OECD broadband statistics to December 2006. Over the past year, the number of broadband subscribers in the OECD increased 26 per cent from 157 million in December 2005 to 197 million in December 2006. This growth increased broadband penetration rates in the OECD from 13.5 in December 2005 to 16.9 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants one year later. [Creative Economy :…
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High-speed Internet roll-out likely within 3 yrs, Coonan says. The Federal Communications Minister says she expects a new high-speed Internet network will start being rolled out within three years, without billions of dollars in public funding proposed by the Opposition. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]
Disney Cartoon Mashup Explains Copyright Law. A Stanford University documentary film project, A Fair(y) Use Tale, weaves snippets of classic animated films into a short short in which Disney characters explain the basics of fair use and argue against longer copyrights. [Wired Top Stories]
Apple store update Really long time readers might recall that perhaps my first blog post ever was about the Apple store. Here's an update, five years later: I spent an hour or two on Saturday at the Soho store. The obvious difference, other than how incredibly jammed it was, was who was there. Couples.Fashionistas.Women. …
Sony Reader Gets 500,000 Free Public Domain Titles from Google. Google made a practical move with some of the 7 million books it's scanned from academic collections by making 500,000 titles with no remaining copyright protection available to Sony for its electronic book device, the Reader. Reports indicate only books from 1922 or earlier were included, as 1922 is the…
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Apple Posts $1.21 Billion Profit for Q2 2009. The weak economy is hurting Mac sales to professional and educational customers, but consumer sales and the iPhone and iPod touch have lifted Apple to another impressive financial quarter. Ending the second quarter of 2009, Apple reported a $1.21 billion profit on revenue of $8.16 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share (those…