NewsScan Daily, 20 January 2005 ("Above The Fold")

NewsScan Daily, 20 January 2005 ("Above The Fold")
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
       Microsoft Hopes to Sell Outlook to Hotmail Users
       Do People Do Anything Besides Listen to Music?
       Georgia Legislation Would Make Spam a Felony
       Teen Sued by Apple Gets Free Help From Lawyer
       Be Master of the Universe (From Your Cellphone)

FEATURES
       Flash Card
       Honorary Subscriber: Lily Pons

MICROSOFT HOPES TO SELL OUTLOOK TO HOTMAIL USERS
     Microsoft will begin selling subscriptions of its Outlook e-mail
program to Hotmail customers for $59.95 a year, hoping that people will pay
the fee in order to organize their e-mail, contact lists and calendars in
their online Hotmail. Industry analyst Ted Schadler of Forrester Research
says the price "seems pretty steep to me." Microsoft Office Outlook Live
also will include 2 gigabytes of online storage, plus the ability to send
attachments of up to 20 megabytes. (AP/Washington Post 20 Jan 2005)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22780-2005Jan20.html>

DO PEOPLE DO ANYTHING BESIDES LISTEN TO MUSIC?
     A report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI) says that music fans in the U.S. and Europe legally downloaded more
than 200 million song tracks in 2004 -- compared to just 20 million the
previous year. IFPI top executive John Kennedy says, "Digital music is now
in the mainstream" -- yet he worries that the digital music market continues
to be threatened by piracy. He would like to see the piracy issue placed
higher on government agendas and more responsibility shown by Internet
service providers for misuse of their networks. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 20
Jan 2005 <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10684757.htm>

GEORGIA LEGISLATION WOULD MAKE SPAM A FELONY
     Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has proposed a Slam Spam E-mail Act that
would make it a felony to send more than 10,000 misleading e-mails during a
24-hour period, make large sums of money off unsolicited e-mail, or involve
juveniles in sending it. Speaking at Earthlink's Atlanta headquarters,
Perdue promised, "We're going to clean up spam in Georgia and put our
citizens back in control of their online lives." EarthLink chief executive
Garry Betty, who hosted Perdue's news conference, said that up to 80 percent
of all e-mail is spam. (Atlanta Journal Constitution 20 Jan 2005)
<http://www.ajc.com/hp/content/auto/epaper/editions/thursday/metro_14fea5c30687223300a9.html>

TEEN SUED BY APPLE GETS FREE HELP FROM LAWYER
     San Francisco lawyer Terry Gross, a specialist in freedom of speech and
the Internet, will defend 19-year-old Nicholas Ciarelli against a lawsuit
brought by Apple charging the Harvard freshman and Web publisher revealing
Apple trade secrets on his Web site, www.ThinkSecret.com. Gross, whose
services will be given on a pro bono basis, says that his client used proper
news-gathering techniques and deserves First Amendment protection. (AP/USA
Today 19 Jan 2005)
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-19-apple-teen-gains-counsel_x.htm>

BE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE (FROM YOUR CELLPHONE)
     Toshiba has developed software that will make it possible for people to
edit documents, send e-mail, and reboot their PCs remotely from their
cellphones, allowing them to work anywhere. Toshiba will begin offering the
service in Japan by the end of March through CDMA1X mobile phones offered by
KDDI Corp. Toshiba is initially targeting the corporate work force, but says
individuals can use it to record TV shows, work security cameras and control
air conditioners tied to home networks. (AP/Los Angeles Times 20 Jan 2005)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology12jan20,1,3365613.story?coll=sns-ap-toptechnology>

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FLASH CARD
     "Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me
for someone else." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: LILY PONS
     Today's Honorary Subscriber is the brilliant coloratura soprano Alice
Josephine Pons (1904-1976), who performed under the name Lily Pons.
     Pons made her American debut at New York City's Metropolitan Opera
House in January 1931 where her performance in "Lucia di Lammermoor" was an
immediate critical and popular success. The exquisite beauty of her
diminutive figure, and her marked dramatic ability made her a favorite with
audiences for a quarter of a century. With her 22-inch waist and petite
frame, Pons quickly caught the attention of opera audiences accustomed to
buxom sopranos. Her every performance became a sellout and she became partly
responsible for saving the Met from bankruptcy during the depression. She
sang regularly at the Met and at the opera house of Colon, Buenos Aires, and
toured widely in Europe, Great Britain, Australia, and the United States.
     Born in Draguignan, near Cannes, France, Pons's parentage included
French and Italian roots. Taught piano as a child, she entered the Paris
Conservatory at age thirteen. Ill health and World War I interrupted her
studies for several years. After the war she began calling herself Lily Pons
when she played ingenue roles at the Paris Théâtre des Variétés.
    In 1923 she abandoned the stage to marry August Mesritz, a lawyer and
newspaper publisher. He encouraged her to study singing and in 1925 she
began taking lessons from Alberti di Gorostiaga. In 1928 she made her
operatic debut in Lakmé in Mulhouse, Alsace, and after a few years singing
in France's provincial opera houses, the New York Met gave her the audition
that touched off the fabulous career that made her one of the highest-paid
performers in history.
     Pons was one of those operatic singers who also had a voice with appeal
by lovers of popular music. In the late 1930s she was recruited as a popular
radio performer and was sought after by Hollywood to appear in motion
pictures. Her several movies included "I Dream Too Much (1935)", "That Girl
from Paris (1936)", and "Hitting a New High (1937)".
     In June 1938, having divorced her first husband, she married conductor
André Kostelanetz. In the same year she was awarded the Legion of Honor by
France. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, and during World
War II she sang for troops in North Africa, Europe, and India. She was also
honored for her work on behalf of the blind. She and Kostelanetz made
numerous highly successful joint concert tours until their divorce in 1958.
     In 1956 she celebrated her 25th anniversary as the Met's reigning diva
in 1956, and used the occasion to signal her practical retirement as a
performer, although her formal retirement was put off until 1964. Her last
public performance took place in May 1972 at a Promenade concert of the New
York Philharmonic, with her former husband André Kostelanetz conducting. She
died in Dallas, Texas, on February 13, 1976.

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recommendations to adult literacy programs.]

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