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- Comcast, BitTorrent and spam spam spam
- Comcast, BitTorrent and spam spam spamFYIThe link is to an Associated Press story verifying the existance of the BitTorrent filter on the Comcast network. The test was done by sending out The Bible via BitTorrent -- it's only a 4.24 Mb file.Complete story athttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination_testsAP tests Comcast's file-sharing filter[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination_tests]FYI[/url]RE: Comcast, BitTorrent...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, INTERNET, Peer to peer (P2P), BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., spam, spam spam spam, OpenPGP
- Discussion threads 2007-10-20
- Project Titan: Verisign moves to strengthen DNS infrastructure
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Just days after unknown attackers launched denial-of-service attacks against the root servers that help manage the worlds Internet traffic, Verisign announced the launch of a major initiative to significantly increase its daily DNS query capacity -- from 400 billion queries a day currently to 4 trillion queries...
- Tags: Hackers, Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Botnets, Viruses and Worms, Pen testing, VeriSign Inc., Internet Traffic
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Thoughts on net neutrality ...
- Thoughts on net neutrality ...BitTorrent Goes Hollywood[url=http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6092296.html]FYI! BitTorrent Goes Hollywood[/url]So, with all the BitTorrent Obfuscation going on, it kind of makes it difficult for traffic shaping QoS, doesn't it now?Is Hollywood recognizing the potential of P2P???;)Where you went wrong.The large content providers DO PAY for their bandwidth just like everyone...
- Tags: bandwidth, Internet, Verizon Communications Inc., excessive amount, market-force, BitTorrent, Internet Traffic, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- 50% of Internet traffic passes through Virginia
- Roughly 50 percent of the world's Internet traffic passes through Virginia, home to big Internet companies like Time Warner Inc.'s America Online unit and MCI. AOL now blocks up to 2.4 billion spams each day, a company spokesman said.
- Tags: Internet Traffic, Internet
- Blog posts 2003-12-11
- A Riverstone Networks / NextHop Success Story
- Internet traffic explodes in volume and complexity every day. The demand for robust, reliable routing protocols must keep pace. The challenge for Internet Service Providers ISPs is to meet the ever-burgeoning demand for bandwidth with routing solutions that are as reliable as they are scalable. The challenge in all this...
- Tags: Riverstone Networks, Routing Protocol, Internet Traffic, Internet, BGP, Networking
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- Samsung, Sony in Wi-Fi Photo Frame Shootout
- One of the big holiday gifts over the last couple of years, digital photo frames are a convenient way to show off photos that might otherwise languish on your hard drive. But a lot of them are sold by no-name companies at budget prices with limited feature sets. Other manufacturers...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Frame, Photograph, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions
- Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Browser Landscape Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- 42% of Internet users do not know what social networking is
- Across the 17 global markets surveyed, 42% of people know what online social networking is, says Synovate. The Dutch were most likely to know the term with 89% answering ‘yes’, followed by Japan at 71% and Americans with 70% answering in the affirmative. 26% across the markets surveyed are members...
- Tags: Internet User, Internet, Network, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging
- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With DiggingThere are better ways to monetize and support great news writersThe problem, as I see it, is that News hasn't really found its "business voice" in the internet. Sure, news is powerful and one of the main things people do online. And,...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, public relations, media
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Canada adds another city to LED City list
- Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...
- Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic
- Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- From meme to paperback: Barack Obama is your new bicycle
- Besides Chuck Norris, and the Rickroll, Internet memes rarely go mainstream. But San Francisco native Matthew Honan managed to accomplish that feat — he built a simple website that randomly display acts of kindness from presidential candidate Barack Obama. Honan...
- Tags: Bicycle, Web Site, Web Site Development, Internet, Web Technology, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the perks and pitfalls of the newly released browser from Google. Diaz also reveals why Sergey Brin is bugging the Chrome team on a daily basis.
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Google, Chrome, Sergey Brin, browser, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, tabs, web, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz, Mac, Linux
- Videos 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging
- The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Service integrators = Ed Tech bargain hunters?
- I'm not entirely enamored of my ISP right now. Their backbone is dated, downtime too frequent, the email interface they provide is kludgy at best, application support for their web hosting is more limited than what you can get from $1.99 a month hosts, and, well, I'm just not...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Hosting, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- What the fight against cancer really needs
- What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...
- Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?
- Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?Rich Internet ApplicationOne issue to be considered is people like me who for security reasons, and to avoid distracting material, is to disable popups, Flash and Javascript. I run two browsers. The default which is called by email links is Safari with RIA switched...
- Tags: rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Wireless Access: What Price SpeedQuick Question.....Why do people still stand for "locking-in" a 2 year contract to do anything with Verizon?No contract, free WIFI and same speed.... seem's like a no-brainer to me.RE: Wireless Access: What Price SpeedAt least here in NYC Metro area they have you coming and...
- Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Wireless LANs, Fios, boro, Verizon Communications Inc., wireless access, Wi-Fi, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
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