Some high-profile technologists, including Carnegie Mellon University’s David Farber and TCP inventor Bob Kahn, are opposed to preemptive Net neutrality rules as well.

He said while there should be a regulatory mandate about Net neutrality, it does not necessarily need to come through new legislation. More importantly, he said, the cable industry needs to be able to invest in the next stage of broadband with the prospect for seeing returns on that investment.

Not every Panoramio image is included. Once you’ve contributed geotagged photos to Panoramio, “Google’s image-matching algorithms will analyze them at some point to see if they are also a good match for a Street View location,” Schaffalitzky said.

And of course a disadvantage is that the Street View intrusiveness to which some people object is amplified.

Google Maps’ Street View feature uses imagery collected by cameras mounted to Google
cars, but now the company

The Microsoft-Novell deal is often held up by Microsoft as an example of how open source and proprietary software makers can work together. Striking that deal, though, was not easy, as noted in a book earlier this year co-authored by Microsoft’s Marshall Phelps.

Among the better known North American names signed since November are Honeywell Aerospace, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The companies also named several other U.S. firms as well as a numbe

For $9,950, U.S. drivers can ride both on and off-road free from carbon guilt.

The environmentally-friendly motorcycle has a top speed of 55 mph.

(Credit:
Zero Motorcycles)

While it seems like a great alternative for getting around town, I’m not convinced the next biker band will be singing about a wild “C-Free Rider.”

The all-electric Zero DS motorcycle from start-up Zero Motorcycles became available in the U.S. on Thursday.

Sony was one of the founders of Blu-ray and supported the technology via its high-definition video products and PlayStation 3. Toshiba ceded the format war to Blu-ray in February 2008. In July, it was reported that Toshiba would roll out Blu-ray products.

This was originally posted at ZDNet’s Between the Lines.

Toshiba said Monday it is planning a lineup of products that support the Blu-ray storage format. Toshiba was one of the leadi

In a query for product information, “Nikon d300 review,” results differed between the old and beta Google more noticeably, although I wouldn’t say that the new beta Google was any better than the old Google.

In searching for a news item, “Great America roller coaster,” the results were different this morning, with the old Google neglecting Monday’s news about people getting stranded 40 feet up when the coaster jammed. In later testing, the results converged toward the same set of

The next clue apparently came from Jaron Waldman, PlaceBase’s founder and CEO. His LinkedIn page now lists PlaceBase under his “past” experience and now lists his current occupation as a member of Apple’s “GEO Team.” In addition, Placebase.com and Pushpin.com have been taken down.

The application, which allows you to show your location on a map so that friends may find you, works much the same way as on other platforms like Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile. The bi

For years, we’ve talked about how information technology enables companies to do more with less. But during this economic reset, IT provides business leaders with the answer to a slightly different question: Can my company with less, do more?

I believe the new normal requires a new kind of efficiency built on technology innovations that enable businesses and organizations to simultaneously drive cost savings, improve productivity, and speed innovation.

THE NEW EFFICIE

It’s not an easy job. And making it harder was a scheme used by some registrars known as domain tasting. Someone would buy up lots of domain names, try them out, and then get rid of the unprofitable ones, all without losing any money. As long as the registrar dumped the domains within the five-day grace period, known as the Add Grace Period (AGP), a full refund was given.

ICANN said the new policy resulted in a 99.7 percent decrease in domain deletions from June 2008

“The best protection of the prerogatives of the legislative branch is for us to legislate. Since we have haven’t done very effectively the legislation on the orphaned works, it’s hard for me to condemn the courts to have a case before it that determines what can be done and can’t be done with orphaned works,” said Rep. Mel Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina.

Congress or the courts?
Conyers indicated he doesn’t see the orphaned-works issue as an issue that can’t be resolved.