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Thinklogical appoints Vice President of Federal Sales
April 8, 2012Thinklogical, the leading provider of fiber optic video routing and KVM extension systems, today announced that Randy Ridley has joined the company as vice president of Federal sales and will be based in the Washington, D.C. area. Randy has successfully led Federal selling efforts for several companies, including Elumens (3D visualization), MetaCarta (geographic search software), Siemens and Narus (cyber security software). Randy also served in the US Navy as an officer in the area of surface warfare. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in National Security Studies from George Washington University. In his new role at Thinklogical, Randy will be a member of Thinklogical’s senior executive team lead by Joe Pajer, chief executive officer.
Burbank & Glendale join to improve street traffic
April 8, 2012Burbank and Glendale are embarking on a project to improve traffic flow on surface streets between the Golden State (5) and Ventura (134) freeways.
The NSA: Operation enduring eavesdropping
April 8, 2012“A large measure of sacrifice and discipline will be demanded of the American people. They will be asked to give up some of the benefits which they have come to associate with their freedoms,” wrote the authors of United States National Security Council Report 68 dated 14 April 1950. One of the benefits associated with freedom that American citizens have been asked to give up by the U.S. government is their privacy and soon, no electronic form of communication between individuals or businesses will escape the scrutiny of the so-called intelligence community.
How High-Frequency Traders Benefit Us All
April 8, 2012File under “unexpected societal benefits of high frequency trading”: it’s doing wonders for building IT infrastructure. Sebastian Anthony and Jeff Hecht both have good overviews of the three — count ‘em — fiber-optic cables being laid deep below the Arctic sea floor, all in a $1.5 billion attempt to shave 60 milliseconds, or less, off the amount of time it takes to get digital information from London to Tokyo.
Broadband Markets Are Stagnating?
April 8, 2012Comcast recently announced that video streamed to the XBox from its own on-demand video service would be exempt from the bandwidth caps that apply to Comcast Internet service. Some open Internet advocates worry that the policy will give its own streaming video product an unfair advantage against third-party online video services like Netflix and Hulu. But Larry Downes argues it’s another example of network neutrality activists making much ado about nothing. Reihan Salam wants to know what I think.
KDN loses business to rivals over fibre cable vandalism
April 6, 2012Pressure is mounting on telecoms infrastructure firm Kenya Data Networks (KDN) as fibre optic cable vandalism eats into its top line with key clients switching to rivals as some prepare ground for laying their own network.
