Bringing Interoperability to IP Video.
Bringing Interoperability to IP Video By Tom Galvin Last may, three market heavyweights in network video announced their intention to collaborate on network standards. Axis, Chelmsford, Mass., Bosch, Fairport, N.Y., and Sony, New York, N.Y., announced that they will cooperate to create an open forum...

Voice-services speak up : Wireless gets in tune with speech-driven access to voice mail and e-mail.
Deal-making between mobile operators and voice-service software makers likely will heat up in the next few months, giving carriers a new reason to reacquaint subscribers with a pair of core service attractions -- convenience and safety. While wireless data still gets the big headlines, the foundation of...

Is Microsoft's settlement plan good for schools? (News connection: up-to-date and usable education information from schools, government, business, research and professional organizations).
After coming under fire for its proposed settlement plan--released in November--that would give $1 billion in technology and cash to the nation's poorest schools, Microsoft sought to calm critics with a mid-December alternation. Under the new proposal, which was still before a judge at press time, Microsoft...

Handset hardball and other sports : Wireless teams are forming, but not all can play with the big battalions.
The most notable split among US wireless carriers is their divergent air-interface pathways -- GSM/GRPS vs. CDMA. Of course, carriers will crease and wrinkle their networks to conform to their uniquely drawn missions, but in sum, their migration strategies are virtually locked in place. (Nextel is the...

Napster for Novels?: Not even pirates like e-books. (Culture & Reviews).
Is THE AMERICAN book publishing industry headed for its own Napster crisis? To judge from a recent report from Envisional Ltd., a British digital rights management company, Napster-like online trading of bestsellers may be accelerating even as the industry's own efforts to get a digital product out the door...

Starting a practice on a shoestring.
For many years we have been asked a group of repetitive questions aimed at getting started in a hypnotherapy practice. There are many good, qualified hypnotherapy instructors available that provide an excellent foundation in hypnosis training. However, far too often new and beginning students only get the adequate training...

Know the code: making encryption safe, legal - and not rare.
Since taking office in 1993, the Clinton administration has clashed with high-tech companies and privacy advocates over electronic data encryption, the use of mathematical formulas to scramble messages sent over computer networks. The White House has regulated encryption so that law enforcement agencies can easily unscramble messages sent by suspected...

The Pentagon Goes to the Video Arcade.
When the Department of Defense went looking for its next generation of war technology, it took a trip to the video arcade. Thanks to massive improvements in graphics technology over the last few years, the video game software industry has produced shooting, flying, and fighting games that look so...

Intellectual property rights legislation and computer software piracy in Jordan.
Abstract: This paper presents a serious worldwide problem, namely, computer software piracy and its impact on global economy, in general, and Jordanian economy, in particular. The paper also presents a detailed analysis of the Jordanian IPR legislation and Jordan's commitment to international and bilateral agreements with regards to this...

Hollywood vs. the Internet: Why entertainment companies want to hack your computer.
IF YOU HAVE a fast computer and a fast Internet connection, you make Hollywood nervous. Movie and TV studios are worried not because of what you're doing now, but because of what you might do in the near future: grab digital content with your computer and rebroadcast it online....