CDMA iPhone news: Verizon’s network is ready and India wants iPhones
The Wall Street Journal is all about the iPhone these days. The publication recently posted about how Verizon will be getting the iPhone in 2011 and they’ve followed that scoop up with (at…
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Could LTE kill DSL in rural America?
With an average speed between 12 and 18 mbps, I hypothesized during the initial launch of LTE that this technology could be used to replace home internet for some users. When I…
View ArticleSteam to offer faster, smaller downloads with scheduling coming soon
Valve has announced a major behind-the-scenes upgrade to the Steam digital gaming service. With it, we should all see our downloads happen faster and game updates and patches be smaller. On both fronts…
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The email nobody wants to see from campus IT
When I was at university, laptops were still quite an expensive device to own. The netbook hadn’t even been thought about yet, and Internet access was a privilege reserved for the computer lab.…
View ArticleAT&T announces data throttling in advance of iPhone 5 launch
It’s no secret that AT&T had one or two problems coping with the strain placed on its cellular network by data-hungry iPhone users. According to a release from the company back in April,…
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Netflix accounts for 32 percent of peak Internet bandwidth in North America
Even with the Qwikster debacle and significant price rise, we all know that Netflix remains a very popular service, and one that is quickly becoming a major drain on network bandwidth as more…
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Google fiber project in Kansas City, Kansas delayed by bureaucracy
Google’s project to install a fiber network capable of delivering 1Gbps data rates to homes and business in Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) has been stalled due to bureaucratic red-tape issues that should have…
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Microsoft’s best employee perk? Insane internet speeds
Microsoft takes a lot of heat these days for being behind the times and caught up in bureaucracy. But as one Reddit post put it, working for Microsoft has its advantages. The post…
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Netflix CCO says Canadian broadband pricing borders on a human rights violation
Netflix has grown rapidly in the past few years, and its subscription service has become one of the biggest chunks of the consumer bandwidth pie chart. For Netflix, growth and profit are inextricably…
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Japanese ISP leaves Google Fiber in the dust with 2Gbps downloads
While the United States drools over Google Fiber‘s $70 per month residential internet speeds of 700Mbps up and down as it slowly rolls out to certain parts of the country, a Japanese ISP…
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Apple’s latest acquisition could put your iPhone on a data diet
iPhone users have always consumed a ton of data, but it appears as though Apple is working on a way to help folks cut back. AlgoTrim, a Swedish company that Apple just acquired, […]
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100Gbps wireless data transmission world record set
Think your 802.11ac router is pretty amazing? It’s got nothing on a new system created by the Franhofer Institute and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, which recently completed a 100Gbps...
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How to speed up your slow internet connection
For most people home internet connections have gotten a whole lot faster over the past decade, but in some places today even a 5 megabit (Mbps) connection seems blazing fast. Don’t give up […]
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Geek 101: How to send large files
The time has come to stop trying to use email to send large files over the internet. Even if your email provider lets you send huge files as attachments, there are simply too […]
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Google’s first server bill includes $1400 for an extra megabit
Google’s Urs Hölzle has been there almost from the beginning. He was the eighth employee at the company in the late 90′s and it’s first VP of engineering. Hölzle is responsible for building […]
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Google updates WebP image format, saves terabytes of data every day
Most of the images you encounter on the web come in the traditional file formats — JPG, PNG, and the ever-popular GIF. If Google has its way, though, you’re going to start seeing […]
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Netflix starts telling customers when ISP throttling is killing their stream
The team at Netflix seem ready to take the kid gloves off when it comes to letting their customers know why a video isn’t loading correctly, and that can only be a good […]
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Amazon’s Fire TV can consume 80GB a day predicting what you want to watch...
EDIT – After working with Tyler Hayes to track down the bug causing this problem, Amazon has determined that the Mosaic screensaver feature was not caching images as they were being pulled down […]
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Google Chrome now helps you avoid busting your data cap at home
Chrome can now help you avoid blowing your bandwidth cap at home. Google’s Data Saver extension is finally availble on the desktop, and it can reduce your data usage by as much as […]
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Comcast requires $8,000 commitment for 2Gbps Gigabit Pro service
Want a seriously fast internet connection? Comcast’s new Gigabit Pro might be just what you’re looking for, with its 2Gbps download and upload. But it’s going to cost you a lot of money. […]
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