Today, Google announced plans to build out its 1-Gigabit fiber in Austin, TX, a vibrant city home to the popular annual SXSW conference and a rising tech industry. Their success in Kansas City, the first “Google Fiber City,” has sparked an energized startup scene and created a new model for broadband access: customers can pay… Read more »
“Can we share lessons between neurons and networks in the way we nurture and develop both?” That’s one of the questions Tiffany Shlain tries to answer in her latest video “Brain power” released together with a Ted book. I love and recommend her work as it is directly linked to the basic concept that lead us… Read more »
For decades, it has not been possible to have open communications systems on the physical level. In a world of wires, network access meant physical access. Wireless networking enabled the technical possibility of a completely open network. An open network is better than one with many silos, as long as free riding is contained,… Read more »
How the mobile landscape is changing in the most profound ways Today, ‘mobile carrier’ doesn’t mean ‘cellular only’ anymore. To serve mobile users demand carriers are starting to use open wireless standards like Wi-Fi. AT&T in US and Free in France started to offload some of their traffic onto their own Wi-Fi networks. Many other… Read more »
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It began with WiFi and Bluetooth Tethering: one mobile device wirelessly sharing its data connection with others. Now, we are blooming into a Mobile Mesh Network of many interconnected devices pooling their bandwidth for mutual benefit. Open Garden wirelessly interconnects many smart devices into an intelligent network. A network capable of opportunistic local connections and… Read more »
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Connect With Your Senator We’re calling you now and connecting you with one of your Senators. Here’s what to do: Let the staffer know you are a constituent. Say you are calling in opposition to S. 968, the PROTECT-IP Act Tell them PIPA would: Require web services to monitor what users link to or upload,… Read more »
The tsunami of data traffic is swamping all cell networks. Total mobile data consumption is going to double every year and will reach 3.6 exabytes per month in 2014 (Source Cisco VNI Mobile). Video traffic will account for more than 60% of the total traffic, the rest of the traffic being divided between peer-to-peer… Read more »