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Supposedly Time Warner Cable (RoadRunner) starts traffic shaping (at some times of day, in some markets, etc....) This is their response to the issue of a very small percentage of users who constantly utilize all their bandwidth (so, almost always BitTorrent clients or Newsgroup readers.) Those users (for those applications) will see their bandwidth being throttled. Attempts to get around this (by, say, running your BitTorrent client on a non-standard port, or encrypting the traffic) will be seen as a violation of the TOS.
- jim 6-11-2007 9:00 pm [link] [add a comment]

Melodeo plans music service from iTunes playlists

- mark 6-06-2007 9:24 pm [link] [1 comment]

Nintendo Wii outsells Sony PS3 5-fold in Japan

- mark 6-06-2007 9:23 pm [link] [add a comment]

External I/O Ports

I'm doing some backups using external disks -- bare SATA II drives stuffed into USB external disk cases. One of the cases has eSATA support at SATA II speeds: 3 Gbps. At work, where I'm doing the backups, I have to live with USB 2.0 speeds -- 480 Mbps -- but at home I have a machine with an eSATA port on the back panel.

It just kind of struck me this evening ... 3 Gbps. Sweet. Screw USB. Screw Firewire. And Firewire 800 can go pound sand. 1.5 Gbps eSATA? I don't think so.

Three. Motherfucking. Gig.

How long until everything supports that data rate?
- mark 6-06-2007 10:52 am [link] [add a comment]

New AACS "fix" hacked in a day

- mark 6-05-2007 11:40 am [link] [add a comment]

In what's shaping up as an electronics industry trial of the century_between two incompatible, high-definition video-disc formats_the holdout juror is Ken Graffeo, Universal Home Video executive vice president of HD strategic marketing. And he may very well upset the whole case.
- mark 6-05-2007 11:36 am [link] [4 comments]

The Apple iTune DRM-free tracks contain user account info. I predicted they would do this with watermarking, but the info appears to be in the clear.
- mark 6-02-2007 4:14 am [link] [1 comment]

Google, EMI deal gives YouTube users access to music label's videos, clips
- mark 5-31-2007 11:05 pm [link] [add a comment]

DVR maker TiVo swings to first-ever quarterly profit

... but subscribers down.
- mark 5-31-2007 11:04 pm [link] [add a comment]

Apple TV to play YouTube clips
ADDED MEMORY OFFERED AS OPTION FOR CUSTOMERS


- mark 5-31-2007 11:02 pm [link] [add a comment]

Apple TV: What It Can't Do
- mark 5-14-2007 9:12 pm [link] [add a comment]

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its user interface and other design elements infringe on a further 65. OpenOffice.org is accused of infringing 45, along with 83 more in other free and open-source programs, according to Fortune.
- mark 5-14-2007 11:33 am [link] [add a comment]

U.S. senators join battle over Internet royalty rates
Fri May 11, 2007 5:48 AM IST160

By Sue Zeidler

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two senators fired the latest salvo in a battle over copyright payments for Web radio broadcasters on Thursday with a bill to annul a pending royalty rate increase they say threatens the fledgling industry.
- mark 5-13-2007 12:29 am [link] [add a comment]

3D printers
- steve 5-08-2007 9:02 am [link] [4 comments]

Bill would nullify Internet radio royalty increase

- mark 4-30-2007 9:23 am [link] [2 comments]

were #15!
- dave 4-29-2007 3:58 am [link] [1 comment]

share the wifi
- mark 4-25-2007 9:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

VC-1 can be licensed, but virtually no royalty cash goes to Microsoft

Microsoft claimed to have invented Windows Media Video 9, and tried to undermine the acceptance of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 by saying WMV9 would be cheaper. (They also said it was better, which was, how to say, "optimistic".)

In an attempt to broaden the acceptance of WMV9, Microsoft went to SMPTE to have it turned into an open standard, called VC-1. In the process, it became clear that WMV9, um, "shared" some technology with AVC. Almost all of the essential patents belong to other companies.
- mark 4-18-2007 5:12 am [link] [1 comment]

Why Apple can't sell movies
- mark 4-13-2007 10:04 pm [link] [add a comment]

Apple Hits The 100-Million Mark With iPod
- mark 4-10-2007 12:53 am [link] [add a comment]