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P2P Traffic Expected to Double by 2014
Ernesto at TorrentFreak reports that forecasts “from Cisco's Visual Networking Index reveal that P2P traffic is predicted to grow to more than 7 Petabytes per month by 2014." He further states that “this is more than double the amount of data P2P traffic generated in 2009." To be sure, this statistic refers to traffic on the ...
Lawyers, Nations Clamor for Google Wi-Fi Data
A hard drive with perhaps several hundred gigabytes of internet surfers private data resides under lock and key in a Portland, Oregon, federal courthouse. Regulators and private lawyers across Europe and the United States are demanding, and in some cases obtaining, access to data that Google sniffed for the past three years from unsecured Wi-Fi hot ...
Flickr Loves Facebook
Social photo-sharing site Flickr has, at long last, added some much-need social networking integration to its online service. You can now simultaneously post your photos to Flickr and Facebook. Only photos you set as “public" will appear on your Facebook Wall, however, as the new sharing options respect your photos' privacy settings. But don't be confused ...
Decibel: Music Metadata on Steroids
Remember pouring over album liner notes to learn who played that great sax solo on the new Stones album? OK maybe you're too young for that, but there have probably been times when you wanted to learn more about the track you were listening to. New startup Decibel trys to solve that problem by ...
Google Seeks U.S. and European Support on China Censorship
Google Inc. may have pulled its search engine out of mainland China, but it's still pressing U.S. and European governments to take a stand on censorship as an unfair barrier to free trade. The Internet giant's top lawyer, David Drummond, said Wednesday that pressure from Western nations is “the only way that it's going to change, ...
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
If you're reading this blog post on a computer, mobile phone or e-reader, please stop what you're doing immediately. You could be making yourself stupid. And whatever you do, don't click on the links in this post. They could distract you from the flow of my beautiful prose and narrative. This is is the alarm currently ...
ArtistData Has Now Made 3.75 Million Updates
Adds 7 New Syndication Partners ArtistData recently delivered the 3.75 millionth syndicated update on behalf of its artist members. They've also made their syndication offering more powerful by adding 7 more sites to their official list, bringing the total number of sites who pull content from them to 28. “ArtistData is clearly becoming the industry's hub ...
21st-Century Technology Has Caught up to '70s-era Quadraphonic Recording
Hear and Now: “Dismal failure" may be the kindest way to describe quad. To music fans for whom even cassette tapes are a quaint throwback, here's a real obscurity: Quadraphonic sound systems were an experiment launched in 1970. Music came out of four speakers spread around the room--guitars over there, vocals over here, drums all around. ...
Apple Shuts Down Online-Music Service Lala
Apple quietly shut down Lala on Tuesday. It acquired the online-music service last year. Gives no indication of plans. When visitors and members attempted to access Lala on Tuesday, they found a placeholder page, saying, “The Lala service has been discontinued as of May 31st, 2010." It didn't provide any other information on the page. Speculation ...
