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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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Ashton Kutcher Meets Firesheep, Twitter Hacked

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

It appears that Ashton Kutcher has become a high profile victim of Twitter’s negligence when someone at the TED conference hijacked Kutcher’s Twitter account using tools like Firesheep.  The Twitter PR account @TwitterGlobalPR twitted that Kutcher should have enabled SSL by typing …

Finding Spectrum for Mobile

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Larry Downes has a good piece on the hunt for 300-500 MHz of mobile Internet spectrum and how the FCC is working to complete an inventory check on spectrum allocation.  When it comes to mobile Internet, physics and practical engineering and usability …

The Misguided Debate on Cellphone Safety

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

News came out last week that a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that cell phones caused additional brain activity and it predictably stirred up the old cell phone safety debate again.  CNET Editor Kent German …

Can Apple Make 24-bit Audio Mainstream?

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

CNN is reporting that Apple is in talks with the music industry to offer improved quality 24-bit audio tracks, but an increase in sampling rate was not mentioned in the article.  The 24-bit format has been around since the late 1990s among …

House Votes to Block FCC Net Neutrality Rules

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

A 57% majority of the US House of Representatives has voted to block funding for the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules passed by a slim FCC majority last December.  The vote now heads to the Senate and then the President’s desk. We found …

Commercial Implications of IBM’s Watson Supercomputer

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

It appears that IBM has pulled off a public relations masterpiece with their computer hardware and software placed inside of the TV game show Jeopardy.  IBM’s “Watson” (which is a cluster of 90 high-end computers each based the four IBM Power7 processors …

Smartphones with Image Arrays Can Threaten Higher End Cameras

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

I was really intrigued by the Pelican Imaging array camera solution being pitched for Smartphones and other compact photography or video applications.  Since Pelican isn’t doing much talking right now, I did some thinking over the weekend trying to wrap my head on the …

Facebook HTTPS Now Works, but Forgot SSL Authentication

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Facebook’s new full SSL feature finally works three years after it became widely known that web pages were passing authentication cookies in the clear which could lead to hijacked user accounts, and 3 months after an easy to use tool called “Firesheep” …

All Wireless Networks are Shared and Limited

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

A new PDF memo on the Verizon website indicates that they will be throttling the top 5% of data users on Verizon mobile networks, but some members of the blogosphere are calling this a “Net Neutrality Alert”.  Engadget said that this move …

Ramifications of Intel’s Chipset Flaw Seem Minimal

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Monday brought some bad news for Intel when it was announced that their latest product codenamed “Sandy Bridge” had a flaw in its chipsets.  Sandy Bridge is the code name for Intel’s latest microprocessor or CPU and the chipset called “Cougar Point” is …

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