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Supernova Interview: David Isenberg

Howard Greenstein interviewed David Isenberg at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009. In this interview, David talks about his take on Change Networks, and notes how, without the stupid network of packets, we'd be missing all sorts of innovation. more»

Wendy Seltzer Interview: How Law Impacts the Network Age

Wendy Seltzer, a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center, joined Howard Greenstein at the Supernova DC Mixer to discuss a number of subjects relevant to how law impacts the Network Age. She notes how technology innovation has brought control out to the user at the edges of the networks, and how intellectual property rules sometimes can stifle it. more»

Jon Peha, Chief Technologist, FCC, on the National Broadband Plan

At the Supernova DC mixer, Howard Greenstein interviewed Dr. Jon Peha, a Carnegie Mellon professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. more»

Supernova Interview: JP Rangaswami

JP Rangaswami is the Managing Director of BT Design, a unit of British Telecom. At the 140 Characters Conference in New York last week, Howard Greenstein spoke with JP about how Business and Strategy are changing due to ubiquitous networks and new ways to access data. more»

Growing Global Adoption of Nominum's Intelligent DNS Spells Obsolescence for Legacy DNS Systems

Nominum announced today that more than 100 million broadband households around the world now benefit from it’s Intelligent DNS systems. Continued rapid expansion at leading service providers globally will bring the benefits to more than 170 million by year end, which represents nearly half of the entire broadband Internet. more»

Nominum's Intelligent DNS Gives Service Providers Commanding Advantage Against Internet Threats

Nominum has announced delivery of the third generation of its Trusted Response and Universal Enforcement (TRUE) Architecture, which allows service providers to provide instant and automatic protection to end users against a wide range of Internet threats as soon as they are discovered. more»

Nominum Delivers Service Provider Compliance Solution For Blocking Child Exploitation Sites Online

Nominum, the leader in network naming and addressing solutions announced today that it has a very simple, efficient, and effective solution that allows service providers to quickly comply with regulatory mandates or agreements being negotiated that require them to block access to child exploitation sites on the Internet. more»

Expanding Internet Access Driving Software Piracy, Study Says

The global software piracy rate rose to 41% in 2008 from 38% in 2007, costing rights owners an exchange-rate adjusted $50 billion, according to a joint study between the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC released last week. One of the factors driving greater piracy is increased high-speed Internet access, particularly in emerging markets where piracy rates are the highest. more»

IP Rights in Digital Environment Key Element of Proposed Treaty

Last week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released a summary of the key elements of the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which aims to establish international standards for enforcing IP rights to more effectively combat counterfeiting and piracy. more»

eComm Programme Guide Now Available

The 2nd Emerging Communications Conference starts tomorrow. Registration is still open; the programme guide has been produced and can now be downloaded in PDF format. more»