Small towns tired of slow rollout create own high-speed networks

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Maverick Seeks Small Towns for
Convergent Wireless Networks

Maverick Seeks Small Towns for
Convergent Wireless Networks 07/19/2004 01:19 PM
Seattle-area firm focuses on towns under 50,000 to bring data at affordable price: By partnering with local utilities in these smaller towns, Maverick can reduce its capital risk and focus entirely on service. The company charges $25 to $60 per month for rates from about 128 Kpbs to 1 Mbps. They may be in 23 markets by fall 2005, including their current deployments being built out in Kennewick, Silverdale, and Poulsbo. Although this brief company overview doesn't mention it, an important application for having these kinds of robust Internet connections is for Internet telephony. If you're in a rural area, "local calling" is quite local. A VoIP line from Vonage or Packet8 could dramatically decrease the charges for calling within the state as well as for long distance....

IP3 Networks, Sprint, and Safari Telecom
Offer High-Speed Internet Access at
Ryder Cup 2004

IP3 Networks, Sprint, and Safari Telecom
Offer High-Speed Internet Access at
Ryder Cup 2004 09/17/2004 11:38 PM
Investors Business Daily Sep 18 2004 3:43AM GMT

Small Towns Playing a Big Role (Los
Angeles Times)

Small Towns Playing a Big Role (Los
Angeles Times) 07/02/2004 05:10 AM
Los Angeles Times - CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — A deer with gnarled antlers peers at customers from the wall of Garnet's Barbershop in this remote dairy town. Garnet Mathwig, who shot the deer, displays its head for the farmers and factory men who pay him $11 for a haircut.

Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech

Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
Slashdot Dec 18 2004 4:44AM GMT

Residents in 3 Tiny High Desert Towns on
a Nervous Fire Watch (Los Angeles Times)

Residents in 3 Tiny High Desert Towns on
a Nervous Fire Watch (Los Angeles Times) 07/16/2004 05:23 AM
Los Angeles Times - Hot winds stirred up dust and dying embers along a smoldering ridgeline Thursday afternoon as residents of Three Points, Tweedy Lake and Lake Hughes watched red-brown smoke from the advancing fire and wondered what would happen next.

Is Dr. Speed the Cure for a Slow Net
Connection?

Is Dr. Speed the Cure for a Slow Net
Connection? 07/08/2004 08:37 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 8 2004 1:28PM GMT

Kids Give High Marks To High Speed
Internet - Considered Crucial For
Educational Success.

Kids Give High Marks To High Speed
Internet - Considered Crucial For
Educational Success. 08/17/2004 07:45 AM
Hispanicad.com - Tue Aug 17, 09:41 am GMT

NEC Electronics Introduces 3G Mobile
Phone Chip; Enables High-Speed Serial
Data Transmission and Rotating High

NEC Electronics Introduces 3G Mobile
Phone Chip; Enables High-Speed Serial
Data Transmission and Rotating High 07/15/2004 10:14 PM
JCNN Jul 16 2004 0:38AM GMT

National Survey Finds Kids Give High
Marks to High Speed; Internet Considered
Crucial for Educational Success

National Survey Finds Kids Give High
Marks to High Speed; Internet Considered
Crucial for Educational Success 08/13/2004 10:44 AM
Hispanic PR Wire Aug 13 2004 2:17PM GMT

Even Small Businesses Should Create
Computer Security Teams

Even Small Businesses Should Create
Computer Security Teams 02/11/2004 05:18 AM

Video Networks to speed up LLU roll-out

Video Networks to speed up LLU roll-out 05/14/2004 07:36 AM
Takes BT on its word

Small World Networks Key To Memory

Small World Networks Key To Memory 05/28/2004 05:09 AM
Small World Networks Key To Memory by Philip Cohen
http:// www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995012

"If you recall this sentence a few seconds from now, you can thank a simple network of neurons for the experience. That is the conclusions of researchers who have built a computer model that can reproduce an important aspect of short-term memory. The key, they say, is that the neurons form a 'small world' network. Small-world networks are surprisingly common. Human social networks, for example, famously connect any two people on Earth - or any actor to Kevin Bacon - in six steps or less. ... 'The philosophical conclusion is that connectivity matters,' says [Northwestern University] team member Sara Solla. 'Our model uses only a simple caricature of neurons, yet this network shows this working memory-like behaviour.' ... They found that when 10 to 20 per cent of the neurons participated in short cuts, the network formed self-sustaining loops of activity."

