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Back in 2007, NBC lawyer Rick Cotton issued a statement to the FCC demanding they force ISPs to take action against piracy for the sake of the American corn farmer. According to Cotton, piracy was becoming such a menace it was keeping people out of theaters, in turn resulting in less popcorn sold.

This is the second “One Year Later” review that I’ve done where I feel like a day, a week, or even a month just doesn’t do service to a review about an item(s) that should be used and critiqued over the year to find any and all problems, quirks and hopefully all of the good parts all enough time to come to the surface. Just a bit over a year ago, I purchased one of the Ooma Hub and Scout combo packages and decided I was going to test it. As with all over VoIP platforms, the Ooma Hub depends upon your internet connection. Your connection goes down, so goes your ability to use your phone.

What do you do when you’re a telecom industry trade group that wants the FCC to ignore the fact that U.S. consumers pay more money, for slower bandwidth, in fewer locations than more than a dozen other countries? You pick out a largely meaningless metric we actually are good at and blow it out of proportion.

A week ago, Mediacom went through with a promising e-mail upgrade that might take a week to accomplish said update. Two weeks later, the upgrade still has users still without e-mail service and users are irate. Don’t blame them.

One thing lacking in every Exaflood debate or congestion claim has been hard, raw data provided by the ISPs for independent analysis. By and large, the Exaflood, network neutrality and bandwidth hog discussions have been dominated by think tankers who make a living massaging statistics to suit the message.

Apple iPhone and iPod touch users can receive and make fring and Skype video calls entirely over Internet connection for free when the person on the other end is in front of a camera.

Bento 3 is made by the same people that make FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Server. It is a very easy to use application offering organization in all areas of your digital life. It’s a must buy.

Swift.fm allows you to simply share what music has your interest with your friends without having to messily locate, send via e-mail. Instead, via your browser, you just log into Swift.fm using your twitter account, upload or link to the music that has your attention and then tweet it effortlessly and your friends can hear it via the browser. Yeah… it’s that simple.

“We’re approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,” said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. “This is like a last stand for webcasting.”
I’m not one to normally editorialize much; however it seems like something that actually made sense, will probably be looking at closing it’s doors due to licensing fees. The idea… Pandora Music GenomeĀ® Project. [...]

If you’ve ever been in a proper network/IT/server room, you will invariably know the SMC Network brand name. Looks like they’re thinking ahead with two new technologies for faster speeds and for greener products. Nice to know that companies are taking this environment issues seriously.
SMC Networks will announce two new initiatives at the [...]

Earlier, this post explained about Qwest’s fiber to the neighborhood (FTTN) network is expanding to a few select cities.
After some digging around, the 23 select markets are listed below for your perusal:
Arizona: Phoenix, Tucson
Colorado: Denver, Colorado Springs, Ft. Collins
Idaho: Boise
Iowa: Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids
Minnesota: Minneapolis/St. Paul
Nebraska: Omaha
New Mexico: Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces
Oregon: [...]


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The Internet has come a long way since its birth. There are now several different ways to get an internet connection. One can do this by inserting wireless internet card in computer or can use dsl. Apart from this, internet phone and ip phones are there as well to help people connect internet through phones. internet phone is not the last option available, wireless internet providers are there as well to offer internet connectivity.


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