Tag archive: Rochester

As it turns out, Time Warner’s proposed download caps for test markets around the country won’t prevent users from unlimited downloads after all. They’ll just have to pay several times more for the privilege than they used to. Time Warner COO Landel Hobbs clarified the company’s trials in a post explaining both the necessity behind the move to metered Internet access, and what the new tiered structure would look… Read More

It wasn't the first video game console, but the Atari 2600 was the first system to bring video games into the home, and though its titles were limited to a paltry 2 to 4 K (that's kilobytes: it takes 1,024 of them to make a megabyte, and a 1,024 of them to make a gigabyte!), the console's influence on the industry is long and undeniable. Now, thirty years after its introduction, the Atari 2600 console has been inducted into… Read More

In a suit filed in a New York Federal Court, Rochester, New York-based Kodak alleged that Sony's products use technology invented by Kodak, including an “electronic camera utilizing image compression and digital storage.” Kodak, which is undergoing a tough transition toward digital products amid the decline of its film business, and Sony are among the leaders in sales of digital cameras, which do not use film and record… Read More

The 3,700 students living in University of Rochester residence halls will gain free access to Napster's popular Premium music service later this semester, in the first digital music agreement betweenNapster, a division of Roxio, and a private university. In addition, Napster and the University's prestigious Eastman School of Music will be developing ways in which Napster can begin to provideoriginal content from Eastman students and… Read More

Time Warner Cable is progressing its plans to offer Voice over Internet Protocol telephone service throughout the U.S. They announced today the creation of a business unit for its residential telephone service called “Digital Phone”. From Time Warner's press release: Time Warner Cable announced the creation of a new business unit today, Time Warner Cable Voice Services, which will be responsible for overseeing the… Read More

It sounds unlikely, but according to Dr. Frank Soltis, iSeries chief scientist for IBM, researchers at the company's Rochester laboratory are doing just this. “I'm still looking forward to seeing AS/400 running on a PlayStation,” he said last Thursday, adding somewhat jokingly, “I'm not sure there's a big market, but we're working on it.” Reports since then suggest he's now managed… Read More