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Siri gets big ups on the newly-redesigned Patexia. My criticisms of Apple obviously don’t preclude an appreciation for the company’s achievements. Next up: a withering analysis of how Apple is cynically using children in their quest to dominate e-publishing…
August 25, 2011 9:03 AM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
Time Warner Cable will be offering Slingbox streaming for free to its wideband Internet customers, a potential landmark decision in the ongoing tension between content providers, cable companies, and Internet TV solutions.
On Tuesday, Time Warner announced that it planned to subsidize the cost [...]
August 16, 2011 9:06 AM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
The latest beta release of Google’s Chrome shows the increasingly popular browser becoming more powerful by making the embedded Native Client (NaCl) framework on by default, the Web Audio API, and support for Mac OS X Lion features.
Native Client has been hailed as [...]
By James Lee Phillips | August 8, 2011 8:43 AM EDT
A United States Federal judge has given a seal of approval to the summary seizure of foreign websites.
Rojadirecta may or may not have been a pirate website; that was not the issue that was decided upon on Thursday. The issue before the court [...]
August 7, 2011 8:14 AM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
It was 20 years ago today. No, not Sgt. Pepper — the World Wide Web, the Internet as we know it, which became public on August 6th, 1991.
Tim Berners-Lee inaugurated the World Wide Web in typically understated fashion, nothing more than a project [...]
August 2, 2011 7:50 AM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Mozilla’s Firefox to become the number two browser in the UK, according to market share metrics provided by StatCounter.
The difference is still quite slim — 22.12% to 21.65 — but it represents a significant shift in the directions [...]
July 28, 2011 10:09 AM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
BT has been forced to block a filesharing site in a judgement hailed by Hollywood copyright investors and lobbyists.
Justice Arnold of the Chancery Division of the High Court ruled that BT (British Telecommunications) must block Newzbin2, a filesharing portal, because an estimated 70% [...]
July 28, 2011 8:48 AM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
The IEEE has completed work on the ‘white space Internet’ standard, a set of specifications and guidelines that allow wireless network in the old analog TV airwaves.
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) announced the 802.22 standard on Wednesday, over a year [...]
July 11, 2011 6:57 PM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
Since last week, a controversy has been building concerning a deal between ISPs and copyright organizations to issue “copyright alerts” to users, and punish further offenses with “mitigation measures”. While some hail the deal, others find it a big step in a very dangerous [...]
Saturday, July 9, 2011 10:05 AM EDT | by James Lee Phillips
A senator on Friday confirmed that Google chairman Eric Schmidt has agreed to testify before the Senate in an antitrust investigation.
“I’m pleased that Mr. Schmidt has agreed to testify at the Antitrust Subcommittee hearing,” said Senator Michael {“Mike”) Lee (R-Utah) in a [...]
