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Archive for June, 2010

Google, Verizon, others sued over voice mail paten

30 Jun 2010

The other defendants were either working on getting comment or did not immediately return calls and e-mails seeking comment.
A Verizon spokeswoman provided this statement via e-mail: “We anticipated Klausner’s action. We filed a declaratory judgment action in New York federal court on August 13. We are seeking a declaration that Klausner’s visual voice [...]

Practice safe browsing with ZoneAlarm ForceField,

28 Jun 2010

(via PC Magazine)
Note: The above promo video is fairly amusing, but it has segments that are NSFW.

ZoneAlarm ForceField is a new security utility that promises bulletproof protection against browser-related threats. It normally sells for $29.95, but Check Point Software is offering it absolutely free, today only, as part of a Patch Tuesday promotion.
I haven’t [...]

See paper versions of your favorite sites

23 Jun 2010

One of my favorites from the collection of Flickr places (coverage), which I’ve put side by side with its final result below. Be sure to check out the original version on Flickr that houses the massive, 2,000-plus pixel-wide size.
(Credit:
CNET Networks)
[Via BoingBoing and DownloadSquad]
We’ve seen what Gmail, Twitter, and Delicious look like in paper, but what [...]

Print news is fading, but the content lives on

22 Jun 2010

It’s been about 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on the back of the Internet. For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog, physical world as a source of information and connections.

As the financial pressures mount–the [...]

Under the Radar Live video

18 Jun 2010

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–At 10:45 a.m. PDT, the Under the Radar conference (all stories) here recommences with two demo tracks. In the Content track we’ll hear from Comedy.com, Curse, Hollywood Interactive, and PluggedIn. In Publishing, we get AudioMicro, GumGum, Keibi, and Loud3r. You can watch the live video streams below.

And be sure to tune in [...]

Mobile subscribers really do want more choice

16 Jun 2010

The results of this survey shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone in the industry. As more people use the mobile Internet, they expect to have the same freedom to access applications that they can get on their PCs at home. Imagine the outrage if Internet service providers like AT&T or Comcast told a broadband [...]

Your Blockbuster movie download is just a drive aw

14 Jun 2010

I wasn’t at the meeting, but I have to wonder if reporters giggled at this idea:

In the opening scene of The Player, Tim Robbins’ character is meeting with writers who are pitching movie ideas they hope the Hollywood producer will agree to make. One idea is pitched to him as, “It’s Pretty Woman meets Out [...]

Xbox 360 hits 10 million sold in U.S.

14 Jun 2010

All told, Microsoft has sold 19 million Xboxes worldwide, Greenberg said.

In the U.S., according to NPD Group analyst Anita Frazier–as of the end of March, Microsoft’s rivals, Nintendo, and Sony had sold 8.8 million Wiis and 4.1 million PlayStation 3’s in the United States, respectively.

“I don’t think you can underestimate the benefit of the year [...]

Build your own Cloud with the Eucalyptus open sour

14 Jun 2010

Eucalyptus started out in the research labs at UCSB about a year ago but the coding. It’s part of an NSF funded project called V-Grads. The goal of V-Grads is to create a software infrastrucure that gives Grid and grid-like programs a uniform execution target regardless of how the resources are managed.

One idea that [...]

Anatomy of a botnet

14 Jun 2010

Overnet/eDonkey
At the second and third levels, the Nginx proxies listen for Overnet/eDonkey peer-to-peer Internet traffic. Overnet/eDonkey was a popular peer-to-peer network application until it was shut down by the Recording Industry Association of America. While the service is gone, the code still exists. What botnet operators like most is Overnet/eDonkey’s distributed nature; it lacks a [...]