In June 2009, television stations in the United States stopped broadcasting analog signals and switched to digital transmissions. This released large areas of broadcast frequencies…
OPLIN 4cast #427: TV white spaces
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In June 2009, television stations in the United States stopped broadcasting analog signals and switched to digital transmissions. This released large areas of broadcast frequencies…
Last week, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) posted a message stating that they had “…approved the following document: ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2’…as Proposed…
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One of the fundamental building blocks of the World Wide Web has always been the hyperlink, the code that allows you to jump from web…
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Once upon a time, Adobe Flash was a feature of many websites and Internet ads that used animated graphics to catch the attention of site…
So you have public Wi-Fi in your library, and your users are thankful. But how about power for recharging their wireless devices? Do they have…
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It’s a little less than four weeks until the Oscar awards are handed out, so that means it’s time for…piracy! Posting pirated movies on the…
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Three months ago we posted a 4cast about the availability of cheap Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet, mentioning as well that…
There’s an old saying: “Follow the money.” At the end of 2014, a lot of people were following the money invested by Google Ventures, an…
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After last week’s 4cast about jamming mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, it was interesting to read some recent articles about Green Bank, West Virginia, where the federal…
A couple of months ago, we published a 4cast post about “Jamming hotspots” and the big fine the Marriott hotel chain had to pay the…