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Monday night the Sony press conference was pretty spectacular. Once the new products and services was talked up, Sony played the MIB3 trailer in 3D and then Will Smith came on stage briefly (cool stuff) and I was on the front row. A few moments later Kelly Clarkson made a appearance and sang.
Back to the tech after the jump… [click to continue…]
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Every month I find myself trying to keep it under the 250GB Comcast bandwidth cap and I end up having to throttle my own bandwidth consumption. If I go over, I run the risk of having my service cancelled. It happens.
I don’t use P2P services – with the exception of the occasional download of a legal torrent from someone who has posted their work online to share with others. Those make up less than a couple GB per month though.
I use the Internet to upload photos and videos to SmugMug, Flickr, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube and so on. I also consume almost all of my video entertainment from the Internet via Netflix streaming, YouTube or Vimeo. I backup my personal files to a cloud service. And I think all of this is pretty normal and legal Internet usage.
And it’s only going to get more normal. [click to continue…]
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Pando Networks (see press release) recently published data on world wide internet speeds, by country and by city. The data was collected between January and June of 2011, via 27 million downloads from 20 million computers in 224 countries. I’m pretty sure you’ll be surprised by the countries listed in the top five, and check out how the superpowers like the U.S. and China fared.
Check out the informative infographic (was that redundant?) after the break, including access to an interactive version of the map as well.
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Facebook has unveiled a new Skype-powered feature that allows you to video chat with your friends.
Facebook says it will be rolling things out over the next several days; however, you can get access right now with this link.
In short time, you should see the video call button appear in your chat window, which will allow you to quickly start up a video chat with your online friends.
Check out Facebooks intro video / commercial below. [click to continue…]
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Peer-to-Peer networking programs have been a hot topic both online and in the court room over the past decade or so. There is an overwhelming amount of information related to this topic online and much of it is flat out wrong – or, at the very least, overlooks the true legal issues that drive the case law handed down by courts. [click to continue…]
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Don’t know what Net Neutrality is and why it matters? Watch the below video.
A deeper explanation from Studio Daily Blog. Get even more info and get involved at Freepress.net.
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Google just laid out some more details on the new Google TV that should arrive on Sony and Logitech devices later this month. The biggest part of the news was what’s happening with some of Google’s content parters, which Google highlights in the 4 points below. [click to continue…]
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If you missed day one of live broadcasting on YouTube, like I did, you can still catch some of it today.
YouTube is experimenting with live broadcasting and has recruited select partners to participate. YouTube says depending on how things go, Live on YouTube could roll out more broadly, but for now YouTube the live streaming platform is purely trial.
Beginning at 7:30am pst today YouTube will crank up live broadcasting again. Hit the schedule above to find something to watch.
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Isn’t this kinda like getting to the end of the Internet?
I’m currently sitting at around 13% and have been in that range for several months now. As much email as I get, I still can’t imagine catching up with the Gmail storage cap. Of course, I recall getting my Gateway Desktop in 1998 with a Pentium II 266MHz processor and 8GB hard drive. I’m pretty sure I uttered the words “I’ll never use up that much storage.” And then there was Napster…
[via Flickr]
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