Remote-access networks for small.biz

Remote-access networks for small.biz 04/20/2004 06:08 AM
US Robotics' USR808200

Securing Small Business Networks with
802.1X

Securing Small Business Networks with
802.1X 03/14/2005 05:46 PM
Four options are affordable for enterprise-grade security inside a small office: This article, which I wrote for Mobile Pipeline, addresses the four servers and services that have a price and focus square on the small business of 5 to 100 users. Above that range, and you really better have an IT department and integrate your directory services. But for a few dollars per user period (in house) or per month (hosted), a small business can have a level of Wi-Fi link security that approaches that of a large enterprise....

IBM to spend $35M to create services
centres for small and mid-sized
businesses

IBM to spend $35M to create services
centres for small and mid-sized
businesses 09/04/2004 12:25 PM
Canadian Press Sep 4 2004 4:15PM GMT

Create extra-fast or extra-slow clips in
iMovie

Create extra-fast or extra-slow clips in
iMovie 07/26/2004 12:27 PM
If you need to apply an "extra-fast" or "extra-slow" setting to an iMovie clip, here's how you can go beyond the standard iMovie limit: Select the clip to modify. Speed up or slow down in timeline as us...

89Dollarwebsites.Com Continues to create
Websites that satisifies the needs of
small business throughout the United
states.

89Dollarwebsites.Com Continues to create
Websites that satisifies the needs of
small business throughout the United
states. 08/12/2004 02:43 AM
89DollarWebsites.Com creating affordable websites for small business and families is now offering one page business websites [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

Corriente Networks Releases Elektron for
Small Business Wi-Fi Security

Corriente Networks Releases Elektron for
Small Business Wi-Fi Security 06/05/2005 11:19 PM
The release adds new features to the small business wireless networking product, including support for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." [PRWEB May 24, 2005]

Asynchronous Discussion Groups As Small
World and Scale Free Networks

Asynchronous Discussion Groups As Small
World and Scale Free Networks 09/24/2004 05:41 AM
Asynchronous Discussion Groups As Small World and Scale Free Networks by Gilad Ravid and Sheizaf Rafaeli
http://firstmonda y.org/issues/issue9_9/ravid/

Abstract
What is the network form of online discussion groups? What are the topological parameters delineating the interaction on such groups? We report an empirical examination of the form of online discussion groups. We are interested in examining whether such groups conform to the Small World and the Scale Free models of networks. Support for these expectations provides a formal expression of growth, survival potential and preferential attachment in the connection patterns in discussion groups. The research questions were tested with a sample of over 8,000 active participants, and over 30,000 messages. We find that the social network resulting from discussion groups is indeed a Scale Free Network, based on In, Out and All Degree distributions. We also find that, for the same sample, discussion groups are a Small World Network too. As expected, the clustering coefficients for these groups differ significantly from random networks, while their characteristic path lengths are similar to random networks. Implications of the topology for the design and understanding of discussion groups include the stability and control of such groups, as well as their longevity.

LAZERQUICK Partners with Glow Networks
forHigh-Speed Wireless Internet Service

LAZERQUICK Partners with Glow Networks
forHigh-Speed Wireless Internet Service 07/27/2004 02:46 AM
Glow Networks deploys wireless 'Wi-Fi'(802.11b) Hot Spot service to corporately owned LAZERQUICK locations in Oregon and Washington. [PRWEB Jul 27, 2004]

AdventNet Releases A Freeware Version of
OpManager To Efficiently Manage Small
Networks

AdventNet Releases A Freeware Version of
OpManager To Efficiently Manage Small
Networks 08/03/2004 02:09 AM
AdventNet today announced the release of a freeware version of its web-based network, systems and application management software, ManageEngine OpManager 5. The free version is suited for small business IT administrators and can be used for monitoring 10 critical devices. [PRWEB Aug 3, 2004]

Create a new user for high-CPU-usage
apps

Create a new user for high-CPU-usage
apps 09/17/2004 10:31 AM
In order to have a better experience with high-processor using applications (specifically shoot-them-up games) I decided to create an account for that game. For me, that game was Quake, and there were several items I needed t...

