Nokia Siemens Networks plans to show off gigabit wireless speeds using the variant of of LTE-Advanced network that Clearwire plans to deploy. But don’t get too excited, too soon. These aren’t real world speeds and they’re not for handsets. Read more »
Building sustainable data centers is hard — especially if you’re trying to do it in office space in Houston. This and a few less obvious lessons were the takeaways from a panel on sustainable data centers at the Open compute Summit on Wednesday. Read more »
At its third summit, the Open Compute Project is adding new partners, showing off cool use cases and adding new technologies. And surprisingly, it’s being done in a way that will enable hardware vendors to hold onto some of their margins and still deliver innovations. Read more »
The debate on whether or not Silicon Valley is in a bubble might not be the right question. Instead we may want to ask ourselves, Has the fundamental notion of tech investing shifted as technology has become more dominated by the consumer market? Read more »
Google sits on masses of traffic and advertising data, and has decided that it should take advantage of its expertise in building the infrastructure to handle those petabytes of information to offer a data analytics service in its cloud. Read more »
The search for robots that can jump, run and fly has become an obsession for the U.S. military, research scientists and a large population of the web. So when researchers showed off a robotic bird that can perch on an object, I was intrigued. Read more »
The rumors that Hulu may soon require subscribers to have a cable TV subscription is the perfect cautionary tale for why the companies that make and distribute content shouldn’t own the pipes that deliver that content. Read more »
The U.S. is falling in the quality of broadband its ISPs are offering, although in the fourth quarter of 2011 that drop in speeds was seen by several other counties, with overall broadband speeds falling to a global average 2.3 Mbps from the previous quarter. Read more »
AT&T’s shareholders today didn’t require the telecommunications giant to implement network neutrality on its wireline and wireless networks. The proposal lost with a mere 5.9 percent of the vote. But here’s why one fund manager thinks net neutrality won — and should continue to win. Read more »
Facebook wasn’t satisfied with how its legacy tools measured what was working and what wasn’t across the site’s many-thousand servers, so it created a distributed in-memory data store called Scuba to help. Here’s how it works and what other companies can take away from the project. Read more »
The Web is fantastic, but even with our smartphones, we’re still stuck staring at a screen. Some startups and DIYers are trying to make it easier to bring the binary interactions of our digital lives into the real world. This is awesome. Read more »
Intel paid $140 million to buy the interconnect business of Cray, the original manufacturer of supercomputers. From here it looks like there’s little left of Cray moving forward, but the interesting bit about this deal is how it could define the next generation of servers. Read more »
Akamai’s CEO Paul Sagan plans to step down from his role by the end of next year. Sagan has led the company in some capacity since 1999. He also just oversaw a major restructuring of the company to help it adapt to a changing web world. Read more »
ARM’s CEO Sir Warren East is casting his eye on the next big opportunity for the chip architecture firm — the Internet of things. In an interview East says the market for embedded chips will be ten times the market for mobile device chips. Read more »
Congress, along with many in the content industry, are wondering about the fate of television in an Internet Age. I think the future is broadband, and I’d like to offer this chart from Sandvine, showing that the future is already here. Read more »
If you combine nanomaterials, lightwaves, and a supercomputer it’s possible to make a 18-centimeter tube invisible … to a microwave. This falls far short of the human hope of making an invisibility cloak, but this video explains how it works and why it’s so cool. Read more »
As government strives to keep up with the broadband age, the Senate held a hearing covering the future of television, but midway through I realized that the Senate has it all wrong. The future of TV isn’t found in deregulation, it’s found on the Internet. Read more »
Devices aren’t the only problem associated with the consumerization of IT. A report out from Deutsche Bank notes that the flip side of employees bringing in their own devices is IT managers and staff bringing in their own compute resources without consulting their higher ups. Read more »
Intel has introduced its latest generation of processor cores at 22 nanometers. The new chips are up to 20 percent faster and consume 20 percent less energy, but the biggest news is that these chips are the first that will use Intel’s new 3-D transistors. Read more »
The Senate is investigating video competition during a hearing on Tuesday and public interest groups are using it as an opportunity to ask tough questions on broadband caps. I would love the Senate to demand answers on how caps can thwart the burgeoning industry. Read more »
Amazon opened AmazonSupply Monday, a store dedicated to the bits and pieces associated with running an office, building garage robots or a manufacturing facility. All I could think after seeing this story was, “Just wait until Amazon gets its hands on industrial-grade 3-D printers.” Read more »
