internet

First hand experience with Bandwidth charging

Todd posted earlier about Time Warner experimenting with bandwidth caps and charges for overuse. This type of plan was standard in Australia when broadband was introduced and there is no such thing as an unlimited plan here. After a number…

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Apple

Multitouch trackpad goodness

I understand the desire for an ultra-light laptop, but there has always seemed to be a limit to which people will sacrifice functionality for weight. In the case of the MacBook Air announced at MacWorld that missing functionality will be…

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Music

A rhetorical question for the music industry

Sony could not help but hear the commentary on its decision to release DRM free music in the worst way possible, just about every media outlet and blog panned them severely. Less than a week later they have announced they…

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ces

One sweet monitor

Todd, while you are at CES see if you can slip one of these in your back pocket. Alienware (now owned by Dell) have released a 2880×900, 3 foot wide, .02ms curved screen monitor. It looks fantastic but I am…

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MP3

Sony, will you ever learn!

I despair of Sony ever deciding to do anything to make their customers life simpler. Sony-BMG have announced they are facing up to reality and releasing music without DRM. In typical style for the current Sony management, they cannot even…

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Science

CO2 back to petrol

The frustration with the attitude we have taken in addressing global climate change concerns is some of the cool technologies that could be already but have not been able to get funding. Now that the general public opinion, and therefore…

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Privacy

Good advise on protecting your privacy

Tom Lee over on Techdirt has a well written post on Scoble’s banning from Facebook for violating its privacy terms. The dispute in question is that Robert used a Plaxo script (a beta developed script written by Plaxo) to transfer…

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