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Wireless Industry to FCC: Show Us the Spectrum
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All About Jazz
The nations wireless carriers have an answer to the nations broadband challenge and the growing interest by federal regulators in how wireless companies run their networks: Give us more of the airwaves so we can do our job.
In a filing Tuesday to the FCC, the wireless industry asked the agency to free up and auction off more spectrum, citing the growing popularity of smartphones and wireless cards essentially endorsing the view of even its harshest critics that that there ...
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Judge in Pirate Bay Appeal Removed for Bias
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All About Jazz
Categories: Yo Ho Ho The Pirate Bay saga took another twist Tuesday as one of the appellate judges set to hear the appeal of the co-founders criminal copyright convictions was removed over concerns of bias.
The Swedish judge in question, Fredrik Niemela, owns an unstated number of stock options in the music streaming service, Spotify, which has content deals with members of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Oddly, the content industry asked the Svea Court of Appeal ...
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Obama Appoints Scholar as New Copyright Czar
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All About Jazz
The “Copyleft" and the “Copyright" are both applauding the presidential appointment Friday of Victoria A. Espinel to become the nation’s first copyright czar.
Congress created the new czar position last year as part of intellectual property reform legislation.
Espinel, who requires Senate confirmation, has a past in teaching and government. Most recently, she was a visiting scholar at the George Mason University School of Law, where she taught intellectual property and international trade. The White House said she was an ...
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Behold the World's First Laser Microphone
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All About Jazz
Smoke and Lasers Could Disrupt Microphone Market David Schwartz, who laid the foundation for MP3 with his undergraduate and Ph.D. work in the 80s, has another big idea: a microphone that uses lasers and smoke to detect the minute variations in air pressure the rest of us call sound.
His invention appears to be the worlds first laser microphone, and it works by streaming smoke across a laser beam aimed at a very, very fast and sensitive photocell ...
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Twitter Syncs with AIM, Bebo, and AOL.com
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PC Magazine
On the heels of a Twitter-MySpace linkup, the micro-blogging site on Thursday announced that it is also synching with several AOL products. “As a proud partner in AOL Lifestream, Twitter will be smoothly integrated into AIM, Bebo, and AOL.com," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a blog post. Stone said that services like YouTube, Flickr, Digg, and Facebook “are also part of the action. Did I mention that our platform team has [been] working overtime lately?" Earlier this week, MySpace ...
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6 Ways to Make the Most of Twitter's 140 Characters
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HypeBot
(Updated) Artists from Trent Reznor to Amanda Palmer and Imogen Heap have shown the power of Twitter for fostering and monetizing a more direct relationship between artists and fans. Many startups also use Twitter effectively to spread their massage. But getting your point across in 140 characters or less isn't always easy. Here are 5 Ways To Make The Most Of Twitter's 140 Characters:
Substitute letters and symbols for words: “Will I C U @ 2morrow's gig?"
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MySpace Beats Facebook with Twitter Synch
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HypeBot
MySpace began rolling out new functionality today that allows users to sync their MySpace status updates with a Twitter feed. Any U.S. user can opt-in so that updates created on MySpace will appear on Twitter and posts to Twitter appear within their MySpace status & mood.
The system was created using open authentication technology OAuth which allows limited data to be shared between sites while protecting account credentials.
Syncing functionality includes:
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