Musings of an Internet Traveler
Yesterday(1/24), the much anticipated auction for the 700-MHz band began. The licenses for these frequencies are being returned from television broadcasters who are being required to switch from analog to digital in 2009(the licenses will be turned over in February of next year).
The New York Times called these licenses “as coveted as oil reserves […]
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So the initial speculation that CBS owned Last.fm was adding a video service proved false(for now). Instead Last.FM has announced, in a post entitled, ‘Free the Music’, that,
As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.
The news has hit the blogosphere hard with sites not only sites […]
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I wrote a few days ago about Google hosting terabytes of scientific data for free. But its not all sunshine and lollipops for scientific data, a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times by Andrew Vickers some of the most important data, that of cancer studies, is not being shared as readily as one […]
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TechCrunch is reporting that today may be the last day for Scrabulous, with the application either being forced to shut down by the end of the day today or sell itself to Electronic Arts.
They are also saying that it may not end there, as I said earlier Hasbro is also trying to shut down […]
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Please Save Scrabulous, Join the Save Scrabulous Facebook Group, Hasbro Sends DMCA Notice to Facebook, Sign This Petition to Save Scrabulous: As of this post the group is up to 45,047 members and 1,109 wall posts and a heated thread that talks about not saving Scrabulous.Mike Huckabee, The Elephant in the Room: The updates on […]
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Wired is reporting that Google will begin hosting terabytes of open-source data at http://research.google.com(the project was supposed to open this week, but missed the deadline, but will debut soon). The space will be free to scientists and the data will be available to all. The project is known as Palimpsest. The storage will allow scientists […]
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Scifi author William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace, was interviewed by Belinda Goldsmith of Reuters in August of last year and stated,
Personally I think that contemporary reality is sufficiently science fiction for me. Some critics are already maintaining that science fiction is a sort of historical category and it is not possible any more.
The […]
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I read a report yesterday about a report by the National Science Board that stated that the US is the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, but there’s no need to fear, American teens are confident they can invent solutions to some of the world’s […]
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Check out this hilarious subtitled version of Der Untergang specifically for the HD format war. This must have been what people in the HD DVD camp felt like when they heard about WB’s announcement.
Oh, and on the porn studio front of the HD war, Digital Playground is dropping HD DVD completely in favour of Blu-Ray, […]
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It must be petition day here at Fluffblog. This one hits just as close to home, Microsoft is planning on ending sales of Windows XP on June 30th. I’ve never been a fan of Vista, and frankly I don’t think my current PC even with 2 gigs of RAM could even run it, but I […]
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