Broadband homes want faster, reliable Net
Source: CNet News
Households upgrading to broadband are still basing their decisions on practical necessities rather than a desire for splashy graphics and streaming videos, according to a new study.
Networking
Happy Birthday, Dear DNS
Source: Wired
Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS, which allows computers to find each other on the network and send information back and forth to each other without having humans manually look up the addresses of each machine.
Crashed Internet router unplugs a million Swedish surfers
Source: Yahoo! News
The breakdown of one of Swedish operator Telia's main Internet routers in Sweden's capital unplugged more than a million of the country's Internet subscribers for several hours, reports said.
In total over 340,000 broadband and 700,000 dial-up customers across Sweden were affected by the incident, local news agency TT reported.
DSL worldwide figures show Asia is broadband giant
Source: The Inquirer
WE'VE HAD PLENTY of email in the last few days from readers about how easy and how difficult it is to get broadband access in their countries.
NTT Develops Faster Optic-Fiber Technology
Source: Yahoo! News
Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) has developed a communications technology that will allow Internet users to download a two-hour movie in about half a minute, a newspaper said Saturday.
Asia Running Out of IP Addresses
Source: ZDNet
China, Korea and Japan are running out of time.
Governments and academics from the three countries are teaming up, putting aside troubled histories to avert a common disaster.
Taking aim at denial-of-service attacks
Source: ZDNet
Graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University on Monday proposed two methods aimed at greatly reducing the effects of Internet attacks.
Making sense of broadband
Source: CNet News
So many broadband providers disappeared after the dot-com boom that casual observers might think broadband itself has met with indifference from Internet users. Nothing could be further from the truth; in fact it has enjoyed striking growth throughout the world in the past three years. This expansion has implications not only for providers of broadband access and content but also for companies beyond the telecommunications and media sectors.
