Stories about: Bradner

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    Internet2 turns 15: Has it delivered on its promise? 11/04/2011 23:28:00

    With nearly $100 million in new funding, Internet2, the faster, better Internet reserved for research and education, has embarked on an upgrade that will boost backbone capacity to a staggering 8.8Tbps and expand services to hundreds of thousands of libraries, schools and medical centers.
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    Internet 'kill switch' bill reintroduced as Egypt remains dark 01/02/2011 10:48:00

    On the heels of what's being described as the biggest electronic shutdown by a government, legislators in the U.S. are trying to reintroduce a bill that would give the President an Internet 'kill switch.'
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    Ethernet at 35 29/05/2008 12:19:14

    Ethernet turned 35 last week. The official birth date of Ethernet is generally regarded as May 22, 1973, the date of a memo penned by Bob Metcalfe that laid out the basic concepts of Ethernet. To mark the occasion, I thought it might be fun to look back at another anniversary milestone.
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    A surfeit of US network neutrality legislation 14/05/2008 12:28:43

    Largely due to the continued dumb statements and actions of a few apparently PR-challenged carriers, the network neutrality issue is alive and well in the United States. Since any issue like this seems to create a legislative void that must be filled, we now have at least two network neutrality related bills for Congress to consider. If one liked legislation-based solutions, merging these bills and tossing out a bit of Federal Communications Commission make-work would not be too bad, but there would still be some questions left unanswered.
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    Microsoft makes C++, Visual Basic 6.0 moves 10/04/2008 09:29:25

    In separate moves, Microsoft has released its Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack but discontinued extended support for the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE.
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    Irrelevant victories in the war on spam 19/03/2008 09:13:46

    On the surface it might look like there has been some real legal progress against spam of late. But don't be fooled; these victories, real as they may be for the people involved, don't mean much to you and me.
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    Apple at MacWorld: No home runs, but solid hits 17/01/2008 15:29:25

    January is the best time of the year for gadget nuts: During the first week we get the madness of the Consumer Electronics Show, and that's closely followed by MacWorld, at which Steve Jobs and crew get up and try to outshine CES and gather all of the buzz in the world of gadgets.
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    Internet overload: creating an accurate picture 03/12/2007 07:04:58

    It seems like only yesterday that the press was talking about an Internet collapse, but it actually was more than a decade ago and happened because the press thought Bob Metcalfe was predicting the Internet was going to overload and collapse.
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    Google being dragged in some unwanted directions 23/01/2006 08:40:37

    As hype envelopes Google the company can't seem to avoid begin dragged into one rumor or controversy after another.
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    Campaign to save Visual Basic 6 gathers support 11/03/2005 14:22:27

    An online petition gathering signatures to save Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 programming language will not change the company's intention to cut free support on March 31, a Microsoft representative said on Thursday afternoon.
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    The Net has ears 21/04/1998 21:49:14

    The Net has ears
 
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