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How 'Saving The Net' may kill it
How 'Saving The Net' may kill it" />How 'Saving The Net' may kill it
If you've followed the occasionally surreal, and often hysterical debate around 'Net Neutrality' on US blogs and discussion forums, you may have encountered Richard Bennett. The veteran engineer played a role in the design of the internet we use today, and helped shaped Wi-Fi. He's also been blogging for a decade. And he doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Bennett argues that the measures proposed to 'save' the internet, which in many cases are sincerely held, could hasten its demise. Network congestion is familiar to anyone's whose left a BitTorrent client running at home, and it's the popularity of such new applications that makes better network management an imperative if we expect VoIP to work well. The problem, he says, is that many of the drafts proposed to ensure 'Net Neutrality' would prohibit such network management, and leave VoIP and video struggling.
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Inside Firefox 2.0 Beta I
Inside Firefox 2.0 Beta I
The Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox web browser is gaining ground on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). According to a recent study on web browser usage, by Netherlands-based OneStat.com, Firefox has gained 1.14% in June and is now used by 12.93% of surfers. This is up from 11.79% in May, while IE use has declined by 2.12% to 83.05%....
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Google declares war on YouTube
Google declares war on YouTube
YouTube may have an army of 25-million users a day, but that hasnt stopped Googles ambitious generals from declaring viral video war its own version of the service has just been launched in eight countries, including the UK....
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New Type of Memory Chip Hits the Market
Freescale introduces first MRAM-based chips.Freescale Semiconductor is offering a new type of memory chip to the market, in hopes of spurring the development of applications and devices that can capitalize on the technology, the company said this week.
Freescale is the first semiconductor company to begin selling memory chips based on MRAM (Magnetoresistive RAM), which uses magnetic attraction to create resistance that is identified in the chip as a one or a zero.
The technology has been in development by researchers for decades, and while this first product doesn't meet some of the original expectations, it could have some interesting applications.....
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Microsoft warns of 5 "critical" security flaws
Microsoft warns of 5 "critical" security flaws
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday warned of five "critical" security flaws in its Windows operating system and Office software that could allow attackers to take control of a computer.
Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs on 90 percent of the world's computers, issued patches to fix the problems as part of its monthly security bulletin.
The world's biggest software maker defines a flaw as "critical" when the vulnerability could allow a damaging Internet worm to replicate without the user doing anything to the machine.
Two of the critical flaws related to Windows and the other three to earlier versions of Office. More recent versions of Office and two other bulletins for Windows received security warnings rated at the second-highest level of "important."
The company has been working for more than three years to improve the security and reliability of...
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98
Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software.
From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system.
The firm will also stop providing security updates for Windows 98 from the same date.
Support for the software was originally due to end in 2003, but was extended following customer protests.
Shutting down
Products affected by closing down the support system include Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me (Millennium Edition). Analyst firm IDC believes that more than 70 million users will be hit by the change.
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WLAN Spectrum Analysis
WLAN Spectrum Analysis
Your wireless users are raving about their increased mobility and freedom with your now-operational WLAN, but celebration is the last thing on your mind: Your IT team has been stuck manually tracing random disconnections in the conference room--to a leaky microwave oven in the break room. WLAN interference problems like this may be few and far between, but a solution isn't always apparent and the effects can be devastating. A more efficient but often-overlooked troubleshooting solution is a WLAN spectrum analyzer. And a new generation of user-friendly, mobile WLAN tools is making identifying WLAN interference easier...A spectrum analyzer lets you monitor and troubleshoot the physical layer (radio waves) of your wireless network. It gives you visibility into Layer 1 (physical layer) of the network, much like a packet analyzer lets you view Layers 2 to 7.
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Microsoft faces issue of piracy vs. privacy
Microsoft faces issue of piracy vs. privacy
Microsoft's efforts to solve its multibillion-dollar software-piracy problem have landed it in the cross hairs of computer privacy advocates and attorneys in recent weeks.
Two class-action lawsuits are pending, unsubstantiated Big Brother rumors have swirled on tech blogs and consumers are bristling under accusations of piracy especially those who shelled out hundreds of bucks for what they thought was legitimate software...
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Mandriva offers online Linux training
Mandriva offers online Linux training
Mandriva has announced a set of online, tutored training classes aimed at satisfying the growing demand for Linux skills among both businesses and individuals. The company says the training classes are adaptable to a variety of learning speeds and knowledge levels. Unlike other independent online eLearning schemes, one Mandriva tutor is responsible for overseeing each group of students, according to the company. This tutor manages the groups, helps the students, runs the courses according to demands, and answers students' questions.
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Microsoft to offer open source document format
Microsoft to offer open source document format
Microsoft on Thursday bowed to pressure from governments to offer new free open source software that will allow its Office suite of programmes to handle documents in rival formats.
The company said it would develop tools to build a technical bridge between its own Open XML document format and the OpenDocument format (ODF).
In addition to being made available as free, downloadable add-inns for several older versions of the Microsoft Office system, the translation tools will be developed and licensed as open source software, said Microsoft.
The company explained that the move was in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF because they work with constituent groups that use that format. The tools will be developed with the help of French company Clever Age with input from Indias Aztecsoft and Dialogika of Germany.....
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