Last weekend my wife and were guests with a friend who is a barrister, and on the way to becoming a judge, all being well. We were talking about the mobile devices that we each had. He does not have one. No iPhone, no iPad, no Blackberry – not even a good old fashioned mobile [...]
Amazing to think that it wasn't too long ago that EMI Records ruled the waves… This was the company that in the '60's brought us the Beatles, The Beach Boys, Gerry And the Pacemakers, Freddy And The Dreamers… Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, The Band… And then more recently artists such as [...]
In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning: Broadband billions left hanging as wireless bites back Ari Sharp January 13, 2010 SMH http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/broadband-billions-left-hanging-as-wireless-bites-back-20100112-m4u7.html Which stated that wireless 3G services were a runaway success? Consequently the opposition seized this opportunity to snipe at Senator Conroy about the financial viability of the [...]
For some time we (Perceptric) have been collating statistics on downloading patterns. Most will agree with me that the majority of P2P takes place apparently from 7:00 pm on a Friday night to 10 PM on a Sunday with a flow on effect on a Global basis that actually means the wave commences at [...]
The other day I blogged about the fact that P2P was big business. We discussed the value of the infrastructure purchased as a result of P2P activity, both at the carrier and consumer level. Today we will be anecdotally commencing an examination of the apparently growing causational relationship between higher education and file sharing [...]
Things are changing – fast! And governments are starting to understand what the music industry is still struggling to come to terms with, having been exposed to P2P: They can not control the pace of change. And they are starting to get scared. So they should do. This then is the digital paradox. On one [...]
In the beginning were the shorts, black and white flickering images that were initially shown as part of vaudeville shows, fairgrounds or carnivals. Audiences soon needed larger theaters to watch screens with projected images from Vitascopes after the turn of the century, using opera houses, music halls and converted churches that showed silent one-reeler's (a [...]
To start with – full disclosure: I was a music publisher for a good many years. So I look at publishing and writing with that frame of reference…. However, I was a songwriter before I was a publisher. And I was an author after I was a publisher… Confused? Don't be. There is a clear [...]
There have been significant developments recently in Quantum Mechanics. Einstein was talking about this field of science when he said “God doesn't play dice”. Quantum Mechanics is seriously weird and counter-intuitive. Quantum Computing This recent Wired story reports the demonstration of the D-Wave Systems 16-qubit, specific-purpose quantum computer and includes an interview with the father [...]
Tivo just announced its plans to enable users to be able to download videos from the web. Noted in the story is that : “TiVo's new broadband offering, however, will work only with downloaded videos that are not copy-protected, such as most user-generated clips and many video podcasts. Feature films and videos purchased from online [...]