NewsScan Daily, 2 February 2004 ("Above The Fold")

NewsScan Daily, 2 February 2004 ("Above The Fold")
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
       Penny a Message?
       Get Ready for Flexible Display Screens
       Gateway Buys eMachines
       T-Mobile to Offer Wi-Fi to Comcast Customers
       Finally! The Nigerian E-Mail Scammers Caught

FEATURES
       Flash Card
       Honorary Subscriber: Rollo May

PENNY A MESSAGE?
     Microsoft and Yahoo are giving new life to the debate over whether
imposing a small charge on senders of bulk e-mail messages would be the best
way to defeat spam. Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse says that requiring
electronic stamps for e-mail would force mailers to send only those offers a
significant number of people might accept. "All of a sudden, spammers can't
behave without regard for the Internet providers' or end users' interests."
The idea doesn't sit well with everyone. Carnegie Mellon University
professor David Farber, who runs a popular e-mail list focused on technology
policy, warns: "I suspect the cost of postage will start out small and it
will rapidly escalate." But the Internet Service Providers are more
receptive to such plans, and Linda Beck of EarthLink says: "Sending large
volumes of e-mail involve costs that are paid for by the ISPs and eventually
by consumers. Should there be some sort of financial responsibility borne by
the originators of these large-volume programs? I think there should." On
the other hand, Charles Stiles, the manager of America Online's postmaster
department, suggests that the plan simply won't do what it's meant to do,
and reminds everyone that "it is the spammers who are the ones with the big
pockets." (New York Times 2 Feb 2004)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/technology/02spam.html?hp

GET READY FOR FLEXIBLE DISPLAY SCREENS
     Flexible displays, now being readied for commercial production, will
make possible such things as electronic newspapers that can be rolled up
when not in use; flexible strips for store shelves that display constantly
updated price and product information; and watchbands that offer streaming
news or other information. The first rollable display to be mass-produced is
a 3.5-gram rectangular screen three times the thickness of a sheet of paper
and measuring five inches diagonally. E-maps and e-newspapers that roll up
like window shades are still a few years away, but this spring Sony plans to
introduce a paperback-size electronic reader that can be loaded with a
searchable library. Industry analysts envision a future in which student
backpacks will eventually be replaced a single all-purpose e-text.
(Washington Post 1 Feb 2004)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3845-2004Feb1.html

GATEWAY BUYS eMACHINES
     Gateway is paying $235 million in cash and stock for eMachines, a maker
of low-cost computers sold through retailers Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Circuit
City. Roger Kay, an analyst for the research firm IDC, says: "I think this
makes them a player" if Gateway can increase its consumer electronics lines
through eMachines' retail and overseas channels. "If they can develop a
broader line, I think the real play is growing the consumer electronics
business." With the acquisition of eMachines, Gateway is No. 3 in PC sales,
well behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard. (San Jose Mercury News 2 Feb 2004)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7842720.htm

T-MOBILE TO OFFER WI-FI TO COMCAST CUSTOMERS
     A new partnership between T-Mobile and Comcast will allow T-Mobile to
market its Wi-Fi broadband (available at 4,000-plus retail and airport "hot
spots") to Comcast customers. T-Mobile is the nation's top provider of
wireless Wi-Fi services and Comcast is its No. 1 cable and broadband seller.
Still, Forrester Research analyst Maribel Lopez warns that Wi-Fi prices need
to drop below $15 a month before demand will take off. (USA Today 2 Feb
2004)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-02-02-tmobile_x.htm

FINALLY! THE NIGERIAN E-MAIL SCAMMERS CAUGHT
     Police in the Netherlands have arrested 52 people suspected of using
the so-called "Nigerian e-mail scam" to defraud Internet users by sending
them spam e-mails asking for their help in transferring a large sum of money
out of Nigeria or some other troubled country in exchange for a generous
percentage-fee. A task force of 80 officers raided 23 apartments, seizing
computers, fake passports and 50,000 euros ($62,000) in cash. Most of those
arrested were believed to be Nigerian. (Wired 2 Feb 2004)
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,62124,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

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FLASH CARD
     "Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and
childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being,
which is a passion to live beyond one's death. (Rollo May)

HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: ROLLO MAY
     Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American psychologist Rollo May
(1909-1994), who was a leading figure in the human growth movement that
flourished among psychotherapists beginning in the 1960s.
     May promoted a humanistic version of existentialism that expressed
strong belief in modern man's capacity to deal with life's problems and to
accept anxiety as a normal reaction to the search for self-fulfillment. He
wrote a number of well-received books to popularize his psychotherapeutic
theory and practice. Most influential among these were: "Love and Will"
(1969), "Power and Innocence" (1972), and "The Courage to Create" (1975).
     May was born in Ada, Ohio.  He received his bachelor's degree from
Oberlin College, and then spent three years in Greece teaching English at
Anatolia College. Upon his return to the United States, he became a student
at New York's Union Theological Seminary, taking courses from the
existentialist theologian Paul Tillich, who along with Alfred Adler and the
writings of Søren Kierkegard became important sources for May's ideas. May
received his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1938 and then worked as a
Congregational minister for two years before deciding to become a
psychologist. He studied psychoanalysis at White Institute, where he
associated with eminent personages such as Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich
Fromm. He then earned the first doctorate in clinical psychology awarded by
Columbia University, later publishing his dissertation under the title "The
Meaning of Anxiety."
     Through his book writing and the various teaching posts he held over
the years, May became a well-known voice in familiarizing Americans with the
ideas of European existentialists. As summed up by one of his followers,
May's message was: "When we avoid the painful parts of our life we become
alienated from the world, others and ourselves -- and as a consequence of
our avoidance feel pain, anxiety and depression. In other words, facing life
may involve short-term costs but long-term benefits."
     In his later years May lived in Tiburon, California, where he died in
October of 1994.

See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393312402/
newsscancom/ref=nosim for Rollo May's "The Discovery of Being: Writings in
Existentialist Psychology" -- or look for it in your favorite library. (We
donate all revenue from our book recommendations to adult literacy
programs.)

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