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Why Net Neutrality a Must for Working Americans 2007-10-08 09:53:00 Some of the most powerful voices in labor are throwing their full support behind Net Neutrality
– calling it crucial to the success and vitality of our democracy. In a blog post at SavetheInternet.com, Jim Hoffa, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, called on Congress to pass legislation that would “ensure that discrimination and economic injustice does not return in a 21st Century form.” The Teamsters’ Jim Hoffa When corporations control communications, workers lose Hoffa referred specifically to recent instances where massive Internet providers had used their gatekeeping authority to stifle free speech over cell phones and the Internet. “What would happen if … workers decided to fight for better working conditions?” he asks. “Would they be able to list their grievances on a Web site? Just this week, AT&T updated its terms for Internet service. The company will now suspend or cancel Internet service to anyone who speaks out again Read more:Americans
Wireless carrier association warns against buying into WiMAX hype 2007-10-04 10:33:00 The GSM Association says that businesses and investors who found themselves dazzled by the recent WiMAX
World convention shouldn’t buy into the hype just yet. The reason, it says, is because WiMAX is still in its developmental stages, while High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is delivering high-speed mobile broadband right now. “I think HSPA is one of the few recent technologies to not be overhyped,” says David Pringle, the spokesman for the GSMA, a trade association
that represents over 700 GSM mobile phone operators. “It’s a technology that came out of left field, but its effect on performance has been dramatic. It’s offering wireless broadband experience, and it’s here today.” HSPA is a comprised of two wireless broadband protocols, known as High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HPUS Read more:against
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Comcast Suspected of Limiting BitTorrent Use 2007-10-24 09:42:00 After months of allegations that Comcast
has been throttling BitTorrent uploads, a report from the Associated Press on Friday appears to verify the claim. Accusations have been floating around the Internet for some time that Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV operator and the second-largest Internet service provider, engages in throttling peer-to-peer activity. On Friday, however, the Associated Press said it had confirmed "through nationwide tests" that Comcast blocks some BitTorrent activity. Comcast representatives avoided responding to the claim directly. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Friday, Comcast Interactive Media President Amy Banse responded to questions about P2P throttling by pointing to the company's need to "manage" heavy Internet use. "99.9 percent of our customers happily say they use e-mail and are uploading and downloading video and photos every day at speeds they enjoy," she said. "There are .01 percent that are engaging in what we call 'excessive Read more:Limiting
Storm worm pulls Halloween Trick, which is no treat. 2007-11-01 08:06:00 It wouldn’t be Halloween
without the zombie-creating Storm
malware up to some mischief. The latest Storm-backed spam campaign invites e-mail recipients to visit a Halloween-themed Web site where they can download a dancing skeleton. What gets downloaded instead is a version of the Storm malware that turns unsuspecting users’ PCs into members of the world’s largest botnet. Members of these botnets are also known as zombies. Read the latest WhitePaper - State of Internet Security Report on Protecting Enterprise Systems According to security vendor Marshal, the e-mail’s embedded link is not to a URL but to an IP address. Users who click on t Read more:treat
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Microsoft exec claims 'We're building bridges with Dynamic IT' 2007-11-06 11:37:00 Steve Guggenheimer, general manager of Microsoft
's Application Platform and Development marketing division, talked about a range of technologies under construction at the company during a keynote address on Monday, including Microsoft's Dynamic
IT initiative and virtualization. "We're trying to work on those bridges that cut across all of our different roles," Guggenheimer said at Microsoft's DevConnections conference in Las Vegas, in a keynote address titled "Dynamic IT and the 2008 Launch Wave." The company has been touting the Dynamic IT initiative, which encompasses everything from applications to infrastructure, since its Tech Ed conference earlier this year. The company only recently began getting specific about how it intends to execute its plans. Perhaps playing to skeptics, at one point during the keynote the audience saw an offbeat promotional video for Visual Studio 2008, which is set for release this month. The video carried Read more:claims
Microsoft exec claims 'We're building bridges with Dynamic IT' 2007-11-06 11:37:00 Steve Guggenheimer, general manager of Microsoft
's Application Platform and Development marketing division, talked about a range of technologies under construction at the company during a keynote address on Monday, including Microsoft's Dynamic
IT initiative and virtualization. "We're trying to work on those bridges that cut across all of our different roles," Guggenheimer said at Microsoft's DevConnections conference in Las Vegas, in a keynote address titled "Dynamic IT and the 2008 Launch Wave." The company has been touting the Dynamic IT initiative, which encompasses everything from applications to infrastructure, since its Tech Ed conference earlier this year. The company only recently began getting specific about how it intends to execute its plans. Perhaps playing to skeptics, at one point during the keynote the audience saw an offbeat promotional video for Visual Studio 2008, which is set for release this month. The video carried Read more:claims
