Faced with a surge in network usage, internet service providers are grumbling about rising traffic levels. The increase is driven so far mostly by internet video from YouTube and similar services, which don’t actually employ P2P technologies.
But ISPs say the looming growth of true peer-to-peer applications threatens to overwhelm them. Some ISPs have even started sniffing out P2P traffic on their networks and curbing it, either slowing file sharing to a trickle or bringing it to a halt.
Responding to this adversarial relationship, some P2P companies are adopting a posture of engagement with ISPs, and have formed a new industry working group to help broker relationships that, they say, will enable ISPs to better manage and distribute traffic loads on their networks.
The P4P working group consists of content-distribution-technology providers like BitTorrent, Pando Networks, LimeWire and VeriSign’s Kontiki, as well as broadband companies like Verizon and AT&T, and hardware makers like Cisco Systems. There are close to a dozen members so far. The P4P operates under the guidance of the Distributed Computing Industry Association, a group that wants to foster legal peer-to-peer content distribution.
P4P’s plan: Get ISPs and P2P-technology providers working together, to ensure that P2P traffic continues to flow and that users of P2P technologies don’t overload ISPs’ networks with too much sharing.
P2P companies’ fears are justified. Last week, users suspected that Comcast, the second-largest U.S. ISP, was limiting subscribers’ use of BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing application, and was penalizing heavy downloaders by suspending their internet service. Comcast declined to comment on its download-capping or traffic-shaping practices. However, the websites Broadband Reports and TorrentFreak have uncovered evidence of the practices.
Canon Redesigned the 1D Mark III from the ground up, It has so many new and improved features. The 21 Megapixel, 5 frames per second EOS-1Ds Mark III, 14-bit depth resolution from a newly developed 35mm full frame CMOS sensor and more
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Compact digital still camera with built-in flash, 6x Optical / 4x Digital / 24x Combined Zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer
12.1 Megapixel, Real image optical zoom viewfinder, 3.0 inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD with wide viewing angle and more
In stores starting in October for $500.
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The EOS 40D new features like Canon’s EOS Integrated Cleaning System, Live View Function, a more powerful DIGIC III Image Processor, plus a 10.1-megapixel CMOS sensor, a 3.0-inch LCD monitor, RGB primary color filters, Auto white balance, taken from imaging sensor and more.
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Indian company Tata Motors is selling a plastic car for about $2,400. This four-door car is about as big as a VW Rabbit, it has a 30-horsepower engine.
ACCESS have launched a new website for the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) and a new screenshots from the forthcoming ALP.
ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) supports three application environments: Linux, Garnet OS (formerly Palm OS), and Java. In supporting these three environments, ALP delivers a comprehensive solution for the mobile market that includes support for 25,000 plus current Palm OS applications as well as the abundant mobile Java applications currently available while also providing a solid Linux environment for new application development.
Another star, another planet, and this one’s an oddball.
Astronomers have announced that they’ve found a puffball of a planet (TrES-4) orbiting a star some 1,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. The planet, about 70 percent larger than Jupiter, is the largest exoplanet yet found. It orbits its sun once every 3.5 days at a distance of about 4.5 million miles. And it’s hot – about 2,300 degrees F.
But if the planet is big, it’s also a relative fluffball. The team calculates that the planet’s gravity is so weak that its atmosphere may trail away from it like a comet’s tail. The researchers estimate that the orb has the density of balsa wood or volcanic pumice.
And therein lies a mystery, notes Edward Dunham, a researcher at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and a member of the team. The planet falls into a category known as superheated gas giants, or “hot Jupiters.” Current theories about how these kinds of planets form can’t explain how something so voluminous could have such a low mass, and hence, low density. The results are set to be published later this year.
Built from aluminum and glass, the new all-in-one desktops feature a complete, slimmer redesign and will come in two sizes: 20-inch and 24-inch. There’s the usual compliment of ports like USB 2.0, Firewire 400 / 800, a slot loading SuperDrive, iSight camera and so forth. The new look features a glossy display to match the majority of Apple’s consumer lineup, and new keyboards are indeed coming along for the ride — in an extended wired version as well as a mini wire free model, running the Bluetooth 2.0 spec.
* $1,199
* 20-inch, 1680 x 1050 LCD
* 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 1GB RAM
* 250GB SATA
* 8x SuperDrive
* 128MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT
* $1,499
* 20-inch, 1680 x 1050 LCD
* 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 1GB RAM
* 320GB SATA
* 8x SuperDrive
* 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
* $1,799
* 24-inch, 1900 x 1200 LCD
* 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 1GB RAM
* 320GB SATA
* 8x SuperDrive
* 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
* $2,299
* 24-inch, 1900 x 1200 LCD
* 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme
* 2GB RAM
* 500GB SATA
* 8x SuperDrive
* 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes. DefCon says it was tipped off by their own mole at Dateline who sent them a pic of the undercover journalist who DefCon employees identified as producer Michelle Madigan.
DefCon staff say that Madigan was asked four times — two times on the phone and two times at the conference — if she wanted to obtain press credentials, but she declined.
DefCon staff lured her to a large hall telling her that the Spot the Fed contest was in session and that she could get a picture of an undercover federal agent at the contest. When she sat down, Jeff Moss, DefCon’s founder, announced that they were changing the game. Instead of Spot the Fed, they were going to play Spot the Undercover Reporter and then announced, “And there’s one in here right now.” Madigan, realizing she’d been had, jumped from her seat and bolted out the door with reporters carrying cameras chasing after her through the parking lot and to her car.
