Level 3 concurs: Comcast appears to be prioritizing traffic
Comcast may have given users a break on Thursday by raising its monthly data cap to 300 GB, but Level 3, the backbone Internet provider and content delivery network, wants people to know that Comcast is still likely prioritizing its Xfinity traffic over others’.
Hacked recipes and printing food: When bytes meet bites
Everyone may not get excited about open APIs or 3-D printing (what is wrong with y’all?) but everyone loves food. Here are four novel ways the tech world interacts with food (or even food prep). So grab a snack and read on.
Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)
Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has formed on the Channel Islands to provide an offshore cloud option for enterprises and eventually, a offshore personal storage account.
He said, she said: Is Comcast prioritizing traffic or not?
Comcast, once again, has some explaining to do. An engineer has conducted experiments that he says show the nation’s largest broadband provider is prioritizing traffic– something it’s not supposed to do under the conditions the government imposed when the cable company bought NBC-Universal.
Verizon stands up for its users in copyright lawsuit
Verizon Communications has had a history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it's not a big surprise to see Big Red telling John Wiley's lawyers to stuff it.
How big data will change networking
What if you could know everything about your network? Instead of getting snapshots you could see the path of every packet and run analytics on that stream of data in real time? It's the difference between watching a cartoon and viewing a flip book.
Adventures in big data: How AddThis’ Hydra works
With 10 terabytes of data generated everyday, AddThis (formerly called Clearspring) has access to a social graph that rivals Facebook. But unlike the social networking giant, AddThis wants to share its data. So I asked them how they can handle real-time processing on that many terabytes.
T-Mobile grows but its lack of iPhone is still a problem
T-Mobile is still struggling after its planned acquisition by AT&T fell through. In the first full quarter after the proposed merger was scuttled, the nation's fourth largest carrier managed to gain only 187,000 customers; most from lower revenue businesses, such as prepaid and M2M.
7 ways Comcast is killing the cable killers
We’re at a flashpoint in the evolution of television, and the battle lines are becoming more clear. What's also becoming clear is that Comcast is playing to win. Here are seven things the nation's largest cable company is doing to keep its pay TV customers.
Meet the new pipe, same as the old pipe? Texting turns 20
The humble text message turned 20 years old this weekend, and other than an excuse for cake, the birthday is a great chance to look at how carriers innovate and why they are getting crushed by over the top services now that times have changed. 
Facebook buys Glancee in another mobile play
Facebook confirmed on Friday night that it had purchased Glancee, a mobile app that uses your location and Facebook log in to connect you with like-minded individuals in real life. It's pre-IPO shopping spree in the mobile arena continues. 
Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web
The Open Compute Project is a coup by the buyers of servers to take control of their hardware destiny, but wisely it's also leaving the vendors enough room to make a business for themselves. The nature of IT is changing. Here's how companies adapt.
