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New vs. Old Media
Revision3 CEO: Blackout caused by MediaDefender attack - ars technica: Revision3, the Internet television network behind popular shows like Diggnation, experienced a serious network failure over Memorial Day weekend. CEO Jim Louderback revealed today that the outage was caused by a massive denial of service attack that he says was perpetrated by MediaDefender, a file-sharing […]
May 2008 / 3 min.
Sprint, Clearwire and WiMax
The New York Times writes: A who’s who of technology and telecommunications companies announced Wednesday that it intended to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks. The consortium includes a disparate group of partners: Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner and Clearwire. The partners have put the value of […]
May 2008 / 2 min.
More Free and Open Source Law Resources
Concurring Opinions - More Free and Open Source Law Resources: Law.com has a good summary of the way projects seeking to make opinions, statutes, and other legal materials free. The history of these efforts goes back to the early 90s, but the recent changes may the ones to threaten the big shots. According to the […]
March 2008 / 1 min.
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active: Comcast, in a reverse effort to VerizonaEUR™s well-received neutrality plea, has now stated for the record that it will keep filters active as long as music and video sharing continues to occur within its aEURoetubeaEUR complex, reports Mike Sachoff of WebProNews today. Indeed, though Comcast for a long […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
The Public Library of Law
The Public Library of Law: What is the Public Library of Law? Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That’s why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law – to make it easy to find the law online. PLoL is the largest free law library in the world, […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T
Ubiquitous caffeine conglomerate Starbucks has ended its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile in favor of one with AT&T.
February 2008 / 2 min.
Who Protects Your Cloud Data?
Web Worker Daily - Who Protects Your Cloud Data?: Yet in a world of imperfect hardware and software, as well as regulatory and legal issues, choosing one company for storage is still ultimately a gamble. It may be unthinkable that an EMC or Amazon or Google could fail, but it’s not impossible. No matter how […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
The Open Contract
Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab - The Open Contract:A Fred Wilson makes an excellent case for why users should be more aware of where their data is being harvested. He raises concerns about GoogleaEUR™s aggressive march toward what can be loosely described as a data monopoly, where the scale of the pool of data creates a barrier […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Social Networks - Why You Should Care
Slaw: Social Networks - Why You Should Care: How can you leverage emerging knowledge about social networking? Here are some suggestions: Use social sites for screening applicants Use social sites for alumni (Hill and Knowlton and Siemens did this instead of creating their own internal alumni databases) Use social sites for recruitment (Ernst & Young […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Will Starbucks Wi-Fi soon be free?
Computerworld - Prediction: Starbucks Wi-Fi will soon be free: When Starbucks introduced for-pay Wi-Fi in 2002, it seemed like a great deal (especially for business customers who could expense it). But five years later, the model appears old and stale and ready for a complete overhaul. Prediction: Starbucks will start rolling out free Wi-Fi access […]
October 2007 / 2 min.