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Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment Power is becoming the big cost bucket - it's no longer the hardware, it's not even engineering anymore, it's the powering up of infrastructure and the running and cooling of the datacentre. Dell CIO Robin Johnson is... [04 Sep 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News And indeed, several of the features demonstrated Monday are either in beta or in bucket testing. Has Yahoo! finally got to the point where it's exchanging peanut butter for WD-40? Three years ago, Yahoo! [25 Aug 2009]
Amazon: 'Don't have cloud bandwidth? Send us your drives'
News According to the AWS team, customers who sign up to the limited beta can ship their data to AWS, who will load the data onto a designated S3 bucket in a secure facility, then return the drive to the sender. [22 May 2009]
Short-Term QoS Provisioning in MPLS Ingress Nodes
White Paper In this plan, the authors manage the delay to improve the QoS provisioning in a flexible manner, since traditional mechanisms such as leaky bucket cannot have such kind of flexibility. This paper proposes a new switching... [01 Apr 2009]
Minority Report: Two good reasons Apple doesn't make a netbook
Comment Secondly, Apple would undoubtedly sell bucket loads of shiny units if it did release a sub $500 OS X-powered netbook. Seb Janacek has a few ideas… As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget... [04 Mar 2009]
Amazon delivers content via its CloudFront
News Businesses and developers wishing to use CloudFront can do so placing the original version of their content into an Amazon S3 "bucket". Calling up the CreateDistribution application programming interface will return a... [19 Nov 2008]
Geometrically Determining the Leaky Bucket Parameters for Video Streaming Over Constant Bit-Rate Channels
White Paper For streaming of pre-encoded bitstreams over Constant Bit Rate (CBR) channels, the channel bandwidth, the receiver buffer capacity as well as the latency requirement vary greatly from application to application. [22 Oct 2008]
Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks With Max-Min Fair Server-Centric Router Throttles
White Paper The throttle can be the leaky-bucket rate at which a router can forward packets destined for the server. This paper targets a network architecture and accompanying algorithms for countering Distributed Denial-of-Service... [14 Oct 2008]
Photos: Some creative uses for USB ports
Photo The loveable rust bucket will spin his head and beep when you insert a USB device. The Force is strong in this four-port R2-D2 USB hub. There is also a Darth Vadar version available, depending on which side of the... [18 Aug 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo Josse will have to use a bucket instead. A lightweight bucket, of course. Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith Seb Josse is the BT IMOCA 60 skipper. He is an acclaimed French racing yachtsman with a previous... [02 May 2008]
Distributed Uplink Scheduling in CDMA Networks
White Paper This paper carries out a preliminary investigation of a proposed token bucket based mechanism for enabling distributed transmission decisions. As mobile devices grow more powerful and diverse in the applications they... [29 Feb 2008]
BT wi-fi phones fail to light a fuse with consumers
News Cansfield said: "At the time of launch, we were very positive about the idea (the technology behind Fusion is very clever, particularly the seamless handover of calls from a mobile into the fixed network), but sceptical about the pricing... [07 Feb 2008]
Providing Throughput Differentiation for TCP Flows Using Adaptive Two-Color Marking and Two-Level AQM
White Paper Using fluid-flow modelling, the authors present existence conditions for token-bucket rates and differential marking probabilities at the core that result in all edges receiving at least their minimum guaranteed rates. [31 Oct 2007]
Judge throws out $1.5bn MP3 decision
News That's a drop in the bucket to Microsoft but Lucent-Alcatel, which is losing money, probably could have used the cash. Microsoft has won a reversal of a $1.5bn jury verdict against it for infringing on a patent for MP3... [07 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07
Round-Up The text message (grab the sick bucket), written by Barlow and sent by Baber, read: "One small text for man, one giant leap for mobilekind - thanks Motorola. If, like the Round-Up, you always used to get a copy of the... [25 May 2007]
