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Boffins from the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in developing new algorithms to map the Internet. While mapping any network topology can be complex and demanding, mapping the Internet takes the task to a whole new level. Yet Priya Mahadevan and Amin Vahdat think they have...
Read More | Sep 15th, 2007
Ever wondered how ADSL (or broadband internet access over telephone lines) works? I often have and, having worked for an ISP in the UK (BT Retail) for about 6 months I can offer a slightly better explanation than when I started. ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It is...
Read More | Aug 27th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 26th, 2008
The Internet is dynamic, gradually shifting form from year to year. This year's model? Apparently it's all about more consumption -- and less chatting online. Exhibit "A" comes from the Center for Media Research, which reports this week that Internet users are communicating less and consuming...
Read More | Aug 27th, 2007
The constant worry of soldiers leaking top-secret information onto the internet via blogs had forced the commanders to approve every blog entry that a soldier wrote before they could post it onto the world wide web. Fortunately for them it's called off, at least for now. Just 3 days ago, a fact...
Read More | May 6th, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Aug 25th, 2007
That depends, to be honest, on which Internet you are talking about. For most of us mere mortals the answer will vary, depending upon how fat the pipe connecting us to the Internet is and how many people are downloading video streams over it at any given moment in time. For the uber-users at the...
Read More | Apr 27th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 27th, 2007
Proposals for a virtual red light Internet district have been overturned for the third time during a contentious meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Portugal. Concluding business at the meeting, a resolution rejecting a proposal from the ICM Registry to...
Read More | Apr 1st, 2007
It sounds like such a good idea to have a law that ensures any pornographic content is filtered, and kept away from the minors. So good that some politicians decided to make a law about it. Well, it is an epidemic that's harming society. But that's about where the logic stops. Did they not forget...
Read More | Mar 25th, 2007
I don't browse the Internet anymore. I've started to realize that I actually visit standalone websites less and less. Aside from interactive sites like forums, I find myself subscribing to more and more websites' RSS feeds as a way to stay current. No longer do I have a list of bookmarks that I...
Read More | Mar 14th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 21st, 2007
Reports have come in over the weekend of a series of dawn raids by the Metropolitan Police on a number of terrorist suspects with Al-Qaeda connections in London. All the suspects have been arrested. The raids follow the seizure of computer files last year suggesting that the target of their planned...
Read More | Mar 13th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: 23 Days Ago
YouTube (now owned by Google) and BBC struck a deal that would soon allow the former to provide clips from the latter. Special channels will be created on YouTube that you can watch the content through, providing many popular BBC shows such as Top Gear and Doctor Who. But this move is not...
Read More | Mar 3rd, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 4th, 2007
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