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Oct 31 2005

Sprint Launches Mobile Music Store, Where is Mobile P2P?

From the MSNBC article:
Sprint Nextel is hoping to bite into Apple Computer’s core by launching the first US music download service direct to mobile phones.
The Sprint Music Store will enable subscribers of the third-largest mobile carrier to choose from 250,000 songs from all four major music labels and download them for $2.50 each using [...]

Oct 28 2005

Is It Time To Switch To p2p Email?

As p2p elbows its way into the corporate environment, some advocates are suggesting that it’s the perfect replacement for business-critical apps like email. Should email vendors be worried?
Base your email transport on something like gnutella, they say, and you’ll diffuse message delivery across a sea of nodes. Blow up a node, and its peers will [...]

Oct 27 2005

BitTorrent Throttles Email

In a world where one p2p file sharer can soak up over a terabyte of bandwidth a month, ISPs are scrambling to pay their broadband bills while maintaining Quality of Service for bread-and-butter clients, who insist on solid email and web delivery.

Oct 26 2005

iPod Killers for Christmas Parts I, II, and III

MP3 Newswire is running a three-part series on the latest greatest digital media portables that look to take marketshare away from the iPod this holiday season. Part one, part two, and part three cover over 40 new players.

Oct 25 2005

New Xbox processor offers powerful speeds

The IBM-built chip features three customized PowerPC computing engines that can each handle two simultaneous tasks at clock speeds greater than 3 gigahertz. It was customized for Microsoft in less than 24 months from the original contract.
 
"Working with IBM gave us the flexibility to design a processor to give game developers the kind [...]

Oct 25 2005

Asia: Spam Factory of the World

In the fight against spam, Asia seems to be losing. Over the past few years, servers based in China and South Korea have become major sources of unwanted e-mail as spammers take advantage of loose regulation, low costs, and lax security.
 

Some of the spammers are locals, others are Americans who find it easy to [...]

Oct 25 2005

Veri-Sign to control ‘.com’ domain until 2012

The agreement settles a long-running dispute between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and the most powerful company under its jurisdiction.
 
The settlement comes at a time when ICANN is under attack from China, Iran and other countries that want more direct control over the domain-name system that guides traffic around [...]

Oct 24 2005

iMesh Reopens as Paid Service

For a few fearful minutes in late 2004, iMesh co-founder Talmon Marco thought Garth Brooks had sunk his company.
Marco was in New York, showing off the technology behind the new iMesh peer-to-peer music service slated for release this Tuesday. The software was supposed to identify and block virtually any copyrighted song being downloaded [...]

Oct 24 2005

FBI Net-wiretapping rules face challenges

Telecommunications firms, nonprofit organizations and educators are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to overturn the controversial rules, which dramatically extend the sweep of an 11-year-old surveillance law designed to guarantee police the ability to eavesdrop on telephone calls.
 
The regulations represent the culmination of years of lobbying by the FBI, the [...]

Oct 24 2005

“Working Late” Won’t Work Anymore

It sounded too Orwellian ever to succeed. In 2000, Korean cellular carrier SK Telecom introduced a service called "find friends" that lets others follow your every move, using a signal beamed from your handset. At the time, many wondered whether anyone would consent to such tracking.
 
But five years — and countless terrorist attacks, [...]



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