Dutch author Arjan Dasselaar makes a plea for more mobile freedom and independence
Dutch language article “Worse than the Russians”: http://www.nu.nl/column-zaterdag/2520434/erger-dan-russen.html
Archive for 2011/05/22
Considering the crazy stunts providers KPN and Vodafone are pulling, maybe it is time for mesh networks in The Netherlands? Why use the antennas of the operators when mobile phones are transmitters and receivers already?
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / AwarenessEuropean Internet users gobble twice the bandwidth
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Bandwidth Management, Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Stats / reportsEuropean Internet users consume twice as much bandwidth, on average, as north Americans - due no doubt to their having, on average, twice as fast connections. That’s according to Deep Packet Inspection specialist Sandvine, in its latest Global Internet Phenomena Report.
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47632&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
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DPI Market, Led by Sandvine, Poised to Top $2 Billion
The standalone deep-packet inspection market is set to surge past $2 billion by 2015, thanks in big part to growth in Asia and EMEA
http://www.billingworld.com/news/2011/04/dpi-market-led-by-sandvine-poised-to-top-2-billio.aspx
Govt revenue hit by illegal VoIP services
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public PolicyPreviously:
For KPN, the leading Dutch mobile network provider with a market share of around 50%, the use of IP-based services like WhatsApp or Research in Motion’s Ping on BlackBerrys could become a problem. In April, KPN was forced to issue a profit warning, after its Dutch first-quarter mobile-service revenue dropped 8.1%, and announced it will eliminate 4,000 to 5,000 jobs between 2011 and 2015, which represents around 20% to 25% of its workforce in the Netherlands. The former state monopoly has already slashed almost 10,000 jobs since 2005.
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/05/12/kpn-admits-to-using-deep-packet-inspection/?mod=google_news_blog
Startups in Google’s Apps Marketplace get snapped up
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business ModelsGoogle Says Facial Recognition “Too Creepy,” But Patents It Anyway
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, Google, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionGoogle filed a patent this week for “Automatically Mining Person Models of Celebrities for Visual Search Applications.” The patented process would use media reports that include pictures of famous people to automatically generate the facial data needed to identify new pictures of that individual.
What If Every eBook Was Its Own Social Network?
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionReport: Google warned repeatedly about online drug ads
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, Google, Online advertising, Public PolicyA multimedia system that obtains, synthesizes, and analyzes mass volumes of data via the development of an advanced “‘plug and play’ modular architecture” of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionIs Google’s Chromebook The Death Knell For Antivirus?
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, Google, Tech EvolutionThe Chromebook is locked down even tighter than Android, and reduces antivirus’s foothold from slim to near-zero.
“Archaic intellectual property laws obstruct innovation and economic growth, particularly online.” This is the conclusion of the long awaited “Hargreaves report”
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsProfessor Hargreaves gives ten recommendations to Britsh policy makers on how intellectual property law can help create a positive environment for innovation and economic growth, instead of constraining it. The conclusions of the study reveil that current copyright legislation in the UK is failing to secure its goal of supporting creation and innovation.
Anti-Piracy Outfit Will Not Sue Hadopi ‘Hacker’
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Litigation, Three StrikesUS authorities have resumed “Operation In Our Sites” and have seized several domain names associated with copyright infringement or counterfeit related crimes
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public PolicyToday ICE continued the operation with a 4th round, and the first one since February this year. Although the authorities are yet to give an official comment on the new seizures, TorrentFreak was able to confirm the following targets:
* Re1ease.net
* Watchnewfilms.com
* Dvdcollectionsale.com
* Dvdscollection.com
* Dvdsetsonline.com
* Newstylerolex.com
The first two domains are accused of copyright-related offenses, but did not host any copyrighted films themselves. Both Re1ease.net and Watchnewfilms.com linked to popular movie streaming sites such as Veoh.com and Megavideo.com. The rest of the domains appear to be connected to sales of counterfeit goods.
More: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-starts-new-round-of-pirate-domain-seizures-110521/
Vodafone: big investments have to be made because of the growth of the mobile internet and the increasing use of data intensive services – “Somebody has got to pay for that” – Vodafone now also wants to charge customers when asking tech support questions about non-Vodafone smartphones
Posted: 2011/05/22 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionDutch language news article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2518948/kpn-en-vodafone-zorgen-opschudding.html
