July 19, 2012
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Portland, OR: At OSCon, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company announced that it’s adding a new feature to its Ubuntu desktop: the ability to use popular Internet services and Websites, such as Google’s GMail and Facebook as … Continue reading
July 16, 2012
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Like it or lump it, we’re moving to IPv6 for our Internet connections. For now, less than 2% of the world’s Internet population is using IPv6, but as the last IPv4 addresses grains of sands run out (http://www.zdnet.com/ipv6-when-do-you-really-need-to-switch-3040155336/), Microsoft knows … Continue reading
July 12, 2012
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Viacom, a major TV content provider, and DirecTV, a major satellite TV distributor, are fighting it out over how much DirecTV has to pay Viacom. The result is that Viacom turned off 26 of its channels including MTV, Comedy Central, … Continue reading
July 9, 2012
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Once upon a time, the 90s, Web portals were all the rage. Everyone had to have one the same way everyone today has to have a cloud. Like most such technology fads it ran its course. That doesn’t mean, that … Continue reading
July 9, 2012
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Guess what? Netflix CEO Reed Hasting reported—on Facebook of all places—that “Netflix monthly viewing exceeded 1 billion hours for the first time ever in June. That’s even more impressive than it sounds. Netflix reported that it had delivered 2 billion … Continue reading
July 5, 2012
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One headline read Cisco locks users out of their routers, requires invasive cloud service, another screamed Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretio. I don’t think it’s that bad, but it is bad. Here are the facts. … Continue reading