The internet has solved many of the communication issues that have plagued generations before us. Now we have a tool that enables us to send and receive messages in milliseconds, to access data on a global scale and to create and receive business at a worldwide level. Speed and availability have been the two major goals of improvement in the past decade or so. Dial-up solved the availability issue, but fails overwhelmingly when it comes to speed.... 

Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in the hacking world as “ Stakkato ,” allegedly seized computer code that controls internet traffic. After the 2004 breach of Cisco, the proprietary source code for Cisco’s... 

Back in the summer of 2008 Italian government officials demanded that broadband ISPs in the country begin blocking users from accessing popular BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. Many ISPs obliged, but oddly decided instead to direct users to the website of the IFPI (the overseas equivalent of the RIAA). In the end the Pirate Bay managed to defeat the order with an appeal, and the end result was that all the publicity simply drove more user... 

In what appears to be a promotion gone wrong, Cox Communications has accidentally offered free Playstation 3’s to every Cox customer in Arizona that signs up for service or upgrades existing service. The deal was supposedly intended only to lure in new Cox customers, but Cox’s marketing team accidentally sent the flyers out to all customers. Judging from posts in our forums , Cox did try pretty hard to honor the deal, which requires... 

MPLS… or Multi-Protocol Label Switching…. seems to be the buzzword for connecting company data networks these days. But MPLS is really nothing new. It’s been around awhile actually. Maybe now it’s just gaining more popularity and thus noticeable public acceptance and notoriety. Rightfully so too. MPLS offers lots of advantages over traditional T1 point-to-point WAN architectures.  Read More →

The wireless industry has a few bad habits. One, they like to advertise one thing, then go and do another — including advertising services as “unlimited,” when they have very clear monthly usage caps . They also like to bury clauses in user contracts that attempt to ban consumers from participating in class action lawsuits to settle complaints — instead forcing them into binding arbitration, a faux-legal process governed... 

It has been claimed that the government has failed to prove enough details with regards to the details of the file sharing crackdown relating to broadband filer sharing. The topic of broadband users illegally file sharing has caused a great deal of controversy, and the music and entertainment industry have been up in arms with Internet service providers with regards to taking action against those found to be taking part in illegal downloads. The... 

According to a recent report businesses in the UK could benefit from plans by the Tory party to roll out 100Mbps broadband services by 2017. The Tory party recently stood up to plans from the Labour government by stating that by 2017 it planned to launch broadband access to around ninety percent of the nation, offering speeds of around 100Mbps. It has now been claimed that if the plans of the Tory party do go ahead businesses across the UK could... 

An MP has recently given her support for the Home Access Programme, which would see some households getting free laptops and broadband access. It has been reported that one MP has been giving her backing to the Home Access Scheme that would see some households getting access to free laptops and internet access as part of a government scheme. Watford MP Claire Ward is said to be keen to see the scheme put into place, and is now trying to get parents... 

One of the most common complaints with internet service in the country is that it operates too slow. There are several types of internet connections such as dial-up, DSL and broadband satellite internet.  Read More →

In a world of technology and internet, a number of internet providers exist that offer some good deals on connecting you to the World Wide Web. Some offer simple dial-up service which over time has proven to be one of the most barbaric forms of internet service available.  Read More →

Anyone who accesses the internet has to have someone to provide them with software to access web sites. This is done through internet service providers, also known as ISPs.  Read More →

On 3 December 2009, Google launched its Public DNS service. Google Public DNS is a free Internet name resolution service similar to the free version of OpenDNS . Both Google DNS and OpenDNS are designed to speed up and help secure the Web browsing experience by leveraging a fast worldwide network of DNS servers . What’s the difference between these two services? As of now, OpenDNS is  Read More →

There’s equal reason to support or object to the proposed Google Books settlement. Creating a digital catalog of the worlds’ words might be the Holy Grail of intellectual empowerment. Yet building that library in the clouds would be allowed without the rights-holders’ consent — which the Justice Department and others contend is a complete and fundamental alteration of copyright law . The Authors Guild is backing the settlement... 

So your boss has heard of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) and is all excited about the possibilities it holds for your company’s voice and data network. The positives to your network reliability, performance, and cost make it seem to be a no brainer. But…you’re not sure how to migrate from your existing traditional WAN (Wide Area Network) configuration to MPLS.  Read More →