Posts Tagged with ‘free’

Last night, when the news of Google App Engine hit the web, I was hobbled with DNS issues that left me able to watch the Twitter stream but unable to read any of the details. Waking up this morning and finding all the Twitterati still throwing confetti, I'm starting to feel that I'm a lone dissenter when I say that I don't think Google App Engine is going to be good for the Web.
Just yesterday, Hank Williams followed up his [...]

Happen to be a fan of free open source software? How ‘bout Open Office? Pretty useful suite of software, right? Indeed.
But what if you’re equally enthralled by things Web-based? You like what Zoho’s got. You may admire what Google has done thus far. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the best of both worlds? Open source software for use online?
Enter, Ulteo. A company that adheres strongly to the basic mantra stipulated by Torvalds and Tux, Ulteo has exercised its [...]

Wuala, an upcoming online file sharing network, is coming to us from Switzerland. Wuala’s plans are to change the way file sharing works by using both online storage space plus your computer's storage for file sharing. Wuala will use high-grade security for protection, which apparently other services do not offer to the same level, for one reason or another, according to Wuala.
Dominik Grolimund, Wuala Founder/CEO had this to say in an interview with Allen Stern on centernetworks.com:
“I am 27 [...]

I have to say, I expected Verizon’s dispute with the open, Google-proposed terms for the 700MHz auction (scheduled to occur in January) to stretch well into the red, but apparently the telco has already ceased its moaning and groaning. Ars Technica’s Eric Bangeman reports that “earlier this week, (Verizon) filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss the case filed last month with the Court of Appeals….”
Of course, Verizon hasn’t completely lost its money-grubbing head and suddenly gone straight and [...]

Late last spring we brought you word of the debut of an online venue called YouLicense, which provided place for independent music creators to license their tracks and clips to those who, well, wish to license music, whether it be for a marketing or commercial purpose, or any other purpose, really. And since June, it seems to have grown quite a bit, actually.
Well, today we bring you word of a new project from the creators of YouLicense. It’s called VIRV. [...]

When you hear the term citizen journalism, does it ring any bells? It should. It’s been floated about quite a bit over the years. It refers to a sort of “massively multiplayer” method of producing news stories and features, produced “by the people, for the people.”
Many news organizations from around the world latched onto the concept in various ways as Web 2.0-type tools started to look ever more appealing to those esteemed institutions. Yahoo! even made its own attempts [...]

Ever heard of FON? It?s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world.
It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a ?Fonero? and set up a FON account and hotspot of their own, they can get free access from any other FON hotspot in the world. If one doesn?t complete all aforementioned introductory steps, one can still [...]

Another piece for you today about media and pricing, this one a rebuttal to TechCrunch editor and proprietor Michael Arrington?s insistence that recorded music is heading toward an existence as a ?free? commodity.
Firstly, I must say I agree with several of Mr Arrington?s points, one being that DRM is headed on a downward spiral to eventual eradication, and another that CDs sales are plummeting as well.
But there?s a portion of his argument that I can?t possibly accept, which has to [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]