The purchase of a shares in BSkyB by French Group Vivendi may have turned Rupert Murdoch on a different course. That different course may just mean that Murdoch sees the internet as being more important that digital television. The subscriptions to Sky Digital have been slow in coming and most of them have been conversions from analogue rather than new ones. The revenue from these Sky Digital subscriptions has to be offset against the decision to give away Sky Digital IRDs in an attempt to stir up sales.

The Diamond Multimedia MP3 player shook the recording industry when it hit the markets and now it appears that MP3 is becoming a de-facto standard online. The RIAA's Secure Digital Music Initiative announced that they had completed the specifications for new Walkman like devices that would stop online piracy by not playing newer audio tracks. The thinking is muddled and it has little chance of remaining secure!

SET and SSL are not competing protocols. Though they are frequently represented as being competing protocols, they are very different. In fact if they are presented in an article as competing protocols, it is a glaring clue that the author of that article does not understand what is going on.

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