From Wired News: Minnesota regulators seeking to treat Vonage like a traditional phone company suffer a stinging setback at the hands of a federal judge. The ruling could boost Internet telephony nationwide. This might be a good time to give you a quick update on my own Internet phone experiment. In a word, wow! I […]
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Skype: Internet calls for free
NY Times: The two founders of Kazaa sold the company to Sharman Networks last year. But they have since hatched a plan that has a chance at causing another, potentially bigger uproar. They’ve reunited with the same team of Estonian programmers who wrote the code for Kazaa and have created a way to allow people […]
In search of a universal jukebox
One of the powerful ideas I’m pursuing in my book is the notion of a universal jukebox for movies, music, television and other media. In some sense, it’s what Netflix aspires to as a legitimate movie rental service. It’s what Napster came close to achieving, and what clones like Kazaa strive for. And it’s a […]