The media stories have Hollywood corporate fat cats reeling from Wednesday’s shutdown or blackout of more than 12,000 websites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Wired. NJN Network did its small part by wearing black all day.
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Wikipedia goes dark for SOPA protest
If SOPA passes the US Congress in anything close to its current form, the internet as we know it will be essentially dead.
We are joining sites around the world to protest like Wikipedia, Flickr, and Reddit.
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In 2013 Samsung will upset the tablet market with a transparent and potentially bendable hand held device. A transparent tablet is right out of Minority Report and Tron Legacy and will have a much higher cool factor than the iPad 3, 4 or 5.
Only a few months ago, pundits were predicting no one could unseat Apple’s near total dominance with the iPad. Those days are over for Apple.
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BellAliant FiberOp speed test
Updated 8:36 PM – reconnect your set top box with HDMI if you want HD television. The Aliant techs leave it hooked at the lowest level, 480p, for testing purposes.
After months of watching those TV ads for 30 Mbps internet speeds, I made the jump back to BellAliant for the new FiberOP internet.
Actual performance what you’d expect from the tests – very fast.
The results are stunning and handily beat 30 Mbps service from Eastlink.
Speaking in support of SOPA, “The MPAA’s Michael O’Leary showed support for regimes that censor the internet, by saying that “the internet isn’t broken” in places like China and Iran… He really should spend some time there speaking to those who have been censored.” Thoughts On The House Judiciary Committee’s Hearings On SOPA TechDirt
Essentially SOPA, if passed, will shut down the internet as we know it to make Sony and Universal richer.
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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.
Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.
Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web. Continue reading
The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone - was a dream in the 60s
People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.
The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.
It won’t matter who builds the devices – Apple, Android or Microsoft. Continue reading
Last year's marathon (iPhone screen capture)
Today is the big day for the BMO Nesbitt Burns PEI Marathon but they don’t want you to know the time and place.
The official Website does not list the place and time.
This is the short version of Roger McNamee’s of Elevation Partners presentation to Paley Media Centre that focuses on where the money is in the music business.
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The whole presentation, about 52 minutes, is a concise explanation of the inflection point in computing and creative content. According to McNamee and it seems probable, more people will be accessing the internet from mobile devices than desktops, breaking the monopoly that Microsoft and Google have created.
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Apple OS X Lion only available as download from the Cloud
With the release of OS X or Lion, Apple has stopped shipping software in white boxes with CD ROM media.
Most of us are already using the Cloud whether we know it or not.
Apple software is only available by download from the App Store. To reinforce the point, the latest MAC hardware doesn’t have a CD ROM drive.
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iLok dongle
Companies live in fear spending their time looking for pirates. Write good software, price it reasonably and you will sell enough to make a profit.
The last niche of the software market that hasn’t grown up is the music business. The business practices are twenty years old.
Many companies in audio and recording require a dongle to use their software. Dongles disappeared from the face of the earth in the rest of the computer business around 1990. Continue reading