Google To Expose traffic Chokers
December 4, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Technology
Google has begun offering tools to expose Internet service providers that choke traffic or shift users into slow lanes while allowing others to zip along at high speeds.
The online search and advertising king is an unabashed champion of “net neutrality” in which all Internet traffic is treated equally instead of letting service providers give preferential treatment to privileged clients.
“At Google, we care deeply about sustaining the Internet as an open platform for consumer choice and innovation,” Google chief evangelist Vint Cerf and principal engineer Stephen Stuart wrote in an online posting.
“No matter your views on net neutrality and ISP network management practices, everyone can agree that Internet users deserve to be well-informed about what they’re getting when they sign up for broadband.”
The PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers to create an online Measurement Lab (M-Lab) that researchers can use to detect Internet traffic manipulation.
“When an Internet application doesn’t work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused by your broadband ISP, the application, your PC, or something else?” Cerf wrote.
“It can be difficult for experts, let alone average Internet users, to address this sort of question today.”
M-Lab went online Wednesday with three diagnostic tools running on computer servers near Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
The tools are available to help users “diagnose common problems that might impair their broadband speed, as well as determine whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled by their ISPs,” according to Cerf, a computer scientist often called “father of the Internet.
ISPs argue that such measures are necessary to manage growing congestion on the Internet highway. Google has been among those advocating against fettering online traffic, saying that doing so stifles Internet innovation and growth.
M-Lab is in a nascent phase and through the year Google will add servers in a dozen locations in Europe and the United States. More diagnostic tools will be added and results made public, according to Google.
“M-Lab is intended to be a truly community-based effort, and we welcome the support of other companies, institutions, researchers, and users that want to provide servers, tools, or other resources that can help the platform flourish,” Cerf wrote.
Google To Expose traffic Chokers was first posted on January 29, 2009 at 10:57 am.
Eight-Core Xeon Processor To Be Launched By Intel
December 4, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Technology
With the aim to create even faster CPU than its current Yorkfield 45nm Core 2 based Xeon, Intel is planning to come out with an upgraded edition of the same that will operate at 3.16GHz. The present fastest Yorkfield based Xeon is X3370 at 3.0 GHz clock 12MB cache and FSB 1333 was carrying a price tag of $525, but from 18th January its price has come down to $317.
The name of the latest faster version is Xeon Quad core X3380, which will function at 3.16GHz and has the same FSB 1333 and comes with 12MB cache. The users will have to pay $525 in the Q1, when the product would be launched. As far as the launch is concerned, it will happen before 29th March before Intel launches its Nehalem based Xeons.
It is being quite surely expected that since Nehalem will change pricing in server renting space.
Major hosting companies including ThePlanet, Rackspace, LayeredTech, Softlayer, ZipServers and Hi-Velocity are expected to announce new packages in multi-core processor based servers.
Eight-Core Xeon Processor To Be Launched By Intel was first posted on January 30, 2009 at 11:14 am.
3 Novel Phones Launched By Nokia
December 4, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Technology
Three latest cellphone models were launched by Nokia, among which the successor to its slim hit model Nokia 6300 is also included.
In the second quarter of this year, Nokia will come out with its 6700 classic with a price tag of 235 euros ($307.4) when excluding subsidies and taxes, which is the follow up of the Nokia 6300 that was among Nokia’s top sellers for many quarters.
The features of this model will include a 5-megapixel camera and GPS navigation with Nokia Maps.
Via a statement, Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President at Nokia announced, “Our new arrival shares the same ‘DNA’ as its predecessor and we believe that it will be one of our best selling devices in 2009.”
Other than this, Nokia has also come out with the 6303 and 2700 models that are supposed to sell for 135 euros and 65 euros respectively, excluding subsidies and taxes.
3 Novel Phones Launched By Nokia was first posted on January 30, 2009 at 11:33 am.
