In a case against an unrepresented defendant the RIAA has included a statement into the brief for summary judgment Defendant admitted that he converted these sound recordings from their original format to the .mp3 format for his and his wife’s…
Report in from the DragonMount blog that a new author has been chosen to complete the Wheel of Time series. When Robert Jordan died earlier this year he was midway through the 12th and last book of the Wheel of…
IBM has developed a light based processor interconnect that will allow processors to communicate between each other much faster, at lower heat than the current copper tracks used. While light has been used as a communication method for a long time,…
Todd made some comments in podcast #321 about audience rates stagnating for some major podcasts like TWiT. In yesterdays post he also discussed podcast advertising ROI being very good, which you would think would be driving more podcasters putting in…
How do I love irony, let me count the ways. The MPAA has a stated hard line stance against infringement of copyright. “pirates are thieves, plain and simple” and has vigorously prosecuted both direct infringers and producers of DRM breaking…
A lot troubles me about the advertising revenue base that props up large amounts of the Internet. The lack of any solid information on the success or failure of these type of ads causes alarm bells for me. When I…
In conjunction with its European launch, Google Street View will now be proactively blurring any images it captures that would reveal someones identity. Objects like faces and license plates will be obscured in the European version without the captured people…