By way of a news release from ZTE Corporation we were pleased to read about China Telecom’s recent successful testing of IPv6 capabilities on its 4G/LTE network in the Hunan province of China. Given that LTE has been a huge area of growth for IPv6 globally, such as the recent measurement of Verizon Wireless’ network Read more…
Jul 14
FIR #764 – 7/14/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: Twitter’s analytics dashboard, gaming Google Maps, unfollowing/muting/ignoring people on every social network, threats to the Internet; Ragan promo; News That Fits: should companies provide media as a service?, Michael Netzley’s Asia Report…
Jul 11
WordPress.Com Restores Ability To Add Media When Using New Post Window
Last week people in one of the various web forums I’m in started complaining about the new "WordPress" user interface for posting and how they couldn’t easily add images or access their Media Library. I and others were completely confused…
Jul 11
CloudFlare Releases Open Source CFSSL, a TLS/SSL Toolkit
Yesterday the folks over at CloudFlare introduced their “CFSSL” toolkit for working with TLS (SSL) certificates. Their blog post explains what CFSSL is all about, and they have also made the code available along with further documentation on Github: https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First, their blog post has some Read more…
Jul 11
A Hosting Provider Marketing “Secure Hosting with SSL, DNSSEC and DANE / TLSA”
I have no idea whether “dotplex” is a good web hosting provider in Germany and I know absolutely nothing about them as a company, but as a DNSSEC advocate I was absolutely thrilled to see dotplex marketing the fact that you could have DNSSEC and DANE if you host with them: Pure awesomeness! Of course, they Read more…
Jul 11
ACM: Python Now The Most Popular Intro Language At Top US Universities
As a long-time fan of the python language, I was intrigued by this post on the ACM’s blog: “Python is Now the Most Popular Introductory Teaching Language at Top U.S. Universities“. The post begins with a summary:
At the time of writing (July 2014), …
Jul 11
Live In 2 Hours – Today’s VUC Call About The Future of Video With Bernard Aboba and Emil Ivov
In just about 2 hours at 12 noon US Eastern time the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) should have an extremely interesting session about "The Future of Video" featuring Bernard Aboba and Emil Ivov. Bernard works for Microsoft on their Lync…
Jul 11
New IPv6 Case Studies Out… But None From Application Developers!
As part of my job at the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, we recently published a whole new batch of IPv6 case studies during the 2nd “Launchiversary” of World IPv6 Launch. However, if you scan down that list of case …
Jul 11
TDYR #164 – Name Problems – And The Challenges Of Designing Web Forms For Global Names
How do you best design web forms for the many different kinds of “personal names” that are used all over the world? In this episode I talk about a personal example of mine and also about this page at the W3C’s website and a recent discussion on Hacker…
Jul 11
New IPv6 Case Studies Out… But None From Application Developers!
As part of my job at the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, we recently published a whole new batch of IPv6 case studies during the 2nd “Launchiversary” of World IPv6 Launch. However, if you scan down that list of case studies you’ll see one interesting omission: There are NO case studies from application developers! None. Zilch. […]
