The Web Foundation sur Twitter : "Say YES to #NetNeutrality... How to Build an Empire, the Netflix Way - NYTimes.com. Continue reading the main story Video.
Fight for the Future on Twitter: Sept 10th is the #InternetSlowdown. Show the world what'll happen if we lose #netneutrality. Join the Battle for Net Neutrality. Big Cable wants to slow down the Internet?
Fine. Let's show the world what a web without net neutrality would be like. Join our open, international call for action to protect Internet Freedom. Battle For The Net. Big ED In The Chair. One of the most sinister exchanges in the Niira Radia tapes takes place past 11 pm on June 10, 2009.
The then PR diva is having a tense conversation with Manoj Modi, the right-hand man of India’s most powerful businessman, Mukesh Ambani. The top management of conglomerate Reliance Industries—a client of Radia’s PR firm—is upset, very upset. Business magazine Forbes India (published by the then Raghav Bahl-promoted Network 18) had committed, according to the Ambanis, a grave transgression. An irreverent column on the rich and famous, which went by the moniker Insnider, had taken a light-hearted swipe at the children of the RIL chairman.
Radia is trying to secure an apology from the Forbes editors. Eventually, after a series of deliberations over e-mail, an “acceptable solution” was hammered out. ‘Chhodunga Nahin’ The RIL boss’s right-hand man, Manoj Modi. Back in 2009, in a strange coincidence, Sharanya, a company in which RIL had a stake, made a Rs 200 crore advance to Network 18. Meetup, Kickstarter and Tumblr head to D.C. to save net neutrality. Representatives from a variety of startups, public advocacy groups like Engine Advocacy as well as the New York Tech Meetup flocked to Washington D.C. this Friday and met with senior congressional staffers as well as FCC staffers to voice their support for strong net neutrality protections in response to the FCC’s plans to allow ISPs to charge content companies for access to internet fast lanes.
With The .Net Foundation, Microsoft Finally Bets Big On Open Source. For years, Microsoft has flirted with the open-source movement, trying to build bridges with developers that favor publicly released code over proprietary software.
This week, the software giant finally made the big moves skeptics of its commitment to open source have been looking for. At a keynote presentation at the Build developers conference in San Francisco Thursday, Microsoft executive Scott Guthrie announced the creation of the .Net Foundation, an organization that will take over stewardship of the important software framework. Microsoft created .Net years ago for two reasons: to help developers write software for multiple versions of Windows, and to answer the rise of the Java programming language. But its Windows-centric framework hobbled its adoption. The move is notable because former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once called open source a “cancer.” .Net also lives close to the heart of Windows, which Microsoft has kept as its own proprietary software.
Breaking: Netflix and Comcast appear to have reached a peering agreement. Consumers’ troubles with online video may be subsiding — at least for Comcast customers.
Comcast and Netflix appear to have resolved their differences over network peering, which has frustrated many Netflix users over the last few months with slow, intermittent service as a result of the dispute over the business of interconnecting networks. Bryan Berg, a co-founder of App.net, posted a traceroute on Github Friday showing traffic data between Netflix and Comcast that appears to show the two companies have come to some sort of direct interconnection agreement (hat tip to Dan Gillmor who noticed the Berg post.).
S3mper Fi! Netflix open sources library to make Amazon S3 even more awesome. Cloud architect Adrian Cockcroft may have flown the coop but Netflix continues to do its thing by enhancing or bolstering existing Amazon cloud services and then making its work available for others to use.
This time out, it’s open-sourcing the s3mper library it’s been building and testing to ensure better consistency of data stored in Amazon Web Services’ gigantic S3 storage service. S3mper is now available under the Apache open source license version 2. As usual, the story on the Netflix Tech Blog is that while the Amazon service in question (S3) is amazing, it needs to be just a scooch more amazing to meet Netflix’ needs.
In his blog post, Netflix senior software engineer Daniel Weeks cited S3′s “99.999999999% durability, 99.99% availability, effectively infinite storage, versioning (data recovery), and ubiquitous access” as huge benefits. Government to launch 'Netra' for internet surveillance. KOLKATA: The government will shortly launch 'Netra', the defence ministry's internet spy system that will be capable of detecting words like 'attack', 'bomb', 'blast' or 'kill' in a matter of seconds from reams of tweets, status updates, emails, instant messaging transcripts, internet calls, blogs and forums.
The system will also be able to capture any dubious voice traffic passing through software such as Skype or Google Talk, says a telecom department note seen by ET. "Intelligence Bureau and Cabinet Secretariat are currently testing 'Netra', which will be deployed by all national security agencies," the note says. Applying Logical Operators in TFS Work Item Queries « Datta's Ramblings. Last day I was querying the work items in TFS to track the status of some of the work items.
Usually I used to query the work items (Bugs, Tasks etc.) which are assigned to me.