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Archive for August, 2008

I have been a listener of Pandora for the past 3 years and it has grown to be my favorite site on the internet.  The RIAA has been pushing SoundExchange to increase royalty rates for web based radio and were successful in increasing this rate substantially thereby threatening to end all web based radio streaming [...]

Some Comcast lobbyists start better ponying up the dough as Kevin Martin from the FCC wants free internet for everyone within the US.  Could this have something to do with the whitespace initiative getting closer to acceptance.
So maybe the tiered internet wont be much of an issue after all. (see post below)
More Here.

“Hmm, I dont see that email you sent, maybe I need to upgrade my internet plan.”
This line of thinking is non existent today but may be coming to the forefront with the little bit of news today that Comcast will be slowing certain web traffic during peak times (Source).  Without getting into the political discussion [...]

I just purchased a new Lenovo Thinkpad T61 for work and it has a built in Verizon EVDO card from Sierra Wireless. I currently have a grandfathered Sprint SERO plan and would love to add the data plan to my new lappy.
I have read some reports of Lenovo oferring the unlock code for the card. [...]