Archive for February, 2010
A Series of Tubes #108: Cisco talks SensorBase, Stil on the NBN legislation, Lundy’s alternative filter, Facebook’s woes
February 25th, 2010The problem with trying to find attack patterns on incoming traffic, according to Cisco, is that the world gets into an escalating “zero day” war. Another approach is needed; so hear about Cisco’s approach from Andy Norton and Glen Wellby of the vendor’s IronPort business and decide for yourself.
And in our regular chat with Stilgherrian, [...]
A Series of Tubes #107: Vikram Sharma from Quintessence Labs on Next-Generation Quantum Comms & Rants with Stilgherrian
February 18th, 2010I confess: after writing about it for the best part of a decade, I still find quantum communications strange and fascinating. I also get interested in new research companies – especially when they’re Australian companies commercialising basic physics – like Quintessence Labs.
This week, A Series of Tubes explores both the physics and the commercialisation. Quintessence [...]
A Series of Tubes #106: Jan Meijer of UNINETT talks electronic identity; Stilgherrian sheds his Anonymity to talk gigabit Google and Vividwireless expansion
February 12th, 2010Identity on the Internet is a challenge. How do companies guarantee the identity of their customers? How do users test the identity of the sites they think they’re using?
In Sydney this week for the APAN conference, Jan Meijer took time to give A Series of Tubes his views on identity.
And in a week that [...]
A Series of Tubes #105: Stilgherrian on the iiTrial, the ANAO NBN report, and South Australia’s electoral law; Engin launches hosted SME VoIP
February 5th, 2010AFACT didn’t just lose the “#iiTrial” (to give its Twitter name), or “Village Roadshow Pty Ltd vs. iiNet Limited” (to be more formal): it suffered the loss of its favoured strategy, to make ISPs responsible for infringements by its users. What better topic for this week’s discussion with Stilgherrian? Unless, of course, it’s the Australian [...]
A Series of Tubes #104: Welcome to 2010 with Stilgherrian on China and the iThing, Renee Le May on the Launch of Delimiter
February 2nd, 2010Well, A Series of Tubes has taken its long break, and now we’re back for 2010.
Renee Le May is a long-time Australian IT journalist whose credits include ZDNet and the Australian Financial Review. Now, he’s striking out on his own with an Australian IT wire service called Delimiter. Tubes talks to Le May about where [...]