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Issue no. 2, 2001 Published: Aug 24, 2001
Deutsche Telekom about to sell cable network
MIT, HP to build quantum computer
Sluggish Internet take-up worries France
Fujitsu smashes hard disk recording density record
Napster set to return
Internet piracy spreads from music to books
Dead people and fake letters support Microsoft
Dotcoms going down the pan

Deutsche Telekom about to sell cable network
Deutsche Telekom is on the verge of signing a contract for the sale of its entire cable TV network in all thirteen federal states to Liberty Media of the US. The unofficial sale price of 5.5bn euros was confirmed by the agency representing Liberty Media in Germany. Ten million households are connected to the network. The high price reflects the enormous potential of the technology. With the introduction of broad-band, it will be possible to send large masses of information very quickly, so that the humble TV set could in future replace the computer as the main Internet connection. The new technology will also pave the way for interactive TV, video-on-demand and telephony services.
Financial Times / Die Welt Aug 24, 2001	back to top

MIT, HP to build quantum computer
Hewlett-Packard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have announced a joint $2.5m quantum computing project to advance computing development beyond its current physical limits. The project, announced last week, is part of a five-year alliance launched in June 2000. Quantum computing uses quantum systems to perform calculations. The basic unit of computation used is the qubit or quantum bit, a quantum system with two states. Unlike classical bits, the qubit can be not just 0 or 1 but a superposition of both, in differing proportions. While the classical bit can store any number between 0 and 255 on each of its eight bytes, the qubit can store all the numbers between 0 and 255 on a byte of eight qubits. This allows much more information to be stored on a quantum bit than a classical bit, and allows parallelism in processing: one calculation can give the answer for all the numbers on the byte at the same time.
CNN Aug 21, 2001	back to top

Sluggish Internet take-up worries France
France's fears about being left behind in the Internet age have been revived by a new official report showing that only one in five French people have an Internet connection at home. Although that is a marked advance from the figure of one in 12 in 1999, the authors of the report expressed concern that only 6 per cent of the French were considering getting connected in the next year, and more than half had no plans to do so ever. Among the reasons quoted are the low number of PCs owned by individuals; the telephone cost; the slow spread of broadband networks and the Minitel system that survives in a quarter of French households. France Telecom has resisted the introduction of flat-rate charges to allow unlimited Internet access and has been accused of stifling the expansion of broadband services.
Financial Times Aug 23, 2001	back to top

Fujitsu smashes hard disk recording density record
Researchers from Fujitsu developed a way to store 106Gb of data on one square inch of hard disk space - a new record that is expected to lead to notebook computer drives with capacities of more than 100GB appearing on the market within the next year. To achieve the higher recording density, Fujitsu developed a new recording medium consisting of two magnetic layers separated by a thin layer of a nonmagnetic spacer material, in this case the element Ruthenium (Ru). The new design, called SF Media by Fujitsu, allows a recording density three times greater than has been possible until now.
CNN Aug 24, 2001	back to top

Napster set to return
The new chief executive of Napster, Konrad Hilbers, has promised the file-swapping service will be online and offering subscriptions by the end of 2001. He said that Napster is set to comply by then with a court injunction ordering it to remove all copyrighted music from its site. Speaking at a high-tech summit in Colorado, Mr Hilbers said he believes that Napster can still be a place where people can download music - free and without a copyright - despite plans to introduce a paid service. Mr Hilbers joined the company from German media giant - and Napster's main financial backer - Bertelsmann, in July.
BBC News Aug 22, 2001	back to top

Internet piracy spreads from music to books
J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien are the best-selling authors most likely to be copied by Internet pirates, according to a survey warning of the rapid spread of file-swapping to book publishing. The illegal download of books from the Internet, which costs copyright owners revenue, could become as big a problem as Napster, according to the survey by Internet monitoring company Envisional. The company found nearly 7,300 copyrighted titles available for free through file-sharing networks such as Gnutella. Most acts of piracy involve paper books being scanned and converted into downloadable text to be printed out or read on a personal computer. In a minority of cases hackers crack the copyright protection codes to format e-books, such as Stephen King's Riding the Bullet, an Internet-only publication.
Financial Times Aug 23, 2001	back to top

Dead people and fake letters support Microsoft
Microsoft has been partly funding a letter-writing campaign to compel state attorneys general to go easy in their antitrust lawsuits against the software company. Two letters sent to the Utah Attorney General contained the names of dead people. The letter-writing campaign targeted some of the 18 attorneys general whose states have joined the US Justice Department in a sweeping antitrust lawsuit. No two letters are identical but some contain similar wording and appeared to be written spontaneously by ordinary people. The campaign was orchestrated by a group partly funded by Microsoft called Americans for Technology Leadership. It is not known how much money the organisation receives from the software giant.
Nando Times / Los Angeles Times Aug 24, 2001	back to top

Dotcoms going down the pan
It would appear that the dotcom crash has not yet bottomed out, after a US firm announced the launch of novelty toilet paper designed to look like tickertape displaying the stock prices of struggling new media companies. The creators of the loo roll, two entrepreneurs who stood back from the dotcom share buying frenzy of 1999 and 2000, said they were flushed with the humour of their invention. Dubbed Venture Crapital, the $9.95 rolls are to be marketed with slogans including ''No hype and all wipe'' and ''Let's potty like it's 1999''. The companies featured on the toilet paper, including Yahoo, Amazon and BroadVision, are understood not to be bowled over by the product.
VNUnet UK Aug 21, 2001	back to top