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Level 3 concurs: Comcast appears to be prioritizing traffic
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Comcast may have given users a break on Thursday by raising its monthly data cap to 300 GB, but Level 3, the backbone Internet provider and content delivery network, wants people to know that... View Source

Comcast capitulates on data cap, but dodges net neutrality
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Comcast plans to raise its broadband cap to 300 GB per month as it trials two new types of caps. The move is welcome one, but it neglects to address some of the net neutrality complaints that have... View Source

Comcast capitulates on cap, but dodges the net neutrality issue
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Comcast plans to raise its broadband cap to 300 GB per month as it trials two new types of caps. The move is welcome one, but it neglects to address some of the net neutrality complaints that have... View Source

Meet the newest battery saver: less accurate but still useful chips
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Researchers at Rice University have built a chip that sacrifices accuracy in exchange for faster performance and energy efficiency. The chips is 15 times more energy-efficient that normal chips... View Source

PRO: Forget networking, the data center of the future is software defined too
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Software defined networking made a big splash last week at the Interop show in Las Vegas with a variety of vendors pitching their vision of how abstracting out networking from the physical hardware... View Source

Forget offshore tax-havens & meet the offshore cloud
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Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has... Read More

Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)
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Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has... Read More

He said, she said: Is Comcast prioritizing traffic or not?
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Comcast, once again, has some explaining to do. An engineer has conducted experiments that he says show the nation’s largest broadband provider... Read More

Qualtrics gets $70M to boldly scale like no one has scaled before
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Qualtrics, a decade-old marketing research company has raised a $70 million first round of venture capital. This isn't a growth capital deal,... Read More

LightSquared’s bankruptcy is Washington’s failure too
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LightSquared's bankruptcy is the conclusion of a process that is rigged against broadband competition. Maybe it would have failed for economic... Read More

Superstacks: How consumers trade convenience for choice
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Welcome to the concept of the superstack -- which acts to circumvent the openness that the Internet and the digitization of content has enabled and... Read More

Verizon stands up for its users in copyright lawsuit
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Verizon Communications has had a history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their... Read More

How big data will change networking
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What if you could know everything about your network? Instead of getting snapshots you could see the path of every packet and run analytics on that... Read More

Adventures in big data: How AddThis’ Hydra works
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With 10 terabytes of data generated everyday, AddThis (formerly called Clearspring) has access to a social graph that rivals Facebook. But unlike... Read More

T-Mobile grows but its lack of iPhone is still a problem
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T-Mobile is still struggling after its planned acquisition by AT&T fell through. In the first full quarter after the proposed merger was... Read More

Exclusive: Cloud Foundry’s founder debuts Apcera with $2.2M in funding
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Derek Collison, the guy who built VMware's CloudFoundry service, left the hypervisor giant in mid-February with an idea to make platforms as a... Read More

Exclusive: CloudFoundry’s founder debuts Apcera with $2.2M in funding
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Derek Collison, the guy who built VMware's CloudFoundry service, left the hypervisor giant in mid-February with an idea to make platforms as a... Read More

Like broadband? Then it’s time to take action.
Broadband

Go read this article in the New York Times. It articles the problems we have with U.S. broadband and where those problems come from. Not evil ISPs,... Read More

Hey cloud startups, have we got a treat for you!
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Every year at our Structure 2012 conference we host a Launchpad of startups. This year, we decided to give the 10 finalists more than stage-time:... Read More

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