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Cable-Laying Boom Will Boost Internet Capacity

Barence writes "Dozens of new undersea internet cables are set to be laid over the next couple of years, providing a huge boost to worldwide capacity. The huge boom in internet video has led to doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity. Although experts believe that there is abundant amounts of 'dark fibre' lying unused in oceans across the world, major telcos are pushing ahead with projects that will see at least 25 new cables laid by 2010, at a cost of $6.4bn."

Time Warner Cable Box Rental Inspired Antitrust Lawsuit

EmagGeek writes "Matthey Meeds, a real-estate agent, was so irritated about having to pay the monthly rental fee that on Tuesday he filed an antitrust suit against Time Warner Cable and its 84 percent owner, Time Warner Inc. The suit alleges that, by linking the provision of premium cable services to rental of the cable box, the companies have established illegal tying arrangements. 'Time Warner's improper tying and bundling harms competition,' Meeds' lawsuit states. 'Since the class can only rent the cable box directly from Time Warner, manufacturers of cable boxes are foreclosed from renting and/or selling cable boxes directly to members of the class at a lower cost.' I pay Comcast over $25/mo for my two DVRs. I'd love to just be able to buy them or build my own.

Abazias Diamonds Makes Internet Retailer's Top 500 List

Abazias.com, a leading online diamond supplier, joins Blue Nile and beats much of the competition by appearing on Internet Retailer's Top 500 Guide for 2008 GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(Business Wire)-- Abazias.com (OTCBB:ABZA) has joined the likes of Blue Nile (NasdaqGS: NILE) and Ice.com by making it into the 2008 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Internet Retailer has compiled an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the top 500 largest and most successful e-retailers. The list is based on 2007 annual web sales, search engine rankings, and key customer service features. Readers can see a compelling and detailed profile of Abazias Diamonds in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Abazias is showcased as one of the 500 trailblazers who have helped make Internet retailing one of the fastest growing segments of the U.

TechWeb's Internet Evolution Publishes Dual Blogs by Internet Founders

PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TechWeb's Internet Evolution, a Web 2.0 site dedicated to investigating the future of the Internet, has gone back to the Internet's co-founders in search of answers about the looming crisis in Web congestion.

TechWeb's Internet Evolution Publishes Dual Blogs by Internet Founders

NEW YORK, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- TechWeb's Internet Evolution, a Web 2.0 site dedicated to investigating the future of the Internet, has gone back to the Internet's co-founders in search of answers about the looming crisis in Web congestion.

TechWeb's Internet Evolution Publishes Dual Blogs by Internet Founders

NEW YORK, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TechWeb's Internet Evolution, a Web 2.0 site dedicated to investigating the future of the Internet, has gone back to the Internet's co-founders in search of answers about the looming crisis in Web congestion.

TechWeb's Internet Evolution Publishes Dual Blogs by Internet Founders

NEW YORK, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TechWeb's Internet Evolution, a Web 2.0 site dedicated to investigating the future of the Internet, has gone back to the Internet's co-founders in search of answers about the looming crisis in Web congestion.

Photonic Switching to Boost Internet Speeds

Da Massive writes "Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and its all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass. After four years of development, University of Sydney scientists say the Internet is set to become on average 60 times faster than existing networks. According to the Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the University's School of Physics, the scratch will mean almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world."

Internet TV: watch this space

The British internet TV market could generate revenues of £1.78bn by 2011, according to research carried out by technology company Alcatel-Lucent. Although the industry is in its infancy, several British companies, including TV website Joost, already offer TV over the internet, and BT Vision, the pay-TV arm of the telecoms giant, uses broadband connections to deliver shows to customers' TV sets. Faster internet connections have already popularised some internet shows, including Kate Modern, made by social networking site Bebo.

GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding

Postglobalism writes "A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations. Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a 'clean-slate' approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969."

Major Security Flaw Discovered: Internet Privacy Compromised at All Levels

Yesterday, details were leaked of possibly the single largest threat to Internet security. Earlier this year, Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IOactive, discovered a major flaw in how Internet addresses function. The issue is in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is not limited to any single product. An attacker could easily take over portions of the Internet and redirect users to arbitrary and malicious locations to engage in identity theft. For example, an attacker could target an Internet Service Provider (ISP) replacing search engines, social networks, banks, and other sites with their own malicious content. Against corporate or government environments, an attacker could disrupt or monitor operations by rerouting network traffic, capturing emails and other sensitive data.

Major Security Flaw Discovered: Internet Privacy Compromised at All Levels

OTTAWA (Marketwire) - Yesterday, details were leaked of possibly the single largest threat to Internet security. Earlier this year, Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IOactive, discovered a major flaw in how Internet addresses function. The issue is in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is not limited to any single product. An attacker could easily take over portions of the Internet and redirect users to arbitrary and malicious locations to engage in identity theft. For example, an attacker could target an Internet Service Provider (ISP) replacing search engines, social networks, banks, and other sites with their own malicious content. Against corporate or government environments, an attacker could disrupt or monitor operations by rerouting network traffic, capturing emails and other sensitive data.