What's up with Category 7 ehternet cable? 2008-06-18 08:36:00 Category 7 cable (CAT7), (ISO/IEC 11801:2002 category 7/class F), is a cable standard for Ethernet and other interconnect technologies that can be made to be backwards compatible with traditional CAT5 and CAT6 Ethernet cable. CAT7 features even more strict specifications for crosstalk and system noise than CAT6. To achieve this, shielding has been added for individual wire pairs and the cable as a Read more:Category
Intel steps up and speaks about USB 3.0 2008-06-18 08:32:00 Intel
issued a statement about USB 3.0, a subject threatening to cause a full-blown controversy among several chipmakers. The company also said it would present a paper on its upcoming "Larrabee" graphics technology in August. The Intel statement on USB 3.0 is meant to clarify the difference between the basic USB specification and the "host controller specification"--the latter a poin Read more:steps
Alcatel-Lucent; Juniper, Tellabs unveil products, enhancements at NXTcomm 2008-06-17 15:20:00 Carrier Ethernet is a hot topic at this week's NXTcomm conference in Las Vegas, with three major vendors offering enhancements to their product families. Alcatel
-Lucent
unveiled integration of IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) technologies to increase the scale and reach of carrier metro Ethernet VPN services. These capabilities are offered on
$499 ethernet cable from Denon 2008-06-20 09:15:00 So Denon has come out with a "new" Ethernet cable. Read their description of the cable below."Denon's 1.5 meter (59 in.) ultra premium Denon Link cable was designed for the audio enthusiast. Made from high purity copper wire and high performance connection parts, the AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction from any of our Denon DVD players with the Denon Link feature. Read more:ethernet
Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger 2008-06-18 13:58:00 Whether or not Monster
Cables are worth it is a war that has raged since home theatre immemorial. A poster at Audioholics was put in a room with five fellow audiophiles, and a Martin Logan SL-3 speaker set at 75Db at 1000KHz playing a mix of "smooth, trio, easy listening jazz" that no one had heard before. In one corner, Monster 1000 speaker cables. In the other, four coat hangers twisted and so Read more:Hanger
How to make an ethernet cable 2008-06-18 13:47:00 The steps below are general Ethernet Category 5 (commonly known as Cat 5) cable construction guidelines. For our example, we will be making a Category 5e patch cable, but the same general method will work for making any category of network cables. Steps Unroll the required length of network cable and add a little extra, just in case. If a boot is to be fitted, do so before stripping away the Read more:ethernet
Ethernet powers a 32.8 Teraflop cluster 2008-07-02 16:16:00 Gigabit Ethernet as a means to connect devices in data centers and storage facilities has earned another proof point -- a computing cluster
in Germany that is linked by Gigabit Ethernet and that has ranked number 58 overall for performance among the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world.The cluster at Max Planck Institute in Hanover, Germany, supports a 32.8 Teraflop cluster, which is a far cr
Belden announces it's 'Brilliance Plenum Mini Digital Coax Cable' 2008-07-02 11:52:00 Belden (www.belden.com) has announced the availability of its Brilliance Plenum Mini Digital
Coax cable (Part # 1855P), a plenum version of the company's 1855A non-plenum, sub-miniature 59/U digital coax cable. Billed as the first plenum mini digital coax in the industry, Belden says the 1855P cable is designed and engineered to deliver the same outstanding digital Read more:Cable
Happy 35th Birthday Ethernet! 2008-07-01 13:54:00 Ethernet turned 35 last month. The official birth date of Ethernet is generally regarded as May 22, 1973, the date of a memo penned by Bob Metcalfe that laid out the basic concepts of Ethernet. To mark the occasion, I thought it might be fun to look back at another anniversary milestone. Ten years ago, Network World celebrated the 25th birthday of Ethernet by talking to several big names in Read more:Birthday
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3Com unveils business-class 802.11n wireless products 2008-06-30 14:37:00 3Com (www.3com.com) has enhanced its secure mobility platform for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and enterprises with a portfolio of business-class
802.11n wireless networking products. The products, designed to deliver increased speed, range and capacity along with advanced security, ease-of-use and flexible deployment capability, range from Power over Ethernet (PoE) access points to ro
What is USB 3.0? 2008-06-30 09:12:00 USB 3.0 is in the works of replacing USB cables. With the addition of a fiber optic link that works with traditional copper connectors, USB 3.0 will be able to have speeds 10x faster than the current USB 2.0. Traditional USB 2.0 now transfers data at 60MB/s, whereas USB 3.0 will transfer data at speeds of 600MB/s.USB 3.0 will be fully backwards compatible with all USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 products.Look
IEEE ComSoc unveils wireless certification program Web site 2008-06-27 15:23:00 The IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) has launched a new Web site at www.ieee-wcet.org to provide detailed information, ongoing updates and free online resources highlighting the newly-introduced Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (IEEE WCET) certification program. Unveiled earlier this year, the IEEE WCET program was designed by IEEE ComSoc to
Four tips for building better wireless networks 2008-06-27 13:20:00 How much performance capability do companies expect when they deploy a wireless network? Chances are, not enough -- especially as wireless becomes a mainstream part of the New Data Center infrastructure."It's a misconception -- a very common one -- that wireless LAN performance is always poor," says David Newman, a Network World Test Alliance partner and president of Network Test. "People sa Read more:better
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