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A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal.  This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...

Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network

Blog posts 2008-03-03

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The 24-Hour Commercial: Signs of Our Times

Our ancestors drew on cave walls. We draw on buildings. There is, for instance, a two-story retail outlet in New York's Times Square devoted to all things M&M. (Not bad for a chocolate that is about the size of a shirt button.) ...

Tags: Sign, Times Square, Randall Bennett, Telecom & Utilities, Games, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Smart Grid vulnerable to cyberattack

OK, next multibillion dollar opportunity for security consultants coming right up! The Smart Grid, a sort of energy-carrying Internet that will feature automated meters, two-way communication and advanced sensors according to CNN, is ripe for the same kind of cyberattacks that Net users have become so...

Tags: U.S., Blackout, Grid, Cyberattack, Power Grid, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-22

News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...

Tags: Google Inc., VMware Inc., Wi-Fi, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Sales, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-03

FCC Chairman: It's Okay To Discriminate

Maybe you thought that the Federal Commission Friday ordered Comcast to end “discriminatory network practices.” After all, that’s what the Commission said in its release following the agency’s 3-2 ruling. But in his own statement on the matter, Chairman Kevin Martin said: ...

Tags: FCC, Telephony, Chairman, Federal Government, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-04

The panelist's nightmare

The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...

Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

What is the U.S. doing about security?

I've been terrible busy lately.  Hopefully you all here haven't noticed, as I've been working hard to still keep my posts flowing, but I've just got time to catch up with several blogs that I read often.  One of those blogs is the Emergent Chaos blog...

Tags: Card, Database, President, Blog, Passport Card, RFID, Government, Security, Wireless, Biometrics, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-20

News to know: Apple; Windows updates; Google mobile ads; Denial of service attack 101

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design? Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Why I won't be buying a "Hackint0sh" system Forbes: Apple Buys Chip Designer...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Windows Update, Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-24

FCC hearings: Comcast versus Vuze

The FCC held its hearing on Comcast's Network Management practices at Harvard University yesterday.  Vuze executive Gilles BianRosa whose company filed one of the two FCC complaints against Comcast reportedly told the FCC yesterday that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth.  Since most Internet experts would dispute that claim, I generated the...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Broadband Provider, Broadband, Vuze, Congestion Problem, Free Press, Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Comcast 'on trial' at FCC hearing Monday

The great debate over Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent and perhaps other P2P apps leaves cyberspace and enters the real world as a full panel of the Federal Communications Commission heads to Harvard for a public hearing on the issue. The FCC recently released the agenda PDF...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Comcast Corp., FCC, Federal Government, Government, Professor, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-22

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

EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet service

Updated 12/8/2007 - The EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation last week publicly joined Free Press and Public Knowledge in recommending a metered Internet service as the alternative to Comcast's BitTorrent throttling.  The extremist "Net Neutrality" crowd that wants to regulate the Internet with bans on per-user charges/contracts for Enhanced QoS are...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Problem, Internet Service Provider, DOCSIS, Internet Service, ACL, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-12-03

A rational debate on Comcast traffic management

Updated 8:00 PM The discussion on Comcast actively resetting BitTorrent connections to manage its network for its cable broadband service has gotten hot in recent weeks and there hasn't been a whole lot of accurate reporting on the subject because of the complexity of the issue. The subject of...

Tags: Cable Broadband, Cable Modem, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., User, Modem, Free Press, RTS, Cable, Network Technology, Modems, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Online gamers: without net neutrality you're so hosed

Online gamers: without net neutrality you're so hosedQuestion about Net Neutering..Online gaming has more to do with latency than bandwidth or so I thought.Does anyone know if net neutrality affects both latency and bandwidth?Seems like right now that latency is an issue with many causes. Mainly distance/hops between A and...

Tags: Games, online game, online-gaming community, Net Neutrality, latency, game, bandwidth

Discussion threads 2006-11-20

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?It's just stunning...Eddie must be on crack... I can just imagine Ed standing before the FCC and spouting this dribble with Senators nodding approval... Why should the the BIG Bell/Pipefitters be any different from BIG Oil...? It's all Monopoly money to them...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, bandwidth, Ed Whitacre

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

Net Neutrality: Attack of the Clones

Well, yesterday's response to George Ou has turned into a broadside from Richard Bennett. He says here that my posting is the "silliest thing ever written about Net Neutrality." Without going into why being attacked by Richard is a badge of honor for reasonable people, I'm just going...

Tags: Snowe, network, QoS

Blog posts 2006-07-08

Is ESPN committing reverse Net neutrality?

A little more than a week ago I had a Net neutrality debate with Russell Shaw. Russell Shaw speculated that there had to be some sort of Net neutrality violation going on and that the ISPs were locking ESPN out without some sort of special contract. In Russell's...

Tags: ESPN360

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Net neutrality proponents flagrantly lie about Craigslist blockage

[Update: Now we have US Senator Wyden propagating the lie that this was a Cox conspiracy to block Craigslist because they have their own classified service. We now have proof and a retraction that this was never the case]It appears that the Net neutrality proponents have been caught in...

Tags: Craigslist, Cox Communications Inc., Authentium

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Net Neutrality non-compromise

Net Neutrality non-compromiseRight, ignorance at its best"Any data packet will be equal to every other data packet, regardless of what kind of data it carries or where it came from"Right, and an ambulance us equal to a street racer. VoIP which uses 1% of the traffic somehow has to...

Tags: Net Neutrality, telegraph, Russ, carrier, INTERNET IS, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-06-18