Indies Welcome Digital Film Plan. Independent filmmakers with big-screen dreams and small-fry budgets may soon have a more affordable way to get their creations into theaters. Landmark Theatres will equip its movie houses with a digital distribution system that cuts 35-mm reels out of the picture. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
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Tuning Into the Hype About Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi Internet access is popping up in all kinds of businesses, including fast-food restaurants and coffee shops. But do customers really want it? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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Sony TV would grab streams from the Net. The company is developing a plasma screen TV set that's intended to tune in streaming video from home networks and the Internet as easily as regular TV programs, sources say. [CNET News.com]
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XQuery standard inches forward [CNET News.com]
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Furtive phone photography spurs ban. As camera phones become more popular, lots of organisations are restricting how they can be used. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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Commentary: A vision for organic IT. IBM's moves to promote its e-business "on demand" initiative could help it grab the lead in an emerging data center architecture that will cut IT costs in half. [CNET News.com]
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PC prices fall to new lows. While sales of desktops and notebooks were steady in February, their prices dipped down to all-time lows, according to new data from NPD Techworld. [CNET News.com]
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Verizon points Wi-Fi at small businesses. The Baby Bell begins a national release of its Wi-Fi equipment targeted at businesses with 100 or less employees. [CNET News.com]
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OpenOffice gets programming kit. The OpenOffice.org group announces a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite. [CNET News.com]
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InfoWorld: Will broadband providers control content? As the U.S.' Internet architecture moves from dial-up access to broadband, some speakers at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference here Thursday expressed concern that the major cable operators that provide the high-speed networks will control users' access to content. [Tomalak's Realm]
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The interesting thing about Maxwell-Dworkin, a Computer Science building, is that it is zero-based. That is, the street level is Floor Zero. It's a joke, one that a programmer would get. Hey they even have a page for the room we met in today. Heh. [Scripting News]
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7/24/00: "Imagine if you couldn't write a story because Dean Koontz had already written it. What if the idea were as basic as Boy Meets Girl? That's what's going on in another creative space, software." [Scripting News]
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BBC: "The world of patents and intellectual property is shifting more and more towards intangibles and ideas and away from concrete products, and current structures may not be able to cope, according to Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan." [Scripting News]
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Sony DVR to sport broadband. The company is continuing to make its network strategy a reality with three new digital video recorders that have broadband connectivity and can be programmed from a cell phone. [CNET News.com]
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