There has been a lot of buzz recently around net neutrality and what it means for businesses and consumers. Net neutrality effectively means that content providers and ISPs should work together blindly. For example, an ISP like Verizon should not choose to limit bandwidth to or filter Google websites because it wants to charge Google a fee or because it disagrees with a posting slamming Verizon’s pricing on Google Buzz. Vice-versa, Google should not restrict Verizon consumers from visiting its websites or de-prioritize their requests because Google disagrees with a policy of Verizon.
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A recent Strategy+Business article discussed workplaces in a cloud. What does this mean? It’s really a play on the technical definition of cloud computing in which companies leverage shared resources to run their technologies – this allows for scalability, flexibility, throttling, etc. In the office space, this would mean shared resources like printers, fax machines, office space, etc.
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As a member of the Northwestern JD-MBA program, I have the option of leveraging the law school or business school (Kellogg) laptop programs. Of course, I can also opt to participate in neither program but the school does not recommend that. The choice of laptop may seem simple, and realistically it is, but there are some important trade-offs to consider.
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Security lapses at Twitter enabled hackers to gain administrative rights within the Twitter application twice in 2009. With such access, hackers would be able to send out tweets from user accounts, like President Obama. While Twitter was a small start-up at the time, the FTC failed to accept that as reasonable justification as to the company’s lack of reasonable security protocols.
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This is not the first time the idea of a .XXX TLD has been broached in the digital community. In fact, it was back in 2004/2005 when ICM Registry applied to have the .XXX TLD approved and supported. However, at that time, ICM faced challenges such as lack of community and administration support.
However, this go around, .XXX looks like it will make it through the process and become available. Sources state that there are already 100k+ domain names that have been reserved. (Montreal Gazette) Clearly, some of the reservations will be brand protection, however, many will be porn companies proactively adopting the new TLD. Bear in mind that adoption of the .XXX TLD is NOT mandatory for companies.
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