Hollywood take note: Sony Pictures is the sixth (and final) major movie studio to pull up stakes in South Korea, where blazing fast, ubiquitous broadband has sucker-punched the market for DVD sales and rentals, NewTeeVee reports today. In Korea, where average broadband penetration… Read More »
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Mobile productivity mavens are likely already familiar with DataViz Documents to Go. This application is outstanding for working with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on a handheld. It also includes a file compression utitlity and PDF viewer. The mobile productivity suite has been around… Read More »
Given the medical theme today it’s time for some off-topic fun. You can go to getyourdrugon.com and make your own medication for what ails you. It’s frivolous, meaningless and generally pretty fun. Thanks to the Medical Quack for this one. Here’s my drug of… Read More »
For any of us who recognize that personal privacy on the web is an illusion, the response to a Congressional inquiry asking how various ISPs and online portals target advertising and collect data will come as no surprise. Aside from the use of deep-packet inspection… Read More »
Intel Executive VP Sean Maloney, at CES here in Las Vegas, said the company will have a “middle-of-[this]-year-release” for its WiMAX PC Card, a device that could help accelerate end users’ embrace of the nascent wireless technology. Despite some recent bumps in the road for… Read More »
Neuf Cegetel, the French competitive telecom carrier has just started selling a 50 megabits per second fiber-to-the-home connection that costs about 30 Euros (about $40) a month. In comparison, 50 Mbps costs a while lot of money in the US. Verizon, Surewest and Cablevision… Read More »
In the tradition of Nobody’s Watching, a canceled pilot called “Three Strikes” developed for Comedy Central has found its way onto YouTube. The show, as the Los Angeles Times points out, is properly pedigreed: produced by Jon Stewart, written by writers from “King… Read More »
Viacom sued YouTube in U.S. District Court today for more than $1 billion in damages. According to U.S. copyright law, when a copyright owner’s claim of willful infringement is upheld, the court can award damages of up to $150,000. That would be for every instance… Read More »
The notorious DrunkenBatman has found a pretty big bug in OS X. Granted, it won’t affect your everyday work (unless you somehow find these kinds of files), but basically, the image on the linked page will crash any app that uses the image processing API in… Read More »
Business 2.0: City Telecom, a Hong Kong company that offers 100 megabits per second–65 times as fast as a typical DSL connection–for just $25 a month, with no phone or cable strings attached. Ricky Wong, founder and chief executive of City Telecom, describes his… Read More »
MacBook Pro. I hate the name. I mean, I really hate the name. Say it out loud and you’re almost guaranteed to mess it up. Despite its horrendous name, the MBP (as I will call it for the duration of this article), certainly has a lot… Read More »
Portland Tribune has an update on the Enron Broadband fiasco, and the sales of Portland, Oregon based fiber assets. In her story,”For sale: Enron’s fiber network: A disgraced telecom’s global dream ends up on the auction block,” Kristina Brenneman, writes about who could buy the… Read More »
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