Word: bandwidth
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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First, TheFacebook boys had to learn to follow the business schedule. The team wakes up early to deal with the managers of the server and bandwidth facilities. Moskovitz might take a mid-morning trip to install new servers in the racks at the facility in San Jose to prepare for another expansion. Zuckerberg wakes up early in order to coordinate the advertisements that need to go up on the site that morning, since the East Coast business day ends at 2 p.m. for those on Pacific Standard Time...
Cohen insists he didn't unleash BitTorrent to fuel movie piracy or get rich. He points out that the technology has an array of legitimate uses. A software firm like Red Hat uses it to send out updates of its Linux products, lowering its bandwidth costs, and nonprofit sites like etree.org use it to distribute live concerts, with the blessings of musicians. Cohen, who lives outside Seattle, supports his wife and two kids with donations from BitTorrent users and says he would be the last person to download content illegally. "People want to make an example of me," he says...
...Media Production Center (MPC), said that providing the service will be a relatively simple procedure. “The technology exists and it’s not particularly hard to do,” he said. “We’d need the IP address and available bandwidth from point to point...
...movies without glitches; you may have noticed the problem when trying to beam Bridget Jones's Diary from the computer in your living room to your TV in the corner. Several companies are working to develop another wireless technology called UWB (ultra wide band) that provides 10 times the bandwidth of wi-fi. Although UWB signals don't travel as far as wi-fi, they travel far enough to beam Bridget. One of the leaders in this potentially lucrative field is Tel Aviv-based Wisair. The company's founder and chief executive David Yaish touts a variety of applications...
...gang popped up at both conventions as well as the debates, and The Daily Show became the most trusted name in fake news. The South Park crew turned everyone from Kim Jong Il to Michael Moore into puppets for its movie Team America. On the Web, office bandwidth was tested by jokey videos and gags on sites like billionairesforbush.com and wolfpacksfortruth.org (an aggrieved wolf pack claims it was tricked into filming the G.O.P.'s anti-Kerry ad). At the end of a campaign that roused fierce passions, Notebook looks back at the people who helped us get through...