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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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Wireless Data Adoption Up, but Prices Down

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

The CTIA has released its survey results for 2010 (Year-End 2010 Top-Line Survey Results PDF).  The survey has some of the most comprehensive data on the wireless industry as it covers 95.5% of all wireless subscribers in the country so it should …

Comodo Compromise Demonstrates Need for DNSSec Migration

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Comodo, a company you probably never heard of which holds one of the many master keys to the Internet’s SSL X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) system, admitted that their root certificate authorities have been compromised by attackers.  Those attackers issued themselves SSL certificates …

Google the Long Distance Phone Company

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

In a newly announced partnership with Sprint, Google potentially stands to gain 50 million US customers for its web integrated voice service, voice mail, and long distance calling.  In the context of Google’s growing dominance in smartphones with Android OS, Google is shaping up to …

How to Recover 254 MHz of Radio Spectrum

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Wireless technologies and available radio spectrum are a crucial component of our national broadband plan, and it is critical that we can find 300-500 MHz of spectrum between the 300 to 3700 MHz frequency bands.  That requires getting existing spectrum users to be …

Twitter Adds HTTPS Mode, but No HTTPS Sign-in

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Twitter is responding to mounting pressure after some high profile account compromises by allowing customers to opt-in to always-on secure HTTPS SSL mode. Unfortunately, I doubt most people will go to the trouble of opting in by going to the security settings. …

The Insignificance of a 250 GB Usage Cap

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Now that AT&T is following the footsteps of Comcast by instituting a 250 GB per month usage cap on their broadband service (150 GB for slower DSL customers), some of the concern that we are hearing isn’t justified once we examine the facts. …

A Clear Example of Why Broadband Transparency is Crucial

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

When it comes to wireless broadband services, the economics dictate some tough trade-offs for the benefit of mobility and wider coverage.  The wireless towers can cost several hundred thousand dollars in equipment and several hundred thousands more for the land to install the tower. …

New speedtest.net Lets Users Save Test Data

NEWS By GEORGE OU15 YEARS AGO

Ookla, the company behind the popular speedtest.net broadband performance testing service, has released a new edition of the service this week with a few new features.  The already useful service is now even more useful with user accounts that allow users to …

Google and AT&T Agree on Junking Old Phone System

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Pigs have apparently begun to fly as Google and AT&T seem to agree on something.  Both companies expressed a desire to get rid of the legacy analog phone network so in December 2009, AT&T wrote a letter to the FCC advocating the abandonment of the …

Netflix Streaming isn’t a Substitute for Subscription TV

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

A number of media pundits like Cecilia Kang are all over this notion that Netflix is somehow the biggest threat to the cable and telephone companies when the facts simply don’t support that theory, at least not for the foreseeable future.  That’s because Netflix …

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