A high-tech way to create an old-fashion
photo book

A high-tech way to create an old-fashion
photo book 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
After a quick Google search, I discovered that MyPublisher offered a free program that offered much more flexibility, but it only worked on a Windows PC. ...

EU to create agency to co-ordinate fight
against high-tech crime

EU to create agency to co-ordinate fight
against high-tech crime 12/02/2003 01:49 AM
The EU has announced that it is to set up a new agency to co-ordinate the efforts of member nations in the fight against so-called "cybercrime".

MSN TV Broadband: High Speed Web TV

MSN TV Broadband: High Speed Web TV 07/27/2004 01:12 PM

It's not 1998, I promise, despite this announcement from Microsoft and Thomson to release an updated MSN-branded set-top box for browsing the web and streaming media from other household PCs. To launch in October, the $200 broadband-enabled box will come with a wireless keyboard and remote and will not have much in the way of built-in storage to "prevent vulnerability to virus attacks" (and to keep things cheap). MSN TV (formerly Web TV) has a small, if anachronistically loyal following, but is there really a need for a second generation, even if it does support broadband? Especially if it supports broadband?

The current-generation device is pictured; we'll get you pictures of the new device as soon as we can.

Read - Broadband MSN TV Device Slated [Twice]

High-speed hopes for AT&T

High-speed hopes for AT&T 07/23/2004 11:10 AM
The company's slow road back into the residential phone market will be tied to broadband's march across the United States.

"High Speed Internet"

"High Speed Internet" 09/24/2004 04:07 PM

Building a Computer Empire One Smuggled
Part at a Time: Cambodian Succeeds
Despite Nation's Slow Move to High

Building a Computer Empire One Smuggled
Part at a Time: Cambodian Succeeds
Despite Nation's Slow Move to High 04/25/2004 11:33 PM
Washington Post Apr 26 2004 3:25AM GMT

KTF Tries Out High-Speed Portable
Internet

KTF Tries Out High-Speed Portable
Internet 09/16/2004 03:37 AM
Yonhap News Sep 16 2004 7:34AM GMT

High-Speed Love Connection

High-Speed Love Connection 06/24/2004 04:46 AM
Have an Internet hookup? Sexual gratification is a mouseclick away, thanks to remote-control, scriptable sex toys. By Xeni Jardin.

High-Speed DVD Burner Roundup

High-Speed DVD Burner Roundup 05/25/2004 11:59 AM
Are single layer burners still relevant? You bet. With prices dropping below the $100 mark, high-speed, single layer burners are versatile and speedy. We check out the current crop of DVD burners and pick our favorites.

FCC: High-speed connections up in 2004

FCC: High-speed connections up in 2004 01/04/2005 05:25 PM
Homes and businesses with speedy connections increased from 28.2 million to 32.5 million lines during six-month period ending in June 2004, report says.

Update: Mobile High Speed 3G 4.10

Update: Mobile High Speed 3G 4.10 12/17/2004 06:26 PM
The 3G, EDGE, and GPRS mobile phone connection manager adds support for recently-released mobile phones from Nokia, Motorola, and SonyEricsson.

High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive

High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive 02/11/2004 03:58 AM
For a PHP weblog, there haven't been many PHP articles or links recently. This is because I feel most recent PHP articles I read have nothing fresh to say, repeating material I linked to 2 or 3 years ago. Perhaps I'm getting jaded. So to keep things fresh, here's a new article, mostly original, and hopefully of some interest to everyone!

Last year, Tim Bray, one of the co-authors of the XML spec, mentioned that he used Perl regular expressions to parse XML.

