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Tenenbaum verdict: $675K

OK the the verdict is in. Joel Tenenbaum has been assessed $675,000, or $22,500 per song, for illegally distributing 30 songs via Kazaa, Ars Technica reports. That's not nearly as bad as I had feared, since it's within the realm of "normal" statutory damages (up to $30,000)....

Tags: Ars Technica, Verdict, Joel Tenenbaum, Tenenbaum, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-31

New Microsoft ad pits Zune Pass vs. Apple iTunes

The price point strategy that Microsoft has been pushing in its Laptop Hunters ads is moving into the downloadable arena with a new commercial touting that the $15 monthly price of Microsoft's Zune Pass service is far more palatable than a potential $30,000 in iTunes fees for the same 30,000...

Tags: Ars Technica, Advertisement, Song, Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Windows 7 build 7077 screenshots leaked

Screenshots of Windows 7 build 7077 have started to appear around the Web, with reports that the 32-bit version has been fully leaked and is downloadable from several websites. Ars Technica reports that there are no noticeable differences between build 7068...

Tags: Ars Technica, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Ripping off iPhone apps (updated)

Ars Technica posted a story about a new scourge plaguing the App Store: 100% complete app ripoffs. An app called Classics: Jane Austen (sorry, no link love) pictured at right, is a complete rip off of an excellent iPhone book reader called Classics ($3), pictured on the left. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Ars Technica, Wiki, Online Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Rockers fight white space; FCC unmoved

The over-50 rocker set has piled onto the anti-white space campaign, Ars Technica reports. Among the musicians signing on to the opposition: Neil Diamond, The Bangles, Don Henley, Mac Davis, Kenny G, Vanessa Williams, Peter Frampton, Rick Springfield, The Scorpions, Meat Loaf, DJ Green Lantern, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, and...

Tags: FCC, Federal Government, Desktops, Government, Hardware, Richard Koman, Ars Technica, Adobe PDF

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Judge: Webcasters owe ASCAP $100m

A federal judge ruled that that webcasters owe ASCAP â€" one of three major performing rights organizations representing songwriters â€" 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: jason D. O'Grady, Banner, Apple iPhone, Wi-Fi, Digital Music, Wireless, Digital Media, Ars Technica, Wired Inc., Consumer Electronics, Nullriver, Personal Technology

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