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Vint Cerf on Internet trouble spots

IMPORTANTHere, using specific examples, four IT leaders discuss how they have collaborated with company leaders in guiding the development of IT strategy as well as how they have fostered a culture of innovation within their own departments. Along the way, they cover two large considerations: Where do great ideas originate?...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Vint Cerf's Twitter account hacked, suspended for spam

Vint Cerf's Twitter account hacked, suspended for spamRE: Vint Cerf's Twitter account hacked, suspended for spamHe probably should not have used "TCP/IP" for his password.RE: Vint Cerf's Twitter account hacked, suspended for spamWell now, isn't this ironic!! The father of the internet gets hacked by spammers.

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, Vint Cerf, Twitter

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

Vint Cerf's Twitter account hacked, suspended for spam

(UPDATE: Cerf denies that this was his Twitter profile) It appears that Vint Cerf, the father of Internet who needs no introduction, has had his Twitter account compromised, with a multitude of spam messages posted on his behalf during the last 24 hours, all of which are redirecting to auction...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over againCerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again[i]Rather than a volume cap, I suggest the introduction of transmission rate caps, which would allow users to purchase access to the Internet at a given minimum data rate and be free...

Tags: Pricing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Net Neutrality, Vint Cerf, simple pricing, pricing strategy, Internet, Cerf, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in response to the Comcast ruling by the FCC, which ordered the cable carrier to stop interfering with certain kinds of...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Network, IP Television, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Carrier, Cerf, 6MBps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Federal Government, Internet, TVs, Pricing, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet

Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of InternetAs Always, Vinton Tells It Like It IsVery well thought-out answer, and absolutely on the mark...the telcos are ruining the advancement of the Internet in this country and the fact that they are systematically raping the consumer with their "Hi-speed"...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company, national interest, Vint Cerf, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet

I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Vint Cerf on video distribution

Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, speaks at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York Tuesday about his vision of a solution for video distribution via downloads. He says online video will be distributed in broadcast mode.

Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing, News, vint cerf, google, online, video, distribution, media

Videos 2008-06-27

Eric Schmidt: Plenty of upside left in Google's integrated strategy

Internet pioneer and Google Vint Cerf was first up for the afternoon part of Google's Analyst Day. Cerf gave out some Internet stats, as a context for the world in which Google lives and CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page run the business: ...

Tags: Strategy, Vint Cerf, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Advertisement, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Vint Cerf warns about reliability and security on the web

Vint Cerf warns about reliability and security on the webGoogle Paid Good Money For CerfComon now Garet, Google bought Cerf fair and square! They say, what, 75% of all websites have major vulnerabilities? Google itself doesn't really get XSS, and we web programmers are being forced by our bosses to...

Tags: Channel management, Vint Cerf, Web, Google Inc., security

Discussion threads 2007-08-26

Vint Cerf warns about reliability and security on the web

It's a bit ironic that Vint Cerf is touting Google's infrastructure and warning users about unreliable software and poor security when both Blogger and Google Analytics were reported unavailable this week. To top it off, Google also recently pulled the plug on their paid video content services -- causing...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Security, Google Inc., Web, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-08-26

A rational debate on Net Neutrality

The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject. Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning. Is it even possible to have a rational debate...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Google Inc., Legislation, Tim Berners-Lee, QoS, Network, Prioritization, Customer, Net Neutrality, Service, Carrier, Ed Whitacre, Snowe-Dorgan, Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-06-04

At Internet meeting, conflict over use of non-Western charcters in domains

Want conflict? Just throw international representatives in a room together and ask them to come up with rules and protocols to control the Internet for years to come? That would be the first Internet Governance Forum, opening in Athens today. The conflict is over the use of non-Western characters and...

Tags: Domain names, ICANN, Vint Cerf, Internet, domain name

Blog posts 2006-10-30

Vint Cerf to Eric Schmidt: Congratulations

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Engineering NAE earlier this month.Vint Cerf, Google VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, congratulated Schmidt at the Offical Google Blog and let "Eric" know, “your Googlers are proud of you!”What is the mission of the NAE?:  to...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, NAE

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Let's put Net neutrality to bed: Engaging the George

Let's put Net neutrality to bed: Engaging the GeorgeOne more thought, let them go broke...The telcos claim they can't buiuld infastructure unless they increase profits. Ok, then don't.But you can believe the competition will find a way. Cities going wirelessMunicipal networking worked in Tacomaafter the carriers said the...

Tags: Internet, INTERNET IS, Net Neutrality, Vint, QoS, Vint Cerf

Discussion threads 2006-07-07

Google: Net neutrality fight may move to court

If net neutrality ultimately is rejected by Congress, the battle will likely move to the courts, Google VP Vint Cerf asserted at a conference yesterday, Reuters reports. "If the legislators ... insist on neutrality, we will be happy. If they do not put it in, we will be less...

Tags: broadband, Vint Cerf

Blog posts 2006-07-05

A deeper look at Clark's shiny new Internet

Internet pioneer wants to upgrade the Internet, TR discusses in its cover story. He proposes a new network that fundamentally handles security, mobility, and problem identification better. NSF is working on a plan to spend $300 million to build out such a network. It would include...

Tags: Internet, CLaRK

Blog posts 2006-01-20

Vint Cerf sets the record straight on who controls the net

Vint Cerf sets the record straight on who controls the netAbout who own the internetI would like to know how to add a server to the internet. What it entails? and is there a cost? If so who get the money? and about how nuch it cost?US holds the...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Vince Cerf, Internet, Vint Cerf, DNS server, server, domain, DNS

Discussion threads 2005-11-23

Vint Cerf sets the record straight on who controls the net

Was the debate at Tunis as simple-minded as Vint Cerf categorizes it in this Newsweek interview? That developing countries are simply confused about the distinction between ICANN's administrative role in the domain sysem and "American control of the Internet"? Consider:Critics say the U.S. government basically controls the Internet. That's bulls—t....

Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, ICANN

Blog posts 2005-11-22

Cerf and Khan to get Presidential Medal of Honor

What do Vint Cerf and Bob Khan have in common with Carol Burnett, Muhammed Ali and Alan Greenspan? Yup, they're all winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You may have forgotten what Carol Burnett did to deserve the honor (probably it was for years of entertaining America, but...

Tags: Presidential Medal, Vint Cerf, Carol Burnett

Blog posts 2005-11-06