Driving around in sheer panic looking for a Starbucks (but hoping for a Panera, which offers free Wi-Fi) or hopping on a neighbor’s unsecured signal has become commonplace. (To read about the Wi-Fi strategies at Starbucks, Panera, McDonald’s and Borders, see “Should Retailers Offer Free Wi-Fi to Customers?”)
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“Surrender, Comcast!” declares the FCC in its Order on P2P blocking. The agency also calls on the public to stay vigilant on the issue and aligns itself more closely with the net neutrality movement.
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On September 7, Electronic Arts will release its long-awaited and much-anticipated Spore. For many, this will be the biggest video game event of the year, and possibly even the last several years.
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Microsoft is planning a “privacy mode” for the next release of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. By clicking a button, users of IE8 will be able to limit how much information is recorded about where they go online and what they do.
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At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch.
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In the nation’s first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider fair use of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites. The
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The intro Cinematics to WotLK
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Repeat after me: it’s just a rumor. Record company sources deny it. But if Apple is indeed going to offer an all-you-can-download iTunes subscription service for for $129.99 a year (or $179.99 a year with Mobile Me), other subscription services will have a hard time surviving.
Let’s review for a moment, shall we?
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Verizon’s Chief Technical Officer talks about his philosophy of network management and why building a network that delivers every bit without delay is, in his view, impractical.
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Repeat after me: it’s just a rumor. Record company sources deny it. But if Apple is indeed going to offer an all-you-can-download iTunes subscription service for for $129.99 a year (or $179.99 a year with Mobile Me), other subscription services will have a hard time surviving.
Let’s review for a moment, shall we?
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Comcast is offering more details about the “protocol agnostic” throttling solution that will replace its current, FCC-denounced approach to network management. Heavy users will be “deprioritized” for 10 to 20 minutes at a time.
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This week, alleged game pirates in the UK have been condemned to the ruination of huge fines and misery. Well, not quite. See, if defendants don’t turn up in court, it’s easy to get a default judgment and huge damages because no-one contests the evidence. So what’s the truth and what evidence do the lawyers really have?
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