In Monday’s FCC hearing [video link] on Comcast’s network management practices, Vuze, a video sharing Website that uses P2P technologies to enable near zero distribution costs, apparently argued that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth. Real World IT’s George Ou responded with a wonderfully cogent and fact-based response that demonstrated BitTorrent was a gigantic upstream […]
Verizon Wireless has set March 19 as the date it will release the first version of its open network service specs. As c|net’s Marguerite Reardon points out, the pricing of the “Any Device, Any App” service is still up in the air (no pun intended):
“But even though Verizon appears to be embracing the network openness, […]
On Monday, Starbucks announced that it would switch providers for its ubiquitous Wi-Fi hotspots, replacing T-Mobile with AT&T. Starbucks also announced it will start providing two hours of free Wi-Fi for customers who buy coffee on their Starbucks purchase card as well as cheaper rates monthly (and after that two hour freebie). AT&T’s broadband customers […]
On Monday, BlackBerry users suffered another service outage. As the outage appears to have affected all wireless carriers, it sounds like another software glitch more than a network issue, but one quote from the AP’s article caught my eye:
“[Stuart] Gold . . . plans to ask his company to buy him a backup smart phone […]
I had the good fortune this week of leaving the cold Northeast behind and spending some time in Barcelona at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. It’s been exciting to walk around the show floor and see the future of the mobile industry, and particularly the prototype “Google phones” built on the Android platform. Android-based phones […]
On Tuesday night this week while I was preparing for the VPIsystems sales conference, a massive undersea network cable was cut and Internet access was crippled across much of Egypt and India (a trade group estimates about 60 percent of India’s Internet users were affected). I was especially interested to read about the disruption, […]
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