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[ | 9 Nov 2009 | One Comment | ]
Modern Warfare 2: Cyber Crime

Activision/Billizard have taken a strong stance on early leaks and piracy of the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

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[ | 5 Nov 2009 | 6 Comments | ]
Cisco’s “Sim City”: Internet Infrastructure Edition

Cisco has recently entered the video game market…sort of. myPlanNet can be found at the link. The game is a Sim City type RTS (real-time strategy) simulation game that places you at the center of the early 1990′s when public knowledge of the Internet is extremely limited.

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[ | 7 Oct 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
UHF TV in an era of YouTube and Hulu

Most young people these days have little recollection of broadcast television much less UHF. Yet in the era of on-demand streaming video over the wired Internet, there’s still a place for wireless broadcast television.

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[ | 16 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]

The BBC has this interesting interactive map of broadband around the world (via Larry Seltzer).

BBC's broadband around the world interactive timeline map

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[ | 15 Sep 2009 | 13 Comments | ]

Team Fortress 2 should be supported by broadband but shouldn't be a requirement

I’m not exactly sure why a debate over whether broadband should be capable of online gaming erupted, but it appears to be a misunderstanding in which some entertainment software executives were needlessly upset. The whole furor came about as AT&T made mention of the word “gaming” once in their FCC filing on how broadband should be defined. AT&T merely pointed out that Satellite broadband technology can’t support online gaming.