This is the second article in a series aimed at analyzing the motive behind the various bandwidth caps that have recently been enacted by numerous Internet Service Providers.
In the preceding article, The Relative Cost of Internet Access, we looked at the differences in costs between various service tiers available from two Internet Service Providers. For [...]

This article is the first in a series aimed at discussing the cost of Internet access around the world, as well as the implications of imposing ever stricter bandwidth caps on customers.
Intuitively, one might assume that as technology advances and becomes more readily available that products and service should become ever more abundant and [...]

Barely a week into the new year, several stories broke suggesting that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration had run out of funding to provide any more coupons for the upcoming digital television transition. Responding to this news, the Obama administration began an immediate campaign to delay the transition, fearing that as many as six [...]

Lossless codecs, like FLAC, are great when it comes to preserving all the quality present on the original media. Unfortunately though, they do take up quite a bit of space and most lossless codecs are far from popular in the mainstream. Therefore, it often becomes necessary to sacrifice some of the quality in order to [...]

Despite the troubled roll-out, the beta to Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 7, is finally available. But, unless you are either a die-hard Microsoft fan (possible, though unlikely), or a true geek, you’re probably thinking to yourself, “So what?”
Well, if that’s your first reaction, then I really can’t blame you. Traditionally, trying out beta releases [...]