The United States and European Union might be the largest economies, but when it comes to Internet connections at home, many of their citizens still live in the slow lane. By contrast, Japan is a broadband paradise, with the fastest and cheapest Internet connections in the world.
Nearly eight million Japanese have a state-of-the-art fiber-optic line at home that is up to 30 times speedier than a typical DSL line.
Symantec Corp.'s early-warning system gave its enterprise customers a brief scare late Friday when it erroneously sent an alert that said an Internet-crippling attack was in progress.
The message, which went out to users of Symantec's DeepSight advanced alert system around 8:40 p.m. Eastern time, had a subject head that simply read: "DeepSight Increased ThreatCon from 1 to 4 Alert."
For a decade, IPv6 proponents have pushed this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol because of its three primary benefits: a gargantuan address space, end-to-end security, and easier network administration through automatic device configuration.
Now it turns out that one of these IPv6 benefits -- autoconfiguration -- may not be such a boon for corporate network managers. A growing number of IPv6 experts say that corporations probably will skip autoconfiguration and instead stick with DHCP, which has been updated to support IPv6.
Is 4G about improving the performance of today’s mobile networks, or is it about revolutionizing the model to create a truly ultra-broadband mobile experience?
The current dialogue is focused on improvement, notably how to improve the capacity of the cellular infrastructure via such 3G technology iterations as HSDPA/HSUPA and CDMA 1xEV-DO Rev A, or such revolutionary 4G technologies as mobile WiMAX 802.16e and LTE.
Domain registrars are providing services that aid terrorism, claims Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. A lengthy article published over the weekend, "Terror goes digital. With Canadian help," delves into the many different facets of the Internet that have been used by Islamic terrorist groups to communicate their messages to each other and to the rest of the world. But the "Canadian help" part of the equation comes by way of domain registrars Register.com and Tucows, which both operate out of Canada.
The brain has a funny way of increasing the relative importance of any particular issue with temporal proximity. In other words, it is well known that we tend to do things at the last minute (no, there's nothing wrong with you -- we're all like that!). It's not so much a brain disorder as a tendency to see more value in things that are closer to us.
Assuming that this has some evolutionary benefit that somehow aided our distant ancestors, we can understand why the likes of Bill Gates can observe:
The guys who decide how the Internet should work (a few are women) want you to know they don't run the Internet. Nobody does.
Despite its tremendous influence on Web technology, the Internet Engineering Task Force goes to great lengths to be loosey-goosey, almost hippie-like. It is a purely voluntary group with no dues, no board of directors and no headquarters.
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED arrival of submarine fibre-optic infrastructure through The East African Marine Cable System brings with it a whole new breed of expectations, ventures and experiences.
The infrastructure's global scope is expected to have an impact virtually on all businesspeople, professionals, consumers, entrepreneurs, investors and the Government itself. Fibre-optic capability will leap beyond Kenya's national boundaries in ways never envisioned before. It will be a vital element of the country's economy.
Frequent denial of service (DoS) attacks may come to an end in the near future, according to one expert.
Simon Heron, managing director of security firm Network Box, said in an interview with IT Week that attackers may soon drop DoS attacks altogether to avoid the high risk of getting caught.
He added that the botnets usually used for such attacks will be instead appropriated for other purposes that bring financial gain.
Japan-based NTT DoCoMo announced today that it plans to begin testing on an experimental "Super 3G" system for extra-high-speed data on mobile devices. The country's largest mobile carrier said that it hopes to achieve an impressive 300Mbps down in its tests over the wireless network. The company has already begun accepting proposals from suppliers and hopes to implement the Super 3G system in Japan by 2009.
