AT&T Surcharge
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Cable, DSL, Internet | 2 Comments
My good friend AT&T Inc., the country’s largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. (Grrrr!)
The top 5 percent of AT&T’s DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, according to a company spokesman.
Wireless Trojan
Posted on June 11, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Online Tools | Leave a Comment
A new Trojan horse posing as a video codec required to view content on some Web sites tries to change settings on the user’s router so that all of their Internet traffic goes through servers controlled by the attackers.
Recent versions of the “Zlob” Trojan (also known as DNSChanger) will check to see if the victim […]
New ‘iPod’
Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General, Internet, Television | Leave a Comment
There will be a new kid in town this summer with the introduction of the PoD. I recently reported on the Netflix Roku which is able to receive broadband feeds of Netflix subscribed content and play to a TV rather than a computer.
Verismo Networks has previewed “the PoD,” a tiny box that brings web content […]
Auctionless eBay
Posted on June 3, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, eBay | Leave a Comment
Once upon a time, you could put most anything up for auction on eBay and feel like it had a pretty good chance to sell. On top of that, for years there was such a feeding frenzy at the online auction site, you could often sell new merchandise for more than it would bring in […]
Read More..>>Data Throttling
Posted on June 2, 2008 - Filed Under Cable, Internet | 3 Comments
This week, new Time-Warner cable Internet customers in Beaumont, Texas will not be given unmetered Internet bandwidth - they will instead become the first to be billed under TW’s new choke-’em down plan that will provide users between 5 and 40 gigabytes in total monthly data usage (that is total, uploads and downloads combined).
Read More..>>Instant Watching
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Television | 1 Comment
If you are a movie lover, one thing you probably don’t like is having to get in the car and drive somewhere, like to a theater or video store.
With the quality of systems available at home now, and the prices at the theater, you almost wonder if there will come a time when, like the […]
Piracy Up
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Software | Leave a Comment
Just back from vacation and a short hiatus — so here we go again, hopefully with some news or views of interest to you.
According to a new study, software piracy is worse now than ever. Estimates are that nearly 40% of all commercial software copies are fake, with a cost to the industry of almost […]
Clearwire
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Tech News | 1 Comment
Is this the news you dial-up folks have been waiting on?
Sprint and Clearwire on Wednesday formally announced that they are forming a new publicly traded company — to be called Clearwire — with the goal of building a WiMax network across the USA.
WiMax is similar to WiFi in that it offers speedy, wireless Web surfing. […]
IA Sufferers
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Health, Internet | Leave a Comment
Are you addicted? IA - Internet addiction is being looked at as the next big mental disorder. It seems that a portion of the population get addicted to whatever stimulus they are exposed to. If it is something that ’seems’ to please the senses or bring even fleeting feelings of intense pleasure, then a certain […]
Read More..>>PPU - PayPerUsage
Posted on April 27, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment
By some estimates, the average broadband equipped home will use more than a terabyte of bandwidth per month by 2010. High-bandwidth apps like peer-to-peer sharing and high-quality streaming video are putting a hit on current networks and building a greater infrastructure will be very expensive, so ISPs are
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