Bluetooth Programming in Python: Network Programming using RFCOMM

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

In the last article I discussed various Bluetooth profiles. If one wants to create a client-server based application using Bluetooth then one should program for the RFCOMM profile. RFCOMM offers a socket-based client-server paradigm for providing services.... Refurbished and Used Networking Equipment Network Liquidators sells refurbished and used networking equipment ...

IMDb Launching a Database and Social Network for Music?

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has filed a trademark application for the term “SoundUnwound.” According to the filing, the trademark would cover: “Providing information regarding, and in the nature of, social networking services; online social networking services designed for people with a common desire to meet other people with similar ...

Xing’s Business Social Network Gets a News Feed

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Xing, often referred to as “The European LinkedIn,” will be launching its own version of the Facebook News Feed on Monday. Called “What’s New in My Network,” Xing’s new feature will keep you posted on profile updates your connections make, as well as new additions to their networks. ...

Etology Ad Network Pulls BitTorrents

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

BitTorrents are a touchy subject these days, between content owners wanting them destroyed and being in the middle of legal net neutrality issues. And Etology would prefer to stay away from the matter all together. The distributed ad network is getting ready to pull BitTorrent sites from its ...

Verizon Wireless Opens Network; Will it Join the Open Handset Alliance?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Verizon Wireless has announced that it will be opening up its network, allowing customers to use devices and software not sold by the company. Essentially, this means that any CDMA phone can be designed to work on Verizon’s network (with Sprint being the other large CDMA carrier in the ...

News Corp’s Expanding Ad Network

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Weeks after announcing the FIM ad network for MySpace and other sites included in the News Corp. umbrella, the ad network is being extended even further into Murdoch’s empire. It will be selling ads across News Corp’s online media properties, in a manner similar to what we’ve seen with several ...

23andMe: The Ultimate Social Network

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The 23andMe poll has not yet closed, but it is getting late in the day, and I wanted to get my bit about 23andMe’s press conference up and online while it was still relevant. Earlier today, we asked Mashable readers their thoughts about the personal genetics, and whether they’d ...

BuzzLogic’s New Ad Network Gets $2.5M

Monday, November 19th, 2007

BuzzLogic has received another $2.5 million in financing from Adams Capital Management, Transcosmos and Ackerley Partners, for further development and promotion of its recently launched advertising tools. This new set of advertising tools works with BuzzLogic’s new Targeted Ad Network, which isolates social media for providing marketers with the ...

TurnHere Expands Publisher’s Book Network

Monday, November 19th, 2007

TurnHere, the online video service, is expanding its multi-publisher book network, Bookvideos.tv. It’s purpose is to promote videos from publishing houses for which it’s created videos. As with other services that TurnHere produces videos for, it will expand a video’s reach beyond its own network to include YouTube ...

Ecolect: More than a Catalog, a Social Network

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

I know that now-a-days, one of the hottest trends is to be “green.”  I’ll refrain from commenting at great length  on the irony of a fellow like Al Gore making anything at all considered hip, much less environmentalism. But as it is, environmentalism is hip, and social networking is the ...

Sockets in Python: Into the World of Python Network Programming

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Python offers network programmers a variety of options and an excellent degree of flexibility for tackling various situations. This article shows you how to take advantage of that flexibility by using raw sockets to create network oriented applications.... (Advertisement) Free Identity Management White Paper. Learn how BMC's Identity Management Services can ...