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What the airline industry can teach us about broadband caps

Flickr user Vicky TGAW Writing for Wired (which shares a parent company with Ars Technica), Susan Crawford, currently a visiting professor at Harvard, complained about a recent travel mishap. An airline agent told...

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Thursday, May 10th, 2012 Net News No Comments

SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP

On the Chromium blog , Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY ("speedy"). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), researchers at Google...

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