Week In Review 4W2010
This week was iPad week. Already did a review and an evil review. That’s it.
Fun mobile things: smart people at Nokia figured out how to turn an apparently normal 3G radio into a radar, Nokia revenue is growing again and “smartphone” quota too and NSN+LG hit 100Mbps on LTE.
In a trust-us-do-no-evil move Google published an internet draft proposing a DNS extension do identify the original client. Basically, your end device usually queries names to a local server that either knows the answer from cache or goes and finds it out. Problem for Google is sometimes “local” isn’t so local and it throws off their geographical distribution system sending say, a UK customer to a Netherlands server. What they want is an extension (this is optional intermediary server) where the “local” server can tell the server that actually knows the answer who the client is so it can reply with the best mapping. This means everyone along the way can sniff and create an IP accurate name resolution log. The correct solution to Google’s problem is getting people to move to IPv6 and use anycast addresses instead of creating more DNS cruft.
On IcantBelieveItsNotTerrorism news, a UK kids show was stopped basically for filming a scene with menacing hair-dryers. Cause you know, the UK Police can stop and warn/arrest anyone that’s doing terrurism.
And while Virgin says it’s going to start do use DPI to sniff out “illegal content” the EU is going to start investigating them for spying on their customers. Virgin sells an all-you-can-eat music streaming/download package with Universal titles so it’s basically strong-arming its customers into signing up for that. The advanced DPI technology Virgin is planning to use looks at file names so it’s pretty pathetic. And at least in my part of the world this kind of thing is a crime.
The people probably tried to take advantage of the iPad craze cause this was a ACTA full week. “Transparency” managed to make it to the agenda, just barely so and no in a very transparent way. A Canadian MP is demanding his government answer regarding ACTA, too bad we can’t do the same of the European Commission cause you know, they’re not actually elected so they don’t answer to the public. Meanwhile Michael Geist posted a What will ACTA mean to my domestic Law guide.
On stupid news of the week, the future Ubisoft DRM makes you be online to play offline games. “Oh phrack, my internet connection is down, I’ll play some single player … oh wait … I can’t …”. So yeah, I’ll just take a pass on Ubisoft, m’kay ?
On sad news Sun is gone baby gone.
