This is heartwarming and inspirational:
Television viewers will ultimately wind up with one-stop shopping for video, phone and Internet services, under legislation approved by the state Senate that would open the video-services market to telephone companies.
No matter what happens with Stevens and Barton this year, those of is in California are cool.
I heard a debate of [...]
I used to spend a lot of time in the Indian state of Kerala, so this article in Salon by Andrew Leonard caught my eye:
Richard Stallman must be sleeping well this week. Eight years ago, I accompanied the free software pioneer on a visit to the Bill Gates-funded computer science building on the Stanford campus. [...]
Here it comes, a broadband technology that can move bits at a gigabit per second. And it’s all done without any wires:
On a bus fitted out specially for the occasion in Jeju this week, Samsung demonstrated a new version of 4G technology transferring data at speeds of 100Mbit/s.
The bus was moving at 60kmph – which [...]
Technological Musings says:
British Telecom makes sure that no other VoIP service can work on their network by blocking commonly used ports.
Is this true? I know that Korea Telecom does this, but I’d never heard this before. The blog contains a number of errors, such as this one: “There are a lot of ISPs in the [...]
The reaction of the Apple faithful to the disclosure of a security hole in the design of Apple OSX was amazing. A couple of guys figured out that you could trick OSX into executing some foreign code with root privilege by sending a malformed packet to a third-party wireless LAN card. The guys – David [...]
We pointed out the other day that net neutrality fiends want public ownership of the Internet access network. Here’s a report from Broadband News on what that looks like:
Culver City, California was the first Los Angeles municipality to offer the public a free all-access Wi-Fi network. They’re also the first to ban all porn and [...]
The current Wikipedia entry for Net Neutrality has a pretty good intro, but you never know how long these things will last:
Columbia University law professor Tim Wu popularized the phrase network neutrality as a term designating a network that does not favor one application (for example the World Wide Web) over another (such as online [...]
Reader Dave Johnson argues that QoS isn’t necessary on big packet networks because the carrier can simply provision the network adequately to carry all possible traffic at once:
If an ISP has ample internal and outgoing bandwidth, as in more than enough to provide for the sum total of their customers allocations, then where does that [...]
Ha ha hee hee ho ho, here we go on our way to a better Internet:
Peering isn’t just for VOIP anymore.
Carriers are beginning to form peering arrangements by which they mutually honor each other’s QOS requirements at the transport layer. (See VOIP Cuts Out Middlemen.)
That’s one of the findings of a new Heavy Reading report [...]
Re-reading my Berkman Center slanderer David Isenberg’s seminal paper The Rise of the Stupid Network, I was struck by the contradictory nature of the two paragraphs at the heart of the polemic.
First, he says his “Stupid Network” is aware of the types of messages presented to it, and handles each with appropriate service:
[In] [...]
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