Brazil: a new broadband connection every 2 seconds - 21 June 2011. Brazil: a new broadband connection every 2 seconds - 21 June 2011. Cost of broadband halves in three years. US debates its broadband future. Plans for the future of the internet in the US are "under siege" by powerful interests, warns the Federal Communications Commission. The warning was given by Commissioner Michael Copps as the agency prepares for a vote on its plans for the development of broadband in the US. The plan followed a court decision that the FCC had no authority to stop ISPs slowing traffic to some users The ruling was a blow to a central tenet of the agency's broadband plan.
That plan aims to to provide every American in the country with high speed internet access by 2020. Enshrined in the FCC plan is strong backing for so-called "net neutrality" principles. This means that all web data is treated equally and stops ISPs favouring some traffic in preference to others. 'The third way' The court decision put a question mark over the FCC's ability to enforce these principles and put the broadband plan in legal limbo. Mr Copps warned that the proposal was not guaranteed to be approved. "Make no mistake about it. Education. Virtualization Mobiles. SAN FRANCISCO--If the average person has heard of virtualization at all, the idea probably left little impression beyond something to do with running corporate data centers packed with computing hardware. But the era in which virtualization directly affects ordinary folks, too, is on its way.
The company in the forefront of the technology, an EMC subsidiary called VMware, drew 12,488 people to its VMworld conference here this week, and one theme of the show was the growing push to move the technology beyond the server realm. Initially that means PCs, but the company demonstrated its technology on mobile phones, too. What is virtualization? VMware has competition from Citrix, Red Hat, Microsoft, and others, but for now its head start, corporate alliances, and solid technology give it a lead in the market. Employee-owned IT Before it met its present success in the server market, VMware got its start on PCs. VMware View is latest twist on a technology called thin client computing.