my fat pipes ?

This is what the ISPs will face in the near future:
Their precious IPTV model turned upside down!
Now youtube starts to introduce high quality/resolution video, now state television broadcasters use bittorrent to multicast episodes of popular shows (Norway, Canada, …) and some deploy their own player (BBC’s iPlayer), the strain on ISPs raises. Not only is [...]

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Boing Boing TV

As of today you can also enjoy Boing Boing in online TV format. They promise us small TV chunks every workday. First one can be found here.

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webthreedotzero

First coined at the end of 2005, when even web 2.0 was still a strange sounding name for the new web to come, web 3.0 now really starts to appear in real life and in more manifest forms.
Although I agree we now only see the power of web 2.0 unleashing it’s full potential, web 3.0 [...]

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peeling the onion

Once in the store we notice the mysteries and locks of the iPhone are peeled off bit by bit.
First of all there’s the usability aspect. Having no keyboard would kill blind typing, well it doesn’t if you read the reports.
Second, the applications on the iPhone wouldn’t be sufficient and awkward to use. Apparently they are [...]

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juiced

I‘m “juiced” … eurrrmm … “Joost” now.
Kind of confusing as Joost is pronounced “iowst” in Dutch (well sort of, I’m no good at phonetical spelling).
update : it’s supposed to be [jo:wst] in phonetic spelling, thanks to erika

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OpenLIFE

Hasan Elahi, US Citizen who happened to end up on the FBI watch list (you know “to watch dem terr’ists”), decided to open up his life completely. Using technology and nifty web 2.0 tools, he documents instantly his online life on TrackingTransience.net.
(via BoingBoing)

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patent wars !

As I mentioned earlier Alcatel-Lucent had a bit of a squabble with Microsoft over MP3 patents. As it goes, Alcatel-Lucent is the parent company of the famous Bell Labs which in its turn started a lot of the MP3 ideas upon which later on the German Frauenhofer Institute and French Thomson SA joined to [...]

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router troubles

Recently my router shows severe hiccups. Connections drops (especially on the WAN side) quasi constantly.
Although the wireless connection in itself was never extremely good, it still keeps up and only occasionally drops.
Now I’m in for an dilemma :

do I call my cable operator trying to get them analyse the modem and/or replace it?

pro: there are [...]

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patent wars ?

Following a series of lawsuits launched by former Lucent (the Bell Labs guys), former Alcatel and now also the newly formed Alcatel-Lucent, now we have in a San Diego court one woman and eight men to decide on the fate of mp3.
The technology behind mp3 (MPEG1 layer 3), although originating from the German based Frauenhoffer [...]

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iptv – the math

IPTV and it’s likes are the talk of the town for more than a year now and everybody bustling about it being the future of TV (as well as the TV of the future, completely forgetting it is already here today).
Thereby it seems the biggest drive of them all is left untouched : who’s going [...]

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island in the sun

With all the talk lately about Piratbyrån (founders of the Pirate Bay) wanting to purchase Sealand in order to find a safe haven for their servers, I would suggest them to just buy an island themselves. Just compare where you would rather be.

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Skype TV (3)

Where the project previously ran under the name “The Venice Project” the child now has a new name :
Joost
I’m curious whether they managed to solve the upload hungriness of the program.

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Skype TV (2)

Last month I mentioned the beta project of Venice TV, the Skype founders digital TV concept.
Turns out the app eats away on upload which basically spoils the broth for users on ADSL or with a money hungry ISP (capping off on the upload seems to be benificial to these ISP’s, even if your a cable [...]

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Skype TV

The long announced IPTV /VoD /webTV /whateveryouwantocallit project of the Skype founders – the venice project – has announced it’s full beta stage.
You can now apply for beta-tester status, probalby among a crowd as this is currently headlining on about any tech site out there.
If succesfull this may well be a shot across the bow [...]

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