Now here's the dirty secret; most of it is machine-generated XML, and in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine to read and process it.

I was struck by this because I would have thought XPath or SAX would provide better performance as they are APIs tuned specifically for XML.

I decided to do some benchmarks to determine which techniques were better. I also wanted a realistic test, so I benchmarked parsing the RSS feed of this web-site, searching for the contents of all title tags, and returning the contents as an array. The RSS file is from Nov 2003 (yes i did this benchmark that long ago), and is about 20K and has 12 title tags, so the returned array will have 12 title strings.

The techniques used were:

1. Regular expression: preg_match_all('/<title>([^<]*)/',$rss,$titles_arr))

2. Explode('<title>', $rss) then strip the matching </title> tag using strpos() and substr().

3. XPath, using $title_nodes = $ctx->xpath_eval("//title");

4. SAX, wrote an element handler function that matched and processed the title tag.

5. DOM, using $titles = $dom->get_elements_by_tagname('title'). Intuitively, this should have been the slowest, as the whole tree is generated.

Results

Here are the timings for processing the RSS file 1000 times. Faster is better.

            seconds       Relative 
                          to REGEX
REGEX       0.1080          1.00
EXPLODE     0.1696          1.57
DOM         6.3212         58.53
XPATH       8.3417         77.24
SAX        10.0851         93.38

Conclusion

Intutively, I would have thought that XPath would be the fastest as XPath expressions can be compiled and tuned for XML. But the best performance was achieved using regular expressions, which is what Tim is using.

It appears that the DOM, SAX and XPath libraries remain immature (compared to the Perl-compatible regex library) and are not highly optimized. Strangely enough, DOM performance is better than XPath and SAX! Perhaps someone else can explain why.

If anyone is interested, i can post the source.

Test platform: Windows 2000, PHP 4.3.3. I also tested on Linux, PHP 4.3.2, with similar results.

2 in 5 Web Users Have High-Speed at Home
(AP)

2 in 5 Web Users Have High-Speed at Home
(AP) 04/19/2004 06:58 AM
AP - Two in five Internet users in the United States now have high-speed access at home as telephone companies slash prices to better compete with cable broadband services, a study says.

Update: Mobile High Speed 3.2

Update: Mobile High Speed 3.2 02/17/2004 11:51 AM
The GPRS/EDGE and HSCSD/GSM mobile phone connection manager adds support for the SonyEricsson GC82 EDGE/GPRS and Sierra Wireless AC750, an improved interface, and other changes.

2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (High-Speed)

2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (High-Speed) 03/30/2005 03:59 AM

Sony is finally getting around to releasing their 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo (High-Speed) cards. They announced these things back in September of 2004, and have kicked the release date back twice. The "(High-Speed)" in the name indicates the cards have a transfer rate of 80Mbps (10MB/sec), which is far more than you'll ever need for anything practical. Sony really needs to do something about this Memory Stick naming scheme, because it's getting to be like Street Fighter games. I needn't remind you this stick is PSP compatible.

Press Release [Sony]

Free High-Speed Internet...May Not Be

Free High-Speed Internet...May Not Be 12/24/2004 12:57 PM

Something to look out for when you travel: hotels advertising "Free High-Speed Internet" may be fudging the terms just a little bit.

I stayed in a hotel in New Jersey once that advertised this. I was all excited to get my laptop hooked up and check my email when I discovered what it really meant —

They had some kind of Web TV thing. You got high-speed service to about 15 sites on the television: CNN, the New York Times, and a few others. To get "Free and Unrestricted High-Speed Internet," you had to pay $14.95 a day. And even then, you were still hampered by this crappier-than-WebTV interface that my Web mail refused to work for.

Needless to say, I was a little irritated. Now I never take "Free High-Speed Internet" at face value again. I always ask at the front desk. Not all hotels are this way (this one, in particular, was great), but has anyway else encountered this same problem?

High-speed Net prices plunge

High-speed Net prices plunge 11/14/2003 02:22 AM
USA Today Nov 14 2003 1:34AM ET
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