Archive | July, 2009

Peer To Peer Versus Streaming MP3 Files.

The Guardianreports that among teens, at least, peer to peer downloading of MP3 files of favorite songs is on the decline.  That’s good news for the RIAA labels, who can control the content on streaming sites more than they can control peer-to-peer networks. The bad news?  The teens are switching to streaming sites, like YouTube [...]

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Baseball moves from Fault to Performance

Baseball has forever been a game adorned with statistics. Have you ever spent a rainy day with the Baseball Encyclopedia as a kid – or as an adult? However, the dawn of the Moneyball age elevated a wide range of statistics from playground debate to the general manager’s office and contract negotiation. Specifically, Moneyball strategies, [...]

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Botnet Bulgogi

North Korea is suspected to be the culprit in a botnet attack against South Korean and U.S. Websites. Though, even if you have rubbed “Dear Leader” the wrong way, the attacks supposedly coming from North Korea come from a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers using a 2004-era MyDoom variant. By way of comparison, [...]

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Google’s Gambit

The Google Chrome OS is real, but it probably won’t be that big a deal for most people. Oh, I mean, sure, it may be a raging success or a colossal failure (I really can’t see a middle ground on this) but so far, we have no screenshots, and not much information other than a [...]

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Fear of the Unknown

One of the things holding back the rollout of new applications (like VoIP, Video, and Unified Communications) is the fear that the new applications will cause network performance problems; according to Network World’s Denise Dubie, citing a survey from Apparent Networks. Nearly 61% said that they had delayed a VoIP implementation due to network performance [...]

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I believe the Germans have a word for it: “Cloudkludge”

There’s an article from Jon Brodkin at Network World on the lack of interoperability standards in cloud computing. That is, one of the main benefits of virtualization and cloud computing is the ideal of developing an application once and being able to host it from any data center connected to the Internet. But as vendors [...]

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Yankee Group: Fiber to Home carriers should focus on adoption

According to Brad Reed at Network World, the Yankee Group has been telling fiber-based Internet carriers in the U.S. that fiber penetration is much more important than grabbing average revenue per user. For this reason, the Yankee Group suggests that carriers start wholesaling the fiber out to smaller companies. What’s interesting about this is that [...]

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You’ve been struck by, you’ve been hit by, a news criminal

I thought about this blog post on Michael Jackson’s death for a while before writing it – on the fence as to whether it was relevant to readers, but I’ve been told over the past few days that it would make a good topic for the blog by more than a few people in the [...]

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