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Asia running out of IP-address room

Asia running out of IP-address room
The issue: Asia's well of available IP (Internet Protocol) addresses is running dry rapidly. Without an IP address--a 32-bit string of numbers--a 3G phone, PC or handheld has no identity and cannot send or receive data.

Posted by rshah on May 28, 2003| Comments (0)

Internet via the Power Grid: New Interest in Obvious Idea

Internet via the Power Grid: New Interest in Obvious Idea
Power-line networking has held out promise for several decades, in part because the electric grid is already in place, running to almost every residence in the nation, and also because it was thought that power companies would leap at the idea of a new revenue source — if the technology is proven.

Posted by rshah on April 10, 2003| Comments (0)

Feds Move to Secure Net

Feds Move to Secure Net
The Cyber Warning Information Network, a key part of the Bush administration's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, will use a secure, private IP network separate from the public Internet, according to officials.

Posted by rshah on March 11, 2003| Comments (0)

ENTER THE MESH: HOW SMALL TECH AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING WILL WEAVE A NEW WORLD

ENTER THE MESH: HOW SMALL TECH AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING WILL WEAVE A NEW WORLD
Think of it as the Mesh, a new layer of technology interlaced with every thread of human life and commerce. A Mesh of pervasive small technology is the next logical stage in a century of disruptive, global changes – from commercialization of electricity to television and telecommunications, to today’s explosion of computing devices and digital networks.

Posted by rshah on July 17, 2002| Comments (0)

Emergency Alert Messages a Click Away

Emergency Alert Messages a Click Away
The nation's public television stations are building a new digital system to get quick emergency information to the public — not through television sets, but through computers.

Posted by rshah on July 02, 2002| Comments (0)

AOL aims to supercharge streaming

AOL aims to supercharge streaming
Ultravox involves "moving streaming software onto the (router) switch...like a Cisco or Extreme Networks device," according to a source familiar with the technology. It "fundamentally changes the layout of the infrastructure required to do radio or video over the Net," the source said.

Posted by rshah on June 29, 2002| Comments (0)

Bypassing the Carriers, a Burg Goes Broadband

Bypassing the Carriers, a Burg Goes Broadband
The quandary facing Cumberland, population 21,000, and surrounding Allegany County is not unusual in rural America. Businesses and residents here in western Maryland, far from any urban center, are so scattered that upgrading the telephone system's copper wires to offer the high-speed data service known as D.S.L., or Digital Subscriber Line, is prohibitively expensive.

Posted by rshah on April 25, 2002| Comments (0)

C&W building a new global IP network

C&W building a new global IP network
Cable & Wireless is using Cisco gear throughout its private IP network to support VPN, voice-over-IP and video-over-IP services. The network will run parallel to the carrier's public IP network, using Cisco 12000 and 10000 series routers at the core and 7000 series routers at the edge to support multiple classes of service using Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS).

Posted by rshah on April 25, 2002| Comments (0)

Big ideas in small towns: Tired of waiting for companies to bring in high-speed Internet service, some rural communities buil

Big ideas in small towns: Tired of waiting for companies to bring in high-speed Internet service, some rural communities buil
They don't want that market to go away and lose it all together,'' said Carol Heiberger, an energy and telecommunications consultant in Philadelphia. 'But the cities and towns are saying, `You're not doing anything for me now. This is about economic development.

Posted by rshah on April 15, 2002| Comments (0)

IETF plans emergency system for Internet

IETF plans emergency system for Internet
The Internet's premier standards-setting body is developing a plan for prioritizing voice and data communications sent by public safety officials via the Internet in the event of a disaster. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held the first meeting of its Internet Emergency Preparedness working group in Minneapolis this week.

Posted by rshah on March 20, 2002| Comments (0)

Feds To Draw 'Map' of Internet

Feds To Draw 'Map' of Internet
The U.S. government will begin drawing a "map" of the Internet in an attempt to improve the country's ability to better respond to future cyber-attacks. The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center will diagram the complex links between the country's critical Internet infrastructure, such as interdependent telecom and information technology networks, electric power grids, transportation systems, and gas and oil pipelines.

Posted by rshah on December 07, 2001| Comments (0)

Army Intranet: World's Largest

Army Intranet: World's Largest
The United States Army has flicked the switch on the world's largest Intranet -- a giant computer network that will connect more than 1 million soldiers, support personnel and veterans all over the globe. It's called the Army Knowledge Online Portal (AKO), because it acts as a portal to hundreds of the Army's internal websites, servers and information sources.

