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Google reportedly to part ways with China on April 10
April 10: General Robert E. Lee’s last address to Confederate troops, the Titanic’s departure from Southampton, England, my friend Jake’s birthday, and now, Google’s rumored pull-out date in China. The company is preparing to announce its decision as soon as March 22, according to an anonymous source speaking to the China Business News, though it likely won’t be the end of the company’s operations in the region.
Continue reading »Get Ready for Flash Player 10.1 to Stream P2P Video to Millions, Swap Files BitTorrent-style
Forget multitouch: By far the most disruptive — and overlooked — feature of the Flash Player 10.1 beta that Adobe launched this week is the ability to transmit video via P2P multicast. In fact, Adobe built some enhanced P2P capabilities into both the new Flash Player and Air 2 beta that could be used to replicate BitTorrent functionality within Flash, build large-scale P2P groupware solutions that work right within the browser and stream video to millions of viewers without having to pay a fortune for bandwidth. Adobe has been hinting at big plans for P2P ever since it bought a small P2P startup called amicima in early 2007.
Continue reading »Time Warner, Comcast, Net TV
Time Warner and Comcast says they’ll bring cable TV to the Net starting in July, “but only for paying cable subscribers”. It’s a “nod that migration of content viewing is rapidly moving online and to the mobile phone,” says the Associated Press . A nod?
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