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'Net Neutrality' Ruling Could Be Costly For Consumers, Advocates Say

Chris O'Brien, Salvador Rodriguez and Jim Puzzanghera | Los Angeles Times | January 14, 2014

An appeals court throws out the FCC's 'net neutrality' rules on Internet traffic. The ruling could raise Internet service fees and stifle innovation, some say. Read More »

Chromecast: Understanding its Potential beyond Video Streaming

Google launched the $35 Chromecast into the US market in July 2013 and it became available in the UK in March 2014.  It’s primarily marketed as a device for streaming video to your TV, and, as such, is usually compared with the Roku streamer, Apple TV and the new Amazon Fire TV. Once you look under the covers, you discover that such comparisons are misleading: unlike the other devices, the Chromecast is actually much more than just a streaming device for TV.

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How Telecoms Can Escape Vendor Lock-In With Open Source NFV

Today, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) takes software applications that run on proprietary hardware and allows them to run on standard x86 servers. This allows  core network infrastructure to dynamically allocate network, compute and storage to satisfy workloads on-demand. It also allows you to  move these workloads to different servers, or even different data centers as needed, and to scale up or scale down without changing the underlying hardware. NFV provides you with a modern agile environment to respond to customers needs, get to market quickly with new services, and reduce both capital and operational expenditures...

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Netflix And YouTube Make Up Majority Of US Internet Traffic, New Report Shows

Amanda Holpuch | The Guardian | November 11, 2013

Peer-to-peer file sharing has declined and Amazon and Hulu struggle to win receding American attention spans Read More »

Real-Time Emergency Response

Jeremy | Mozilla Ignite | March 31, 2013

What problem are you intending to solve? Detection, observation, and assessment of situations requiring intervention by emergency responders depends on high-quality "live" data. Read More »