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Joost Drops P2P Client
in P2P File Sharing, on December 18, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 4934185
Joost this week announced that it's dropping its desktop P2P client, redirecting users to access videos via its Web site instead.
"As of December 19, Joost's Windows and Mac software clients will cease to work, and instead will i...
SpiderOak and ElephantDrive Court Ex-Xdrive Users
in On Storage, on November 23, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , René Mansi
In response to the closure of AOL's Xdrive service , SpiderOak this week announced a 10% discount on its online backup services for the first 5,000 former Xdrive users who sign up for paid accounts with SpiderOak using the promo code "xdr...
Recording Skype Calls
in HackITLinux, on April 30, 2008
Skype may seem to be the de-facto standard in internet telephony (yeah, I know a lot will argue that it is not but which one seem to have the bigger share?) and I must admit that I have hooked on Skype myself. My conference calls are usually done thru Skype - either Skype-to-Skype or SkypeOu...
Joost opens it's doors to everyone
in Web 2.0, on October 2, 2007
A lot of people on the internet are talking about Joost. Right after Joosts first opening (invitation only) people talked about it as if this is the replacement of your tv set you have been waiting for. Today Joost has opened it's doors for the general public . Joost is now available for ever...
Senator Withdraws Controversial Amendment
in Networking for Pros, on July 30, 2007
Universities won a round in Congress last week against a proposal sponsored by Harry Reid that would have required colleges and universities to use technology that would prevent illegal downloading of copyrighted materials by students and other users on academic networks as a condition of recei...
House Probes P2P File Sharing
in Networking for Pros, on July 25, 2007
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives held a hearing on the impact that peer-to-peer file sharing could have on matters of national security . The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Henry Waxman, (D-CA) took testimony from a number of representatives from government agen...
Ooma to offer free voip
in Tech Intelligence, on July 20, 2007
In the US, a company called Ooma offers a VOIP solution with free domestic calls for the rest of your life . You can obtain this by buying their phone (called the Hub, 399 USD), which connects to your broadband connection as well as your landline. The company claims that this is unique, even...
Dangers of File Sharing
in The Social Networking Weblog, on June 29, 2007
"The data was grabbed from a Pfizer employee's computer through peer-to-peer file-sharing software that was installed by the employee's spouse." ~ Baseline Security (June 14)
Be careful when setting up your peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Make sure you lock out all ...
Skype releases version 1.4 beta
in HackITLinux, on June 16, 2007
Voice-over-IP is fast becoming one of the most important tool for the internet-savvy. Whilst there are several ways of doing this, afaik, there are only two technologies that are worth looking at, i.e., the SIP-standards based services and Skype , a P2P technology.
I will not go into the &quo...
Showtime and BBC shows to air on P2P provider Vuse
in The Digital TV Weblog, on April 11, 2007
Quietly, azureus launched it beta of a hi-def, Web video service called Vuze at the beginning of 2007. Like the heavily hyped upcoming TV/PC service Joost , Vuze depends on a P2P framework to deliver content to users and also requires users to download a client application.
And like Joost, V...
Joost: Der neue Name des Venice Project
in Das CIO Weblog, on January 16, 2007
Das " Venice Project " der Kazaa- und Skype-Erfinder Janus Friis und Niklas Zennstrom hat einen neuen Namen: Joost . Das spekuliert zumindest das US-Blog Techcrunch .
Das StartUp will auf eine noch nicht näher spezifizierte "revolutionäre Art das Fernsehen mit dem Internet verh...
A Dirty Word: Filtering
in P2P File Sharing, on December 27, 2004
Filtering has become a dirty word in the entertainment vs. P2P war. The entertainment industry trots it out regularly as the solution for stopping copyright infringement. The RIAA says that it's just like filtering porn or IP addresses. The P2P players reject it outright as impractical and a re...