Tag: pipes
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Net Neutrality: the Good Guys always were white
Delicious news from the United States, where ‘Net Neutrality’ is again being recast for a new political purpose. The term long since ceased to mean anything – it now means anything you want it to mean. But as a rule of thumb, advocating Neutrality means giving your support to general Goodness on the internets, and…
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Carterware – it’s the new vapourware
“As yet, we’ve seen nothing that fulfils the consumer demand of sharing music, for which most of the public would apparently part with a fair bit of cash. So this is software or a service announced in response to a Government edict.” … Read More
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Google’s doing to Twitterbook what it’s doing to copyright
Google has two prongs to its long-term strategy, but Wave, the “digital dashboard” it unveiled last week, casts light on a third. One strategy is to drive down the value of copyright material on the internet to zero. Google has a ruthless and calculating view of the real value of stuff. It reasons that if…
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Apple and the Gentlemen from the Networks (or, why it pays to turn up Really, Really Late)
This week Apple threw the kitchen sink at its iPhone/Touch software stack, removing most of the most irritating nuisances at a stroke. It’s a stunning achievement. So Apple now finds itself where everyone else in the mobile handset business wanted to be 15 years ago. Large companies full of clever people devoted years of planning…
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Virgin puts legal P2P plans on ice
Big label pressure has forced British cable ISP Virgin Media to suspend plans to introduce a legal music sharing service for its subscribers, just weeks ahead of its launch, The Register has learned. The radical initiative, tentatively branded as “Virgin Music Unlimited”, represented a major investment for the ISP, and would have been the first…
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Net refuseniks are getting more stubborn
Almost half the nation’s households don’t have net access – and most of them aren’t going to sign up. In what will be unwelcome news for ISPs, ecommerce providers, and the government, a survey of UK households suggests internet hold-outs are getting more stubborn. The availability of cheap broadband has eroded the refusenik camp very…