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O2 claims win in UK mobile broadband speed test
But results not so clear cut A survey of UK mobile broadband speeds commissioned by O2 gives the carrier the thumbs up for network performance.… ?
Continue reading »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 think they can do better.
Continue reading »YouSendIt.com’s Founder Indicted of DoS attacks
US authorities accuse Khalid Shaikh, former CEO of file sharing site YouSendIt.com as being the one responsible for a series denial of service attacks on the site (DoS). The man who founded the large-files-transferring service back in 2004 and left the company two years later has been charged on four counts of mail fraud. Shaikh, allegedly prevented the YouSendIt.com’s services from being accessible to users four times between 2008-2009 when he managed to overpower the site’s servers by using the ApacheBench web server performance monitoring app.
Continue reading »RIAA bailout radio tax approved
p2pnet news view Radio | P2P | Politics:- The RIAA comes across as an honest trade organisation representing thousands of separate US recording industry companies. It’s responsible for producing statistics, ‘certifying’ attaboy awards for contracted performers who’ve made lots of money for the labels, arranging soirées so politicians can mix with, and be influenced by, vested interests. And so on.
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