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Phoning it in: the dirty secret of IP calling, and how it will change the phone industry
www.theverge.com
Imagine you're watching PBS right now and Bill Nye The Science Guy comes on. Suddenly Bill Nye's disembodied head is floating across your screen, with 1s and 0s streaming in and out of his ears. "Did you know," shouts Bill Nye (I don't know why he's shouting, but he...
Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying a VPN
torrentfreak.com
Faced with the almost impossible task of physically restricting people’s activities online, during recent years authorities and copyright holders have sought to have legislation tightened up, to encourage citizens towards a path of “doing the right thing” through the fear of more and more serious consequences. In Sweden, the results...
Engineers boost AMD CPU performance by 20% without overclocking
www.extremetech.com
Engineers at North Carolina State University have used a novel technique to boost the performance of an AMD Fusion APU by more than 20%. This speed-up was achieved purely through software and using commercial (probably Llano) silicon. No overclocking was used.In an AMD APU there is both a CPU and...
The 10 Most Important Companies In Cloud Computing
www.businessinsider.com
Cloud computing, the idea that all kinds of computing can be delivered totally over the Internet, is changing everything. It affects our daily lives ... you don't have to go into the office to grab a file. You can share stuff with anyone across any device. It affects billions of...
The Root of the Problem: Asana Boldly Aims to Kill Email
pandodaily.com
Back in 2008 when Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein left Facebook, I heard that it was to build a replacement to email. At the time that seemed outrageous, email was so rooted in what we do everyday? Was it really broken enough for people to try something new? Oh, what...
Review: Lytro Lightfield Camera
techcrunch.com
To publish a “review” of the Lytro as it is today is, in a way, very premature. But it’s also only fair. The product is shipping and, to an extent, complete. But given the number of features and planned improvements in the pipes, a review today will be obsolete in...
If You’re Expecting The TV Industry To Just ‘Collapse’, Keep Dreaming
www.splatf.com
The Internet has already changed the television industry significantly, and will continue to do so. But the idea that the web will cause the TV business to “collapse” is fantasy.Henry Blodget has just written a wildly popular post called “Don’t Mean To Be Alarmist, But The TV Business May Be...
High Definition Video Clogs Corporate Networks
www.wired.com
Increasingly, corporate bandwidth is being chewed up by streaming media and peer to peer networks. Screenshot: Wired If you could somehow peek inside the pipes of your typical corporate network, you’d see a whole heck of a lot of streaming video and P2P filesharing. That’s what network scanning company Palo...
Russia looks to ISPs to crack down on piracy
gigaom.com
The ongoing battle between internet providers and rights owners is taking a surprising turn, with the news that Russia is considering whether it can make ISPs liable for the copyright infringements of their customers. Reports in the local media say that the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is looking to...
Google gives us a behind the scenes look at its water recycling program [video]
thenextweb.com
Google even has “smart” water, as it showed off its water recycling program today that cools off its data center in Georgia: Google’s data centers use half the energy of a typical data center in part because we rely on free cooling rather than energy hungry mechanical chillers. In Douglas...
Windows Phone’s Facebook app set to receive much needed update
thenextweb.com
New platforms often contain apps that, while fuctional, are not exactly bursting with features. So it has been with the Windows Phone Facebook app, an application that, especially given the closeness of Microsoft and Facebook, has been in great need of an update for some time. Happily, the wait is...
iCloud down for many, iMessages not going through
www.engadget.com
Something's afoot at Apple's massive North Carolina data center -- or perhaps just on the various pipes and tubes leading to it. We've received many reports of iCloud and iMessage problems and, looking online, plenty of other folks are issuing the same complaints. Seeing problems on your end? Add...
Verizon's plan to offer supersonic internet
tech.fortune.cnn.com
Its new service is fast enough to download a movie in less than a minute. But don't look for others to follow suit. It's just too expensive for telecoms to offer similar service. FORTUNE -- Verizon has announced that it will soon make super-high-speed Internet service available to its FiOS...
Silly cord cutter, you will pay for cable. Oh yes.
gigaom.com
The rumors that Hulu may soon require subscribers to have a cable TV subscription is the perfect cautionary tale for why the companies that make and distribute content shouldn’t own the pipes that deliver that content. And if the rumors are true, it’s not just a cautionary tale, it’s the...
Structure 2012: What’s the implication of big data on the cloud?
gigaom.com
GigaOM’s fifth annual Structure conference examines how cloud computing is changing the way business is done around the world. Reserve your seat now and take a peek at just a few of our featured sessions: Big data will drive the network to become the computer. Our increasingly clogged pipes make...
iCloud and App Store Transition: Yojimbo
ihnatko.com
Today, Bare Bones Software posted an advisory to educate the users of Yojimbo (BB’s fab personal data archiver and organizer) about the transition from MobileMe to iCloud: As one of the very first developers to adopt MobileMe for synchronization, we’re accustomed to working closely with Apple to address the complexities...
