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Constricted Internet Connections
Blog The MJ event and the Iranian and Chinese governments' choke-holds on its citizen's Internet connections demonstrate in two different ways how vulnerable network endpoint access really is for the entire world's Internet users.
[June 29, 2009, 11:32]
Building Connections in Emergency Communications
Blog By Monique Lanne-Petit, director and co-founder of Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) As we've seen time and again, telecommunications can reduce the impact of humanitarian crisis and cut through logistical problems.
[September 17, 2008, 9:44]
Broadband Customers Overpaying By 70%
Blog UK customers are paying 70% more than they need to for their broadband connections despite the credit crunch. Masses of broadband customers (70,000 in fact) on 8Mbps broadband packages have been interrogated by Broadband Expert to find out how much...
[September 26, 2008, 14:03]
Be Broadband plays catch-up with Virgin
Blog Be is doing this by bonding two broadband connections together - not the newest ploy, but one that has never seen widespread take-up because, well, it means paying for two connections. Following yesterday's launch of Virgin Media's '50Mbps' service...
[December 16, 2008, 14:02]
Plantronics Savi Office WO100
Blog The Savi Office WO100 comprises a base unit with connections for power, the optional handset lifter, your desk phone and your PC (mini-USB), plus a slot-in headset cradle/charger that can be detached and moved to another base unit if necessary.
[September 23, 2009, 15:41]
Bloggers Must Now Disclose Payments & Freebies
Blog The revised Guides also add new examples to illustrate the long standing principle that ‘material connections’ (sometimes payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers - connections that consumers would not expect - must be disclosed.
[October 8, 2009, 12:03]
Web 2.0 meets CRM: the perfect business application
Blog Now picture this: you use LinkedIn and have a few hundred connections, mostly buddies in former jobs. As your relationship with those connections develops, SAP enables you to attach processes to them to ensure you achieve your objectives and no...
[October 29, 2008, 15:03]
Thunderbird 2.0, Exchange Server and Email Dreamland
Blog I also get to take advantage of the spam filter since the IT guys have it set to NOT distribute spam to outside remotely logged on connections. What really is the problem is that the license does not mention or cover the web connection I am using...
[July 29, 2009, 9:28]
Brits Are Broadband Speed Junkies
Blog Customers on faster broadband connections awarded their providers higher customer satisfaction ratings than did those with slower speeds, suggesting a nation of speed-hungry broadband users. According to the data collected, the average speed of UK...
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
DIY Dual Atom Nettop System
Blog It also has 10/100/1000 LAN, four USB 2.0 ports, and of course the usual array of VGA, Parallel, Serial, and PS/2 connections. It also has both ATA and SATA connections, and a single DDR2 667/533 SDRAM slot.
[June 5, 2009, 13:41]
Keeping the net connection up no matter what.
Blog For the same reason unless you are hosting services that must be on even when the office is closed, avoid 3G/DSL boxes that automatically switch connections. Set up these connections in advance. In a future post or two I'll take a look at services...
[December 16, 2008, 12:44]
Privacy Abuse by Technology
Blog There will be a paragraph or two that will surrender the user's rights to have his data connections kept private. By looking for a string of characters in the traffic passing through the user connections to the ISP, pirates will be identified.
[December 30, 2008, 8:34]
Get Set... (Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex)
Blog When you are in range of one or more wireless networks, the Network Manager will inform you; you can connect to a wireless network very easily, whether it is unprotected or has WEP, WPA or WPA2 security, both on Wireless-G and Wireless-N connections.
[October 29, 2008, 10:08]
Bits of Shiny Broken Windows
Blog This has an effect on the mapped drive connections the local IT guy insists on mapping with his start-up script. Mapped network connections in Vista come and go at some seemingly arbitrary schedule. The flying monkeys in Redmond might have...
[March 20, 2009, 1:22]
Hidden in full view - the secret life of networks
Blog It doesn't matter how big the network is: if it's scale free, once you've counted the proportion of nodes with five connections to the nodes with ten connections, you can predict how many will have a hundred or a thousand.
[October 1, 2007, 23:39]
Mobile business social network tools coming on BlackBerry
Blog Like the existing iPhone LinkedIn app it lets you browse your contacts or search for profiles of people you could connect to by keyword, which is apparently a third of all activity on the LinkedIn site; but it’s the first mobile app with the...
[November 11, 2009, 7:50]
LinkedOut - when business networks don't let you network
Blog But the problem comes when they press the "reject" button in my invitation to connect because when LinkedIn sees this happen five times -- and I have 300 live connections, so this would mean fewer than 3% of them not quite remembering my name...
[October 13, 2008, 16:03]
Google Friend Connect increases spam risk
Blog But the thing that concerns me is that when you send invitations or links to websites back to the connections you have on Plaxo, for example, rather than them getting a message in Plaxo they receive an e-mail; and the e-mail doesn't make the...
[December 8, 2008, 7:23]
Moblin 2.1 Final Release
Blog The good news here, at least, is that there is a new icon in this release, for Bluetooth connections. The other place where I noticed major changes is on the Networks panel, where there is now a list of detected WiFi networks, with the signal...
[November 10, 2009, 13:48]
Sierra Wireless AirCard 880 GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA PC Card
Blog The tests and usage I am describing here were all made with HSDPA connections. Another positive aspect of the Swisscom Unlimited Data Manager software is the "seamless handover", not only between different cellular connections but also to a...
[January 22, 2008, 12:37]
