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Cablevision is all set to launch a 50 megabits/second service to its customers in Oyster Bay, New York. The company is using Narad Networks’ Narad Broadband Access Network technology which can deliver upto 100 megabit/s speeds on HFC networks. I have written about Narad in the past, and was consistently impressed by their [...]

Playlist says “feedback in the BadApple forums indicates that the plug-in is anything but good”

US Supreme Court, continuing to hit the little guys hard, has decided that“Grokster and StreamCast Networks can be held liable for copyright infringements committed by users of their peer-to-peer file-sharing software. “
“One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright … is liable for the resulting acts [...]

Breaking: Cable operators, finally got their wish - they won the Brand-X case, reports Bloomberg. The US Supreme court told Comcast, Time Warner and others that they did not have to open their lines to rivals like Earthlink. This is reversal of an earlier ruling by a lower court. The decision went 6-3 in cable [...]

Metalink, which till recently has been making broadband/DSL chipsets has decided to expand its product offering with a WLANPlus chipset. The company describes it as the first Real-MIMO-based (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) wireless chipset designed for delivering data throughput of more than 240 megabits per second (Mbps) over the air with full-home coverage for video-distribution applications.
WLANPlus chipset [...]

The voice engine behind Skype, Global IP Sound sold 3.5 million shares and raised $6.38 million for its Asian expansion efforts. The company also said that Logitech, Net2Phone, WebEx and Teleo will begin deploying GIPS enabled products later this year. Symbian-based VoIP clients are on their way as well. (More) As I said earlier, voip/telecom-related [...]