Back to Internet discada days

Internet discada já é passado para bastante gente. E os planos de internet com algumas horas de acesso também fazem parte do período paleolítico da rede no Brasil.

A tendência não só da Internet fixa, mas também da telefonia fixa e da telefonia móvel é o acesso ilimitado. Por impossível que seja, a tendência é essa. Quem oferecer esse serviço certamente terá vantagem no market share.

Não para a TIM:

TIM vai acabar com plano de tráfego ilimitado de dados

Meio feio esse lance de voltar atrás numa evolução, né? Agora isso vai ficar mais com cara de promoção do que de plano...

Tecnologia barata para aumentar o poder de fogo das operadoras móveis não falta. E barata é barata mesmo, tipo, 500 reais para uma área de uns bons quilômetros de raio. Na ponta do tráfego internacional, bem, as alianças estão aí para quem quiser. O pessoal do Satélite Geoestacionário Brasileiro deve estar doido de vontade de arrumar alguns parceiros desse porte em troca de ceder uma parte do equipamento para uso não-governamental, não?

Policy & Internet

Very nice and brand new journal.

I'll certainly send them an article very soon.

Policy & Internet
The Policy Studies Organization (PSO), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and Berkeley Electronic Press are proud to announce Policy & Internet: the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy. The Internet is now the most important international medium of communication and information exchange, embedded in interactions
between citizens, firms, governments and NGOs, and bringing with it new practices, norms and structures. The societal shift enabled by the Internet has major implications for public policy in all sectors, requiring rigorous empirical investigation, theoretical development and methodological innovation across academic disciplines. Policy & Internet is the first journal to fill a crucial gap in policy knowledge and research. It will be the premier venue for scholars and researchers to set the public policy agenda in the digital era.

Google Public DNS

Does Google want to become a synonym of the whole Internet?

Well, up to now, they've done such wonderful things, but I am beginning to get sort of afraid of so much ambitions from them. From the most upper layers, now they're coming lower and lower. After having DNS support, what will come next?

Let us not have a Google Raj.

Update: But the service works really fine.

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Public DNS

When you type www.wikipedia.org into your browser's address bar, you expect nothing less than to be taken to Wikipedia. Chances are you're not giving much thought to the work being done in the background by the Domain Name System, or DNS.

Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we're launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out.

Most of us aren't familiar with DNS because it's often handled automatically by our Internet Service Provider (ISP), but it provides an essential function for the web. You could think of it as the switchboard of the Internet, converting easy-to-remember domain names — e.g., www.google.com — into the unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers — e.g., 74.125.45.100 — that computers use to communicate with one another.

The average Internet user ends up performing hundreds of DNS lookups each day, and some complex pages require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading. This can slow down the browsing experience. Our research has shown that speed matters to Internet users, so over the past several months our engineers have been working to make improvements to our public DNS resolver to make users' web-surfing experiences faster, safer and more reliable. You can read about the specific technical improvements we've made in our product documentation and get installation instructions from our product website.

If you're web-savvy and comfortable with changing your network settings, check out the Google Code Blog for detailed instructions and more information on how to set up Google Public DNS on your computer or router.

As people begin to use Google Public DNS, we plan to share what we learn with the broader web community and other DNS providers, to improve the browsing experience for Internet users globally. The goal of Google Public DNS is to benefit users worldwide while also helping the tens of thousands of DNS resolvers improve their services, ultimately making the web faster for everyone.

Posted by Prem Ramaswami, Product Manager