Reuter is providing video clips of news via RSS (via Loic). Yoo, finally. I discussed the idea (RSS + BT) sometime last year and really happy to see this happening :-)
Category: Internet
Broadband?
It is almost impossible to find a consumer broadband provider that gives you decent upload bandwidth wrt to the download bandwidth. Look around…all these offers of 512kbpx or 1.5mbps broadband access usually comes with 128kbps or even 64kbps upload! “Why would consumers needs more then 128kbps upload bandwidth?” question comes from the perspective that consumers […]
FTTH in Japan
The April statistics (via Adam Peake) shows FTTH in Japan is growing nearly at 100,000 new subscribers per month! While the FTTH is bearly 1M subscribers (out of 14M broadband subscribers), the grow rate is very significant. I wonder why the sudden surge of interest in FTTH in Japan…something to check out when I am […]
10 new sponsored TLDs
ICANN is seeking comments about the 10 new sponsored TLDs (via Paul Hoffman). Let me give my five cent worth: First, the evaluation of sponsored TLDs should be based on the appropriateness of sponsors1. Whether it is ‘useful’ or ‘useless’ to the Internet shouldn’t be a factor since one’s rubbish is another gem. This is […]
SIP SIP SIP
I have a very interesting dinner last night with Michael Robertson and Jeff Bonforte, CEO and President of SIPPhone.com respectively. Most people will know Michael as the founder of MP3.com and Lindows. They are in town for their big announcement with Singtel. (Yes, 1-747-xxx-xxxx will be routed from Singapore soon :-) It is a social […]
More on Internet Peering…
A friend email me asking why ITU-T SG3 is not suitable to handle the issues of Internet Peering. He pointed out that while there are technology differences, the economics and policies should be fairly similar given they are both bilteral arrangement. I beg to differ. Lets take a detour: When User 1 on carrier A […]
Internet Peering
Internet Peering is one of the stuff that has been on the back of my mind. I have several long conversations with many people, such as Bill Woodcock and Bill Norton, over the last year trying to get a grasp of the issues. The problem is easy to frame but the solution is not so […]
More on Horizontal Layering…
In my previous entry, I discussed about the changes in the telecommunication industry to a world where data, IP Packets particularly, is the main revenue generator1 and Voice would become just one of the many application/service provided on top of the data world. Now, such radical change is extremely disruptive even though it is likely […]
dot.skype
Skype secures $18.8m funding (via Dave Farber IPer). Skype, a London-based company that is enjoying strong growth with software enabling free phone calls over the internet, has secured $18.8m (?11m) in second-round funding. Okay, I am a happy user of Skype. But would I invest in them without bottomline? Sure, if it is a “sell […]
Secure Web?
Think you are safe if the site you visit have a “lock”? Think again (via Slashdot) Scammers can also configure their web server so that deceptive SSL certificates won’t trigger an alert in the user’s browser. “One of the SSL encoding methods is ‘plain text’,” Neal Krawetz from Secure Science Corporation noted in the SANS […]