Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new businesses, fueling innovation and creativity.
All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.
The field begins to look like others that rely on data.
This is a discussion I had more than a decade back with economy students, as a student of computer science. The argument was much the same and nothing much has changed in the meantime. The difference is more data is available today and can be used much easier, though, which is to Noah Smiths argument.
Akamai has released the Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report. This quarter’s report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape, can be downloaded here.
via: Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report Released – The Akamai Blog
At least that’s what lobbyists managed to convince politicians of, has The Verge.
Straight outta addresses.
Felt this was appropriate use of a meme. #IPv6 pic.twitter.com/DTOLo2bgvl
— Tom Hollingsworth (@NetworkingNerd) August 13, 2015
Coming from 15% in 2013, smartphones are the primary device to connect to the internet only two years later. 2015 that that went up to 33%. Laptop and Desktop lost significantly in the same period.
https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/629157862732738564
ARIN exhausted:
via: Slashdot
The joys of automation don’t go down with society that well for Skype.
For some reason, Microsoft’s Skype translator is inserting unintended expletives into its Chinese translations.
William Boston of the Wall Street Journal comments on the acquisition of here.com, formerly Nokia, by German car manufacturers Audi, BMW and Daimler.
German auto makers Audi, BMW and Daimler have agreed in principle to purchase Nokia’s digital mapping service, called Nokia Here, for about $2.7 billion, according to a person familiar with the situation.
via: Audi, BMW and Daimler Near Deal to Buy Nokia Mapping Service
Also:
Both sides of this — why Nokia needs to sell Here Maps, and why the car makers want to buy it — were explained by Horace Dediu last month.
via: Daring Fireball.
There is no cloud.
Malaysia Telekom: http://www.bgpmon.net/massive-route-leak-cause-internet-slowdown/