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News Briefs Google Further Expanding the Undersea Communications Cable System
Aug 26, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Criminals Breach Online Booking System of Best Western Hotel Chain, 8 Million Customer Data Stolen
Aug 24, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Cyberwar Against Britain Waged by Criminals and Terrorists
Aug 23, 2008 - Include Your Comments
FCC Banning Wireless Devices that Interfere with White Spaces Spectrum
Aug 22, 2008 - Include Your Comments
One of China's Largest ISPs Under DNS Cache Poisoning Attack
Aug 22, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Why Broadband Competition Is As Good As It Gets, Explains Telecom Analyst
Aug 22, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Airline Mobile Broadband Service: Cell Towers or Satellite Systems?
Aug 21, 2008 - Include Your Comments
P4P Aims to Solve Bandwidth Challenges
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UK's Defense Group Warns Against Internet Protocol Security Challenges
Aug 21, 2008 - Include Your Comments
FCC Chief Wants Broadband Across USA, Proposes "Free Broadband"
Aug 20, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Comcast Given 30 Days to Disclose Network Management Practices, Says FCC Order
Aug 20, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Thousands of File Sharers Facing Lawsuits in UK
Aug 20, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Back to My Mac: Apple Pushing IPv6?
Aug 20, 2008 - Include Your Comments
Studies Indicate 29% of Internet Users Buying Goods from Spam Emails
Aug 20, 2008 - Include Your Comments (1 posted)
ISP Deep Packet Inspection Remains a Probable Option, Despite Controversies
Aug 19, 2008 - Include Your Comments (1 posted)
Featured Blogs How Rise in Nationalism and Industry's Lack of Foresight Could Mean a Fragmented and Isolated Web
I have been thinking a lot lately on the topic of the free flow of information on the internet -- what kinds of tools are available now and in the future for governments (especially repressive ones) to control content, isolate their people and keep any contrary viewpoints censored. I had an interesting conversation with a Practice Lead from IFTF.org. The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a California based independent, nonprofit research group with 40 years of experience in identifying emerging trends that will transform global society... Turns out they are quite concerned about the fragmentation and control of the Internet as well. But will it be an inevitability? more »
Aug 26, 2008 - by Alexa Raad - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Censorship, Domain Names, Internet Governance, Multilinguism, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains Thoughts on the Best Western Compromise
The Sunday Herald reported on Sunday that Best Western was struck by a trojan attack that lead to the possible compromise of about 8 million victims. There is some debate as to the extent of the breach and not a small amount of rumor going around. I'm not entirely disposed to trust corporate press releases for the facts, nor am I going to blindly accept claims of security researchers whose first call is to the PR team when discovering a problem. That said, here is what seems to be the agreed upon facts... more »
Aug 25, 2008 - by John Bambenek - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Security New gTLDs: Comments on the Unsigned "The Economic Case for Auctions"
When Kurt Pritz briefed the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council (and observers) in Los Angeles April 10th and 11th, the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) process model flows transition through an "auction" state in two of the three paths where two or more applications existed for the same (or similar) strings. At that time Kurt, speaking for Staff, was clear that the existence of a well-defined community was not dispositive, which surprised the Council members from the Intellectual Property Constituency... more »
Aug 25, 2008 - by Eric Brunner-Williams - Comments: 2
Related Topics: Domain Registries, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains Spam Fighters: Revenge is a Dish Best Left in the Freezer and Forgotten
There's no denying that the fight against spam attracts a lot of crazies, both pro- and anti-spam. One of the common attributes of the anti-spam kooks is that they often think in terms of somehow taking revenge against the spammers -- regardless of who else gets hurt along the way. In 2005, that revenge came in the form of BlueFrog, a service which purported to launch what can only be called denial of service attacks against spammers' web sites... This week, a company called SpamZa was hurriedly making a similar mistake... more »
Aug 21, 2008 - by J.D. Falk - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Spam Lies, Damn Lies, and Anti-Spam Vendor Press Releases
There's a lot of chatter about a recent study purporting to show that 29.1% of internet users has bought something from spam. As ITWire reported, "Marshal were not only interested in how many people were purchasing from a spam source, but also what goods and services they were buying. Perhaps less surprisingly this revealed that sex and drugs sell well online." But at downloadsquad, Lee Mathews discovered the shocking truth: "the survey only involved 600 people." more »
Aug 21, 2008 - by J.D. Falk - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Spam Will .cn Become the New .com?
I recently came across a chart of the most popular top-level domains (TLDs), compiled by Stephane Van Gelder. Although I keep track of country code TLD registrations for the Country Codes of the World map (see also related CircleID post), Stephane tracks all domains, including .com, .net., etc. And when I saw it I got to thinking... more »
Aug 20, 2008 - by John Yunker - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Top-Level Domains WiMAX Will Be Successful, as a Fringe Technology
A recent Infonetics press release says "WiMAX has gained such momentum across so many regions that it is no longer sensible to suggest that WiMAX growth will be flattened by the emergence of LTE [Long Term Evolution] in the next few years." Probably true, but it's also clear WiMAX will never reach the scale of either mainstream wireless family, i.e., WiFi or GSM/3GSM. By comparison with these giants, WiMAX will be a fringe operation. The critical issue is volume, and what counts is the wireless technology brand, not the technology itself. more »
Aug 20, 2008 - by Brough Turner - Comments: 5
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Industry Updates DeviceAtlas Mobile Device Database Moves to Community-Driven Preview Release
Aug 26, 2008 - by dotMobi NeuStar Names Steven Edwards General Manager, Senior Vice President of Converged Addressing Services
Aug 25, 2008 - by NeuStar .ORG Domain Name Registrations Pass 7 Million
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Aug 21, 2008 - by PIR dotMobi Builds on Breakthough DeviceAtlas Mobile Development Tool
Aug 21, 2008 - by dotMobi
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