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We've already discussed just how weak Comcast's defense of its traffic shaping efforts are, but Ed Felten chimes in with another point. It appears that Comcast relies on rather questionable "experts" in trying to present its traffic shaping as reasonable. For example, rather than quote an actual technical expert concerning how P2P file sharing systems work, it quotes Congressional Representative Mary Bono Mack saying (totally incorrectly): For
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Yahoo is following in Google’s footsteps again in search. Today, it is shifting a crucial part of its search engine to Hadoop, software that handles large-scale distributed computing tasks particularly well. Hadoop is an open-source implementation of Google’s MapReduce software and file system. It takes all the links on the Web found [...]

Sony Europe has just recommitted itself to lessening its environmental impact, with the introduction of the "Product, Process and Planet" initiative. The "Product" part of the initiative relates to Sony's efforts to make its consumer electronics goods more environmentally friendly. TV products currently account for around 76% of Sony's overall CO2 emissions, but the company has reduced the power consumption of its LCD TVs, and in recognition of t
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Who woulda thunk it? The Chinese company Penchan has developed a camera with a whopping 5.5 Terapixel resolution, or in layman's terms, 5,500,000 megapixels. Yes, really. We just got off the phone to Canon and Nikon and it's safe to say, they're petrified. When we told Hasselblad about Penchan's new product, they vowed to get out of the industry as fast as their little Swedish legs could carry them. But, to obviously soften the blow to their comp
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Sumo has announced the availability of its new range of laptop carrying cases, offering soft, stylish, colourful design that's also tough and sturdy enough to protect your precious notebook PC. "Kind of like the protection a Sumo wrestler would afford" - no, really.

LG has said it's going to carry on making HD DVD players, using such words as "convenience" and "consumer" to justify its decision to stick with the recently deceased format. If were to be cynical about it, though - and there's little we enjoy more! - we'd say that's because poor LG has a factory full of the things somewhere in Korea it's desperately trying to shift before they become worth bugger all. But that's not what LG said. It would be a v
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Samsung is showing their softer side with some PC speakers called 'Ice Cube' and 'Snow Flake'. Awww. Look at 'em. They're little square white things that don't at all resemble what they're called. Awww. The Ice Cube PSP100 is powered...

The stories about HP's 2133 UMPC have just heated up, with some more concrete information coming our way via Engadget. They're claiming that the 9.8" ultra-portable PC will drop in April for $630, or about £315, if the conversion rate is obeyed. It'll run...

Arcam's Solo range has just gotten slightly bigger, if you can count something dubbed the 'Solo Mini' as being 'big'. The aluminum exterior contains a CD player, DAB/FM/AM radio, and iPod and MP3 player integration plus USB port for any other devices you want to play from. It actually adopts the same amplifiers as the full-sized Solo, so whilst the box may...

The Pentagon says bad weather in the north Pacific makes it unlikely that a Navy ship will launch a missile today in an attempt to shoot down a wayward U.S. spy satellite in space.

Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed her Democratic rival Barack Obama today as leading a movement with little to show for his eloquence and promises.