Technology News

Is Your ISP Fouling Your 'Net Connection? Find Out

Source: PC Magazine
August 6, 2008

Are you familiar with Robb Topolski? He's the guy who originally figured out Comcast was 'playing' with BitTorrent streams. Though scores of people were affected, it took a real propeller head geek to understand what was going on and blow the (Cap'n Crunch) whistle.. Robb will not be on the Comcast Christmas card list this year. As of today the Electronic Freedom Foundation has begun to democratize Robb's work. EFF calls it the Switzerland Network Testing Tool, named after the ...

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Dish Network Unexpectedly Loses Subscribers

Source: PC Magazine
August 5, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. satellite television provider DISH Network Corp reported a surprise quarterly loss in subscribers as it lost ground to cable and phone competitors amid a weaker economy, sending its shares down more than 5 percent. Although the subscriber loss meant lower installation costs for DISH, which helped boost its second-quarter profit to above Wall Street expectations, analysts said on Monday the customer loss boded ill for the company's growth prospects. “This is not pretty. It's the ...

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Google, Microsoft, Others Asked About Data Collection

Source: PC Magazine
August 5, 2008

A House panel is ramping up its battle against behavioral advertising by requesting that major ISPs and Internet companies provide detailed information about how they collect and store information about Web users' Internet activity. “Online users have a right to explicitly know when their broadband provider is tracking their activity and collecting potentially sensitive and personal information," Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce's Internet subcommittee, said Friday. Markey and Republican subcommittee members ...

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New Website for Jazz Chords, Lyrics and Community: jazzyourass.com!

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2008

A new website especially for jazz musicians has been lauched: JazzYourAss.com Here you can find chords and sheets of jazz standards as well as the lyrics on one page. Furthermore the site features exciting community features as well as a tool to figure out almost all jazz scales and chords for the guitar. The owners of this page are updating the community about their plans and new updates in a blog. The layout of the page still seems to be ...

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Studio Recording the Trap Set

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2008

Recording Drums

The drum kit can be one of the most time-consuming and frustrating of instruments to record, so it's worth taking a structured approach.

The phenomenal advances in integrated drum machines and sample-based drum sources controlled by sequencers mean that few of us bother recording real drum kits any more. However, there are still a large number of drummers out there (they haven't all been caught yet!) and some people still like the sound of real drums. So this ...

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Apple a Day/ AT&T Remain Monogamous

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2008

Apple, AT&T Extend Monogamous Relationship

Non-AT&T subscribers who want iPhones: Stop waiting for Apple to open the phone to your network, because it's not happening anytime soon.

AT&T and Apple have extended their monogamous relationship through 2009, according to a report in USA Today. On the plus side, the deal keeps iPhone costs down. On the minus side, if you're not already an AT&T customer you'll have to switch networks or hack the handset to take advantage of the ever-so-popular ...

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FCC Chastises Comcast for Blocking Internet Users' File Sharing

Source: Michael Ricci
August 3, 2008

Supporters of net neutrality cheer the move, but the presidential election could change everything.

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators issued a warning to all Internet service providers Friday with a sharp rebuke of Comcast Corp. for blocking some customers from using file-sharing technology. By a 3-2 vote, the Federal Communications Commission found that the cable company failed to tell its subscribers about the blocking, lied about it when confronted by the commission and tried to cripple online video sites that compete ...

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Recording Acoustic Guitars in Studio

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2008

Recording Acoustic Guitars in the Control Room

Like a lot of musicians, I tend to wear several hats in the recording studio. Along with engineering and production, I do a lot of my own acoustic guitar work. The issue here is that in order to effectively engineer and play acoustic guitar at the same time, I'm forced to record in the control room so that I can run my Pro Tools rig. Over time, I've cobbled together an approach to ...

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