Archive | June, 2008

Time Warner, Sprint, & Verizon discontinue USENET service

By on June 11, 2008 in Uncategorized

Usenet may be going the way of Gopher, as Time Warner, Sprint, and Verizon, rather than taking measures to selectively target the 88 newsgroups listed by the office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that contained child pornography, they’ve decided that USENET as a whole is pretty much not worth the trouble.  Time Warner [...]

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I have nothing particularly insightful to say about the iPhone 3G.

By on June 10, 2008 in Uncategorized

You know, one of the difficulties in being a tech blogger/columnist/writer is that when something comes along that’s big news – like yesterday’s announcement of an actually-affordable iPhone with a 3G network and enterprise application support (specifically, Microsoft Exchange and Cisco IPsec VPN,) everyone else has already covered it to death.  Seriously, Network World.  Did [...]

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Complexity of Thought is Limited by Network Performance

By on June 9, 2008 in Uncategorized

[Ed. Note: The article referenced in this post has since been published online on the Atlantic Monthly Web site.] Nick Carr, author of “The Big Switch” and “Is IT Obsolete?” has written “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” and it has been published in the July issue of the Atlantic Monthly.  Sadly, I called up my [...]

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Bandwidth Caps and The Cognitive Surplus

By on June 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

by Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Time Warner Cable has rolled out its plan to cap the data of high-speed Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, a town about 20 miles west of the Louisiana border. The plans include $29.95/mo for 768kb/s downstream and a 5GB monthly cap – or $54.90/mo at 15Mb/s and 40GB [...]

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Whiteboard Series: Overview of the FIX Protocol for Financial Applications

By on June 4, 2008 in Ask the Service Assurance Expert

Ben Erwin delivers a ten minute presentation below explaining about the FIX protocol for trading applications, as part of our “Whiteboard Series.”  If you have trouble making out some of the details in Ben’s presentation, this video is also available in high definition on Vimeo.   Overview of the FIX Protocol for Financial Applications from [...]

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