NY Times: “The record industry’s legal victory over Napster last year has neither stopped the trading of free music online nor halted a slide in music sales.”  [Scripting News]

Well, whaddya know?

According to this BBC story, a leading firm of snake oil… er, consultants has concluded that business use of the Web “is about to get serious”.

“The next two years will see businesses start to remake the software they use to run their organisations as they start to put the net at the heart of everything they do, says a report by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers. ”

BT will give broadband access to rural users — for between £3,000 and £5,000 a year!
BBC News Online story. Wow! Some breakthrough, eh. It’s a service called BT Netstart, apparently. That’s ‘start’ as in the Windows Start button — the one you press to turn off.