and the economy has few places for high school
dropouts. What is needed today are schools that educate almost all who
enter; what is needed is a school system that is equally intolerant of
social promotion and of school failure. What is required today is
something
that the current system has never supplied: the ability to provide a
high
level of universal education.
"Perhaps one day parents, the business community, and civic
leaders
will agree that the city can no longer afford a school system that does
not
work for so many children. If that day ever comes, the educational
factory
of New York City will be dismantled and replaced by educating structures
that are able to meet the demands of a different age."
See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300078749/newsscancom/ for
Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti, "New Schools for a New Century:
The
Redesign of Urban Education" -- or look for it in the video section of
your
favorite library. (We donate all revenue from our book recommendations
to
adult literacy action programs.)
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