Scientists protect academic networks with high-speed DMZs
www.theverge.com
Ars Technica has published an intriguing piece about new techniques being used to secure high-bandwidth academic networks — the sorts of pipes used to transfer terabytes of data at a time. The problem with conventional security tools such as firewalls is their tendency to slow things down, meaning that,...
Twilio makes it a breeze to add voice calling to iOS apps with a new native SDK
thenextweb.com
Twilio has made a name for itself by making it super-easy for developers to add telephony features to their apps. Now the San Francisco-based startup has launched a native SDK for iOS. With the launch of Twilio Client for iOS, developers will be able to add VoIP support to their...
Power Felt converts heat into electrical power
www.theverge.com
Power Felt is a thermoelectric fabric being developed by a team at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. It uses carbon nanotubes to create an electrical charge from temperature differences, with possible use cases include warming clothes, charging mobile devices, and storing heat through insulation in pipes and roof tiles....
After watching the Web grow up, Akamai’s CEO Sagan to step down
gigaom.com
Akamai CEO Paul Sagan at Giga OM Structure. Akamai’s CEO Paul Sagan plans to step down from his role by the end of next year, according to a company statement. The content delivery network has engaged a search firm to find his replacement, and Sagan has said he plans to...
Why the Musical Instrument of the Future Might Be the 3D Camera
www.theatlantic.com
Microsoft's Kinect, an inexpensive motion and depth-sensitive camera designed for the Xbox 360 video game console, has sparked an amazing range of "Kinect hacks" since its release in 2010. Developers, artists, and musicians have reprogrammed and repurposed the technology for anything from goofy DIY projects to face tracking and projection...
Can millimeter waves solve the small cell backhaul problem?
gigaom.com
The mobile industry is counting on future wireless networks being heterogeneous: Rather than the honeycomb grids of big cells we have today, we’ll see complex multi-layered networks of overlapping big and small cells, supplying our smartphones, tablets and cars with enormous amounts of cheap bandwidth. But there are many problems...
Super Mario Bros. Pipe Mug Caffeinates, Holds Plants in Style
www.pcworld.com
Buy a mug and coaster modeled after the pipes from the Super Mario Bros. video game. Piranha Plant seeds not included....
The dirty secret inside Verizon’s cable spectrum buy
gigaom.com
Several companies and non profit organizations filed their opposition to Verizon’s planned $4 billion buy of spectrum owned by the cable companies on Wednesday. But this isn’t an industry fight. This is a fight that should involve everyone from consumers to the Internet companies whose businesses rest on access to...
The costs of copyright enforcement
tech.fortune.cnn.com
The broadcast networks’ lawsuits to prevent Dish Network from deploying a feature allowing viewers to skip commercials aren’t aimed really aimed at Dish — they’re aimed at viewers. FORTUNE — One of the reasons copyright owners (the big media companies) find themselves without many allies in their effort to protect...
Hadoop’s new strategy: Pump data in to process, pull it out for privacy
gigaom.com
(c) 2012 Pinar Ozger. pinar@pinarozger.com Companies who are concerned with privacy and bandwidth issues, but who want to take advantage of the processing power of Hadoop, are actively pursuing a “pump to Hadoop and pull from Hadoop structure,” according to Hortonworks Chief Product Officer, Ari Zilka, speaking on a Future...
Clearwire: New mobile network could reach speeds of 168 Mbps
www.geekwire.com
The big wireless carriers are all talking about the importance of network speed, with T-Mobile even rolling out a motorcycle-riding Carly to prove its point. But does Clearwire have the chance to blow past its much bigger rivals? That’s the word from CTO John Saw who recently told GigaOm that...
Facebook now lets you report spam and recover your account on mobile devices
www.theverge.com
In another move to replicate its desktop experience on mobile, Facebook today announced a few key security features for its mobile website and mobile apps. First, you can now report offensive or spammy posts and pictures within the app and mobile site — within the action button menu in...
Analyst: Mobile Networks Will Need 10x Fatter Backhaul Pipes by 2016
www.pcworld.com
U.S. cellular networks will need fatter pipes to the wired Internet to keep delivering a satisfying mobile experience: nearly 10 times fatter by 2016, according......
Silly cord cutter, you will pay for cable. Oh yes.
paidcontent.org
The rumors that Hulu may soon require subscribers to have a cable TV subscription is the perfect cautionary tale for why the companies that make and distribute content shouldn’t own the pipes that deliver that content. And if the rumors are true, it’s not just a cautionary tale, it’s the...
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