Technology News

Comcast to Cap Monthly Internet Use

Source: All About Jazz
August 29, 2008

Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, Thursday said it would set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month.

On Oct. 1, the cable company will update its user agreement to say that users will be allowed 250 gigabytes of traffic per month, the company announced on its Web site. Comcast has already reserved the right to cut off subscribers who use too much bandwidth each month, without specifying exactly what ...

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Man Arrested for Posting Guns 'N' Roses Songs

Source: PC Magazine
August 29, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of violating copyright laws for placing songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by rock band Guns N' Roses. Kevin Cogill, 27, who has no known direct affiliation with Guns N' Roses, posted nine tracks from the band's upcoming album “Chinese Democracy" on his Web site, said Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The long-awaited upcoming album from Guns N' Roses, a hard-rocking ...

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Greenbox Energy-Monitoring Tech Starts Trials

Source: PC Magazine
August 27, 2008

For most people in the US, there's no easy way to ascertain why the power bill is so high. There's a meter outside the house or in the basement that measures energy consumption, but why it reads the way it does remains a mystery, as do techniques for reducing those bills. But power doesn't need to be this complex, and Greenbox is just the company to make it all understandable. Greenbox was started by Jonathan Gay and Robert Tatsumi, the ...

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Democrats Criticize McCain's 'Dial-up Campaign'

Source: PC Magazine
August 27, 2008

Leading Democrats on Tuesday attacked the Bush administration's broadband policy and the technology track record of GOP presidential hopeful John McCain, while leading tech companies pushed for a more tech-savvy and innovative federal government. “The Obama campaign is the broadband campaign and the McCain campaign is the dial-up campaign," said Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecom and the Internet. Markey and other members of Congress were on hand at the ...

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Jacqui Dankworth Launches Exclusive New Website

Source: All About Jazz
August 26, 2008

The UK's leading vocalist Jacqui Dankworth, daughter of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, has just launched her new website at jacquidankworth.com. The website has been constructed in two halves. The first half is open to everyone who simply visits the site, but the second half is only open to those who join Jacqui's information service. In order to keep out spam emailers etc we need to ask you to re-register with the info service by going to the ...

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New Jazz Blog: Survival of the Cool

Source: All About Jazz
August 25, 2008

There's a new jazz blog in town, and it's just a little bit crazy. Join me, jazzfreak11, at my blog Survival of the Cool for posts about anything and everything. From spray sunscreen to puppet shows during drum solos to hip-hop songs with jazz samples and CD reviews, this blog has everything. Read opinions on all sorts of songs and styles, and find gems that I've spent hours finding/digging up/enjoying. So what are you waiting for? Check it out here. ...

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Megapixels and the Camera World

Source: All About Jazz
August 25, 2008

Megapixels, like megahertz before them, are the big consumer swindle of the camera world.

The first thing anyone asks me when they see my Canon G9 is “How many megapixels does it have?" My answer, 12, causes a swoon. The trouble is, I neither want nor need that many. My Nikon D60, with just 10 megapixels, takes better pictures, especially in low light. In fact, when Nikon announced its new P6000 two weeks ago, I groaned when I read the ...

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Google Launches Gears Location-Based API

Source: PC Magazine
August 23, 2008

Google on Friday announced the release of Gears Geolocation API, a platform designed to provide Web sites with location-based information without the aid of GPS. The new API has already been used by two third-party developers to create apps for Windows Mobile. European travel site lastminute.com used the platform to develop an app for locating nearby restaurants, while social discovery engine Rummble created an app that lets users find nearby locations recommended by friends. Geolocation API can use GPS, cell-tower ...

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