Tag: Internet

March 27, 2017

Some companies are already recognizing business benefits from IoT. And the projects don’t have to boil the ocean and take years to implement. Experience has shown that you can get up and running fast and recognize real payback. That said, […]

March 21, 2017

YouTube’s controversial “restricted mode” setting may soon be a thing of the past. Following days of backlash over the setting, which many LGBTQ creators realised hides some of their videos, the video giant on Monday night issued an actual apology […]

March 21, 2017

It’s only a matter of time before every major cloud vendor offers a version of Kubernetes as a service. Now it’s IBM’s turn. This morning IBM announced the next logical step in its work with Docker containers: Kubernetes support on […]

January 12, 2017

Google’s secretive X R&D lab, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has pulled the plug on its drone project that would bring internet access to millions of people – Project Titan. It has been confirmed by Alphabet that engineers […]

October 28, 2016

Federal regulators have approved new rules that will curb the ability of Internet service providers to collect data about users — including app usage, browsing history, mobile location data and more — for advertising purposes. The decision essentially reverts the […]

October 27, 2016

Alphabet is dramatically cutting back on its plans to expand its Fiber internet service nationwide. The company is laying off or reassigning about nine percent of its staff as well as “pausing” or ending fiber operations “potential Fiber cities” where […]

October 19, 2016

Amazon has added a number of web-based services including Prime Photos and Prime Video to its popular subscription service. Should the latest rumor out of the mill pan out, Internet itself could be the next service on offer. A person […]

October 18, 2016

Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, andTCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the physical network infrastructure as “ships in the night.” Cisco routers […]

June 8, 2016

Millions of IT systems on the internet offer services that should not be exposed to the public network, a study by security firm Rapid7 has revealed. The study uncovered 15 million nodes offering Telnet, 11.2 million nodes offering direct access […]

June 8, 2016

More than a billion new internet users and 10 billion new devices and connections will see the amount of IP traffic flowing over the internet in the next few years almost treble, according to the latest edition of Cisco’s Visual […]

May 20, 2016

You may have heard about this mysterious place on the internet called the ‘Deep Web’. Interest in the deep web and dark web has been on the rise following a few high profile data leaks, a growing interest in online […]

April 20, 2016

Despite multiple social programs designed to lessen the digital divide between low-income homes and those that earn more money, roughly a third of Americans still don’t have a fixed broadband connection at home. A new survey from the National Telecommunications […]

March 10, 2016

Remember when you could listen to Pearl Jam’s entire Ten album while you were loading a web page? 26 years have passed since the world’s first website went online (info.cern.ch), and now most web pages load in the blink of […]

March 9, 2016

The U.S. as a whole is a nation blanketed with high-speed connectivity, but sizable pockets of underserved citizens still exist. In fact, nearly one in five Americans still lack regular access to broadband Internet due to cost. FCC chairman Tom […]

December 10, 2015

The Internet is at war with itself. An online arms race is pitting users against advertisers, publishers against the developers of ad and cookie blockers, and Apple against Google. The war started because the classic Internet and the mobile Web […]

November 9, 2015

After launching the One A9, HTC is apparently getting ready to introduce another One-branded smartphone, which might be called One X9. This name is showing up on a leaked promo image, alongside what appears to be a white variant of […]

November 6, 2015

Facebook’s Messenger app has taken on a life of its own ever since the social network giant made an unpopular move last year and chiselled it out from the main Facebook experience. Even though this meant friends had to use […]

November 3, 2015

In addition to the stable release of Firefox 42, Mozilla also launched Firefox 44 Developer Edition, adding visual editing and memory management tools. Today’s release coincides with the one-year anniversary of what Mozilla calls “the first browser created specifically for […]

October 28, 2015

Source photo A couple of months ago Google surprised everyone by getting into the business of designing and selling Wi-Fi routers. Its first effort in the space was created in partnership with TP-Link, and today a new model has been […]

October 20, 2015

Source photo Dell launched a new range of enterprise security solutions that protect organizations from threats that can evolve almost every day. With a fresh approach to malware blocking and sandboxing capabilities, data security, as well as multi-factor authentication, customers […]