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Featured Downloads at MTV.com |
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10:32 pm EDT, Jun 12, 2002 |
MTV.com sells a number of tracks in WMA format. Their site is powered by rioport, which builds ecommerce software for selling DRMed music files. Featured Downloads at MTV.com |
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Sony & Universal to sell liquid audio files for 99 cents!! |
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6:22 pm EDT, Jun 12, 2002 |
"Acknowledging that online piracy is forcing dramatic changes in the music industry, the world's two largest record companies are poised to make it easy and cheap for fans to buy rather than steal songs off the Internet." These aren't MP3's, they are liquid audio files, which means the song contains a code that is tied back to your credit card number. If the song is found in the wild you can be targetted. Liquid Audio has been pursuing this for YEARS now. Its not totally secure. Its not totally unreasonable. Its not an MP3. They'll have a lot of marketing to do to convince people to use this format. They may succeed. When I want to listen to a song, I want to listen to it, and I don't want to deal with slow downloads, choppy files, bad file names, etc... If they do this right they may fix the telecom industry... Sony & Universal to sell liquid audio files for 99 cents!! |
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Salon.com Technology | Not the real Slim Shady |
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12:05 am EDT, Jun 11, 2002 |
"Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?" Salon.com Technology | Not the real Slim Shady |
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Robotic fly gets its buzz |
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7:36 pm EDT, Jun 7, 2002 |
Summary from ICT Today: The University of California in Berkeley has made a breakthrough in its programme to develop a robot fly weighing less than a paper clip which can leave the ground and hover in mid-air. Scientists have constructed a wing mechanism that can flap and rotate at 150 times a second. Recent discoveries about the way flies use their wings have helped the project considerably. A real fly has a 'delayed stall' which enables the beating wings to have a high angle of attack and high lift at the same time. 'Wing rotation' at the bottom and top of the stroke gives the insect more lift, and 'wake capture' provides even more lift by swishing back through air it set in motion on the previous stroke. The scientists' version of the wing is made from polyester and a stainless steel strut that flaps and rotates. Still to come is a lightweight power source, a gyroscope to tell up from down, and a light sensor. A microprocessor with a small operating system has already been developed. Eventually it would carry sensors chosen for a specific use. Big brother will be watching you... Robotic fly gets its buzz |
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Radio UserLand : New tool: Weblog Neighborhood |
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1:05 am EDT, Jun 6, 2002 |
" The Weblog Neighborhood tool only looks at subscription lists. It visits all the sites you're subscribed to, looking for sites that point to their subscription list, and then harvests those, and recurses up to three levels deep (this is configurable)." Radio UserLand : New tool: Weblog Neighborhood |
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Analyze weblog interlinking |
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1:03 am EDT, Jun 6, 2002 |
"My script, bdexp, compiles a 'neighbourhood' view of a weblog URL by following the 'links to' information for that URL in Blogdex." Analyze weblog interlinking |
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Lightwave - fiber-optic communications, bandwidth access and telecommunications |
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11:47 am EDT, Jun 5, 2002 |
Schmid said further: "[Non-European nations] have access only to a very limited proportion of [European] Internet communications transmitted by [fiber] cable...only a very small proportion of intra-European Internet communications are routed via the USA....A small proportion of intra-European communications are routed via a switch in London to which the British monitoring station GCHQ has access. The majority of [European] communications do not leave the continent...more than 95% of German Internet communications are routed via a switch in Frankfurt." Now it is easy to see why the German and European Internets were convenient staging areas for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States-the perpetrators' Internet traffic had a tiny chance of being surveilled by either the United States or United Kingdom, nations that lost citizens in the New York City attack. Liikanen's emphasis on "human rights" and respect for "rules of law" last September now looks more akin to misplaced delight about keeping American and British snoopers out of the EU communications system rather than support for principles that should govern and pervade Internet use. Lightwave - fiber-optic communications, bandwidth access and telecommunications |
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TIME.com: High Tech Evolves |
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11:26 am EDT, Jun 5, 2002 |
Hrm. Crypt Digest once called Time magazine "The Magazine for people who don't think." However, they managed to interview Ray Kurzweil. This article is biological metaphors in computing. TIME.com: High Tech Evolves |
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Talk with TheStreet.com's founder |
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11:23 am EDT, Jun 5, 2002 |
"But again that's not a big use. That's a niche use. And it turned out to be a series of niche products that weren't as important to the economy as we thought, and a couple of huge wins like Amazon and eBay, although they were valued too high at certain points. " The internet doesn't matter. Talk with TheStreet.com's founder |
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News: $100K hacking contest ends in free-for-all |
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10:34 am EDT, Jun 4, 2002 |
"...a hacking competition that promised a first prize of $100,000 and which now seems to be losing its luster after hackers compromised the server that held registration details. The result is that what should have been a straightforward competition has turned into a convoluted tale of hackers attacking the wrong systems and organizers using a dubious server set-up in the first place. " What I find most interesting about this is the suggestion that the people running this contest were using it to collect personal information about key hackers. News: $100K hacking contest ends in free-for-all |
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