09 November 2002

Battlefield Laser DETNEWS -- In a first, battlefield laser blows up speeding shell. [Google Sci/Tech]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

New York Times Discovers Ringtones NYT -- One of the things I easily forget is that the Irish mobile phone market has tested and increased revenue streams possible from cell phones. We've played with ringtones for more than two years already, so it's a little surprising to discover that NYT journalist Lisa Napoli is just discovering how American ringtones can make money for telcos too.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Radio Aggregator API Dave Winer -- Radio now leverages aggregation. AggregatorLand facilitates the create of user interfaces for UserLand's engine in any language or environment, including Flash, .NET, Java, DHTML, Cocoa, Python, Tcl, and Perl.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

EMI Smacks Consumer Over Copy Protection THE REGISTER -- John Lettice writes about an outrageous e-mail sent from an EMI customer services rep at EMI in Germany to a customer who had difficulty playing a copy-protected CD in his CD player. One of the most stunning lines from the translation: "If you plan to continue protesting about future audio media releases with copy protection, forget it; copy protection is a reality, and within a matter of months more or less all audio media worldwide are copy protected. And this is a good thing for the music industry. In order to make this happen we will do anything within our power - whether you like it or not." [German original and Slashdot]   [Comment on Shoptalk]