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Dear iPad Owners: Please Take Our Usage Survey! (AAPL)

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Mobile Music Soars In Usage After Adding GeoSocial Features

This from Skyhook wireless as the company notes that mobile apps apps ShareTunes and SongStumblr, mobile music apps that use Skyhook’s location technology managed to grow their user base and loyalty thanks to Geo social.  Intersect World LLC’s music apps have now been downloaded over 2.5 million times with huge growth experienced after adding geosocial [...]

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Comment on Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps by goldflowpoints

Phillip, my position is that it sounds reasonable for the cable companies to charge more or less based on speed and quantity of data so long as they do not discriminate based on the content of the data. For example, when I consume more electricity or gas, I expect to pay more for it. Why should it be different for the internet? Should not a heavy gamer or movie downloader, who puts a heavy load on the network that potentially impacts the experience for the majority of lighter users, pay more for such heavy use? I assume Stop the Cap does not agree with this, and I wanted to know if you could help me understand why. Thanks.

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/11/11/charter-follows-comcast-with-broadband-usage-caps/#comment-512216

Comment on Comcast to Install Speed Bumps for Bandwidth Hogs by Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

[...] Charter will also introduce a congestion management policy with a protocol-agnostic approach that’s applied only during periods of congestion (Charter notes that congestion is rare on its network). The policy will affect only the heaviest users (less than 1 percent) in small time increments. Those affected will have their bandwidth limited, but no Internet activities will be blocked. For Comcast’s similar policy see our coverage here. [...]

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Comment on Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation by Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

[...] Lamont said that 98 percent of Charter’s 5.2 million customers will be unaffected by the decision to enforce the caps (Charter actually first included caps in its acceptable usage policy in February 2009). However, demand for broadband is increasing every week as folks use more online applications and consumer video from the web. For example, streaming a movie on Netflix uses about 1 GB per hour, so that equates to about 100 hours of Netflix streaming video each month. Services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus that involve high-quality video streams are only becoming more popular and pervasive as more consumers connect their televisions to the web. We made this argument back in 2008 when Comcast implemented its 250 GB per month cap and continue to believe that such caps could act as a threat to innovation. [...]

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Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps

Charter Cable plans to start enforcing monthly data caps on its users in December, according to a company spokeswoman. The cable operator will also implement a congestion management plan similar to the one Comcast designed after it got in trouble with the Federal Communications Commission for blocking P2P files in 2008. Charter spokeswoman Anita Lamont emailed me and said Charter will likely post this information to subscribers within the next week (hat tip to DSL Reports who first reported the change was coming).

Comment on Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter for Metered Broadband by Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

[...] that user’s account would be suspended. Unfortunately, for those who get these calls, Charter doesn’t yet have a tool to help those customers measure their use, but is working on one. However, when Comcast implemented its caps, it too lacked a measurement [...]

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As LimeWire Shuts Its Doors, Other P2P Clients See a Surge in Usage

Less than a week since LimeWire was ordered to shut down its operations, almost all other major file-sharing applications are reporting a massive increase in downloads, arguably from those displaced LimeWire users.

A New York district judge last Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order, demanding that LimeWire immediately close its doors. And while LimeWire has said it has plans to institute a redesigned service, based on legal and licensed music subscriptions, it seems like many of the site's users may have gone elsewhere for their torrents, rather than waiting for a revised version of what was once the most popular file-sharing app.

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TorrentFreak reports that it has spoken with a number of developers from P2P services, all of whom have seen a "huge boost in download numbers following Tuesday's verdict." No developers were willing to go on the record and give TorrentFreak the raw data - for fear, no doubt, of incurring the same wrath of the courts that LimeWire has received.

The exception is BearShare. Much like LimeWire, BearShare was once a Gnutella-based application. But in May 2006, BearShare was ordered to pay $30 million in settlement with the RIAA. Following that decision, BearShare altered its offerings via the Gnutella framework, limiting file-sharing. And its current iteration is, as the site proclaims "100% legal."

Despite these restrictions, BearShare has seen a 780% increase in US downloads since Tuesday. And it reports its daily US downloads went up from 8000 to 62,400. The company does not say, however, whether or not these new sers are actually paying for their downloads. (That is, I believe, what the RIAA believes will save all those poor suffering record labels.)

Even though the LimeWire alternatives have seen an influx of traffic over the past week, the fallout from last week's decision - and the still-to-come decision regarding the dollar figure attached to the judgement - remains to be seen as to how it will impact file-sharing services and users.

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