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Source: OS Opinion

The label "3G" is minimally important, at best, to the consumer, who is chiefly interested in how well the phone works, not what label international standards bodies have slapped on it.

A new generation of wireless technology is coming. Cell phones smaller than a credit card will prioritize phone calls, download the entire Internet at once, and cook eggs just right, ushering in an era of peace and prosperity unknown to human history. Or something to that effect.

Source: SILICON VALLEY

Source: Wired

Anyone who sees those three numbers and is suddenly overcome by an irresistible desire to scream is probably a Windows XP user who has been trying unsuccessfully to set up a DSL connection.

In Windows XP, "Error 678" is supposed to indicate that a remote computer did not respond to a connection attempt. In reality, it's simply a vague indication that something, somewhere, has somehow gone wrong.

Source: IT Analysis

Webscreen Technology was formed by Gary Milo and his business partner in August 2000. Coming from security backgrounds the pair were staggered that nobody had thought to tackle the common, and potentially devastating, effect of DDoS attacks. With patents pending and a steadily building raft of solutions, Webscreen Technology is a firm with a mission, to put a stop to DDoS — and they've got a unique and powerful solution.

Source: The Register

L33tdawg: Sweet... 1MB :)

Telewest is to trial a 1MB cable Internet service in Scotland.

Some 1,500 Telewest punters in Scotland are to be offered the chance to take part in the four-week trial.

If successful, the cableco intends to make the service available nationwide sometime in the summer, although no date has yet been set for the launch.

Neither has Telewest said yet how much the service will cost.

Source: O'ReillyNet

Source: Wired.com

As soon as they started getting thumb cramps and eyestrain from browsing the Web on their mobile phones, American consumers immediately shunned the so-called mobile Internet.
The wireless application protocol -- WAP for short -- became a beacon for epithets.

Source: Network World Fusion

Source: IDG NZ

The New Zealand Defence Force is to use an international conference to put a product created by Auckland company Esphion against distributed denial of service attacks through its paces.