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Submission + - Ford's New Cars To Be Wifi Hotspots

Submitted by clang_jangle on Monday December 21, 2009 @05:18PM

clang_jangle writes: According to artcles found at autoblog and read write web, Ford is using Microsoft's sync system to allow customers to use their existing cellular usb modems to convert the car into a wifi hotspot. While there are other ways to get your car online, the sync system does look especially practical.
Last year BMW made some noise about FOSS for their cars, but they seem to have stopped talking about it since. Will we see a FOSS option for automotive infotainment systems in the future?

Submission + - Comcast's new throttling plan 1

Submitted by clang_jangle on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @03:59PM

clang_jangle writes: The Inquirer has up a revealing article on Comcast's new plan to throttle its customers' traffic. According to TFA,
Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, driven by two trigger conditions.
Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes.
Its second traffic throttling trigger is tripped when the Cable Modem Termination System you're hooked-up to – along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers – gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible.
Tripping either of Comcast's high bandwidth usage rate triggers results in throttling for at least 15 minutes, or until your average bandwidth utilisation rate drops below 50 per cent for 15 minutes.

Apparently the above information was taken directly from Comcast's most recent filing with the FCC.

Submission + - Did Microsoft and Intel "Goof Up" Win 7's

Submitted by clang_jangle on Friday May 08, 2009 @10:33AM

clang_jangle writes: Arstechnica has a short article up describing how Microsoft and Intel have "goofed up" Windows 7's XP Mode, by ensuring most PCs will not be able to use it. Meanwhile, over at Infoworld, Redmond is criticized for having the "right idea, wrong technology" with their latest compatibility scheme, and PC World says "great idea, on paper". With Windows 7 due to be released in 2010, and Redmond apparently eager to move on from XP, perhaps this is not really a "goof" at all?

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