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Stories · 2

  1. Peercasting Ready for Primetime?

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the bit-torrent-for-the-rest-of-the-world dept. · 220 comments
    ZephyrXero writes "Have you ever wanted to run your own internet radio or TV station, but thought the bandwidth would cost too much? While Wired thinks Peer-to-peer broadcasting, or "peercasting", will be the future of the internet (previously posted); Peercast.org says it's already here today. Peercast's software is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac. You can broadcast both audio and video without needing a whole lot of bandwidth since each audience member also uploads back to the network. The Xiph Foundation is also working on a similar project called "IceShare," but it's still in planning. Peercast, still in beta seems to already be fully functional and ready for an audience (even you dial-up guys)."

  2. Survival for Mom-and-Pop Computer Stores?

    Ask · Money · · posted by Cliff · from the playing-by-darwin's-rules dept. · 91 comments
    Jeramy asks: "Hello, In February I entered into a partnership with a friend and now own and operate a 'mom and pop' computer store. In this day and age of PriceWatch and $599 systems from Wal-Mart, it is very frustrating (to say the least)to try to sell anything computer related to anyone. Customers walk into the store trying to haggle down our relatively low prices (relative to what we pay plus shipping to get it here) like we are a discount fish market. So my question is: Since 'every day low prices' are not possible, what can a local store do to attract customers?"