By Shannon Perry Google recently released a free Video Quality Report, a means for Internet users to determine the quality of their Internet connections and to compare the speeds of their Internet service provider with other local ISPs. Much of the tech community received the report positively becau...
By Bob Gourley This is the fourth installment in our series flowing from recent dialog with Marc Andreessen. In this post we provide Marc’s thoughts around how automation and AI may change the nature of interaction between government and citizen. Gourley: Do you have any suggestions that can hel...
By ShannonPerry The Pew Research Center Internet Project, one of the current initiatives overseen by Pew Research, is attempting to mark the World Wide Web’s 25th anniversary with a thorough look at the Internet’s future. The most recent report is called the Internet of Things, a phrase for mode...
Storm clouds of litigation threats and federal regulations have darkened the beginning of May for some techies. Will Thom Wheeler and the FCC continue to promote the “fast lane” idea? Will Net Neutrality advocates raise enough of a fuss to get the commission to back down? Will the freedom of the...
Before this month most Americans had not even heard of Twitch. A videogame-streaming company, Twitch describes itself as “the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.” The company allows gamers to upload short videos from games, watch other users’ uploads, and chat with other...
By ShannonPerry With the current public attention on information security and privacy, major tech companies’ increasing reluctance to cooperate with law enforcement officers – in this case, by no longer handing over American data without their notification – is an important trend. In the past ...
By ShannonPerry Since the bug became public knowledge in early April, the Heartbleed vulnerability has captured media headlines across the U.S. The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, in...
By Bob Gourley At this link and embedded below is a video from Samsung which captures the new features of Samsung’s well engineered approach to enhancing mobile security. Look for my cameo appearance at 11:55 where say something I believe, but which must be totally obvious to you good readers. Th...