Oracle v. DOJ: SAP foresees tough fight special coverageIf Oracle swallows PeopleSoft, it'll be harder to be SAP in the United States. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

Yahoo blocks Trillian--again Yahoo cites spam concerns for move and vows to continue effort if Trillian's instant messaging develops a work-around. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 10:45 p.m..

I want my LCD Shipments of LCD televisions soared in the first quarter, but sales of computer monitors took a dive. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Gartner: Outsourcing drives IT services' growth Indian firms' share jumps; HP slips down a rung. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Memory maker Micron back in black The company returned to profitability in the past quarter, thanks to higher memory prices and a diversifying customer base. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

Business: An industry stalwart is reborn - Part 2 of South Korea's Digital Dynasty Once known for cheap products, Samsung has undergone a complete upscale transformation and is driving its country's recovery. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 9:45 p.m..

National Whiteboard Network "Interactive ... National Whiteboard Network "Interactive Whiteboards are becoming an increasingly common classroom resource and already schools and LEAs are seeing the benefits that this technology has in transforming teaching and learning across the curriculum. Teachers are using the technology to develop their range of pedagogical strategies and are beginning to exploit the technology to act as a catalyst in enhancing teaching and learning. " Added: 23 June 20 From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 23, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..

Big sums "These two program are aimed at ... Big sums "These two program are aimed at using with projectors and whole class teaching. They can however be used with small groups around a standard monitor. The screens start with the maximum numbers set to 10 but this can be altered by the user. The main screen allows the user to hide or show the first, second or answer digits. Numbers can also be changed whilst they are hidden." Added: 23 June 2004 Reviewer's Not From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 23, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..

Charlie's World "This is a Singapore-base ... Charlie's World "This is a Singapore-based children's elearning portal. The content has been organized in a manner that is suitable for classroom usage. Indexes hundreds of content, topic-by-topic for easy access, recommended for ages 7-12." Added: 23 June 2004 Reviewer's Note: Users can search anything from PowerPoint slides, PDF docs to Flash movies and animations. SHOWCASE: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 23, 2004 at 8:46 p.m..

Street Memes Street Memes is a new Eyebeam R&D project designed to track the spread of street art. All submissions are licensed under the Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence. Read more about it, or just grab a camera! From Creative Commons: weblog on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

A few select photos from Software Livre As mentioned earlier on the blog, Creative Commons took part in 5th Annual Software Livre Conference in Porto Alegre earlier this month. Here are some select photos from the event: The IBM booth. The pillar says "the future is open" in Portuguese: A conference sign: < From Creative Commons: weblog on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

SpaceShipOne event recollections Early this week, SpaceShipOne became the first manned private flight into space. The event was covered by industry news organizations as well as the general media, but personally, I find this first-person account and these sets of photos and movies of the launch more compelling than the general news coverage so far. Both the first person story and site with photos and mo From Creative Commons: weblog on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Wilco pays for spycasts Wired has a bizarre story of music and sampling royalties involving found sound recordings by one person sold as CDs which the band Wilco sampled from. What is unusual about the case is the company claiming copyright on the sounds, Irdial Discs, didn't perform or write the shortwave broadcasts of what is reportedly hours of spy messages. Irdial simply recorded (and obtained recordings from others) four discs full of it and released it as a From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Briefly: AMD offers fix for chip glitch roundup Plus: eEye sees defense contract win...Start-up promises bendy solar cells...Seagate sues small-drive maker. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Hotmail to offer 250MB of free storage Microsoft service jumps into e-mail storage battle, countering Google and Yahoo by upping storage limits for free users. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Liquid crystal displays--a study in contrasts Shipments of LCD televisions soared in the first quarter, but sales of computer monitors took a dive. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

New security spec could shore up Wi-Fi Approval is expected Thursday for a wireless networking standard to make up for weak predecessors. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Skype for Linux Skype - the free application that allows people to make free internet telephone calls using their computer - is now available for Linux. By Various Authors, June 21, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Copyright Excesses Worry Teachers, Scholars Coverage of the recent Knowledge Held Hostage? Scholarly Versus Corporate Rights in the Digital World at the Annenberg School for Communication (it's too bad the conference didn't make presentations available online). According to the article, "Educators and legal experts contend new technologies and lawsuits are creating uncertainty about what is exempt under the law." Even where fair use rights exist, the threat of litigation has schools consulting their lawyers first, weighing the educational benefit against the cost of From OLDaily on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

E-Learning Industry Promotion and Development Jean sent me this useful link which will be of interest to those wanting to know about e-learning in Taiwan. The site contains information about the project, a half dozen case studies, a list of partner companies, and an interview with Gary Chien of Acer Inc. Through this site I also connected to E-Learning House, which provides PR Newswire newsfeeds, discussion, and most usefully, a page describing e-learning in From OLDaily on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Music Downloads: Pirates--or Customers? Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee, who with co-author Koleman Strumpf "floored the disbelieving music industry with their findings that illegal music downloads don't hurt CD sales." Some good stuff here, but nothing new for people who have already read the report. Quotable: "The problem with radio as a promotional tool is that it can be quite expensive for labels to get radio stations to play their music. P2P networks are promising because they make the market for music promotion more competitive." By Sean Silverthorne, HBS Working Knowledge, June 21, 2004 [OLDaily on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Estudios Pedagógicos Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), a major source of Open Access STM literature from Latin America, has launched five new publications, including this journal, Estudios Pedagógicos, which is a Spanish language "publication of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Austral University of Chile. It welcomes collaborations specializing in the field of education and that constitute a contribution to pedagogical knowledge." OLDaily on June 23, 2004 at 8:45 p.m..

