More Google 'beta' apps leaving the nest? Regular readers may recall a post from last fall that showed nearly half of 49 Google products carried a "beta" tag, including some golden oldies such as Gmail. The item drew quite a bit of attention, in part because Google's explanation for the practice made very little sense. Now it seems the search giant is going to take the training wheels off more of its applications, according to a story from the IDG News Service. AT&T's faster 3G network could signal new iPhone video chat If the next iPhone model supports video chat, as some rumors say it will, AT&T Inc.'s plan to expand to a faster wireless network called HSPA 7.2 later in the year would enrich the experience of iPhone users who take advantage of that feature. US gov't panel calls for new privacy rules The U.S. government needs to rewrite the rules it has been using for 35 years to govern its use of personal data by focusing on new technologies for storing and retrieving data, a government advisory board recommended. Google Wave the Solution to Social Network Over-Sharing? When Google unveiled Wave this morning at the Google IO conference, they described it as a marriage of e-mail and instant messaging. But to me it looks more like the kind of social network that I'd really like, one where I can exactly target the people with whom I want to share a comment, a photo, or a video. QoS in Switches: CoS Trust Boundaries Cisco switches perform most Quality of Service (QoS) operations in hardware, while routers perform QoS functions in software. It is best practice to use the switch to perform deep packet classification and marking functionality on the switches. The router will need to re-classify the packet, but the classification can be on the DSCP marking rather than a transport layer port number. Most Cisco switches do not support the NBAR classification mechanism which can look into the layer 7 header of a packet (up to 400 bytes). Nokia opens Ovi store for app business George Linardos, vice president of product management at Nokia, shares the vendor's vision for its now open for business Ovi mobile apps store, which is said to have more than 20,000 items available to Nokia device customers. (11:43) Will 2M Tweeters Follow Ashton Off the Cliff? Carla and Keith discuss the Ashton Kutcher Twitter Threat, and whether Web-only videos can make the transition to the big screen, and whether that matters in the long run when viewing habits are changing constantly. (22:21) |
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