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In the past year or so, vendors have been making great strides in getting the right price/product/usability mix to the SMB/mid-market -- driving big amounts of power, capacity, and functionality into price points that are starting to look tempting.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Los Angeles issued a $110 million judgment for major Hollywood studios against file-sharing engine TorrentSpy for infringement of thousands of copyrighted motion pictures and television shows. Regardless of the rationale behind the ruling, the stakes and the ramifications are huge.
Many people believe quality of service (QOS) is vital to the future of the Internet, and that view has dominated the industry for a decade or more. But if QOS is the future, why don’t we have it today, and will we ever get it?
A bold decision by health insurers Cigna and Aetna to offer reimbursements for online visits to physicians is bound to have an impact beyond U.S. borders. It will most likely lead to a sharp increase in such visits and establish paradigms for physician-patient encounters online that can eventually be put in place in the poorest and most remote areas of the world.
One of the most troubling hacks I have heard of is the recent attack on the Epilepsy Foundation Website. There have been many malicious attacks, but this one has set an all time low. Even worse, I believe that the people who did it were not doing it for any other purpose than to try to be funny. It is as funny as waterboarding, and actually that should only be the start of their punishment.
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I don't know what they did to deserve the wait, but the Canadians are finally going to be able to get legit iPhones, so says 9to5 Mac intelligence.
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