links for 2007-08-03
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Wireless Access Coming To The Skies
The FCC has long fought the airline industry over providing cellular access in flights, but their stamp of approval for in-flight WiFi has yielded a product announcement for this service.Wireless provider AirCell will extend its Internet service to American Airlines beginning in 2008. AirCell won the FCC auction for an exclusive broadband frequency license in [...]
Corporate Study Shows You Should Pay More
More bandwidth, not bandwidth manipulation, has been one of the technical solutions offered as an answer to the growing capacity demands of services like VoIP and video. It’s also been used as a rebuttal to telecom industry arguments against Net Neutrality, a rebuttal, um, rebutted in a new study sponsored by…AT&T. The more-bandwidth argument has [...]
YouTube Comprises 10% Of All Internet Traffic
For the first time in four years, HTTP (Web) traffic has overtaken peer-to-peer (P2P) applications in bandwidth consumption, according to data released by Ellacoya Networks. YouTube takes the biggest chunk of all of them.Based on usage data from about a million North American broadband subscribers, the study showed that streaming video and audio downloads have [...]
Hello, World; Hello, Voip Telephony
The world has shrunk, thanks to an invention called the Internet. Communication is now made easier. Barely two decades ago, a person in Thailand has to wait for weeks for a letter from the United States. Now, a letter can be sent in a matter of seconds, through e-mail or electronic mail. A few years… [...]
Voip Web Conferencing Does More With Less
Web and audio conferencing has become the “in” thing for many businesses. It is cheaper than business trips, which require plane tickets and hotel rooms. It is more spontaneous than sending carbon copies of an e-mail to a small army of co-workers. Additionally, it is more virtual than pressing the s… More: continued here voip [...]
Vonage May Get Stay Of Execution
A landmark Supreme Court decision may prove to be the savior of Vonage. The ruling on "obviousness" is expected to have sweeping implications in patent law while pulling Vonage from the Verizon fire. Vonage May Get Stay Of Execution Under the decision, patents will be more easily challengeable based existing, ordinary circumstances, or obvious need [...]
VoIP Gaining On Landlines
As broadband penetration continues to grow, so will other services such as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and Internet protocol television (IPTV). "VoIP is a genuinely disruptive technology; it is already changing the telecommunications landscape," says eMarketer Senior Analyst Ben Macklin, author of the new Broadband Services: VoIP and IPTV report. Internet telephony grew quickly [...]
2007: The Year Of The Spam
Spam is the mosquito of the Internet; a pesky nuisance that will seemingly never go away, and according to a study from IDC it is only going to become worse. The IDC is predicting that around 97 billion emails will be sent in 2007, and out of those 40 billion will be spam messages. This [...]
FCC Nixes Airline Cellular, Approves WiFi
Airline travelers will soon have the opportunity to surf the Internet mid-flight by way of wireless networks, as many aircraft are now beginning to be outfitted with WiFi equipment. Even though the FCC has put it stamp of approval for in-flight WiFi, it still has reservations about the viability of offering cellular service to airline [...]
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