When we heard about this, we were skeptical. But no, after checking with the media department of Kellogg’s, it’s true. Though it hasn’t made a decision one way or another, Kellogg’s, makers of “Corn Flakes,” is looking into the possibility of laser-etching individual corn flakes with the Kellogg’s logo for the U.K. market, in order [...]
Archive | October, 2009
In Soviet Swarm Programming Language, World “Hello”s You!
Distributed computation has been around a while in different forms – Beowulf clusters, for example, – but Ian Clarke, the developer of Freenet and founder of Revver, has started working on a programming language, based on Scala, called “Swarm,” which he hopes will create a distributed programming language that can run on almost any operating [...]
Billions and Billions
YouTube, according to a blog post by its CEO and co-founder, Chad Hurley, serves up one billion video viewings daily. And you thought your business had a lot of YouTube traffic! To keep in mind the rapid growth of YouTube, it took only three years and two months for YouTube to grow a literal order [...]
Palmskype
Lifesize, a video telepresence maker-of-thingies, just announced support for a new video telepresence thingy called the Passport. Hook up the Passport to a 720p HDTV (or other HDMI enabled monitor) and a 1mbit/up Internet connection, and you have a teleconferencing system. Since many places have both HDTVs and 1mbit/up connections, this vastly opens up the [...]
IP SLA and Revisionist History.
From time to time, I get in my e-mail inbox some spam from PR agencies who don’t do research on publications before pitching them. Yes, I know that we’re really good about reporting on a fair number of issues related to network performance, and that we’re well read in our space, and that everyone likes [...]
Fast* Broadband
*delivered really slowly. The Washington Post has an article on a phenomenon that we’re all familiar with – that advertised broadband speeds don’t always match up to the actual performance that the end-user actually receives. Actual broadband speeds lag advertised speeds by as much as 50% to 80%. So more than half the time, and [...]
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Fact-Checking
Did you watch The Daily Show last night? Or just the first 10 minutes of it anyway? It was reallygood – even by the normally high standards of the Daily Show. John Stewart took CNN to task for failing in the most basic of its journalistic responsibilities – fact checking. If you’re in the U.S., [...]