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Monday, February 23, 2009

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Phone chargers might finally get standardized
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Lessons from a light socket

Joanie Wexler By Joanie Wexler
When I was first struggling to learn about computer networking standards 100 years ago, a friend who happened to be big in the IEEE boiled the whole thing down for me with a light bulb analogy. Read full story

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley.

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