Tag Archives: Internet

The Grey Album episode may turn out to be a watershed moment in popular culture. We shall see. Since we participated in the Grey Tuesday protest (although we didn’t host the album), we are on the organization’s mailing list. I just got this: Dear Grey Tuesday Folks, Grey Tuesday has …

Jim Louderback provides a lively and understandable description of how phone service works, with an eye toward the VoIP future: To understand how VOIP works, we first need to understand POTS. Remember the tin can-and-string intercom systems we all dabbled with as kids? The original telephone network was more like …

AGAIN, we are at the cutting edge of the zeitgeist – USA Today notes that the “adult” entertainment industry often leads the way in technology: Online pornographers have been among the first to exploit new technology for more than a decade – from video-streaming and fee-based subscriptions to pop-up ads …

For the latest round of RIAA lawsuits against alleged file sharers, they tried to lump over 200 in a single suit. A federal judge said no on Friday: The Recording Industry Association of America grouped 203 so-called “John Doe” defendants — “John Doe” because their identities are not yet known …

We are of course always trying to improve our economic situation by improving our content, getting the word out, increasing traffic, and selling more ads and doing more Amazon business. We still operate at a loss, but our situation has improved very steadily over time and I am confident we …

Austin is literally putting music in the air at this year’s SxSW Music Festival: Citizens of Austin, Texas, have free wireless Internet access in nearly 30 restaurants and coffee shops around the city. Thanks to the South by Southwest music festival, patrons also enjoy the added benefit of free music. …

We mentioned broadband over power lines over a year ago – now it’s a reality in Cincinnati: A unit of Cinergy Corp. today will become the nation’s first electric utility to offer high-speed Internet service to customers via its power lines, turning every electrical outlet in homes or offices into …

Metallica is joining Phish, String Cheese Incident and many others in offering digital downloads of concerts: In a continuing effort to provide their fans with the most unique services, Metallica, along with technology partners CinemaNow.com and nugs.net enterprises, today announced the launch of a new Web site, www.LiveMetallica.com. The site …

Special, super-duper NASA press conference on Mars today at 2pm EST: space-dudes have something important to announce. Little green men? Large purple women? Flesh-eating bugs? Or maybe traces of water? Info here: Significant findings from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now exploring Meridiani Planum on Mars, will be announced at …

Security firm mi2g offers some fascinating insight into the malware epidemic: As new variants of malware continue to arrive faster than they can be analysed or remedied, the malware tsunami is overwhelming both its victim organisations as well as anti-virus toolkit companies and security professionals across the world. Most security …