In December 2009, a class action lawsuit was brought against Comcast for its throttling of P2P connections by sending reset packets. You could join the class action suit if you were a Comcast customer in the middle of 2007. Comcast has settled out of court to the tune of $16 million in one of several ongoing P2P throttling class action lawsuits. You may be eligible for up to … [Read more...]
AT&T U-Verse and DSL Bandwidth Caps Go Into Effect Today. Happy Net Loss Day!
Announced in March, today is the day when AT&T catches up with Comcast by also placing a monthly limit on how much bandwidth a customer can use from their "unlimited" services before facing steep overage charges. DSL customers will have a cap of 150 gigabytes per month and U-Verse customers will have a cap of 250 gigabytes per month, which matches Comcast's current limit. … [Read more...]
Amazon Web Services Explains Last Week’s EC2 and RDS Outage
Amazon Web Services has provided a nice long write-up of last week's outage that took down sites like Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite, and Foursquare for a few days. Here are some of the highlights, such as a general summary... The issues affecting EC2 customers last week primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (“EBS”) volumes in a single Availability Zone … [Read more...]
Flattr Steps Back On Rhetoric To Become More Available
Flattr, the small-donations-add-up-and-drive-content-creation company that I wrote about while it was still in private beta, drives a hard bargain. If you want to receive funds from others, you have to have funds in your account to Flattr others. If you don't use your monthly allotted amount to Flattr others, it will be contributed to charitable causes instead. Starting on May … [Read more...]
Google Apps Reducing Maximum Number Of Users For The Free Version May 10th
Google Apps, which I recommended as a way to make the most of your Gmail account, has a free version that anybody with a domain can setup as long as they have fewer than 50 users. Starting May 10th, that number will be reduced to 10. While this might reduce the infrastructure costs of Google Apps, I fear it might also reduce the adoption of other organizations that need 11 … [Read more...]