Science and Technology

Attention: all you short filmmakers. No, not you Marty, you may be short but your films are long. I’m talking about films of 8 minutes or less. This is for you: The Imagine Cup is a worldwide tournament challenging the globe’s best and brightest students to use technology to enhance …

The Grey Album episode may turn out to be a watershed moment in popular culture. We shall see. Since we participated in the Grey Tuesday protest (although we didn’t host the album), we are on the organization’s mailing list. I just got this: Dear Grey Tuesday Folks, Grey Tuesday has …

Jim Louderback provides a lively and understandable description of how phone service works, with an eye toward the VoIP future: To understand how VOIP works, we first need to understand POTS. Remember the tin can-and-string intercom systems we all dabbled with as kids? The original telephone network was more like …

AGAIN, we are at the cutting edge of the zeitgeist – USA Today notes that the “adult” entertainment industry often leads the way in technology: Online pornographers have been among the first to exploit new technology for more than a decade – from video-streaming and fee-based subscriptions to pop-up ads …

For the latest round of RIAA lawsuits against alleged file sharers, they tried to lump over 200 in a single suit. A federal judge said no on Friday: The Recording Industry Association of America grouped 203 so-called “John Doe” defendants — “John Doe” because their identities are not yet known …

We are of course always trying to improve our economic situation by improving our content, getting the word out, increasing traffic, and selling more ads and doing more Amazon business. We still operate at a loss, but our situation has improved very steadily over time and I am confident we …

Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl assault on the sensibilities of the American viewing audience began a chain of events that includes the FCC and Congress cracking down on broadcast “indecency,” which is jeopardizing the careers of Howard Stern and shock jocks from coast to coast. Howard, in particular, is whining vociferously …

The only way you’re going to stop constant pressure toward cost and price reduction – which includes the “outsourcing of jobs” – is to convince consumers that bargains aren’t cool, that they are wrong to look for the lowest possible price on a given item. Considering that this isn’t rational: …

Austin is literally putting music in the air at this year’s SxSW Music Festival: Citizens of Austin, Texas, have free wireless Internet access in nearly 30 restaurants and coffee shops around the city. Thanks to the South by Southwest music festival, patrons also enjoy the added benefit of free music. …

We mentioned broadband over power lines over a year ago – now it’s a reality in Cincinnati: A unit of Cinergy Corp. today will become the nation’s first electric utility to offer high-speed Internet service to customers via its power lines, turning every electrical outlet in homes or offices into …