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Dotcom wants to revive project to lay Internet cable across the Pacific
- MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom is hoping to revive a two year old undersea broadband cable project that stalled out earlier this year due to insufficient funding. Pacific Fibre intended to lay 6,500 miles worth of cable between Australia, New Zealand…
Hurricane Sandy damages crucial wireless and Internet infrastructure
- Hurricane Sandy left a path of destruction in the American northeast as heavy flooding and powerful winds destroyed homes and left millions without power. The superstorm was also responsible for disrupting wireless and Internet service throughout much of the region.
Survey shows first ever decline in Internet usage, but there's a catch
- A new study from Forrester reveals that people are spending less time using the Internet than they have in the past couple of years. In a survey of 58,000 US adults, respondents claimed to spend approximately 19.6 hours using the…
AT&T to launch six-strike anti-piracy plan Nov 28, leak shows
- Leaked internal training documents indicate AT&T is gearing up to launch a six-strike anti-piracy initiative on November 28. This may not prove to be much of a surprise for readers who caught headlines earlier this year regarding an impending graduated response supposedly…
Ad industry says IE10's Do-Not-Track implemenation hurts web
- Recently, Microsoft's decision to equip Internet Explorer 10 with Do-Not-Track and enable it by default has raised quite a few eyebrows. Unsurprisingly, the Association of National Advertisers is the latest organization to express its "profound disappointment" regarding Microsoft's choice. The…
ISPs ask city for deal matching Google Fiber's special treatment
- Envious communications companies are requesting parity deals from Kansas City's local government -- deals which match the special treatment Google received while deploying its city-wide gigabit fiber service. Google Fiber went live about two months ago for both KC and KCMO,…
Dish brings broadband to rural US, seeks programming for Internet TV
- Dish Network is expanding its broadband offering with the official launch of dishNet, a satellite-based service that will go live Monday and aims to bring high-speed internet to rural places in the US with slow or no access at all.…
Iran blocks Google due to video controversy, readies own Internet
- According to Reuters, Google's search and Gmail services have been blocked from public view in Iran. Tehran officials say these latest additions to Iran's web filter are the result of a much publicized anti-Islamic video called "Innocence of Muslims". The…
Embedded Flash puts Windows 8 users at risk until Oct 26
- Are you running the Windows 8 RTM yet? If you are, you may want to be careful out there, suggests Ed Bott from ZDNet. Internet Explorer 10's embedded Flash component suffers from a number of critical vulnerabilities which allow hackers…
How ants have used the Internet's TCP algorithms for ages
- We all know ants are extremely smart creatures that are capable of solving complex problems but as it turns out, these tiny insects could have taught us a thing or two about how to build the Internet. Research from Stanford…
Infographic: The Internet 10 years later
- A staggering 33 percent of the world’s population now has access to the Internet, a substantial jump over the 9.1 percent that were connected in 2002. Furthermore, these net users are now online for an average of four hours per…
Google's Octane claims to be "real-world" browser benchmark
- Google has long been an advocate of making the web a faster place. This ideal is epitomized by the company's increasingly popular (and speedy) Internet browser, Chrome. Remaining focused on that quest for speed, today the company revealed Octane, a…
Interview with DuckDuckGo's Gabriel Weinberg
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Many have tried to challenge Google’s dominance of the search market, but perhaps with the exception of Microsoft, which has poured billions into its search efforts, all have failed to gain any significant traction.
A relative newcomer to the search market, DuckDuckGo isn’t shying away from the monumental task. In fact, with a simple, straightforward interface and clean results they’ve come up with one of the most appealing Google alternatives to date. Even if they are still far from changing the status quo, their no nonsense approach to privacy and instant answers are worth taking note of.
Former MPAA CTO speaks out against laws like SOPA
- Former Motion Picture Association’s Chief Technology Officer Paul Brigner has offered a level-headed rundown regarding the perils of using DNS as a means of Internet enforcement. Once controversial legislation, SOPA relied upon DNS-blocking techniques to essentially take down undesirable websites -- a…
Average global Internet speeds increased 25 percent in one year
- A new study released my Akamai highlighting global Internet connections suggest that Internet speeds on average increased a full 25 percent year-to-year. The global average connection speed was only 2.6 Mbps but once the slow connections are filtered out, we…
Google launches 1Gbps Fiber network in Kansas City, unveils TV service
- Google has officially flipped the switch on its first self-built, high-speed citywide network today. Lucky residents of Kansas City on both sides of the Kansas - Missouri state line are now able to get 1,000 Mbps download and upload speeds…
Mobile Wi-Fi hot spots banned from London Olympics
- It appears that the LOCOG (London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games) plans to prohibit the use of mobile hotspots during the Olympics. Various news outlets managed to notice the fine print just before the event begins Friday this week. Although…
Comcast launches 305Mbps broadband, doubles 25/50Mbps tiers
- Following last week's rumors of Comcast gearing up to offer 305Mbps cable broadband, the company has officially confirmed speculation. Labeled as Xfinity Platinum, Comcast has announced it is actually in the process of rolling out the speedy Internet service to…
The first picture ever uploaded to the web and the story behind it
- July 18, 2012 will mark the 20th anniversary of the very first picture ever uploaded to the web. Few people are aware of the photo or its significance largely in part to its nature. If you aren’t already familiar with…
Hundreds of thousands may lose web access July 9 due to virus
- July 9 is the day thousands of PCs (and Macs) infected with DNSChanger will lose their ability to surf the web. Although the virus was introduced in 2007, according to the DCWG's data, as many as 500,000 computers may still…
Hacker gets three years in prison for selling 'rooted' cable modems
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A 28-year-old Oregon man has been sentenced to three years in prison for selling illegal products and services that allowed users to bypass restrictions imposed by ISPs. Ryan Harris, known online as DerEngel, reportedly earned between $400,000 and $1 million over several years...
Comcast ends FCC broadband probe with new terms, $800,000 payment
- Comcast Corporation, the US' largest cable company has reached a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission, agreeing to pay a "voluntary contribution" of $800,000 to the US Treasury and to continue offering a reasonably priced, stand-alone high-speed internet service for…
Walmart and TruConnect offer prepaid mobile broadband from $10
- Walmart and TruConnect Mobile have announced a partnership to provide a prepaid mobile broadband service. Meant for casual users, Internet on the Go will offer blocks of data for set rates without a monthly commitment. Rates start as low as…
Mozilla previews Thimble, a refreshingly simple HTML coding tool
- With a variety of noteworthy projects already under its belt such as Firefox, Bugzilla and Thunderbird, Mozilla is adding a new one to its lineup named Thimble. The web-based project aims to nurture aspiring web developers by providing an incredibly…
Verizon intros FiOS Quantum, up to 300Mbps for $210
- Verizon is moving ahead with plans to double speeds for FiOS Internet subscribers up to a maximum of 300 megabits per second. Customers can pick from five speeds, starting with a basic 15Mbps plan. All of them can be acquired…
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