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2020: The year the internet didn’t crash

GeekWire

Commentary: Yes, 2020 really sucked. But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. It’s one of the most important positive stories from 2020. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic. Yes, there were cloud outages along the way.

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Imagining an internet without TikTok

Vox

The bill to require TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban made it to President Joe Biden ’s desk on Wednesday as part of a huge foreign aid package that passed through Congress this week. This isn’t the first time a major force in internet culture has faced extinction ( RIP Vine ).

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Six companies dominate network traffic as speed and access grows

TM Forum

In 2021, just six companies – Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple – generated nearly 57% of global network traffic, according to research by Sandvine, a network monitoring company. billion) in 2020, a six-year high. or territories that are investing in 5G, up from 412 operators at the end of 2020.

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Defining a new era of exponential companies

CIO Business Intelligence

Do it right—now In 1995, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sent an internal company memo calling the internet a “tidal wave” that would be crucial to every part of the company’s business. Companies will miss out if they make assumptions about business and operational models without reflecting on the possibilities afforded by AI.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starlink internet service leaving beta in October

The Verge

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. The Starlink system calls for a constellation of nearly 12,000 satellites in low-Earth orbits that will beam continuous broadband internet service. Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge.

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Microsoft is (mostly) killing off Flash at the end of 2020

TechSpot

Back in July 2017, Microsoft, Adobe, and other tech giants, including Facebook, Apple, and Google, announced that Flash would no longer be supported after 2020. Now, Microsoft program manager Suchithra Gopinath writes that the company is dropping support for Flash Player in Edge, Edge Legacy, and Internet Explorer on December 31, 2020.

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