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Networking must change if it's going to keep up with what businesses want to accomplish. Imagine networks that support both lots of live streaming video as well as financial and healthcare transactions at the core. For video, if a network gets congested, the thing to do is drop frames at the source. There's no point in delivering voice or video data late. Meanwhile, the network never should drop packets of financial data. A smarter high-level policy might be to define separate paths through the network for the two different types of data. In regulated industries, network designers may want to set policies that make it impossible for certain types of data to hit various parts of the network, or ensure that security appliances always look at some flows of sensitive data. Simultaneously, and possibly separately, IT architects will want to create policies to ensure that certain essential services are highly available and protected with a disaster recovery plan.

Very cool stuff!

How brutal has the recession been to U.S. households? Americans are earning even less than they did 13 years ago. That’s according to new Census data released Tuesday, which found that real median income fell to $49,445 in 2010, the lowest number since 1997, and the largest decline in income in a single year of any recession since at least 1967.

Let that be a warning to you.

Fantastic insights into why Google's maps are inherently easier to read.

Most interesting finding: 51% of respondents in the U.S. use Opera Mini to access the web more than a desktop or laptop computer. (Most other countries have much higher percentages.)

Could be interesting... need to look at it a bit deeper though.