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Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcos

Mighty Google is worried about getting the shaft from telcos. Shouldn't you be too? Larry Downes imagines the worst Larry Downes' arguments against net neutrality are button-pushing propaganda designed to inflame, not illuminate. I expect better from a University of Chicago trained lawyer. ...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Briscoe, Broadband, Internet, Net Neutrality, Network, QoS, Robin Harris, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company

Blog posts 2007-12-13

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Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control

Bob Briscoe Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet.  He wants the world to know that TCP Transmission Control Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...

Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Comcast traffic management issue before FCC

Today is the deadline for the FCC call for comments on the Comcast traffic management case brought about by a formal complaint from the Free Press and Public Knowledge.  As a former network engineer who designed networks and servers and as someone who has written extensively on these matters, I...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, Packet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Problem, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, DOCSIS, Network Management, BitTorrent Seeder, Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Microsoft's Identity Wedge

You might think of this as the other shoe dropping regarding Microsofts deal with Novell. (Picture from the KMUTT School of Architecture and Design in Thailand, which does usability testing.)While attention has been focused on the cross-licensing, which implies Microsoft holds patents on Linux, its clear now that Novell will...

Tags: Novell Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Ask Jeeves president resigns

Ted Briscoe, president and chief operating officer of Ask Jeeves Inc. askj, has resigned, the company said Wednesday. Briscoe will become CEO of privately held Play Streaming Media Group, although he will remain with Ask Jeeves through the second quarter. -- Margaret Kane, ZDNet News by ZDNN Staff

Tags: Ask Jeeves Inc., ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2000-05-31

Ask Jeeves names president

Ted Briscoe has been named president and chief operating officer of Ask Jeeves Inc. ASKJ. Briscoe formerly served as senior vice president and general manager of the Web properties Group. -- Margaret Kane, ZDNet News by ZDNN Staff

Tags: Ask Jeeves Inc., Ted Briscoe, Channel Management, Marketing, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2000-03-23

Death of the television commercial?

Ad-zapping technology in 'Personal TVs' worries advertisers. Some say personal video recorders, also called digital video recorders, will profoundly change the way Americans watch television. Others believe the devices - coming soon to a consumer electronics store near you - portend the death of the 30-second television commercial. ...

Tags: Video Recorder, Advertisement, Replay Networks, Recorder, Procter & Gamble Co., TiVo Inc., Personal Video Recorder, DVR, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jane Weaver, Technology News

News items 1999-08-20