The Swedish government is following in the footsteps of the Finns (well almost), as their IT-ministry is now promising that 90 percent of all Swedish homes will have access to a 100 mbit/s broadband connection before 2020.
According to Swedish IT-minister Åsa Torstensson it isn’t possible to function in the information society of today without a fast internet connection. You hear that? This is the information society, people!
What was essentially a typo last week resulted in the temporary disappearance from the Internet of almost a million Web sites in Sweden -- every address with a .se top-level down name.
South Korea surpassed Japan and Sweden to take the top spot in an annual ranking of broadband quality, helped by its government's efforts to boost it as an IT world leader, a study showed on Thursday.
The annual study, conducted by the universities of Oxford and Oviedo and sponsored by Cisco, showed that 62 out of the 66 countries had improved the quality of consumer broadband services since last year.
Medog County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China's only county without access to optical cables, entered the third-generation (3G) era as an optical cable telecommunications project was completed and came into use Friday.
Medog County is in the rugged mountainous area and is sparsely populated with about 10,000 residents, mostly in rural areas. The project was started in June 2009 with an investment of 14 million yuan (2.05 million U.S. dollars), said China Telecom Friday.
It looks like New Zealand is set to be the next country to get country-wide internet filtering, according to a blog post on Geekzone. The New Zealand department of internal affairs has released a draft proposal that outlines the filtering system.
We've known we would run out of IPv4 addresses since 1981, when the Internet Protocol was standardized. The numbers dictate that there will never be more than 4,294,967,296 different IPv4 addresses. (4 billion and change being the number of combinations that can be made with IPv4's 32 address bits). Before 1993, addresses were given out in very large blocks because of technical limitations in routing protocols. This limitation was lifted, but around the same time, the Internet started to become more mainstream, requiring more and more addresses.
Comcast announced Tuesday it will offer 100 Mbps broadband service to businesses in the Twin Cities as the company increases speeds on its network as a result of network upgrades.
The company is offering the service over its newly upgraded Docsis 3.0 network. The Minneapolis-Saint Paul region was selected as the first area to get the service because it is one of the most mature Docsis 3.0 deployments that Comcast currently serves.
If you are pleased with your broadband connection bandwidth you could be a bit disappointed to find out how far behind the technology ball your local ISP might actually be. NASA boffins are getting 461 gigabytes of data per day back from the Moon using a travelling wave tube amplifier.
According to Network World, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is using a pumped up communications device to deliver 461GB of data and images per day at a rate of up to 100 Mbps. It is also broadcasting it a hell of a long way.
Social networks have been the subject of many recent virus attacks including attacks by the blogger Cyxymu, who infected millions on Twitter, LiveJournal, and Facebook.
Since then many people have incorrectly commented that DDoS attacks cannot be prevented.
However, while it is hard to stop the appearance of validity created by the fake credentials that hackers can use when they hijack information via botnets, it is possible for web organisations to still protect themselves against DDos attacks according to Wick Hill Group Specialist Ian Kilpatrick.
Ask Marthin De Beer why he's so focused on video, and he'll kindly explain why the question is a bit like asking a plumber why he's so focused on water.
De Beer's researchers at networking giant Cisco predict that video will account for 80% of Internet data traffic within four years--44 exabytes per month, the equivalent of 11 billion DVDs or 3.5 million years of pet tricks, groin kicks and pirated episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
