News Clippings for Monday, April 7th

Today’s news witnesses several previous reports resurfacing with fresh info:

Windows 7 Sooner than you think

Torrent Wars escalate

And...Rick Astely?

Windows 7 in ‘08?:
It was recently reported that the next instalment in the Windows franchise, titled Windows 7, would be released as in early as 2010. However, in a recent investors meeting, Bill Gates himself said W7 could be out as early as next year! Now, perhaps it would merely be a beta release rather than the full-on commercial onslaught, but let’s face it: Vista Just Came OUT! Something strange is going on in the Redmond neighbourhood

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Torrent Wars:
Part Deux: Last week we reported that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was embracing the a system more renown for downloading albums and movies (without developers consent I might add *gasp). However, the whole ordeal had more resounding effects, as it brought to light the traffic shaping of Canada’s leading ISP, especially that of Bell. This in turn brought on immense pressure from net neutrality advocates, Bell’s ISP underlings (who sell off Bell bandwidth under different brandnames), and consumers themselves. Now comes word that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (otherwise known as the CRTC) is being asked to intervene. So why would you care, American reader? While, there is a possibility of precedent being set here and it may aid in any battle to the south where ISP across the board are being ousted for traffic shaping.

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Rick Astley Abound:
In the latest internet craze (I think those words see print every week, don’t they?) people are being subjected to clips of 80’s pop singer Rick Astley in what is being dubbed ‘Rick Rollin.’ Apparently originating in the blogosphere wherein bloggers began casually linking to clips of the nostalgic videos, the phenomenon has since swept the web, with Rick imitators appearing on YouTube, to even appearing in meetings with exclamations that “You’ve been Rick Rolled.” This in turn has seen a spike in music sales for the pop sensation. But perhaps an even more astounding aspect of this story is that this all resulted from a deal forged between Sony BMG and Google which gave YouTube access to Sony’s backcatalogue of videos. Way to use that license!

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