March 10 EMI’s Outrageous Lawsuit Against Developer Takes Its Toll Tech Crunch Last month I wrote about a lawsuit filed by major record label EMI against Seeqpod, the questionably-legal free streaming music site. The suit isn’t Seeqpod’s first (Warner sued them last year), but it is notable fo...

1497 Nicolaus Copernicus first begins to record his astronomical observations. 1611 Dutch astronomer Johannes Fabricius becomes the first person to observe sunspots as he observes the rising sun through his telescope. Observing the Sun becomes painful, so Fabricius and his father will soon switch to...

Since I wrote the review of the NewerTech Voyager Q drive dock last week, I’ve received a lot of great questions both via email and in the article’s comments. Rather than answer them individually, I thought it might make sense to address them here in a quick follow-up article. What drive...

Enjoy HD and SD TV on your PC – no installation required. Record to the Stick and watch on any PC. Or watch on your projector. Capture analog video from external devices like camcorders and game consoles. Sleek USB-powered design. Watch and record SD and free HD TV with no service fees on any PC us...

It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below). The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how ...

Bandwidth: Cogent Pricing @ $6, Juniper Confirms Normal Bandwidth Demand Growth dslprime “There is still no sign of an exaflood that would swamp the network. If anything, the tendency seems to be towards a slowdown,Juniper’s CEO made a mistake cutting the cartoons, while taking a pay cut...

The Authors Guild isn't a league of those opposed to readers reading more. I'm a member, and I'm no supervillain. Rather, the Authors Guild is fighting a multi-decade rearguard action to prevent the erosion of authors' rights and royalties. Readers are getting caught in the crossfire as worlds colli...

Does system76 make good computers? Note: I will probably end up wiping off ubuntu and putting on Fedora. What well known brand are system76s computers comparable to. (Example: Sony Vaio, HP, Dell (Yuck))? Where else besides system76 can I buy a good Linux desktop pc (No Dells from Hell, please!!!!!!...

Listening to the stream of the new U2 record last week, I was struck by how the most interesting bits of the album were the atmospherics -- not necessarily the usual chiming guitars or Bono's falsetto, but the electronic blips and chimes and patterns and samples that build the intros and undercurren...

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