Khalid Baheyeldin writes in with a CBC interview with the CEO of Sandvine, Dave Caputo (bio here). Sandvine is the Waterloo, Ontario-based company that provides the technology that Comcast and other ISPs use to overrule Net neutrality by, for example, injecting RST packets to disrupt Bittorrent traffic. Caputo says, among other things, that Internet monitoring […]
Last weekend Oprah Winfrey addressed Stanford graduates at their commencement, offering her take on how to make the big decision of what to do with your life. This is only worth watching if you’re a suckers for this kind of “follow your dreams” stuff (and an Oprah fan), like we are. If Steve Jobs […]
An anonymous reader notes that Hotmail’s full version doesn’t work with Firefox 3. Users get the following message when they try to log in: You are temporarily on the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail due to an error encountered during login. Before trying again, please clear your cache and cookies. (Clearing cache and cookies […]
One thing that’s always been missing from the book-buying experience at mega-retailer Amazon is finding great books just by chance, or by clever cover design. Zoomii, a free book-finding interface for Amazon, stacks bestsellers on virtual shelves, organized by bestsellers, category, or whatever else you’re filtering for, and viewed like Google Maps—zoom, click for details, […]
We discussed telecom immunity yesterday ahead of the House vote. It passed by 293 votes to 129. Only one Republican voted against the bill; Democrats were evenly split. It now goes to the Senate. Reader Verteiron points out that Glenn Greenwald has up a post titled “Statement of Barack Obama supporting Hoyer FISA bill.” It […]
seattlle foodie sends along a New Scientist article outlining two recent studies that confirm what many have long suspected: bad boys get the most girls. “The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the ‘dark triad’ persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs. The […]
LAS VEGAS, USA (AVING Special Report on ‘NXTcomm 2008′) — NEC demonstrated a carrier-grade ‘Click, Talk, and Send’ asynchronous short voice messaging service ‘Bubble Talk’ at NXTcomm 08 in Las Vegas.
This new messaging alternative to the ‘Type and read’ service provided by text SMS works on all handhelds and across operators and […]
LAS VEGAS, USA (AVING Special Report on ‘NXTcomm 2008′) — NEC unveiled ‘Light IMS’ (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) solution, a carrier-grade converged multimedia and SIP-based network architecture for residential and business services at NXTcomm 08 in Las Vegas.
IMS/NGN is more than a migration to an IP-based network; when fully integrated NEC’s IMS/NGN […]
blackbearnh writes “O’Reilly News talked to Bill Coleman, former founder of BEA and current founder and CEO of Cassett Corporation, about the challenges involved in building more energy-efficient data centers. Coleman’s company is trying to change the way resources in the data center are used, by more efficiently leveraging virtualization to utilize servers to a […]
Back in the good ol’ days of $2.50-per-gallon gasoline, you could ignore simple car maintenance. After all, what was it costing you? A buck here and a buck there? But when prices hit the $4 mark, things changed. Now, every cent counts, and you can save a surprising amount of scratch by performing a […]
