(Bits Per Second) The measurement of the speed of data transfer in a communications system.
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- Comcast submits plan to limit heavy users
- Comcast submits plan to limit heavy users"Second Stream", or Setting Up the "2-Tiering" Stage?"Comcast will do this by creating a second stream of traffic for recent heavy users that will have a lower priority when compared to its other customers..."The new scheme would seem to be a lot fairer than...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- O3B satellites could bring real net access to rest of world
- When I was in Uganda, pulling together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile, a spin-off of the Internet Archive Bookmobile, lack of Internet access and electricity was a huge issue. Brewster Kahle's original incarnation boasted a satellite dish on the roof for access to online books on...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Dell's second quarter: Another milepost in the turnaround tale
- Dell reports its fiscal second quarter results on Thursday after market close and analysts are turning optimistic about the company's turnaround prospect amid better consumer notebook designs, emerging market revenue and solid server sales growth. Dell is expected to report fiscal second quarter earnings of 36 cents...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Best Buy plays defense with Apple, iPhone
- Update: Best Buy will begin selling Apple's iPhones in its store and the relationship between the two parties has become quite symbiotic. According to various reports, Best Buy (all resources, BNET profile) will start selling Apple's iPhone in its stores beginning Sept. 7. For Apple, Best Buy...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAP
- Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAPBetter than the other reason to give your garbage man's Daughter a computerBolivia and Amar Maha Roma; spending his new life on his personnal Land Expansion off the Coast of India. It is beautiful there from the video I've seen, India....
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- My top picks from Demo 08
- After two days of immersion in 6-minute product pitches from 77 companies, my head is still spinning from Demo 08. Like a centrifuge some of the material is coalescing, demos floating to the surface, which I presume are those that struck me as worthy of more than a passing glance....
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Sterna launches Business Positioning System
- Sterna Technologies was one of the few enterprise products to present at Demo 08. The company introduced its Business Positioning System BPS, which is another name for Business Performance Management BPM or any other variety of acronym for dashboards the improve corporate performance. Sterna's technology goes...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- The HD DVD predicament
- The HD DVD predicamentFollowing the computer industryThe Author said: "That suits hardware manufacturers just fine as it it provides them the opportunity to sell playback devices multiple times to the same customers as new features obsolete older players."That model suited the computer industry really well and, although slowed somewhat, still...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging markets
- OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging marketsYes, it was a GREAT program, and will get lots of computers into the handsof technical people that will help with the project. I would like to see it extended and continued. We would also like to see accessories such...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- The technology worry chronicles: IBM, Best Buy dinged
- Enterprises aren't too hip on buying IT hardware right now and consumers aren't feeling all that spunky either. Those are the big takeaways from the latest installment of Wall Street worry about technology-related companies. On Friday, worries about Intel emerged. You can expect these worries to emerge...
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Social networks vs. the tribe of Mary-Beth
- Social networks vs. the tribe of Mary-Bethfighting the bit policeI think employers should encourage participation in professional communities. (I say this partly because my employer does encourage that, and I consider this and other forums a professional community, but I'm not sure that they do...)https would not workRemember their...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- An uncanny 1960s view of the future World Wide Web
- An uncanny 1960s view of the future World Wide WebGreat find.Very insightful back then. The 'husband approves wife purchase' was funny - especially his disgusted gesture when he received the bill.Or read James SchmitzHis "ComWeb" isn't a major plot element, it's just taken for granted. However, it's acknowledged as...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-15
- Can WiMax make it in the U.S.?
- Can WiMax make it in the U.S.?Nope...For the same reason that has kept the US behind even 3rd world countries in communications/internet - Greed and the desire to control it all.Wider freq chan != more efficientSince the radio spectrum is limited, wider channels are in general less efficient. It's...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- HDD Monitor (widget)
- HDD Monitor shows your logical Windows drives with interesting information through WMI: Name, size, free space, read/bps as graph or text, write/bps as graph or text. Many preference options are available. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2007-11-07
- Spy czar urges extension of warrantless wiretap law
- Spy czar urges extension of warrantless wiretap lawI swearSome day there will be a tombstone with a crescent and star over it that will read the following:Here lies the United States. Death by suicide.RE: Spy czar urges extension of warrantless wiretap law‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- A Little Transparency Could Go a Long Way: Oracle's Opacity Crisis
- Oracle's quarterly earnings look good, and their execs are crowing about how well their "surround SAP" strategy is working. And so it goes, another great quarter, another boastful conference call. What's wrong with this picture quarter after quarter is that we mere mortals -- and I include some pretty smart...
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Verizon's fiber-optic payoff
- Verizon's fiber-optic payoffFIOS vs Cablevision Optimum service on LII recently made the switch to FIOS. Basic 'CABLE' channels are clearer on FIOS than Cablevision; HD is HD. Biggest difference is in the usability of the "boxes". Cablevision's boxes were a lot easier to use to scan what's...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- Army testing Mobile WiMax
- The U.S. Army is evaluating Mobile WiMax for possible military use, according to ComputerWorld. Samsung will supply the equipment to the Army. The Army Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center CERDEC will study whether the Army can use mobile WiMax equipment in a military environment and measure...
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Cringely doesn't need no stinking facts to push Net Neutrality
- Cringely doesn't need no stinking facts to push Net NeutralityNet Neutrality?We don' need no stinkin' Net Neutrality?!!! ;)Tell 'em George! :)Is Microsoft paying off Mr. Cringely?Companies like Microsoft and Google are advocating "net neutrality" to escape paying for the improved service to be provided them. Why not create an...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- Muni Wi-Fi can deliver speed, coverage if properly designed
- Weve heard a lot of anecdotal stories that municipal Wi-Fi networks are not living up to their billing, as users find the networks to be much slower than hoped and subject to weak coverage. But, compared to cell networks, theyre actually much faster and cover their areas almost as well,...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
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