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The storage vs bandwidth debate
Cloud computing, if anything, depends on the idea that we will have ample and cheap bandwidth that will allow us to access various types of information and services on any kind of device, anywhere. The...
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6 Bizarre causes for optical cables damage
Every so often we hear about a network outage thanks to some completely non-technology reason: A truck rammed into a pole or backhoe cut the cable. Fred Lawler, Level 3 Communications’ Senior Vice...
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Did Google Fiber just get its own Google TV set-top box?
Google’s fiber plans are starting to take shape with the reveal of a yet-to-be launched residential gateway that popped up on the FCC’s website this week (hat tip to Engadget). The box, which is...
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Reliance in trouble. Flag Telecom cancels $1B IPO
Flag Telecom, a large international network operator that connected countries in Europe with Middle East and Asia with the U.S., is shelving its $1 billion dollar initial public offering. The...
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When it comes to startups timing really is everything
A few months ago, I was chatting with Andy Bechtolsheim, who is perhaps one of the smartest people in Silicon Valley (as his Sun Microsystems co-founders such as Vinod Khosla would attest). The...
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Planet broadband, like the US Internet, is getting faster
Broadband and mobile Internet speeds are slowly and steadily increasing increasingly across the world, according to the latest findings of Akamai’s State of the Internet Report for the second quarter...
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Less digging and more speed: how Europe plans to get back on the broadband track
Europe’s digital agenda chief, Neelie Kroes, may have lost all her funding for ensuring fast broadband coverage across the continent by 2020, but she’s not giving up hope. Her latest push, unveiled on...
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Chattanooga paper fires columnist who blasted the president & lamented...
Drew Johnson, a columnist for Chattanooga Free-Press newspaper, recently wrote an editorial that blasted President Obama, “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed...
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LA wants to pave its streets with gigabit broadband (on somebody else’s dime)
The city of Los Angeles isn’t waiting for Google to grace its neighborhoods with fiber. It’s decided to move forward with its own plans for a metro fiber-to-the-home network, according to Ars Technica....
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The U.S. now has over 83 million broadband subscribers
Slowly and surely, the U.S. is inching towards the 100 million broadband subscriber milestone. Latest figures compiled by Leichtman Research Group, a Durham, NH-based market-research firm, show that...
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Who Wins: Verizon FiOS vs AT&T U-Verse
Verizon recently launched its FiOS TV and fiber-based broadband service in New York City, The New York Times is taking stock of the service, which seems to be doing well. Verizon’s $23 billion...
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Fiber Broadband Big in Japan & Korea
In Japan and South Korea, Fiber-based consumer broadband connections now represent the most popular Internet access technology, ahead of DSL and Cable, according to a report issued by OECD earlier...
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Coming Soon, Fiber to All of the Netherlands
[qi:046] KPN and FTTH operator Reggefiber say theyare planning to roll out a fiber-to-the-home network that could cost as much as 7 billion euros. The network might take up to seven years to build out...
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Globally, Now 400M Broadband Subscribers
[qi:009] A report prepared for The Broadband Forum by research firm Point Topic and released today says that there are now 400 million broadband subscribers worldwide. In 1998, there were only 57,200...
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Google Beefs Up Contacts, Makes it Good-Enough for Now
February’s onslaught of Google service improvements continues with four new additions to the still fairly weak Contacts application in Gmail. Two features focus on cleaning up your contact data, which...
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Stat Shot: Fiber to the Home
The Fiber to the Home Council yesterday released data that, in these times of carrier-constrained broadband, offers a glimmer of hope. Thanks to the efforts of Verizon and several smaller...
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In Long Island, For $99 a Month, 100 Mbps Broadband Arrives
Cablevision, the Bethpage, N.Y.-based cable and Internet service provider, has continued its tradition of being a cable industry innovator by introducing 100-megabits-per-second service in Long Island....
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In an effort to make TheAppleBlog even better, we want to hear from you! Take our super-quick survey and be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate from Amazon.com. Take Our...
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Moblin Applications Found at a Garage Sale
I guess we’ve run out of names for application stores. Intel’s version of an app store for their Linux-based netbook operating system is the Moblin Garage. I suppose I shouldn’t be too harsh, since HP...
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BT Hopes to Fast-track Fiber Broadband
BT, a company known for dragging its feet when it comes to deploying a super-fast broadband network for its consumers, has surprised everyone by saying that it will ramp up the deployment of its...
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What Can You Do With 1 Gigabit?
Google earlier today announced that it would be launching an experimental fiber-to-the-home network that would offer speeds of as much as 1 gigabit per second. The question is what can you do with this...
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State of the Internet: Fiber, Fast Cities and Faster Broadband
Broadband continues to spread worldwide and the high-speed internet movement is going wireless, according to data collected by Akamai for its latest State of the Internet report. Here are glimpses of...
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DSL Trembles (a Tad) As Fiber Rumbles
Fiber broadband is finally coming into its own, thanks to the growing number of fiber broadband deployments across the world. However, fiber broadband’s growing popularity is coming at the cost of DSL,...
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The Netherlands To Enact Law That Ensures Net Neutrality
The Netherlands might be a tiny country, but when it comes to broadband, it is one that likes to make big moves. It had been quick to embrace fiber broadband. And now it is enacting a law that...
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1 Gbps for $20 a Month? That’s Cheap Broadband!
In the U.S. if you want a 50 Mbps-to-a-100 Mbps connection, it is going to cost you plenty - about $105 with a triple play plan. On the other side of the planet, however, you can buy 1 Gbps broadband...
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