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What They Know - WSJ
Marketers are spying on Internet users -- observing and remembering people's clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal's What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people's computers by the 50 most popular U.S. websites, plus WSJ.com. The Journal also built an "exposure index" -- to determine the degree to which each site exposes visitors to monitoring -- by studying the tracking technologies they install and the privacy policies that guide their use.
Consumer internet traffic: Data guzzlers | The Economist
How the world will use the internet in 2015 RELIABLE data about internet traffic is hard to come by. One of the better sources is Cisco's annual Visual Networking Index , which was published on June 1st. Internet traffic, the world's biggest maker of networking gear predicts, will quadruple and reach 80.5 exabytes per month (80 exabytes would fill 20 billion DVDs) by 2015.
The goal of DiffProbe is to detect if an ISP is classifying certain kinds of traffic as "low priority", providing different levels of service for them. DiffProbe actively (and non-intrusively) probes the network path and tries to diagnose the nature and extent of traffic discrimination. This page presents a module of DiffProbe, called ShaperProbe. ShaperProbe tries to answer the question:
ShaperProbe
Facebook has shared the nitty-gritty details of its server and data center design, taking its commitment to openness to a new level for the industry by sharing its infrastructure secrets much like it has shared its software code. The effort by the social network will bring web scale computing to the masses and is a boon for AMD and Intel and the x86 architecture. Sorry ARM .
Facebook Open Sources Its Servers and Data Centers: Cloud Computing News «
My in-home network was working fine with a Netgear WGR614 ver 7 wireless 4-port Ethernet router using a 192.168.1.1/8 subnet LAN. I signed up for the Verizon DSL service. Verizon's ads show up many on this page in the ad bar on this page. If you want to compare DSL vs. Cable options, be sure to check T.J.
Verizon DSL Hacked Into My Home Network
American Mathematical Society :: Feature Column
Common economic wisdom suggests that if markets are free to operate without intervention, the good times will roll. The recent world economic crisis, now sometimes referred to as the Great Recession, seems to suggest a more complex reality. Much of modern economics is based on the assumption that the "human actors" in the "economic drama" behave rationally.
This video will give you a quick overview of how to use GMail. This includes adding a signature to your emails, changing the theme and removing those annoying web clip adverts.
Gmail for beginners | Under Ten Minutes
Latency
It’s clear from discussions across the supply chain that the industry is considering launching 4K x 2K (3840×2160) resolution TVs, which have four times the information content of current 1080p products. This increase in resolution is a sign of the growing maturity in the TV market, and the price erosion that continues to damage the business. Set and panel makers are seeking the next innovation that can boost pricing. So why 4K x 2K?
Does 4K x 2K Offer Lasting Value To Consumers? | DisplaySearch Blog
Download data versus piracy claims: the figures don’t add up • The Register
Comment First, a declaration of interest. Before I joined El Reg , I was working on an analyst project (PDF/721 KB) with Sydney company Market Clarity led by long-time friend Shara Evans. This project yielded a couple of data points that are relevant to claims about internet piracy in this country. The first is that while most broadband plans in Australia offer very high download allowances these days, household users still average only around 6 to 7 GB per month.
EU State Aid Approvals and fibre | The Wooster Blog
Leading from some conversations over the last couple of weeks I thought I’d have a look to see if there exists any link between EU State Aid rulings for broadband projects and that countries ranking in the fibre league tables. At the moment, this is little more than a work in progress while I try to understand why some countries make a big deal out of EU State Aid rules (UK tends to top the list) and how some countries seem able to make progress more efficiently - please drop me a line if you can help! This table ranks EU countries according to the FttH Council League table, along with the the proportion of EU state aid decisions since 2003. If you’re looking for the UK, you’ll need to keep looking to the bottom of the table where you’ll find that we’re unranked by the FttH Council whilst accounting for 25% of all EU decisions, the highest proportion of any country. The UK started early as well with the first decision (in fact, the first 4!).
Standards and protocols
Light My Fibre
I apologise to my readers for my absence of several weeks. Landing in hospital for major surgery isn’t much fun, but it is great to be back at work again. Some five years ago I completed a one week engineering course with Alloptic Inc at their Livermore, California headquarters. At the end of the course, their very kind CEO Ric Johnson took me for a drive to the Napa Valley and pointed out the area where their main competitor was located.Business models
blogs.broughturner.com/2011/03/basic-questions-about-ngns.html
I get questions on telecom, mobile and Internet topics from students in different parts of the world and I try to reply to them all as best I can. One kind of question that comes up repeatedly has to do with "Next Generation Networks" or NGNs - what are they? why are they based on packet technology?Nederlanders kunnen internet niet meer missen. We geven zelfs liever de televisie op, blijkt uit onderzoek van het Economisch Bureau van de ING. Maand zonder Het bureau legde de gemiddeld 73.000 deelnemers aan de onderzoeken de vraag voor of ze een maand lang zonder internet wilden leven.
Nederland kan internet niet missen - RTL Nieuws.nl
FttC
Internet and e-mail policy and practice
In two previous messages we looked at the question of how hard it will be to get IPv4 address space once the original supply runs out, and how much v4 address space people really need. Today we look at e-mail and IPv6. Of all the applications on the net, mail is probably the one that is least affected by NAT, and will be the least affected by running out of v4 addresses. For one thing, mail doesn't need a whole lot of IP addresses. You can easily put 10,000 users behind mail servers on a single IP, and even a giant mail system is unlikely to need more than a few hundred IPs. (For example, all of Hotmail's inbound servers sit behind 24 IPs.)cable
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