Posted by rshah on November 15, 2001| Comments (0)

Fedwire and other Electronic Payment Networks

Posted by rshah on November 08, 2001| Comments (0)

TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You

TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You
According to these programmers, Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol -- a protocol owned by Microsoft -- that it will tout as being more secure. Actually, the new protocol would likely be TCP/IP with some of the reserved fields used as pointers to proprietary extensions. I'll call it TCP/MS. see also Slashdot

Posted by rshah on August 03, 2001| Comments (0)

I.B.M. Making a Commitment to Next Phase of Internet, Grid Computing

I.B.M. Making a Commitment to Next Phase of Internet, Grid Computing
The grid would add a new dimension. "The goal is that grid becomes the computing engine for the Internet in the way that the Web is the information engine," said Ken Kennedy, a professor at Rice University. The dream of computing power as an electricity-like utility, available anytime and anywhere, to help solve all manner of human problems is both decades old and not likely to be fully realized anytime soon. The grid takes its name from the utility analogy, which first surfaced in the 1950's.

Posted by rshah on August 02, 2001| Comments (0)

Government Owned Telecommunication Networks

Government Owned Telecommunication Networks
Today more than 260 state and local governments operate telecommunications businesses, ranging from cable television to local phone and Internet services. And the pace of government entry into the field has grown dramatically in the past decade, says Jeffrey A. Eisenach.

Posted by rshah on July 02, 2001| Comments (0)

Net2Phone unveils new Net-phone service

Net2Phone unveils new Net-phone service
The company's VoiceLine technology lets people with high-speed Internet access make Net-based phone calls, a potentially cheaper alternative to making calls through traditional phone carriers, such as AT&T, Sprint or WorldCom. To make Net-based phone calls, a consumer simply plugs a regular telephone into a new Net2Phone device, then connects that device to a cable or DSL (digital subscriber line) modem.

Posted by rshah on June 06, 2001| Comments (0)

Web Behind Walls

Web Behind Walls
Left unchecked, cable firms will funnel Internet traffic to their own content—and the Web won't be worldly or wise.

Posted by rshah on June 05, 2001| Comments (0)

Gated communities on the horizon

Gated communities on the horizon
Either way, the introduction of charges may fundamentally alter the course of the medium. This evolution could create a new kind of digital divide linked to one's ability to pay for information and services, giving rise to virtually gated and balkanized communities throughout cyberspace.

Posted by rshah on June 05, 2001| Comments (0)

Pacific Bell outage affects Net, 911

Pacific Bell outage affects Net, 911
Pacific Bell said that a wide-ranging network outage spread through most of California, turning high-speed Internet connections dark and even affecting 911 service.

Posted by rshah on May 26, 2001| Comments (0)

X-10 for a Geek House

X-10 for a Geek House
But X-10 is already here. A communications protocol that utilizes a low-voltage signal to network appliances across ordinary household electric lines, or over the public radio spectrum, X-10 compatible products and software are spreading fast through geekdom. Thousands of X-10 fans are quietly creating homes that edge closer and closer to science fiction.

Posted by rshah on May 25, 2001| Comments (0)

The X Internet

The X Internet
Calling today's Internet "dumb, boring and isolated," Forrester Research is playing a funeral dirge for the Net as we know it, predicting that the World Wide Web will soon be replaced by a richer, interactive "X Internet." The X Internet will not be a new invention, but rather the evolution of today's Internet of static Web pages and cumbersome e-commerce mechanisms into a Net that relies on executable software code to deliver more interactive experiences.

Posted by rshah on May 25, 2001| Comments (0)

Technology uses one number to find you on any device

Technology uses one number to find you on any device
The Enum technology by Patrik Faltstrom, allows the removal of the frustrating clutter of pagers, e-mail accounts, cell phones, with a single number. The Enum standard, which was approved by a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) last year. The technology would plug telephone numbers into the same address system that Web sites now use, so computers on the Internet could understand "1-202-555-1212" as well as "www.news.com."

Posted by rshah on May 18, 2001| Comments (0)

IBM & Carrier in Web-Enabled Air Conditioner Deal

IBM & Carrier in Web-Enabled Air Conditioner Deal
IBM and Carrier Corp. announced Monday that they plan to offer Web-enabled air-conditioners in Europe this summer. Users will be able to control their units through MyAppliance.com and perform such functions as turning units off/on and setting the temperature. The unit will also be able to send errors messages and other diagagnostic info to phones and email addresses.

Posted by rshah on April 10, 2001| Comments (0)

Real-time information updates to the Web browser

Real-time information updates to the Web browser
A new company backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and MIT Labs Director Nicolas Negroponte is bringing real-time information updates to the Web browser. No longer will stock traders and eBay aficionados have to refresh their browser windows: Bang Networks' service will update the stock price or auction bids they're looking at as the changes happen.

