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Time Warner Cable Calls Foul on Piracy Requests

May 20, 2010

While nobody at HSE will ever suggest that piracy is a good thing, it has been an open question as to just how bad piracy truly is.  It might be easy to look at actors with eight-figure movie deals and figure that they could live without one or two extra sales this year, but that [...]

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Internet and Computer Optimizers: Junk or Gold?

April 19, 2010

Internet optimizers and computer optimizers both offer promises that sound tantalizing: optimize a network connection and rid a computer of problems that might be plaguing it.  Similar promises, at least on the Internet performance side of things) have been made by high performance network cards and expensive routers, but reviews of such products often show [...]

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Power Line Broadband 101: An Overview

January 24, 2010

Broadband services are lucrative in and of themselves, but ancillary services that can ride on top of data such as digital cable and digital telephone services push broadband over the top.  Is it any wonder then why telecoms and cable companies, once organizations with exclusive offerings, are not competing with each other in markets across [...]