Briefly: Seagate sues small-drive maker roundup Plus: Motorola inks IBM blade server deal...Intel sells chip gear to Chinese start-up...IBM faces Gypsy holocaust suit. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Nextel pushes into Mexico Carrier's "push to talk" service now reaches Canada and four Latin American countries. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

IBM, Infineon advance magnetic-memory prototype The companies show off a 16-megabit "MRAM" chip. The technology is being touted as the next wave in computer memory. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Oracle, Red Hat set up Linux center in Singapore The $13 million facility will help developers port enterprise apps to open source. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Senate bill bans P2P networks Bill would outlaw file-trading networks such as Kazaa, Morpheus. Also potentially at risk: MP3 players and other devices. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 4:45 p.m..

Brits hit by surge in phone-charge Net fraud Are Trojans behind a surge in complaints from Web users billed for accessing premium-rate sites that they say they never visited? From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

iTunes shows strong early sales in Europe Apple Computer says the overseas version of its online music store is trouncing the competition. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 3:45 p.m..

LIBRARY: Learning styles ... LIBRARY: Learning styles Bridging Research and Practice - The First Annual Open Day of the Lab Group Date: 6 July 2004 Venue: HP Labs, Bristol, England Added: 23 June 2004 EVENTS: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 23, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

Animation online "Crea ... Animation online &quot;Create compelling animations for the web the first time you try without any previous experience. Our unique and easy template approach lets anybody create dynamic content with just a few clicks.&quot; Added: 23 June 2004 Reviewer's Note: Create free animated banners and buttons instantly PRODUCTS &amp; SERVICES: --> From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 23, 2004 at 2:46 p.m..

eBay sold on Web services The online auctioneer invites a slew of affiliates to incorporate its propriety marketplace technology into their sites. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

Oracle updates partner management tools New features in partner relationship management package promise closer collaboration with suppliers and distributors. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 2:45 p.m..

5 new journals from SciELO SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a major source of Open Access STM literature from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. Here are the new titles released in May and June. Journal of Applied Oral Science - Fulltext v11(3)+ (July/September 2003+); Print ISSN: 1678-7757 Planta Daninha - Fulltext v21+ (2003+); Print ISSN: 0100-8358 Open Access News on June 23, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

free histochemistry journal content The Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry is but one of many Japanese scholarly societies using J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) for online journal publishing. From J-STAGE's About page: In order to maintain and develop Japan's science and technology research at an international level, it is important to disseminate outstanding research an From Open Access News on June 23, 2004 at 1:52 p.m..

Data Points in Media's Transformation

Telling an Old Story in a New Way: Telling an Old Story in a New Way: Raid on Deerfield A very nice description of the processes involved in creating this award-winning e-learning website. It would be best to go through Raid on Deerfield first before reading how it was done. From elearningpost on June 23, 2004 at 7:47 a.m..

Rocket Fuel Found in Moo Juice Researchers detect small amounts of perchlorate -- the explosive ingredient in missile fuel that has been linked to thyroid damage -- in milk from California cows. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Rise of the Machines Isaac Asimov turned androids into pop culture icons -- and invented the science of robotics in the process. Half a century later, his I, Robot is going Hollywood. By Cory Doctorow from Wired magazine. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Progress Report for Net Censors In Reporters Without Borders' annual report on the state of Internet censorship, China gets special recognition, but the United States gets dinged, too. By Julia Scheeres. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

The Linux Stalker They call him Microsoft's sock puppet, the most hated man in high tech. SCO's Darl McBride is fighting a war for the future of free software. And he wants to make you pay. By Brad Stone from Wired magazine. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Weblogs.com Rises From the Flames When Dave Winer pulled the plug on a popular free service, many bloggers screamed bloody murder. But one came to the rescue and thousands of sites have a new home for now. By Staci D. Kramer. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Stars Power Move to Green Energy Driven by a desire to lessen America's dependence on fossil fuels, actors like Cameron Diaz, Ed Begley Jr. and Dennis Weaver hop on the green-power bandwagon. By John Gartner. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Wilco Pays Up for Spycasts The alt-country group pays an indie record label for sampling the phrase 'Yankee hotel foxtrot' without permission. The sounds could be spies speaking in code over radio, which the label taped. But can anyone own rambling recorded off the air? By Noah Shachtman. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Profiting From Political Urgency Sensing the importance of this year's election, organizations on the political left and right are shelling out as much as $10,000 for Votenet's voter-registration software. But will the company's products actually produce voters on Election Day? By Louise Witt. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Net-Savvy Campaign Boosts Bush Even critics of the president's campaign say his website and Internet strategy have a couple of cool hooks. But the campaign has had a misfire or two, and it's avoiding some of the things that made Howard Dean so successful online. By Paul Boutin. From Wired News on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Digital pen takes on mouse - Nico Macdonald, BBC Imagine if you could pick up a digital file or a note on a computer and pass it to a colleague's computer as easily as you can give them a paper document or a Post-It note. Files can be picked up by a pen and dropped somewhere else. Researchers at Son From Techno-News Blog on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

