Tag: pipes
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Pot, dial kettle: Closed Skype wants open networks
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Andrew Orlowski
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eBay’s proprietary VoIP service Skype wants the Federal Communications Commission to change its rules on how cellular networks operate. It’s demanding that the US regulator extend a 1968 legal decision, which permitted any device to be attached to the AT&T network, to apply to mobile operators. It also wants a new industry body to decide…
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Google – this internet won’t scale
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Andrew Orlowski
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Google’s TV chief has admitted the internet is crap for TV. Speaking to the Cable Europe Congress in Amsterdam, Vincent Dureau told attendees: “The web infrastructure, and even Google’s [infrastructure]…doesn’t scale. It’s not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect.” Dureau, is head of TV technology at the ad giant. He candidly…
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Robert Kahn on Net Neutrality
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Andrew Orlowski
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Robert Kahn, the most senior figure in the development of the internet, has delivered a strong warning against “Net Neutrality” legislation. Speaking to an audience at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California at an event held in his honour, Kahn warned against legislation that inhibited experimentation and innovation where it was needed. Kahn…
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How AT&T chewed up, and spat out Net Neutrality
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Andrew Orlowski
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“It sure would be nice, but it doesn’t have much chance of happening because of market power, size, etc. I think it would be real hard to do. I don’t think the regulators would let that happen, in my judgment.” – Ed Whitacre on the possibility of taking over BellSouth, 2005. The definition of a…
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Fon: a billionaire Wi-Fi Utopian and his Blog Chorus
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Andrew Orlowski
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Few start-ups encapsulate the desperate utopianism of the times so much as Fon Technology. Created by the Argentinian dot.com billionaire Martin Varsavsky, who built and sold the Spanish portal Ya.com and ISP Jazztel before the bubble burst, at the heart of Fon is a soulful of hope.… Read More
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File swapping MSPs – the future of digital music?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Don’t expect Bono to descend from a cloud. Or orgasmic praise from the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg. When PlayLouder quietly rolls out its music service in the UK, it won’t initially match the razzle-dazzle of the iTunes Music Store launch, Rhapsody or the other million dollar marketing blitzes. But the initial, low-key ‘soft launch’…