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Netflix consumes 15 percent of the world’s internet traffic, report says

sudshr47 October 4, 2018

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Video is taking over the internet, but it’s never been more obvious than when you look at who’s hogging the world’s internet bandwidth.

Netflix alone consumes a staggering 15 percent of global internet traffic, according to the new Global Internet Phenomena Report by bandwidth management company Sandvine. 

Movie and TV show fans are lapping up so much video content that the category as a whole makes up nearly 58 percent of downstream traffic across the entire internet. The report brings us some truly shocking numbers when it comes to the state of web traffic, too. But, at 15 percent all on it’s own, no single service takes up more bandwidth than Netflix. Read more…

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Twitter launches a ‘Data Saver’ mode that makes its main app more like Twitter Lite

sudshr47 October 3, 2018

An updated version of the Twitter mobile app will allow users to gain more control over their data usage – similar to how the Twitter Lite app designed for emerging markets works. Now, instead of having to download a separate app in order to limit data consumption or manually adjust various settings, users will be […]

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Microsoft updates its planet-scale Cosmos DB database service

sudshr47 September 24, 2018

Cosmos DB is undoubtedly one of the most interesting products in Microsoft’s Azure portfolio. It’s a fully managed, globally distributed multi-model database that offers throughput guarantees, a number of different consistency models and high read and write availability guarantees. Now that’s a mouthful, but basically, it means that developers can build a truly global product, […]

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UK phone giant EE hit by another security lapse

sudshr47 August 24, 2018

For the second time this week, U.K. phone giant EE has fixed a security lapse, which allowed a security researcher to gain access to an internal site. The researcher, who goes by the pseudonym Six, found the company’s internal training site indexed on Google. (We’re not linking to the page as it remains an active […]

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UK phone giant EE fixes bug that let customers gift data for free

sudshr47 August 21, 2018

EE, the largest phone network in the UK, has fixed a website bug that allowed customers to add an unlimited amount of plan data to their accounts for free. The bug allowed any customer to modify code on the customer’s account page that allows users to “gift” data to linked accounts. Using man-in-the-middle tools like […]

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Is it time to remove Zuckerberg from (his) office?

sudshr47 August 6, 2018

A colleague, who shall remain nameless (because privacy is not dead), gave a thumbs down to a recent column in the NYT. The complaint was that the writer had attacked tech companies (mostly but not exclusively Facebook) without offering any solutions for these all-powerful techbro CEOs’ orchestral failures to grasp the messy complexities of humanity […]

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Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft are joining forces to make your data super portable

sudshr47 July 20, 2018

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Avengers: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history…but Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook might beg to differ.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft have all teamed up to work on a new open-source project called the Data Transfer Project. 

The goal of the project is to give users an easy and convenient way to transfer data between each platform. If all goes as planned, users’ data would be seamlessly transferred service to service without having to be downloaded then uploaded it each time. Users would no longer feel bound to a service solely based on all the data they have stored on it. Read more…

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Spotify is testing a data-friendly ‘Lite’ app for Android

sudshr47 July 2, 2018

Spotify is the latest tech company to join the ‘Lite’ app party after a data-friendly version of its music streaming app surfaced for Android devices. ‘Spotify Lite’ — which was first spotted by the eagle eyes at Android Police — is designed to take up less space on smartphones and to consume less data, too. […]

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