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Here’s the dirty little secret about Android: After all the work Apple did to get AT&T to relinquish device control for the iPhone and all the great efforts Google made to get the FCC and the U.S. telecoms to agree to open access rules as part of the 700 MHz auction, Android is taking all of those gains and handing the power back to the telecoms. | Here’s the dirty little secret about Android: After all the work Apple did to get AT&T to relinquish device control for the iPhone and all the great efforts Google made to get the FCC and the U.S. telecoms to agree to open access rules as part of the 700 MHz auction, Android is taking all of those gains and handing the power back to the telecoms. | ||
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==[http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26096/ Software Router Smashes Speed Records]== | ==[http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26096/ Software Router Smashes Speed Records]== | ||
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The dirty little secret about Google Android
Here’s the dirty little secret about Android: After all the work Apple did to get AT&T to relinquish device control for the iPhone and all the great efforts Google made to get the FCC and the U.S. telecoms to agree to open access rules as part of the 700 MHz auction, Android is taking all of those gains and handing the power back to the telecoms.
This article was originally published on TechRepublic but I thought the reader comments on both sites are worthwhile.
Software Router Smashes Speed Records
Researchers in South Korea have built a networking router that transmits data at record speeds from components found in most high-end desktop computers. A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology created the router, which transmits data at nearly 40 gigabits per second--many times faster than the previous record for such a device.
Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web
"In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a name service for people. Governments will demand it."
- - In the future, people will demand the dismantling of privacy-invading governments and corporations. How about that?
One of my long time pet peeves is now being ruined - the textbook racket
http://www.curriki.org free, open-source curricula (it's a wiki!) NY Times
