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5 technical reasons big cable will get bigger
Mitch Weinraub CommunicationsWhile the industry goes back and forth on the details of Charter's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable and rumors of Comcast or Cox involvement, the opportunities for cost savings get discussed quite a bit. However, most of the conversation tends be focused on reducing programming and administration costs or maybe maximizing ad revenue. On the technical side, there are five reasons that big cable will continue to get bigger, regardless of which board governs or who owns the shares.
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Smart homes getting smarter: How interior designers must adapt
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesIf you are not familiar with the term "the Internet of things," it is time to add it to your vocabulary. As became apparent during this year's Consumer Electronics Show, it won't be long before coordinating "the Internet of things" will be another task for designers to add to their project management plan.
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Net neutrality: Free market will self‑regulate
Victor Blake CommunicationsA federal appeals court has made it clear that the FCC cannot regulate the carriage of traffic on the Internet for operators which the FCC itself deems are not common carriers. Of course, there is nothing preventing the FCC from declaring that Internet service providers are common carriers. If they did so, they could presumably go on to regulate carriage include not only policies (like "neutrality") but also pricing, bundling and other regulation.
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3-D printing taking center stage in additive manufacturing
Don Rosato ManufacturingAdditive manufacturing (AM) is a process of joining materials to make objects from 3-D model data, usually in successive layers, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies. The parts produced can be models, prototypes, tooling components, and increasingly, series production parts. They are generated from 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) data, medical scans, or data from 3-D scanning systems. Based on thin horizontal cross sections taken from a 3-D computer model, AM systems produce plastic, metal, ceramic, or composite parts, layer upon layer.
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Net neutrality ruling is a net loss for many businesses
Jessica Taylor Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementRemember back when there was no such thing as high-speed Internet? The only option you had was dial-up service and had to listen to that pesky dial tone for a several minutes before being able to access what you really wanted. Well, you might be going back to the slow speed you once despised.
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The View from Europe: The quest for life beyond the compressor
Andrew Gaved ManufacturingThese look like exciting times for the future of refrigeration. One of the undisputed holy grails for researchers working at the frontiers of refrigeration science is to find a way to cool without requiring compressors and all the inefficiencies that vapor compression brings with it. And, crucially, they want to achieve them in a way that is commercially sustainable.
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Need for speed: Improving website load times can boost your business
Stephanie Studer CommunicationsNo matter what you hope to gain from your online presence, whether it's sales or SEO, you can't expect to get it if your page loads at a snail's pace. So let's speed things up with a few simple tricks that are easy to implement.
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Innovative medical plastic devices define the road ahead
Don Rosato ManufacturingFuture medical device innovations are expected to center around six major technological areas.
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CES 2014: Curved, smart and wearable
Mitch Weinraub CommunicationsAt this year's CES tech-fest in Las Vegas, a few clear themes emerged from all of the noise, color and fury. For the most part, if a product wasn’t labeled as curved, smart or wearable, there was risk that the crowds would just walk on by. Let me explain.
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Network engineers may truly be plumbers soon
Victor Blake CommunicationsI used to joke with my colleagues and staff that network engineers are plumbers. Nobody cares about plumbing in a house ... until it doesn't work. When the plumbing backs up then its everyone's business. Such is the fate of network engineers, whose work is essential to the Internet and telecom networks, but is also thought to be mundane to outsiders. Soon we will be one step closer to being real plumbers with liquid-core optical fiber.
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