Tag Archives: Internet

The Bush and Kerry campaigns are sending out videos as email attachments directly to their supporters: President Bush and Democratic front-runner John Kerry are engaged in a high-tech political showdown that combines the targeting power of direct mail with the glossy appearance of a television commercial. The format is a …

And speaking of the NBA, even if I don’t give a damn about it right now, it is to be commended for being open to technological innovation and willingness to try new things: The NBA itself is stocked with tech-savvy moguls – Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen owns the Portland …

Corporate honchos are very concerned about computer security and the possibility of massive Internet failure in the wake of the latest virus attack: The mi2g Intelligence Unit has learnt that chief executives and board-level decision makers within S&P 500 and FTSE-100 component companies are seriously evaluating the possibility of taking …

With Microsoft controlling 95% of the computer operating system business, has this created a “monoculture” that is ripe for disaster? Surely this latest round of virus troubles emphasizes the vulnerability of the system: Dan Geer lost his job, but gained his audience. The very idea that got the computer security …

Illegal Art is doing what they do best, stirring up copyright-related controversy. This time it’s about Danger Mouse’s Grey Album: DJ Danger Mouse’s recent Grey Album, which remixes Jay-Z’s The Black Album and the Beatles White Album, has been hailed as a innovative hip-hop triumph. Despite that and the fact …

And not subject to telecom regulations as a result: The Federal Communications Commission, in a split decision, approved a request from voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider Pulver.com to be immune from the hefty stack of government rules, taxes and requirements that applied to 20th-century telephone networks. “This is in …

Hey, I just realized it’s my two-year Blog-o-freaking-versary. In ways it seems an eternity since Marty Thau, Mike Crooker and I started the Tres Producers site in February of 2002 on the dreaded blogspot and started fumbling our way toward blogging ecstasy. I had just finished putting together a book …

Profile of BitTorrent developer Bram Cohen in the NY Times: AFTER working for a parade of doomed dot-com startups, a young programmer named Bram Cohen finally got tired of failure. “I decided I finally wanted to work on a project that people would actually use, would actually work and would …

In a paper to be published today in the journal Nature, Intel scientists say they have made silicon chips that can switch light like electricity, merging computing and communications: The invention demonstrates for the first time, Intel researchers said, that ultrahigh-speed fiberoptic equipment can be produced at personal computer industry …

More on Australian Kazaa raids begun last Friday: The man behind the raid is Michael Speck, the head of ARIA’s Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) unit. “We started an investigation six months ago and it was based on technical and physical changes in the infrastructure of Kazaa,” Speck said. ….Although …