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- Judge: Webcasters owe ASCAP $100m
- A federal judge ruled that that webcasters owe ASCAP – one of three major performing rights organizations representing songwriters – a flat 2.5 percent cut of music revenues. It's a big chunk of change. For just the year 2006, it will cost AOL, Yahoo and Real...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Webcasting, Webcaster, ASCAP, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Record labels getting better at detecting P2P
- An article in Ars Technica points to a recent increase in copyright infringement notices being sent to universities. While the Record Industry Association of America RIAA claims that it has not changed its procedures, it did note that record labels are constantly improving their ability to detect peer-to-peer traffic...
- Tags: Ars Technica, P2P, University, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Follow up on .edu blogs
- Last week, I posted a blog on the Pickering Institute's efforts to sell blogs with a .edu top level domain ("Shut down pi.edu"). Yesterday, Ars Technica posted a new article with some updates and additional information on the demise of the $50 .edu blogs. As the Ars article...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- USAF ready for cyber offensive
- ZDNet UK has an exclusive interview with LTGEN Robert Elder Jr., who said that the Air Force Cyber Command is set to become operatational Oct. 1. Cyber Command will not just fight off "cyber" attacks from foreign countries (read "China") and terrorist groups but will go...
- Tags: Ars Technica, R&D, Adversary, Air Force, Research & Development, Government, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Are feds involved in bid to undo state open govt law?
- Did you know that there are more than 40 so-called Fusion Centers across the U.S.? A Fusion Center is a top-secret site where federal and state officials meet to share, analyze and redistribute information on "all hazards, all threats," as Ars Technica explains. Here's a map of...
- Tags: Ars Technica, EPIC, Law, Fusion Center, Government, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Open XML takes another step forward
- Looks like Microsoft's OOXML is continuing its march towards approval. Doug Mahugh of Microsoft posted Friday that: "I and the other members of the US delegation to the BRM ... are recommending that the US maintain its Approve position on DIS 29500. The next step will be for the...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Standard, XML, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Iso standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21
- Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21Not just security...Just as at a corporation where the company owns the computer, not you; in the military, the US Government owns the machine, the network its hooked up to,and everything els about it. As such the government has the right to restrict how those systems are used -...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, security, government
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- New ebook reader too expensive, slick features
- The iRex iLiad (any chance we could dispense with the lower-case i prefixes?) was recently reviewed by Ars Technica. While at $600, the reader is too expensive by far for mainstream (or even not-so-mainstream) educational applications, it does have some impressive features that hint at great applications for this...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Board, Stylus, E-books, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Lawrence Lessig, congresscritter nominee
- TWiL regular John Palfrey announced a great idea last week while we were recording the forthcoming episode: a Facebook group drafting Professor Lessig for a recently vacated Congressional seat. Says John, "It's high time we had our first true Free Culture candidate for public...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Facebook, Professor, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Book publishers finally getting their digital acts together?
- Not quite, but an interesting post on Ars Technica suggests that they might finally be turning a corner in terms of providing digital content, instead of relying on traditional paper publishing. Why do we care here in Ed Tech? Because paper publishing costs schools exorbitant sums in textbooks...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Pricing, E-books, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Personal Technology, Security, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- MWSF08: 'Something in the air' banner spotted
- Wired's Gadget Lab caught wind of this cool banner flying at Macworld Expo's Moscone's South Hall today. The banner, which reads "2008. There's something in the air," is hanging above the escalators going down to the venerable exhibition hall. Could it be an allusion to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Ars Technica, Wired Inc., Banner, Nullriver, Wi-Fi, Digital Music, Wireless, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- New SSD from Intel points to serious UMPC expansion
- Ars Technica is running a story on Intel's new solid state drive SSD for inclusion in ultra mobile computing platforms. It is designed to replace the USB-based solid state drives in such devices as its Classmate PCs, increasing performance, reducing power consumption, and drastically reducing size and weight. ...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Ultramobile PC, Solid State Disk, Intel Corp., Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- New Intel architectures hold promise for a new crop of educational laptops
- Ars Technica is featuring a piece on new chips from Intel specifically aimed at the low-cost, low-power consumption market, currently dominated by Intel's own Classmate, the OLPC XO, and the Asus Eee. According to the article, the so-called Diamondville chips are targeted at applications like OLPC...
- Tags: ASUS, Ars Technica, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Intel Architecture, One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Verizon drop suit to change spectrum auction roles
- Verizon had been very, very unhappy about the FCC's open access rules for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. In September, the wireless carrier sued the FCC to block the rules, saying vaguely that the rules "arbitrary, capricious [and] unsupported by substantial evidence." Today, Verizon gave up the...
- Tags: FCC, Ars Technica, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Federal Government, Government, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- OLPC moves from Give 1 Get 1 to just give a bunch
- Ars Technica is reporting on OLPC's latest efforts to jumpstart large-scale production of its XO laptops. While their "Give 1 Get 1" campaign has received some attention in the blogosphere, ongoing difficulties for the group in terms of reaching a critical mass of orders to begin production at the...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, O, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Windows Home Server fan club beats me up for asking if WHS is Microsoft's next flop
- Literally within minutes of each other strangely coincidental, I received two e-mails -- one from a colleague and the other from someone who concealed their identity -- that basically told me I was out of line for questioning the chances that Microsoft's Windows Home Server will succeed. My colleague...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Flamingkittens, Sue, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- AltLaw offers a legal research alternative for federal courts
- AltLaw, a free legal database created by Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, has officially launched, Ars Technica reports. Ars describes the service: The database currently provides full-text search of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions from the last decade or so. It also allows for...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Database, Goal, U.S. Supreme Court, Service, AltLaw, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- EFF sues DOJ for lobbying data
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain records on telecom lobbying efforts, Ars Technica reports. EFF is seeking documentation of lobbying around amendments to the FISA law and the granting of immunity for surveillance activities. What connections and...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Telecommunications Company, Government, U.S. Department Of Justice, Bush Administration, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Chinese market major target for Intel's OLPC competitor
- In more OLPC-related news, Intel is working directly with the Chinese government to get their Classmate PCs into the hands of Chinese kids before OLPC can get their XO off the ground. Ars Technica is reporting on Intel's efforts in China: Intel's interest in China should...
- Tags: China, Ars Technica, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Intel inside OLPC?
- Ars technica is reporting that Intel is aggressively working to convince the makers of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child, whose actual product is called the XO) to include Intel chips in its design. OLPC is welcoming the company that once called it's product a "gadget" to contribute designs:...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
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