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Death, Taxes and Bandwidth Caps (Wired News)
Are the days of all-you-can-eat broadband over? Comcast joins a growing number of ISPs that are introducing usage caps in order to crack down on so-called bandwidth hogs. Caps may help service providers manage traffic, but they won't do much to enhance innovation or broadband adoption, charge critics.
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Who provides what in the cloud (InfoWorld)
The news that AT&T has joined the rapidly growing ranks of cloud computing providers reinforces the argument that the latest IT outsourcing model is well on its way to becoming a classic disruptive technology. By enabling datacenter operators to "publish" computing resources -- such as servers, storage, and network connectivity -- cloud computing provides a pay-by-consumption scalable ...
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BCE moves into the future – slowly (The Globe and Mail)
Country's largest communications carrier has chosen a conservative investment plan for upgrading its residential broadband network
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BCE moves into the future - slowly (The Globe and Mail)
How will BCE Inc. spend money on its business following privatization? Conservatively. The country's largest communications carrier has chosen an investment plan for upgrading its residential broadband network.
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Personal Tech (Washington Post)
The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro will be online to discuss recent reviews and answer your personal tech questions.
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IBM unveils technology for faster CPUs (InfoWorld)
IBM on Monday said it had invented technology that could reduce power consumption and speed up performance of processors used in PCs, servers and other devices. The company has shrunk the smallest features in test memory chips used in CPUs to 22 nanometers, which could enable processors to have more features and perform more quickly while consuming less power. [ Learn more about ...
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State on wrong side of digital divide (The Oklahoman)
The global race to embrace broadband Internet is creating a world of digital haves and have-nots, according to the Communication Workers of America. The surprising news in that is where the United States finds itself in the high-speed Internet race. Americans are mired in a broadband world that leaves them far behind their global competitors in Japan, South Korea, Finland, France and even our ...
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MSOs Admit To Tracking Consumers’ Online Activity (MultiChannel News)
Cable One last fall conducted a six-month trial of a network-based technology that tracks consumers' Internet movements in an effort to amass refined data on Web-surfer habits that can be sold to advertisers at premium rates.
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U.S. Intenet Speeds Drop to 15th Worldwide (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)
The U.S. may be winning world speed records in swimming at the Olympics, but not in average Internet speeds. According to a new report, the country that invented the Internet has now sunk to 15th worldwide in the percentage of the population subscribing to broadband.
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Texas Internet speed ranks 22nd (KXAN 36 Austin)
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- A state-by-state report of real-time Internet connection speeds released Tuesday shows Texas ranks 22nd, with a median download speed of 2.5 megabits per second (mbps).
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