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VoIP Quality of Service: The Key to Clear, Reliable Calls

Spearline Testing

Many organizations choose to utilize VoIP due to significantly lower costs in comparison to traditional PBX landlines. If you are not using a Quality of Service (QoS) policy, it is likely that your VoIP calls are not functioning at their optimum. Techradar suggests when it comes to voice and video calls, a packet loss of just 0.5%

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Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation

GeekWire

Amazon’s record 2020 results of $386 billion in net sales and $23 billion in operating profits, as noted in a presentation by Brian Olsavsky, chief financial officer, were almost an afterthought. Attorney General Karl Racine filed an antitrust lawsuit targeting the company’s pricing policies for third-party sellers.

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Technology Short Take 131

Scott Lowe

Quentin Machu outlines a series of problems his company experienced using Weave Net as the CNI for their Kubernetes clusters, as well as describes the migration process to a new CNI. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms.

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Lynk & Co will make you rethink outdated ideas of car ownership

The Verge

It’s limited to 5GB a month but that can be extended with a call to Lynk & Co’s engagement center under a fair-use policy (borrowers can not use the car’s hotspot). Seats made from recycled fishing nets. For comparison, owners of nearby Volvo SUVs on the Snappcar sharing service list their cars for between €65 and €110 per day.

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Mixer co-founder on Microsoft pulling the plug, Twitch’s market power, and his startup journey

GeekWire

We had a very open policy around our partner exclusivity, trying to really be aware that our success and the inspiration for what we did came from Twitch, so from a product standpoint, I love it. What was it like to compete against Amazon and Twitch? MS: That’s interesting. On one hand, I love the product. And I think that’s fine.

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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

However, it’s important to note that the PS5’s CPU and GPU clock speeds are variable based on the total workload, so it’s not quite an apples-to-apples comparison with the new Xbox consoles. They’ve also got 8-core CPUs, but they’re clocked at 3.5GHz. This approach could benefit the PS5 in certain scenarios but limit it in others.

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GI Partners Buys LA Telecom Hub One Wilshire » Data Center.

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By comparison, the U.S. | High Net World HNW Magazine. Privacy policy | EU Privacy Policy.' The reported sale price of $437 million works out to $660 a square foot, according to the LA Times , a huge premium to recent valuations for commercial real estate in Los Angeles. GI BUYS BIGGEST TELECOMMS HUB ON U.S.