Think Again: White Open Spaces, Owned by Us

Tech advances including the shift to digital TV have opened up the possibility of using unused frequencies to make broadband available nationwide in the US, even in rural areas. High-speed internet contributes to economic growth and public awareness. The Telco cartel wants to...

Walmart Shuts Down MP3 Store, Taking Your Music with It

Guidelines for buying DRMed music:1. Don't.Those who do not follow the above risk losing the music they supposedly bought when the vendor changes its technology, retools the Digital Rights Management, or simply...

Google, HSBC Offer Cheap Internet

3 billion people are getting broadband from Spain to South Africa, thanks to Google and HSBC. What ever other wrongs have been committed by these companies, this would seem to be a good thing. "LONDON - Google and...

Radiohead Launch 'Reckoner' Remix Project

If you missed the opportunity to remix Radiohead the first time around, here's your second chance.Starting Tuesday, the band is making digital musical file stems for the song "Reckoner" available through iTunes and...

Obama Soundtrack to feature Kanye West and more

This sounds Obamasistible! Pro-Barack rockers, rappers, and singers such as Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, John Legend, Jill Scott, and Sheryl Crow have contributed songs to the album "Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots...

Amazon's IMDb.com to Allow Free Film, TV Viewing

A very smart, and very timely, business move for Amazon and the Internet Movie Database. No word yet on when this will take effect."Amazon.com said on Monday that its subsidiary, Internet Movie Database, would allow...

The $70 Billion Spectrum Rip-Off

The airwaves belong to the People, but the FCC plans to cut us out and give away the new digital spectrum to the same corporations that have been ignoring and violating the public interest provisions in their license in the analog spectrumhttp://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html"On...

Beres Hammond New Album Available For Download

Within reggae, few people could argue that Beres Hammond is revered as one of the greatest balladeers to ever live — if not the best. His honey-coated voice and soul-jarring lyrics have united lovers for years, and...

Digital divide between young and old on online privacy

A new study out of Canada's Ryerson University, The Next Digital Divide: Online Social Network Privacy, has found that young people believe that personal information posted online remains relatively private, while older generations consider all information posted online to be...

New spy gear: reflex biometric technology

This is the stuff that spy movies are made of: digital fingerprints, signature recognition, iris scanning software, and so on.  These days, even common laptops can be easily equipped with a fingerprint scanner...

The First UK High Street Shop to Sell Digital Music (mp3's etc.)?

The Beach Hut bricks & mortor shop is going the be one of the first shops to sell digital music (mp3 etc) on the high street. With CD's going the way of floppy discs and VHS video, there really is no way to buy music on the high street.

FEMA launches database for Gustav's missing

To deal with the number of missing people that may result from Gustav’s landfall, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has created a new locator system that allows displaced people submit their location...

Berlin's Electronics Trade Fair stormed by Customs officials

"220 German customs agents swarmed through the IFA consumer-electronics fair, hunting for non-payers of royalties, shortly after the expo opened Friday in the German capital of Berlin.   German customs agents swarmed through the IFA consumer-electronics fair shortly...

DNC Digital Satellite Downlink Frequencies for Networks MPEG-2/FTA Format

POLITISITE and NOWPUBLIC EXCLUSIVE.Hello to all of my Politisite and NowPublic Readers.  I will be listing here the Digital Satellite down link frequencies for all the major networks who are covering the...

Itchin' to Scratch: Vinyl LPs Still Sell

Mp3's, CD's, blah-blah-blah... vinyl lives on! Indeed, vinyl sales are increasing by more than a third.However, such an optimistic number shows how small the market really is: just one LP leaves the record store for...

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