Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Koppla.ws, a new VPN service, has begun with the aim of providing user privacy at a price affordable to the average internet user. Additional services may be offered in the future. Availability is limited, but expanding, so check often!
Features:
- No traffic logs or history
- 2048-bit RSA and 128-bit Blowfish encrypted direct connection between the users computer and the server
- Bypass censorship/blocked sites
- Good server speeds and no bandwidth charges
- Servers in Luxembourg
- Easy setup for Windows XP and above, Mac OS X, and popular Linux distros
- € 2.50 / month
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Amazon has recently announced the following statement regarding the Kindle:
We will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users. Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period. Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable [loanable*] – this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending.
While some people have considered this to be a sign of progress by a major player in the content distribution industry, it just makes me feel like I’m waiting for the commercial world of content distribution to catch up to the present.
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