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George Ou

George Ou was a network engineer who built and designed wired network, wireless network, Internet, storage, security, and server infrastructure for various fortune 100 companies. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP #109250). He was Technical Director and Editor at Large at ZDNet.com and wrote one of their most popular blogs “Real World IT.” In 2008, he became a Senior Analyst at ITIF.org, and he currently writes for High Tech Forum

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Netflix is Good for Broadband Providers Under Free Market

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

The CEO of Comcast turned some heads today when he had some nice words to say about Netflix being good for his business.  Conventional wisdom seems to be that Netflix is not only a bandwidth hog that clogs the broadband provider’s infrastructure, …

High Profile Support for AT&T T-Mobile Merger

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

The New York Times reports that large industry players and companies like Microsoft, Research In Motion (makers of Blackberry), Qualcomm, Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle, and 10 major Venture Capital firms are backing the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. GeekWire also posted a copy …

A Rational Discussion of Cell Phones and Towers

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified cell phones as a possible carcinogen.  This new classification has resulted in a number of alarming news headlines, but the new IARC classification needs to …

Is Sprint Hypocritcal on Spectrum Hoarding?

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Large carriers like AT&T have frequently been accused of spectrum hoarding.  In AT&T’s case, critics base their claims on the fact that the company has one of the largest holdings of spectrum of any wireless carrier.  One of the is Sprint.  Yet …

Skype to Kill Asterisk VoIP Integration

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

There are reports that Skype will no longer license Asterisk integration after June 26 2011. Asterisk is one of the most popular open source software platforms for Voice over IP (VoIP) communications.  Asterisk runs on commodity computers or purpose built hardware acting …

99% of Google Android Devices Vulnerable

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Google’s ClientLogin Application Programming Interface (API) has been found to be insecure by researchers from Germany’s University of Ulm.  This means that most Google Android phones leak temporary user authentication credentials called “AuthTokens” which are valid for 14 day periods.  The leak …

New Netflix Settings Manage Bandwidth Caps

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Netflix has added some manual control features to the quality of Netflix video streams for Canadian customers who want to stay within their usage caps.  To see how this might apply to some US broadband plans with 250 GB or 150 GB …

Intel Launches 25 Nanometer Era with New SSDs

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Intel launched their new 320 series line of Solid State Storage (SSD) 2.5 inch drives built on the latest 25 nanometer (nm) manufacturing process (Intel Press Release).  The new SSD drives bring double the capacity, double the sequential write speeds to 220 …

Bad Journalism on Alleged AT&T Metering Problems

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

After some people in a discussion forum raised the possibility that AT&T’s new broadband usage meters may be inaccurate, Karl Bode of DSL Reports reported the complaints and then checked with AT&T representatives.  AT&T responded to Bode with the following statement. “We’re …

Spectrum Hoarding Cannot Justify TV Spectrum Waste

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Dennis Wharton of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is irked by the wireless industry comments to eliminate spectrum waste and he wants to draw attention to the wireless industry’s own dirty laundry.  Wharton points out that Dish Network and Time Warner …

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