In a press release issued today, HP states they will “discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones“.
The sales of these products were bleak according to numerous media reports.
Galaxie Goes Mobile
Stingray Digital has just released a free application enabling people to listen to the Galaxie music service.
This 48 commercial free music streaming service is primarily distributed on digital cable systems in Canada. But now for $4.99 a month or $9.99 for three months or $39.99 for a year, Apple product users can access these channels. Additional information can be found by clicking the following :
Walmart Closing Music Site In States
Walmart will be closing their American music download site on August 29th. But their Canadian music download site, SongSpark, continues to operate.
Standardized 3D Glasses
Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and XPAND 3D have partnered to adopt a standard when it comes to 3D glasses.
In a joint statement, these companies stated that they “Will Seek Development of Joint Licensing on ‘BLUETOOTH® ENABLED RF’ and ‘IR’ Consumer 3D Active Glasses“.
A standardized version of these glassed are to be released next month whilst the full version, “with the new IR/RF protocols will be made available in 2012, and are targeted to be backward compatible with 2011 3D active TVs.”
Indie Labels Hit By London Riots
A major distribution center operated by Sony has been destroyed in London, England.
The three story building, in which CDs and DVDs from indie labels XL Recordings, 4AD, Beggars, Pias, Domino and Rough Trade were stored, was burned down according to Billboard.
Pias is a major independent music distributor, representing 150 labels. They also distribute DVDs and games.
Is Your Internet Provider Net Neutral ?
Does your internet provider throttle traffic to and from legitimate sites because of favoritism ? Are they trying to steer you to specific sites by slowing down connections to and from those other sites ?
Internet providers are supposed to be neutral. But of course how does someone find out when they aren’t ? They certainly wont admit to doing it and no technology exists to analyze their transfers. Right ?
Well, researcher Dan Kaminsky has been working on a program called N00ter to do this.
Basically it times transfers to and from sites using different methods and compares the resulting information to find throttling.
Additional information on this new program can be found on Forbes.