Monday, June 10, 2002

2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband. Etherlinx uses an inexpensive wireless standard to transmit Internet data. Their ambitious plan threatens to shake the near-monopoly that the cable and phone companies hold on high-speed access. [New York Times: Technology]

Can broadband save online media?. The Net media faithful hope that rising broadband penetration rates will revive ad-based business models. But success requires more than just a higher number of page views, McKinsey experts say. [CNET News.com]

DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come. The CBDTPA could require many billions of individual "digital media devices" -- every TV, stereo, speaker, PC, walkman, hard drive, monitor, and scanner -- to carry enforcement circuitry -- but there are only 300 million people in our country. Mathematically astute readers will note that's less than 600 million each of eyes and ears. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]