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The listener’s access to music has been a form of great debate in the last decade. With Napster, the illegal downloading of music spread quickly and the media industry was dealt a hard blow. In the aftermath, many other programs arose and mimicked or expanded upon the new gateway to music. At Cornell, many students […]

Network World is a weekly IT publication that provides news and information to network executives.This Network World article (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25502) describes plans for modular satellite technology, which is intended to replace present day all-in-one, monolithic spacecrafts. The project sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hopes to solve issues of scalability and reliability by splitting […]

http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~ypisan/virtualworlds/readings/tree-house-to-barracks.pdf
With 10 million active accounts, World of Warcraft (WoW) is the most successful massive multiplayer online (MMO) game out there on the market.  One reason for the success of the game is that it caters to many different types of players.  People that want to solo, people that want to tackle the end-game dungeons (player […]

In our last lecture, we talked about the internet as an information network built to function in a manner similar to natural thought (as laid out in Vanevar Bush’s As We May Think). This would seem to be an extremely logical way to order data, yet there are many systems that defy this natural order. […]

Article link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/technology/13face.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=facebook&st=nyt&oref=slogin 
This article talks about the difficulties of quiting Facebook.com. Many people who have joined Facebook and no longer want an account there find it difficlt to completely get rid of it and only finds a solution to “deactivate” their account. By deactiviating the account, the information is still stored by Facebook, and your […]

        In this article, the author describes the entrance of a new competitor into the mobile market.  In particular, in Great Britain, a new company, Hutchison 3G has attempted to break into the ultra-competitive wireless communications industry.  However, as expected, they have had a considerable amount of difficulty persuading customers to leave their […]

New Scientist Tech: Wireless worms will follow influenza’s example
It probably comes as a surprise to many people as to how closely real-life flu is related to its digital counterpart, or rather, the other way round. After all, wireless worms are just mere exploit codes running on devices capable of communicating with other devices. Devices […]

The government’s role in regulating the internet has recently been a controversial issue recently. Many internet service providers are attempting to increase profits by charging content providers like Google and Yahoo! for broadcasting of their content to users. Content providers have supported Congressional proposals for a government-enacted ban on such charges while internet service providers […]

    Recently, Toshiba has announced that it will stop developing HD DVD products and will drop out of the high-definition DVD market.  This was due to several recent changes in the market, mainly the decisions of several large media companies such as Walmart and Netflix to abandon HD for Blu-ray.  This situation is analogous […]

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and its free counterpart, the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) are encryption suites that allow users to securely over the internet. They can also be used for digital signing and trusted identification. To do this, they utilize a pair of keys, one private and one public. Information that is encrypted using the […]