Archive for 2011/03/29

A California website that claimed its “psycho-acoustic simulation” technology meant it could sell Beatles downloads has been ordered to cough up $950,000 to EMI

Posted: 2011/03/29 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/bluebeat_damages/

Simply Tap is backed by Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy Europe, but is part of an explosion in ways of paying for stuff that’s coming our way

Posted: 2011/03/29 in Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/simply_tap/

AT&T admits to slowing down the Motorola Atrix and HTC Inspire

Posted: 2011/03/29 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Mobile tech

phones on its network are not getting the promised upload speeds

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/03/att-admits-to-slowing-down-the-motorola-atrix-and-htc-inspire.ars

In response to widespread data caps by Canadian ISPs, Netflix has cut the speed (and quality) of its default video streams in the country by two-thirds

Posted: 2011/03/29 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/data-caps-claim-a-victim-netflix-streaming-video.ars

Is your high school Internet network blocking access to the websites of major LGBT organizations? The ACLU wants to hear about it

Posted: 2011/03/29 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/is-your-public-school-blocking-lgbt-websites-call-the-aclu.ars

Lawsuit factory Righthaven sued an Ars Technica writer this week for copyright infringement, only to realize later that he was a reporter. The case has since been dismissed, but the fact that it was filed in the first place is an embarrassment not only to Righthaven, but to The Denver Post, the troll-employing newspaper

Posted: 2011/03/29 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/copyright-troll-righthavens-epic-blunder-a-lawsuit-targeting-ars.ars

Researchers have generated an automated system that can identify whether a news story is likely to be accurate purely based on how it gets shared using Twitter, and who does the sharing

Posted: 2011/03/29 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/03/accurate-and-credible-news-tweets-automated-system-finds-them.ars