Web surfing, at the sound of your own voice; new portals let users talk to the Net by phone, but will voice edge out keyboards and keypads?

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Several new firms, such as Tellme, BeVocal and Quack.com have introduced new Web portal services activated by voice over the telephone. The portals use a spoken-word digitization computer software and speech recognition technology to search Internet servers based on voice commands. This way, even old rotary telephones can be used to search for select information on the Internet.

Services development, Videotex & Teletext Svcs NEC, Services, Online information services, Internet/Web technology, Tellme Networks, Quack.com, BeVocal Inc.

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Taking sides in the Napster war; with copyright law at issue, sites battle for the ears and minds of music lovers

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As the debate over the legal and ethical questions about sharing MP3 music files on the Internet grows, many Web sites have sprung up related to all sides of the issue. Some sites, like the Fix brothers' Cuckoo's Egg Project, put 'cuckoo's eggs' or bad song files on Napster-users's files, while other sites support Napster, offer sanctioned downloadable content free of charge, or allow users the option of paying the artist a tip.

Prevention, Practice, Web sites (World Wide Web), Ethical aspects, Web sites, Public opinion, Online music trading, Fix, John, III

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Which direction now for digital music? Recording labels are ready to move, but the path is uncertain

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Although there have been many decisive agreements between recording companies and online music distributors, it seem that there is still a block from Internet upstarts getting in on equality of music distribution. Many "dot coms" are seeing unfair business practices by the recording industry as a whole.

Strategy & planning, Germany, Book publishing, Book Publishers, Consumer Audio Recordings, Integrated Record Production/Distribution, Prerecorded records and tapes, Records & Tapes, Publishing industry, Planning, Innovations, Contracts, Bertelsmann AG, Sound recording industry, Recording industry, Sound recordings, Sound processing equipment, Sound processing, Universal Music Group, Digital sound recordings

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