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Where is the next-generation STB that we’ve been hearing about for at least the past three years? The über STB with HD, TiVo, networking, storage and more — the one that will be the center of home entertainment? Read More »

I was recently leading a session for the Panorama Capital CIO Council, a group of about 25 Fortune 500 CIOs with which we meet twice a year, when the topic of securing enterprise data arose. The CIOs were not, however, talking about data security that can… Read More »

The time has finally come for the world to migrate to IPv6 from IPv4 -– or at least that was the message delivered by a collection of networking experts at the RIPE 55 conference late last month in Amsterdam. Out of this conference came a hilarious… Read More »

This week I read a fascinating article by Joe Weinman that was published in Business Communications Review. In it, he proposes an innovative concept that could initiate a paradigm shift in Internet search, fixing what may be its biggest problem: too many results, many of… Read More »

I was talking to some colleagues earlier this month about Intel’s (INTC) plan to have an 80-core processor ready for the market within five years. I’ve written about commodity computing in this space before, but this latest Intel announcement made me realize that we’re on the verge… Read More »

Google (GOOG) should buy Adobe (ADBE), but not for the reasons you might think. Google would acquire some great software in Acrobat, Photoshop and their desktop run-time environment (now called Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR). But while these are good software assets that could be integrated… Read More »

Get ready for a fracturing of the Internet domain name space and the global Internet looking far less homogenous and more like the ancient town of Babel. And a lot of it has to do with International Domain Names in Applications or IDNA. The Internet and its… Read More »

Can MVNOs help FMC Succeed?

Venture capital has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into companies building equipment to enable FMC (fixed-to-mobile convergence) products and services. To date, the cellular operator market opportunity has languished but the tide may be changing if the MVNOs take advantage of the technology. FMC, among other… Read More »

Web 2.0 & Death of the Network Engineer

I was recently meeting with a Web 2.0 company discussing their network infrastructure plans. As I started asking questions about their racks of servers, their storage area network (SAN), their plans for routing, load-balancing and network security, the CTO of the company stopped me and… Read More »

Mobile Media needs Mobile CDNs

The traditional content delivery networks (CDNs) of the mid-1990s were designed to move web content close to the narrowband last mile of modems and ISDN connections. As I’ve written about here before, even today in the broadband age CDNs are booming because digital media is pushing… Read More »

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