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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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Enough Alarmism on Peering Disputes from All Sides

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Nate Anderson of Arstechica posted this article today slamming the latest study from A.T. Kearney on the nA Viable Future Model for the Internet commissioned by European broadband providers, but it’s led to more unnecessary alarmism on all sides.  The Kearney report make the argument …

Netflix Performance Numbers Highlight Netflix Shortcomings

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

In a continuing effort to lobby for free bandwidth at the expense of the broadband consumer, Netflix seems to have turned to a smear campaign to embarrass and intimidate broadband providers.  Netflix published their ISP performance metrics that managed to fool the media into reporting …

Facebook Finally Adds HTTPS, but Still Broken

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Facebook announced that they’ve finally added secure web browsing for Facebook 2 months after the release of the Firesheep tool that made it trivially easy to hack Facebook accounts.  That prompted me to give them an “F” in security which was widely …

When Net Neutrality advocacy becomes scaremongering

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

The Internet was apparently coming to an end if were were to believe last weekend’s news excerpts based on Barry Collins sensational piece “The end of the Internet as we know it” on PCPro UK.  Collins warned that “ISPs are threatening to cripple …

What part of congressional tether is hard to understand?

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

Verizon announced yesterday that they would appeal the FCC’s Net Neutrality ruling before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.  Nate Anderson of ArsTechnica wondered why Verizon is suing over a ruling that is so similar to a joint Verizon-Google proposal 5 months …

Put the Scroll Bar Out to Pasture Already!

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

After using a Nook Color tablet for the last month (a 7″ Android 2.1 device), it made me realize that the modern desktop operating system (Windows, Mac, and Linux) have very antiquated user interfaces (UI).  The most obnoxious feature that comes immediately …

Google Confirms YouTube Will Continue Supporting H.264

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

All the speculation that Google is going to overthrow the H.264 video compression standard with their own VP8 technology for their WebM standard appears to have been debunked by Google.  Google has confirmed that there is no current intention of removing H.264 …

Netflix Spends 20 Times More on Postage than Bandwidth

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

In an article published at The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos tried to calm shareholders fearful of rising content licensing prices by explaining that rising content prices are offset by declining postage fees.  It currently costs Netflix up to …

Google is killing HTML5 to harm Apple iOS

NEWS By GEORGE OU16 YEARS AGO

One of my explanations for Google’s decision to drop native HTML5 support for H.264 is that it is a masterful bluff to secure more favorable licensing terms for H.264, but it just occurred to me that Google’s decision effectively kills HTML5 video adoption and …

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