Posted by rshah on April 03, 2001| Comments (0)

Hard Questions in Broadband Policy

Hard Questions in Broadband Policy
Andy Oram has written a nice article looking at broadband internet access and the governmental policies that need to be in place if fast, symmetric internet access is to be widely available and affordable in the U.S., see also Slashdot

Posted by rshah on March 27, 2001| Comments (0)

Aircraft to provide Internet service

Aircraft to provide Internet service
Angel Technologies, a St. Louis company plans to provide high- speed Internet access in an unusual way: using solar-powered, high-altitude manned aircraft built to cruise at 51,000 feet, or more than 10,000 feet higher than the altitudes normally reached by commercial jets. Under Angel's plan, the aircraft would beam high-speed Internet service to customers in large cities, who would receive it on small cone-shaped antennas.

Posted by rshah on March 19, 2001| Comments (0)

Laundry machines networked

Laundry machines networked
But now, before hauling her laundry basket downstairs, she logs on to a Web site with her password to see whether a machine is available. While the clothes are being washed and dried, she returns to her room to study. She gets e-mail messages to tell her when her washing or drying cycles are finished.

Posted by rshah on March 15, 2001| Comments (0)

Wired communities new front in Cisco-Nortel battle

Wired communities new front in Cisco-Nortel battle
In a bid to demonstrate the uses of their products in communities, tech juggernauts Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems will each work with builders to make wired real estate developments.

Posted by rshah on February 14, 2001| Comments (0)

Community wireless Internet service called Lariat (Laramie Internet Access and Telecommunications)

Community wireless Internet service called Lariat (Laramie Internet Access and Telecommunications)
Residents started the networking business in 1995 in an effort to bring everyone in the area online after various squabbles with the area's telephone company (now Qwest). The initial cost was around $3,000, with many residents donating their own PCs, according to Glass. Relevant equipment was stuck on private land, and copper wire was bought from Qwest for areas that couldn't get wireless.

Posted by rshah on February 09, 2001| Comments (0)

Middlewire takes radical approach to e-mail

Middlewire takes radical approach to e-mail
ut as I looked at SMTP for carrying attachments, it was clear that this wasn't going to be the ultimate way that we beamed information around. [The SMTP standard] has no characteristics that would be suitable for machine-to-machine communication.

Posted by rshah on January 18, 2001| Comments (0)

Latency on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Latency on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
EDI is between email and the web in terms of latency.

Posted by rshah on January 18, 2001| Comments (0)

Redesign The Way People Receive Information or Data

Redesign The Way People Receive Information or Data
As the author of 1989's Information Anxiety, Richard Saul Wurman, proves again, "information architecture" still has a long way to go.

Posted by rshah on January 18, 2001| Comments (0)

World Wide Web

World Wide Web
Coming to Grips With the Web, a series of articles in the NY Times

Posted by rshah on December 11, 2000| Comments (0)

Information grid or pervasive network

Information grid or pervasive network
NY Times talks to Larry Smarr on a new California research institute

Posted by rshah on December 11, 2000| Comments (0)

Policy Implications of End-to-End

Policy Implications of End-to-End
Stanford University held a workshop last Friday - The Policy Implications of End-to-End - covering some of the policy questions cropping up which threaten the end-to-end paradigm that serves today's Internet so well, the discussion on Slashdot Part 1 Part 2

Posted by rshah on December 07, 2000| Comments (0)

Internet through the ocean

Internet through the ocean
The Navy announces it has finally conquered one of the toughest Internet frontiers: the ocean.

Posted by rshah on November 16, 2000| Comments (0)

IP tunneling implemented through DNS

IP tunneling implemented through DNS
As a way to tranfer information, since some DNS services are offered freely

Posted by rshah on September 11, 2000| Comments (0)

Connecting cars to the Internet

Posted by rshah on September 08, 2000| Comments (0)

Few Net surfers use RealNames' keyword service

Posted by rshah on September 06, 2000| Comments (0)

Exposing the ‘Second Text’ of Maps of the Net

Exposing the ‘Second Text’ of Maps of the Net
A JCMC article on a critical reading of Internet maps

Posted by rshah on August 24, 2000| Comments (0)

No VPNs on Consumer Accounts for Comcast Cable Users

Posted by rshah on August 18, 2000| Comments (0)

End to the Borderless Web

End to the Borderless Web
Akamai Technologies in June began offering customers a service dubbed EdgeScape, which traces the physical position of servers that hand out the numeric codes, or Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, used to route signals over the Web to people's computers.

Posted by rshah on August 16, 2000| Comments (0)