This sounds all good – the FCC wants to know what you think: FCC OPENS PROCEEDING ON SMART RADIOS In light of the ever increasing demand for radio spectrum, and to facilitate new technologies and services and permit more intensive and efficient spectrum use, the Federal Communications Commission today adopted …

The Wharton School takes at look at the digital music biz for 2004: Indications are strong that the companies behind the services have reason to think that profits can be made in online music. iTunes sold 20 million tracks in its first seven months of operation. Rhapsody’s 250,000 subscribers paid …

The Wharton School peers into its collective crystal ball and checks a few chicken guts to get a bead on the status of the economy for 2004. Remember, they only THINK they know more than you do: After a slow and confusing economic recovery, 2004 will be a year of …

The Downhill Battle org continues its amusing campaign against the RIAA record labels: Do you really want to deal with this? “I got that on the computer like two months ago” Kids today are so good at downloading music from the internet that most of them already have all the …

Mac Diva wrote an interesting and thought-provoking post on the issue of picture phones and privacy yesterday. The spread of these phones is being driven by creative and novel applications. Piturephoning.com has a fascinating list: — Women have been taking shots of clothing items in stores, then e-mailing them to …

Back in June I wrote a commentary for MSNBC on the ramifications of Pearl Jam leaving Epic Records (archived here for some reason): Bands come and go from record labels in a revolving door of euphoria and dejection, so when the news came out that Pearl Jam had fulfilled its …

How quickly they forget the good old days: Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has started calling his youngest son – named Saddam after Iraq’s ousted leader – by the name Zuhair instead, according to letters obtained by the London-based Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat. “My regards to everybody, how …

“Go to the mirror boy” – Ralph Peters: Bashir Assad, Kim Jong-Il, Robert Mugabe, the old mullahs in Teheran, the Saudi royal family, the already cowering Moammar Khadafy – and that would-be caliph of all Muslims, Osama bin Laden . . . all of the dictators, authoritarian rulers and terrorists-who-would-be-king …

The most anticipated film of the year is finally here. The King, He’s Back The Return of the King has been out for five days now, so the hard-core fans have mostly seen it already. Those who haven’t seen it are advised to skip the following, as it will be …

We report on the foolishness and foibles of entertainers all the time, so it’s important we also recognize some of the great things they do: Growing up, Richard Smith’s father was gone and his mother struggled to keep above the poverty line while raising two kids on her own. Today …