RFID Privacy Gap? - Susan Kuchinskas, Internet News The drive to place RFID tags on consumer products is relentless, but IT leaders say public policy on how to use and secure the information they'll provide is lagging behind. Where does consumer privacy fit into a world where every product has a unique From Techno-News Blog on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Doubts cloud e-government sites - BBC The impact of e-government is under the spotlight on both sides of the Atlantic as studies question how much citizens interact with government websites. A report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project thinktank found that US citizens prefer to From Techno-News Blog on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Center for Children's Books (CCB) at University of Illinois First, the CCB site offers "a non-circulating collection of more than 14,000 recent and historically significant trade books for youth, birth through high school, plus review copies of nearly all trade books published in the U.S. in the current year." From Educational Technology on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

University of Wisconsin Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) The University of Wisconsin Children's Book Center site offers "original bibliographies created by CCBC librarians, book reviews, webcasts of CCBC-sponsored speeches by children's and young adult book creators, and many more unique resources for librar From Educational Technology on June 23, 2004 at 7:46 a.m..

Assistware Connector "A powerful software ... Assistware Connector &quot;A powerful software tool for connecting 'any' content from 'any' source to 'any' IT application, without changing or impacting the applications. No technical skills required. Ideal for enterprise wide Performance Support projects and 'just in time' delivery of training and support to employees. Improves employee performance, increases customer service and reduces training and support costs.&quot; Added From e-Learning Centre What's New Page on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Lambda Legal Selects Lubbock High School Gay Straight Alliance As Recipient Of The 2004 Courage Award Lubbock High School GSA to be Honored for Efforts in Promoting Tolerance and Equality as well as Lawsuit with the Lubbock ISD Seeking Official Recognition as an On-Campus Group [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Troxell Communications Partners with Hitachi America Digital Media Division to Offer Groundbreaking Educational Scholarship/Grant Rebate Program Troxell Communications and Hitachi America Digital Media Division announce new funding opportunity for schools [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

International Entrepreneur Launches Global Development Company International entrepreneur and author Laurel Delaney announces the launch of Laurel Delaney Company, a professional services firm specializing in global entrepreneurial development. Through LaurelDelaney.com, the company offers practical and relevant information that empowers individuals to become successful global entrepreneurs. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day - As featured in Chase's Calendar of Events Toss Away the "Could Haves" and " Should Haves" day, a nationwide initiative to promote getting rid of excess mental strongholds will be celebrated on July 17, 2004.It was created to remind people that in order to move forward , that they must stop dwelling on their past. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

MUSIC: PrivateLessons.com to Exhibit at AHS Conference at UPenn 30-day free trial offered to first-time members at exhibit booth only. Exhibit hall open free to public Saturday, 6-26-04, where musicians can sign-up & take digital photo for PrivateLessons.com resume. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

The Version3 Simple Sign-On Solution Helping Educators with Today's Academic Identity Management Challenges National Educational Computing Conference, New Orleans, LA HYPHEN June 23, 2004 - Version3, Inc., developers of the Version3 Simple Sign-On solution is launching one of the most comprehensive and cost-effective application access management solutions available to schools, this week, at the National Educational Computing Conference. The availability of this product will immediately leverage an already existing Windows infrastructure in schools for Identity and Application Access Management capabilities. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Planning Can be Faster with Drag-and-Drop Recent survey of office employees by Alexander Fedorenko, independent analyst and business consultant, shown what people whose day begins with planning can additionally benefit using drag-and-drop. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Powerful Medicine in Your Lawn? Dandelions are traditionally thought of as problem plants, but their roots and leaves provide us with fantastic health benefits. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

eXubrio and Saphar Collaborate on Marketing Communications Support for Small Businesses Two marketing communications companies from Rochester and Buffalo, New York, form an alliance to offer economical, fixed priced marketing communications audits to area companies. The audits will cover marketing communications plans, website search visibility, and other communications processes. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004] From PR Web on June 23, 2004 at 7:45 a.m..

Briefly: Motorola inks IBM blade server deal roundup Plus: Intel sells chip gear to Chinese start-up...IBM faces Gypsy holocaust suit...Motorola joins WiMax Forum. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

Motorola inks blade server deal with IBM Motorola signs a deal to sell versions of IBM's thin blade servers tailored for that market. From CNET News.com on June 23, 2004 at 3:45 a.m..

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