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Net neutrality: Will tiered access hit cloud?

Net neutrality: Will tiered access hit cloud?

...the consumers of those applications. Could a tiered-access structure or traffic discrimination simply negate at a network level all the acceleration and optimisation techniques... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Lori MacVittie
A Novel Multiple-Option Web-Based Questionnaire System With IPA and IPA <endeca_term>Discrimination</endeca_term> Index

A Novel Multiple-Option Web-Based Questionnaire System With IPA and IPA Discrimination Index

...the questionnaire's face validity, in which Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) model discrimination index can reflect more accurate quantity comparing to the IPA model proposed... Read more

1 February, 2012
A Framework and Experimental Study for <endeca_term>Discrimination</endeca_term> of Collision and Channel Errors in Wireless LANs

A Framework and Experimental Study for Discrimination of Collision and Channel Errors in Wireless LANs

A fundamental unresolved problem in wireless networks is that of distinguishing packet errors that are caused by... Read more

3 March, 2011
Flexible Use of Cloud Resources Through Profit Maximization and Price <endeca_term>Discrimination</endeca_term>

Flexible Use of Cloud Resources Through Profit Maximization and Price Discrimination

Modern frameworks, such as Hadoop, combined with abundance of computing resources from the cloud, offer a significant... Read more

21 November, 2010

Facebook tells employers to lay off login demands

...certain age, etc.), that employer may open themselves up to claims of discrimination if they don't hire that person," Egan said."Employers also may... Read more

26 March, 2012 by David Meyer
Ten traits you need to succeed in IT

Ten traits you need to succeed in IT

...would like to think IT is a field not affected by age discrimination, some aspects make it better suited to younger professionals. There are numerous... Read more

30 June, 2011 by Jack Wallen

Report: China clamps down on microbloggers

...secrets, material that threatens national security, posts that inspire ethnic resentment or discrimination, and posts involving rallies that "disrupt social order" were also being banned... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Edward Moyer

Reuse of public data to get easier under new EU rules

Most public bodies will be compelled to make almost all their data available for reuse under new proposals from the European Commission, which says resulting apps and services could lead to a £34bn boost for the EU's economy Read more

12 December, 2011 by David Meyer

Barclays signs up to Make Money Talk to blind users

...to the accessibility of their ATM network since 1995 when the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) first came in to force. Furthermore, they have been under... Read more

22 November, 2011

Europe lays down airport rules for full-body scans

...and Human Rights Commission, which argues they could break UK laws on discrimination, race relations and privacy. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

EU issues veiled warning on closed e-book standards

...She said that, in the current financial crisis, there should not be discrimination against "sectors that have the potential to create growth". "I just cannot... Read more

14 October, 2011

Babbage's steampunk computer takes step toward reality

...Atlas and a campaigner who elicited a prime-ministerial apology for the discrimination suffered by Alan Turing, wrote in a blog post that the digitisation... Read more

22 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Berners-Lee to advise on UK net-neutrality code

...be able to access all legal content. Second, there should be no discrimination against content providers on the basis of commercial rivalry and finally traffic... Read more

17 March, 2011
Net neutrality ignores business users

Net neutrality ignores business users

...networks and certain types of content on wireless networks, and prevent unreasonable discrimination. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said the measure was "a compromise between industry... Read more

7 January, 2011 by Nick White

Yahoo and eBay plead with Vaizey for UK net neutrality

...deployed only for technical, security or legal reasons. "There should be no discrimination in the treatment of internet traffic, based on device, or the origin... Read more

3 December, 2010 by David Meyer

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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Thomas Gellhaus

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

19 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

20 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

23 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

23 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

1 day ago by NarayanaIyyappan on IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors
DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

2 days ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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