Archive for July, 2005

Skype’s Challenge

Friday, July 1st, 2005 Skype: who? Unlike most "voice over Internet protocol" networks, Skype is a peer-to-peer system, creating ad-hoc telephone links over the Internet whenever people want to reach one another. No central networks mediate or manage the connection. And many ...

Apple podcast subscriptions top a million in two days

Friday, July 1st, 2005 Via Neville Hobson Neville says In just two days, people using the new version of iTunes have subscribed to more than a million podcasts, Techweb news reported late yesterday. On Tuesday, Apple launched iTunes ...

The challenges of what we consume and how we share it

Friday, July 1st, 2005 Sony BMG inks deal with P2P firm Mashbox LONDON (Reuters) - Music giant Sony BMG has finalized its deal with the legal file-sharing network Mashboxx, two days after a U.S. court dealt a blow to Mashboxx's unauthorized rivals such ...

Yahoo! Socializes Search

Friday, July 1st, 2005 Yahoo! Socializes Search Harnessing the associative power of social networks, Yahoo! Wednesday introduced My Web 2.0, a new "social search engine," based on a page-ranking technology that organizes pages based on a user's search patterns and "the ...