Internet Traffic
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Asian ISPs prepare for video explosion
News Internet service providers must be vigilant of their core infrastructure, increase capacity when necessary and use new technologies to optimize traffic flow.
Tags: Bandwidth, Network administration/implementation, Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Optical networking, Google Inc., India, Video, Cable, Internet Service
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
Yoggie Pico Pro
Reviews YoggieÂ’s Pico Pro offers a hassle-free approach to notebook security by running 13 security applications from a USB-stick-based Linux appliance.
Monitoring staff e-mail and Internet: Dos and don'ts
News Should you be keeping an eye on the inboxes of your workers or not? Here are dos and don'ts for monitoring staff e-mail and Internet usage.
Tags: E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Security implementation/standards, Web sites, IT Governance, Communications, Staff E-mail, Malware, compliance, e-mail
Net traffic down on first day of Swedish antipiracy law
News The same day the new law goes into effect, Internet traffic is down considerably and five audio book publishers go after an alleged illegal file sharer in court.
Tags: Piracy, Software licensing, Traffic, Audio Book, IP, computer, Swedish Publishers, antipiracy, Wi-Fi, Sweden
Swedish ISPs vow to erase users' traffic data
News In more fallout from a Swedish antipiracy law that went into effect April 1, some of the country's ISPs say they will erase IP data to protect their customers' privacy.
Tags: Lawsuits, Piracy, Privacy, Traffic Data, Safe Harbor, IP, computer, Sweden, File-sharing, Internet Service Provider
APCN2 cable cut cripples connections
News update Cut in Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 undersea cable cripples connection speeds in Asia-Pacific region Wednesday, hitting Singapore and the Philippines.
Tags: Twitter, SingTel, Philippines, cable network, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Cable, network, Taiwan
Online newspaper readership climbs 16 percent
News Top 10 online newspapers post double-digit increase in December Web traffic, offering the newspaper industry encouragement amid bleak times, according to a new report.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Web 2.0, Increase, Washington Post Co., New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Bankruptcy, USA Today, research director
Report: Problems stymie US cyberspy protection
News Technical and privacy issues are plaguing the U.S. government's work on the overarching system to protect federal computer networks from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Federal Government, Server platforms, File servers, Hacking, Mobile platforms/communications, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, U.S. Department Of Justice, Attack, Pentagon
Swedish antipiracy law: Traffic down, ISP rebels
News Internet traffic in Sweden dropped by almost half after an antipiracy law took effect, but a loophole could take the teeth out of the law.
Tags: Piracy, Web sites, Law, Audio Book, Antipiracy Law, European Union, IP, Netnod, Bahnhof, IP Address
Web community must realize IPv6 urgency
News IPv4 is "near exhaustion", says official from regional Internet registry APNIC, urging Internet community to recognize need to move to IPv6 within two years.
Tags: IPv6, Domain names, Web sites, Internet Service, DNS, Internet Service Provider, Internet, U.S., industry, service provider
Net neutrality gets boost from US govt
News The Obama administration includes the FCC's net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.
Tags: PKI (public key infrastructure), Service level management, Federal Government, Network administration/implementation, Business broadband, Democrat, Broadband, Cable, Net Neutrality, Government
At D7, Washington Post meets Huffington Post
News Arianna Huffington and The Washington Post's Katharine Weymouth meet on the D: All Things Digital stage for a discussion about the future of journalism.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Web sites, Google Inc., Washington Post Co., Advertisement, financial, Apple iPhone, Internet, industry
Researchers can attack mobile phones via spoofed SMS messages
News Researchers at the Black Hat security conference showed how an attacker could spoof a SMS message that appears to be sent from the carrier or some other trusted source.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Spam, PayPal, Message, Cell Phone, Carrier, Attack, Server, phone, Attacker
Expert: China's Green Dam software is unsafe
News Security expert says content-filtering software Chinese government wants installed on all PCs is poorly developed and puts users at risk of having their computers compromised.
Tags: Security Management, Regulations, Software, Security, C, Buffer-overflow, Attack, SecureWorks Inc., computer, Government
