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Bell reveals internet throttling details to CRTC
cbc.ca — Bell Canada slows certain types of downloads to as little as 1.5 to 3 per cent of their advertised speed during 9½ hours of the day, but not to the same extent during the entire period, company executives revealed to Canada's internet regulator Tuesday. More…
Kovio raises $20 million for chip-printing technology
deals.venturebeat.com — Kovio has raised $20 million in a fifth round of funding for its technology for printing chips in the same way that inkjets print on paper. If successful, the startup could create identification chips that are so cheap they could be placed on almost every product produced, just like the barcodes that have been around since 1974. More…
HOWTO Make Your CC-licensed Images Visible to Robots - Creat
creativecommons.org — Robot by genewolf CC BY-ND 2.0After last week's exciting announcement that Google Image search is now capable of filtering results by usage rights, we realized there is a lot of interest in how creators can signal their work as being CC-licensed to both humans and robots. Fortunately, CC has a solution for this that is... More…
vosotros presents: the years - Creative Commons
creativecommons.org — vosotros presents: the years is the latest release from CC-friendly label Vosotros. Described as a "a musical journey through time", the CC BY-NC-SA licensed album is being released as a free download through out the month of July while simultaneously being sold through a variety of digital outlets. The album, which is a collaboration More…
Leo Laporte threatens to sue TwitVid.com
twitter.com — TwitVid is an amazing new Twitter site. Think of it as TwitPic...for video. Well Leo Laporte who recently began streaming live VIDeo on his TWiT network isnt happy about it, and has sent TwitVid.com a cease & desist letter. He tweets that if they do not respond, he'll sue when he returns home from China. More…
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