Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.
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- FCC issues 'radical' order re: Comcast
- The FCC has released its formal decision PDF against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired's David Kravets views it, it's an open invitation for ISPs to censor content – so long as they're protocol-agnostic about it. Calling the decision "vitriolic," Kravets says:...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Yahoo announces Icahn's board members
- Yahoo appointed former Viacom CEO Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners, to its board of directors, filling the two new seats created when activist investor Carl Icahn agreed to drop his proxy fight for control of the board last month. Icahn is also...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- U.S. Internet down by law, not market
- U.S. Internet down by law, not marketPlease refrain from the BS, Dana[i]ISPs are free to set terms and conditions of service, but if those terms become onorous the consumer can simply change carriers[/i]And we cannot?If I do not like Comcast I can move to Verizon, Cavalier, AOL, ATX, the list...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Patent suit targets company being acquired by Microsoft
- On the surface, the latest patent lawsuit to hit the court systems looks like many of the others: allegations of infringement, ongoing unauthorized use and so on. But there's a little bit of a twist to this one. DATallegro, the company that reportedly is doing such infringing, is in the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Cable: Natural born monopoly?
- The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T. In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Banking On The Internet Breaking
- So, on the day the Olympics open, the head of Tellabs – which helps telecommunications carriers deliver high-quality voice, video and data services around the world -- is talking about a looming bandwidth crisis for the Internet, in today's Chicago Sun-Times. The main cause for the concern:...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
- Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in response to the Comcast ruling by the FCC, which ordered the cable carrier to stop interfering with certain kinds of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- FCC Chairman: It's Okay To Discriminate
- Maybe you thought that the Federal Commission Friday ordered Comcast to end "discriminatory network practices." After all, that's what the Commission said in its release following the agency's 3-2 ruling. But in his own statement on the matter, Chairman Kevin Martin said: ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- 140-year-old telco embraces its nemesis
- 140-year-old telco embraces its nemesisWhy did Ribbit sell out to BT?Because Griggs has founded six different telecommunications companies over the past seventeen years, according to Ribbit's own media kit, and apparently once again...somebody made him an offer he couldn't refuse.http://www.ribbit.com/mediakit/assets/corporate/ribbit_corporate_overview.pdf
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Diminutive green server for those with Linux leaning
- Considering how crowded many Japanese cities are, it's not surprising that local vendors like Plat'Home are increasingly eco-conscious. Smaller systems just make business sense. Last quarter, Plat'Home began shipping one of those lines in the United States. The OpenBlockS server series support Power over Ethernet and has...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft buys DATAllegro
- Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Students: the broadband troubleshooter
- Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- European telcos squeal: should we care?
- European telcos squeal: should we care?Dennis is a true European!His blog makes it perfectly clear. He talks about the "charges we're forced to pay by telecoms operators" sic when traveling internationally. That verbiage could have come right out of Brussels. Who is forcing Dennis to pay those charges? Nobody! If...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- European telcos squeal: should we care?
- One of the ongoing discussions among the Irregulars centers around telecommunications costs. Many of us travel internationally and bemoan the astronomical sic charges we're forced to pay by telecoms operators. Earlier today, I saw a statement from the GSMA, a global trade group for the industry arguing...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- There's money up on the roof
- I've reported here before about the eyebrow-raising percentage of operations costs that telecommunications companies spend on energy. After all, their business is centered on providing services through massive data centers and they are directly affected by rising energy costs. It stands to reason, then, that some...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Telecom immunity passes Senate, Obama votes yes
- The Senate – with a yes vote from Barack Obama and a no vote from Hillary Clinton – passed the regrettable wiretapping bill today, which grants lawsuit immunity to telecommunications companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. Despite a spirited resistance by some Democratic senators who...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service
- Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority is reporting that a sustained spamming attack during the past 24 hours managed to cause a successful Denial of Service attack on the email services of the islands only Internet Service Provider. More info on the attack : More...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Live Webcast: Intelligent Network Design: A conversation with Qwest's CTO
- Are you curious about the future of business telecommunications? Do you want to learn how Qwest is addressing your networking needs, from the bottom up? Join this live Webcast conversation from TechRepublic, featuring Pieter Poll, Qwest's Chief Technology Officer, who will deep dive into Qwest's advanced network architecture,...
- Webcasts 2008-06-24
- Alabama's Broadband Tide
- BROADBAND INITIATIVE – If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you'll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called "Redneck Riviera," at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – No more...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
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