The rapidly growing momentum behind worldwide broadband deployment and the emerging “triple-play” convergence of voice, video and data services offers network carriers a promising answer to shrinking revenue … via EETimes

Written By: Steven Titch Published In: Info Tech & Telecom News Publication Date: December 1, 2007 Publisher: The Heartland Institute Peer-to-peer, or P2P, networking involves the sharing of files between two … via The Heartland Institute

PEER to peer lending websites are being used by professional businesses to lend money at high interest rates to people who can’t get approval from traditional lenders. via News.com.au

Music:- Nine point nine, nine, nine times out of ten, when you read ‘music subscription,’ what you’re not seeing is: stop paying the monthly fee and your library of sounds irretrievably disappears into the … via P2pnet.net

“Boundaries become increasingly dissolved between the international and domestic affairs, between civil and military spheres, between the private and the public, between peace and conflict.”

The military is among the most conservative of societal institutions. Before they use a tactic in a full-up war, they look for ways to test it. via WhirledView

“We don’t know if the Songwriters have all the answers”

Songwriters Association of Canada proposes inexpensive, legal access to P2P for Canadians Montreal, December 6, 2007: The Canadian Music Creators Coalition applauded the Songwriters Association of Canada today … via Digital Copyright Canada

Categories: Education Technology Tags: P2P , Survey , File-sharing , Peer To Peer , Internet , Christopher Dawson Ars Technica featured a great piece on informal research conducted at Brandeis University on … via ZDNet Blogs

With more than 285 million handsets from various mobile phone manufacturers sold globally between July and September of this year, the Apple Iphone has other manufactures running scared. The Apple Iphone has managed a marketing coup by having sold 1.4 million units in the first 90 days of launch. Even though just a fraction of the market, it is a coup that has never been seen before.

Other manufacturers are now emulating the Iphone. It has become apparent that the iPhone’s touch screen experience was the application that most competitors would be seeking to emulate. The question remains is how much value does the Apple Itunes add to the value of the overall package. The Apple iTunes music store and its integration with the iPhone and might just give the IPhone a further boost over its competitors. Maybe it just has considering the latest uttering from Vodafone:

Al Russell, Vodafone’s head of internet and content services, said the iPhone was a “significant development in our marketplace”.

But he said Vodafone’s MusicStation, which is a subscription-based music service, offered functionality that the iPhone could not match.

“This generation does not want an archive of music. We offer unlimited music on a rental model - no-one has done this in the marketplace, and certainly not the iPhone.

Nokia comes back with all guns blazing with their comments that the model of the iPod and iTunes had been very successful but they had relatively little penetration outside the US and UK. They might just have to eat their words!

In France this week, it was reveled by Orange that they sold 30,000 iPhones in the first five days of launch. Adding that 48% of people buying the phones were new customers for the network. So the Iphone has been great for mobile phone services. What is remarkable thought is that 20% of customers who have bought iPhones from it in France have opted for unlocked ones. Looking at the costs of that makes one wonder. Orange sold the popular Apple product for 399 euros with a two-year contract, or 749 euros without one. Even with the price tag almost twice the price, 20% of people still forked out the money for it.

So what makes the Iphone so unique? From all the Internet boards and websites it is apparent that Apple has been listening to their user bases and provided what people wanted - finger-touch technology.

“Network operators are working hard to create positive mobile consumer communications experiences as demand for portable digital content increases”

ContentGuard, a developer of digital rights management technology, announced a global patent licensing agreement with Sharp Corp. via Customer Interaction Solutions

Abstract SUMMARY: Bioinformatics involves the collection, organization, and analysis of large amounts of biological data, using networks of computers and databases. via CiteULike

The Motion Picture Association of America thought they would get a good grip on college students once its “University Toolkit” would be installed on their computers and spying on their online activities. via Hackinthebox.org

“We’ve got users in 178 countries”

TV and radio are all nice - but everyone knows that for real entertainment, you have to go into the “Youtube zone” - that place in cyberspace where you find dumb people doing even dumber things, all day, every … via Jerusalem Post

“Our product introductions have demonstrated that we understand their requirements and areas for optimization. The addition of local IP switching continues our commitment to this marketplace.”

Tecore , a leading provider of multi-protocol mobile networks for emerging operators and rapid deployments, today announced the immediate availability of peer-to-peer IP local switching across its entire … via Unstrung

“MCDSTM is the only end-to-end content delivery system to offer encoding and content conversion, media hosting, streaming media services, and P2P CDN in a turn-key single-source platform”

VidShadow , one of the Internet’s fastest growing social networking sites and San Antonio, Texas based BroadRamp, inventor of the only seamless, universal multimedia content and application delivery platform, … via Freshnews

“The slandered Shaarei Tikva council members asked Google for the blogger’s name”

The comment post goes on: The link is: http://shaarei-tikva.behirot.net. It looks like the bloggers allegations were mostly true. via P2pnet.net