The Inet Report

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoYou may have heard a rumor floating about the internet that the Zune would adopt an incentive-based distribution system. The idea, supposedly, is that each song sent to your Zune-toting buddy that he/she decided to buy at your recommendation would earn you a small reward (think Zune Marketplace Points) for promoting and sharing legal digital music. Good Morning Silicon Valley revived the discussion on Wednesday, and points out that J Allard recently discussed the system at the Music Tech Summit in Seattle, but Microsoft has made no official remarks on the topic. Well we went digging through the US Patent and Trade Office site and came across a 2003 filing from Redmond that describes a very similar system that says "The first license also specifies the conditions upon which the content may be redistributed and licensed for use on a second device" and that [...]

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Called AT&T U-verse, company"s Internet Protocol TV rolls out in Houston; other launches due by end of year.

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AP - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will expand its program to give people access to the Internet in libraries and other public places to two Eastern European countries and the African nation of Botswana.

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The Internet"s key oversight agency has rejected a proposed search service to help guide people who mistype “.travel"" Web addresses or seek nonexistent ones.

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(InfoWorld) - This year"s Telecom World show may not be as big or influential as previous ones, but the event is still a good personal networking opportunity for experts in the telecommunications industry.
The week-long conference and exhibition, which opens Monday in Hong Kong for the first time, is the world"s largest public networking event. But the show, hosted every three years by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations agency, has clearly gone through some turbulent times, mirroring the industry it represents.
European equipment manufacturers such as Siemens, which once dominated exhibition halls with expansive multimillion dollar booths, have been pushed aside by aggressive Asian newcomers such as Huawei Technologies.
But it"s not only Asian competitors that have made life tough for traditional telephone equipment vendors such as Alcatel and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson; it"s also competition from makers of Internet systems, notably Cisco Systems, which have helped build the first-generation [...]

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