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Does this mean content providers will be steamrollered by Freenet? Not necessarily. Many media experts say people who create music and other copyrighted material will eventually find a way to charge for it. "Generating content is a valuable service," says Eric Scheirer, a media and Internet analyst at Forrester Research. "And as long as it is, there will always be ways to monetize it." What's more, anonymous systems like Freenet are inherently vulnerable. "The record companies could flood Freenet with a million copies of static," Scheirer suggests, "and title them The New Britney Spears Song...
...training. Among his key tasks will be reaching out to the Syrian military, intelligence agencies and other pillars of his father's power--including the nation's 15 internal security forces. His father had begun to prepare a hand-off, in what Martha Kessler, a recently retired CIA analyst, said was "one of the most carefully orchestrated transitions ever." But Assad wasn't finished. Are there anti-Bashar elements still squirreled away in Damascus' complex power structure? Will they strike? It was a legacy of Assad's opaque rule that even his son probably doesn't know if every threat...
...Visionaries," says TV analyst Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research, "think about what is possible without thinking about what will actually make good business." Say you were descrying the future TV of 2000, 20 years ago. You might have predicted a remarkable, crisp, high-tech TV display. You might have called it, say, "HDTV." And you would have been right. Except HDTV is probably not in your living room. As with the De Lorean car, the mere existence of a $5,000 or $10,000 TV set isn't sufficient to persuade consumers to go into hock to get a sharper...
...price of medicine is getting stiffer, jumping an estimated 10% this year. For the moment, Aetna and others are passing along that added expense to employers and consumers, one of the primary reasons the sector has rebounded a bit on Wall Street. But as Merrill Lynch senior analyst Roberta Goodman points out, "that's like running up the down escalator--the trend is against you." And even though Donaldson produced better-than-expected earnings of $184 million on sales of $7.9 billion for the first quarter, Aetna's profit margins have remained in the sick bay, at around 3%, which...
...Plans. The couple will live in New York City. Both plan to join the work force, James as an analyst at Blackstone Group, though Alisa may later go to graduate school...