Cheap computing and the ability to store a lot of data fairly cheaply have made the concept of big data a buig business. But amid the frenzy to gather such information, especially unstructured information, are companies pushing the boundaries of polite (or ethical) behavior? Read more »
Qualcomm can’t find enough capacity to manufacture chips designed for mobile phones. These troubles will become more common as the physics that govern how we make semiconductors buckles under the demands of our increasingly mobile lives, where we demand low power and high performance. Read more »
Big data meets the quantitative self with a project to collect every heartbeat for science. Dr. Leslie Saxon wants everyone to send in their heartbeat data to a website to create a database to track heart health. Such a database could help predict heart health. Read more »
Venture capitalists greeted the new year with fewer overall deals and dollars invested during the first quarter, but in the rapid-fire world of investing in web startups this data is about as relevant as a day-old newspaper. In a post-Instagram world the tides have changed. Read more »
The havoc that OpenFlow is wreaking in the data center may also change the way we think of ISPs, and solve the spectrum crisis. OpenRadio is a project that hopes to use OpenFlow to create pools of broadband from Wi-Fi, cellular and other networks. Read more »
The networking world is changing in three fundamental ways, and all of them threaten Cisco. Cisco is responding to the threats with Insieme in the data center and a service-provider strategy. This story lays it all out for you. Read more »
A project out of Georgia Tech University using the OpenFlow protocol could change the way consumers control their home network — or the way ISPs meter customers. In this video interview Nick Feamster of Georgia Tech explains the project and where people can download it. Read more »
Networking is undergoing a huge change in part because of the creation of the OpenFlow protocol. But just because networks are programmable doesn’t mean they will become open platforms for developers. So will OpenFlow create an ecosystem like Android’s or like Apple’s iOS? Read more »
Google is running all of its backbone traffic on a software defined network built using OpenFlow, and hopes that this year it can begin the process of extending that type of programmable network to its consumer facing network. Read more »
Verizon has created a partnership with Intel, HP and networking company Adara to help test and understand the benefits that OpenFlow and software defined networks could have on its business. It’s trying to lower the cost of moving data between data center and more. Read more »
The rapidly changing world of networking has surfaced another startup. This one, a four-year-old company called LineRate Systems, has built software the helps deliver services on top of virtualized networks. It has raised $5.4 million so far to bring more commodity gear to networking. Read more »
We’re testing carrier coverage to give consumers a real-world look at mobile data performance. As part of this process, we measured performances across multiple LTE markets during the first quarter and have put together a head-to-head comparison of AT&T and Verizon’s LTE networks. Read more »
The CTIA wants you to know that Americans used 123 percent more wireless data in 2011 than 2010, but the wireless industry’s lobby apparently doesn’t want you to know exactly how that translates in any way a normal person understands. Instead it turned to song. Read more »
The latest tech policy debate, over CISPA has put Facebook, a supporter of the law, in the web’s crosshairs. Today it has responded with a PR-friendly argument that illustrates a level of cynicism about how our government works and who holds the power in negotiating legislation. Read more »
TempoDB, a startup out of Chicago, has build a database as a service offering specifically for time-series data thrown off by thermostats, servers, automotive telematics. Does the world (or the Internet of Things) need a specialty time series database hosted in the cloud? Read more »
The app world is getting a reality check, thanks to apps like Girls Around Me, Placeme or even Highlight. In the past month one word has kept popping up to describe the current direction of social apps: creepy. Instead of SoLoMoCo, this one is an uh-oh. Read more »
Eleven startups building the “plumbing of the internet” presented today for the TechStars Cloud demo day, and the common thread running through them all was making it easier to build app-like products and services as well as an obsession with data. Plus one cool consumer startup. Read more »
VMware teamed up with Stanford and Berkeley on Tuesday to create an industry consortium around software defined networks, called the Open Networking Research Center. The company, famous for its hypervisors that virtualize servers isn’t about to watch while others build the same disruption in networking. Read more »
We’ve all heard the saying, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” It’s a simple, but profound message that many of us forget on a daily basis. When it comes to the cloud the same idea prevails, but using multiple clouds can have advantages. Read more »
