Sometime over the next 16 months, one-quarter of the Internet will go on sale. But you shouldn’t be suckered into this deal…

Before we get into the ins and outs of this sale, we need to clarify what it means to actually buy one-fourth of the Internet. Of course, you can’t just own something as large and independent as the Internet. But you can buy a portion of its traffic.

We’ve been recently writing about international telecoms. If you bought up enough of these Internet Service Providers you could potentially own enough Internet traffic to constitute a quarter. But there will soon be another way you can invest in the traffic with just a single click.

About 50% of all Internet traffic is from file sharing– people sharing music, videos, games, and every other type of file you can think of. Regardless of how you feel about Internet piracy, 50% of all bandwidth

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Akamai strikes deal with leading on-demand solutions providers

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) announced on June 26, offering of the Web Application Accelerator and IP Application Accelerator to IntraLinks, the leading provider of on-demand critical information exchange solutions. By tapping into Akamai's solution, Intralink will be able to accelerate its business application with Akamai's dynamic content. Additionally, its customers will be able to lower cost, increase productivity as well as speed up processes using its Web Application Accelerator and IP Application Accelerator platform.

According to the Chief Technology Officer of IntraLinks, using Akamai's global network routing and application acceleration services will help reduce the standard network latency over the Internet, helping customers run application within their data center. The company also anticipates that as the user base expands, users outside the U.S. will be able to access the platform at higher speeds - nearly twice

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This morning we received a couple of calls and IMs about a lack of connectivity to our site and through Trade-Ideas PRO.  This was the first time something like this has happened in over 3 years, so it got our attention.divbr //divdivIt turns out it has nothing to do with Trade-Ideas, thankfully./divdivbr //divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"A Plot Right Out of a James Bond Film/span/span/divdivbr //divdivThere are 2 explanations for some of the connection problems:/divdivbr //divdivdivThe first comes from Norton, the Antivirus people:/divdivblockquoteThe C.o.n.f.i.c.k.e.r worm, sometimes called Do.wn.an.dup or Ki.do, managed to infect a large number of computers. Specifics are hard to come by, but some researchers estimate that millions of computers have been infected with this threat since January. Current users of Symantec’s Norton security products are protected. Users who lack protection are invited to download a trial version of Norton AntiVirus 2009, Norton Internet Security 2009 ...

Looking to create a profit-based "fast-lane" for its Internet traffic, search engine giant Google, Inc. (GOOG) reportedly contacted top phone and cable companies with a proposal, according to today's Wall Street Journal. This changes Google's previous stance on the issue -- Google had "traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers," according to the news article -- but it also follows already announced plans by AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to charge for "fast-lanes" on the Internet.Of course, this would quite literally generate an entirely new revenue "stream" for these companies, but it flies directly in the face of net-neutrality laws already on the books, which date back to before the surge in Internet usage a dozen or so years ago. Champions of net neutrality cite leaps in innovation and development on the World ...

The Long Tail theory is not about music, books, and Internet traffic alone. The stock exchange head is crowded, and worth less than it makes itself out to be. Call tails when the stock market coin is spun, and you will win more often than before.

Every stock exchange has rich pickings of unknown stocks. All we need is help to choose. How can rule three of the Long Tail Theory help us pick top small-capital stocks? Here is a free outline of resources that you can use to fish in a long tail.

1. Rate your analyst. The most established stock market experts use misleading non-verbal communication. Suits and antics cover everything from competence to criminality. Ask for specifics of stocks they have recommended over the last 12 months.

2. Raise questions based on the previous quarter.

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