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- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- How the world watched the Olympics online
- How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Aerielle i2i Stream
- Wireless music sharing isn't a new concept--just take a look at the Microsoft Zune, which lets you beam songs to other Zune owners with the press of a button. The problem with the Zune is that everyone you want to share with must have that specific brand of MP3 player....
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- U.S. Internet down by law, not market
- U.S. Internet down by law, not marketPlease refrain from the BS, Dana[i]ISPs are free to set terms and conditions of service, but if those terms become onorous the consumer can simply change carriers[/i]And we cannot?If I do not like Comcast I can move to Verizon, Cavalier, AOL, ATX, the list...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Yahoo launches Fire Eagle: Gauging my personal ROI
- Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a location management service that is the latest step in the company's effort to add social networking features to its portfolio of sites and open its platform. The company describes Fire Eagle as a way "to store and manage information about their...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- DVB-H and government overreach
- Germany is facing difficulties finding a workable business model for the mandatory DVB-H mobile video broadcasting standard. Perhaps the problem is that governments are trying to impose technology standards ahead of time -- a strategy that, from an economics standpoint, is questionable. by John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdles
- The opening Olympic ceremony in Beijing is underway just don't expect to watch them live. That'll happen later on Friday so the Web doesn't cannibalize TV for NBC. It's one of many hurdles you must clear to watch a little Olympic video. But I can live with...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Google has Olympic fever
- Since Google is spending a lot of time and money making sure they are the number one search engine in every country, or at least trying to, it's no surprise that Google has been looking at the Olympics as a huge opportunity that can't be missed. According...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- IOC puts Beijing Games highlights on YouTube
- Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube. BEIJING--Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the video-sharing site YouTube, owned by Google, under an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, the IOC said in a...
- News items 2008-08-05
- Tech ‘Tips’ for Beijing Visitors
- Tech ‘Tips’ for Beijing VisitorsBeijing VisitorsYour points are valid and need to be raised for the awareness of those fortunate enough to make the trip.Thought ZDnet was a technology space? The two videos posted reflect items captured on camera that reflect a negitive response of the people. Which...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- TubeGuard (exe)
- Monitor video downloads on your pc or network with TubeGuard. You can't control or stop the download of undesirable content from YouTube, Facebook, Google Video or any of the other thousands of sites broadcasting video 'they can't monitor', but now you can. TubeGuard works by discretely making copies of all...
- Software downloads 2008-07-29
- D-Link Xtreme N Duo Media Router DIR-855 - wireless router
- We pitted the D-Link Xtreme N Duo Media Router DIR-855 against the only other true dual-band router we've reviewed, the Linksys WRT610N. The DIR-855 beat the WRT610N in overall throughput performance, but its design and desktop setup application couldn't compete. Both routers offer about the same range; the WRT610N provides...
- Product reviews 2008-07-18
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 2)
- As you know from my previous post, it has been an absolute battle to try and get broadband connectivity to my new house in Canterbury. All the other seemingly complicated "hardware based" products like electricity, gas and water supplies have been easy to set up and continue flowing. So why...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Comcast: We won't bump Vonage over network management
- Vonage and Comcast said Wednesday that they will collaborate to "address the reasonable network management of Internet services." That's a fancy way to say that Comcast won't bump Vonage from its network even though they compete. Under the pact, which is a bit sketchy,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Broadcast or communicate?
- When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Top domains by time spent browsing per month in UK in March 2008
- Domain Company Total Total Total 2:24:58 facebook.com Facebook 1:44:47 three.co.uk Hutchison Whampoa Limited 1:30:51 sky.com British Sky Broadcasting Group 1:15:28 live.com Microsoft Corporation 1:11:06 bbc.co.uk BBC 0:48:10 Source: mMetrics by NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autos
- Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autosMaybe just maybeChrysler should start working on the quality of their cars and leave the installation of gizmos to car owners who like modding their cars. Back to the basics, a quality product that can hold a candle to the likes of Toyota. Disclaimer:...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Developing a Video Over IP Internet Broadcasting Network
- RTVI is a 24-hour Russian language TV network that serves a worldwide Russian-speaking audience. The challenge was that the public internet is not perfect; in fact, after monitoring the IP video circuit between Moscow and New York, it can be seen that there are over 1,000 lost packets per hour,...
- Case studies 2008-06-26
- Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here
- The digital television transition has begun. And it has little to do with Feb. 17, 2009. Yah, that's the date that all local TV broadcasters have to be sending out all their signals in digital form. And there are going to be a handful of clueless TV...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
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