DSLreports - front pageThe largest broadband users community on the webIBM Software Could Enhance Mobile Browsing - Keep only the stuff you want on a web page and send it to your phone- July 13, 2008 Researchers at IBM have come up with a new software program called Highlight that has the potential to make it much easier for mobile web browsers to complete tasks from their cell phones. "Highlight lets users record the steps required to perform a simple task on the Web, say looking up flight arrival information on a Web site. Users can "clip" sections from a Web site and then save them on another Web server, which then serves the slimmed-down pages to the mobile device." This would allow...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/IBM-Software-Could-Enhance-Mobile-Browsing-96074 FTC Ethics Questioned Over DTV News Release - Can FTC release news without disclosing itself as source- July 13, 2008 Questions have been raised about the choice that the Federal Trade Commission recently made to reformat a press release about the upcoming DTV transition so that it could be released as a news article. The press release was originally posted as a consumer news alert on the FTC website. It was then pushed to nationwide community newspapers to be printed as a story with no indication that the release came from the FTC. The FTC maintains that there is nothing wrong with this practice but...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FTC-Ethics-Questioned-Over-DTV-News-Release-96073 |