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Posted on August 06, 2008 by Jonathan Hensley

Aurora, ISP transmission caps, Jobs on MobileMe

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

  • Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple’s standards”
    Apple CEO Steve Jobs conceded in an e-mail to Apple employees that the company had made numerous mistakes during the launch of its MobileMe Internet service, saying that the service “was simply not up to Apple’s standards”
  • Google backs ISP-guaranteed minimum data rates
    If Comcast can’t use TCP reset packets to limit the number of BitTorrent connections a client can spawn, what legitimate techniques can ISPs use to deal with congestion ? Google’s Vint Cerf, today weighed in with his answer: transmission rate caps.
  • Aurora: The Future of the Internet
    What will browsing the web be like a decade from now? Leading design and UI company Adaptive Path offers one possible answer in a new concept video series called Aurora, demonstrating what the future of the web might look like.

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