Tag: Google

Business At The Speed Of Light – What is a Millisecond Worth?

Business At The Speed Of Light In the low-latency world of high-frequency trading, some will lose, no matter how smart their systems and people. Can

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu – Congratulations should go to News Corp., Disney, and NBC Universal for finally creating an online company so big and

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors The battle for Hulu has come down to a few prime fighters hustling for victory. I’m placing my vote that

Google Wrecks the CDN Market

Google Wrecks the CDN Market Last week Google formally launched its Page Speed Service, the latest in a long line of Content Delivery Network (CDN)

2011 Through The Eyes of A Sourcing Advisor

Sourcing Advisor 2011 was a very busy year for us at RampRate. I’ve spent nearly 20 years, on many sides, of the technology business and

Break Out the Buggy Whips. Is Now the Tipping Point for Streaming Video?

Buggy Whip Business Who’s in the buggy whip business in technology these days? By that, I mean, what companies are about to become obsolete thanks

The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan: No Substantive Impact on Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality Plan By Alex Veytsel and Tony Greenberg In the hubbub over the Google and Verizon new net neutrality plan, a couple of things

Microsoft Starts to Share

Microsoft Starts to Share I always have thought of Microsoft as Open Source in many ways. I know it may sound odd on several fronts,

Google as CDN – No Big Deal, But a Big Deal

Google as CDN Craig Labovitz, at Arbor Networks, a company that makes packet inspection gear, released a great article about how much traffic Google serves.