Major Security Flaw Discovered: Internet Privacy Compromised at All Levels

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- 07/22/08 -- Yesterday, details were leaked of possibly the single largest threat to Internet security. Earlier this year, Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IOactive, discovered a major flaw in how Internet addresses function. The issue is in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is not limited to any single product. An attacker could easily take over portions of the Internet and redirect users to arbitrary and malicious locations to engage in identity theft. For example, an attacker could target an Internet Service Provider (ISP) replacing search engines, social networks, banks, and other sites with their own malicious content. Against corporate or government environments, an attacker could disrupt or monitor operations by rerouting network traffic, capturing emails and other sensitive data.

Major Security Flaw Discovered: Internet Privacy Compromised at All Levels

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/22/08 -- Yesterday, details were leaked of possibly the single largest threat to Internet security. Earlier this year, Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IOactive, discovered a major flaw in how Internet addresses function. The issue is in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is not limited to any single product. An attacker could easily take over portions of the Internet and redirect users to arbitrary and malicious locations to engage in identity theft. For example, an attacker could target an Internet Service Provider (ISP) replacing search engines, social networks, banks, and other sites with their own malicious content. Against corporate or government environments, an attacker could disrupt or monitor operations by rerouting network traffic, capturing emails and other se

Major Security Flaw Discovered: Internet Privacy Compromised at All Levels

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/22/08 -- Yesterday, details were leaked of possibly the single largest threat to Internet security. Earlier this year, Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IOactive, discovered a major flaw in how Internet addresses function. The issue is in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is not limited to any single product. An attacker could easily take over portions of the Internet and redirect users to arbitrary and malicious locations to engage in identity theft. For example, an attacker could target an Internet Service Provider (ISP) replacing search engines, social networks, banks, and other sites with their own malicious content. Against corporate or government environments, an attacker could disrupt or monitor operations by rerouting network traffic, capturing emails and other se

Major Security Flaw Discovered: Internet Privacy Compromised at All Levels

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 22, 2008 -- Yesterday, details were leaked of possibly the single largest threat to Internet security. Earlier this year, Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IOactive, discovered a major flaw in how Internet addresses function. The issue is in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is not limited to any single product. An attacker could easily take over portions of the Internet and redirect users to arbitrary and malicious locations to engage in identity theft. For example, an attacker could target an Internet Service Provider (ISP) replacing search engines, social networks, banks, and other sites with their own malicious content. Against corporate or government environments, an attacker could disrupt or monitor operations by rerouting network traffic, capturing emails and other se

Major Security Flaw Discovered: Internet Privacy Compromised at All Levels

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jul 22, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Yesterday, details were leaked of possibly the single largest threat to Internet security. Earlier this year, Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IOactive, discovered a major flaw in how Internet addresses function. The issue is in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is not limited to any single product. An attacker could easily take over portions of the Internet and redirect users to arbitrary and malicious locations to engage in identity theft. For example, an attacker could target an Internet Service Provider (ISP) replacing search engines, social networks, banks, and other sites with their own malicious content. Against corporate or government environments, an attacker could disrupt or monitor operations by rerouting network traffic, capturing emails an

Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet

perlow tips his blog entry over at ZDNet on why the Internet didn't melt when millions of users streamed 480i video for a week. The short answer is Limelight Networks of Tempe, Arizona. "[W]hy the Internet didn't 'melt' is quite simple — [Limelight is] completely 'off the cloud.' In other words, unlike Akamai and similar content caching providers, their system isn't deployed over the public Internet... Limelight has partnered with over 800 broadband Internet providers worldwide... so that the content is either co-located in the same facility as your ISP's main communications infrastructure, or it leases a dedicated Optical Carrier line so that it actually appears as part of your ISP's internal network. In most cases, you're never even leaving your Tier 1 provider to get the video.

US No Longer the World's Internet Hub

museumpeace brings us a New York Times story about how internet traffic is increasingly flowing around the US as web-based industries catch up in other parts of the world. Other issues, such as the Patriot Act, have made foreign companies wary about having their data on US servers. From the NYTimes: "Internet industry executives and government officials have acknowledged that Internet traffic passing through the switching equipment of companies based in the United States has proved a distinct advantage for American intelligence agencies. In December 2005, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency had established a program with the cooperation of American telecommunications firms that included the interception of foreign Internet communications.

Free Connected Home Whitepaper Identifies Increasing Adoption of Internet-Enabled Consumer Electronics Devices, According to MultiMedia Intelligence

(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 07, 2008 ) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Adoption of an Internet Protocol (IP) interface is growing across virtually all TV-oriented consumer electronics devices, according to a new whitepaper recently released by MultiMedia Intelligence. Manufacturers of IPTV, cable, and satellite set-top boxes, video game consoles, Blu-ray DVD players, audio devices, digital media adapters and a new class of Internet-enabled TVs are adding an IP connection to their boxes. By 2012, MultiMedia Intelligence projects over 217 million Internet-enabled consumer electronics will be shipping annually. However, simply integrating an IP connection into CE devices is not enough to achieve the truly transformational impact that this market could ultimately have.

P2P Set-top Boxes To Revolutionize Internet

An anonymous reader writes "The European Commissions 7th Framework Program (FP7) is working on a project called Nano Data Centers (NADA) as part of the its future Internet initiative. NADA will seek to build an Internet architecture that delivers data from the edge of the Internet using set top boxes and Peer-to-Peer technology, instead of the network-centric architecture that stores and delivers content from data centers via Internet backbones. NADA is proposing a network of hundreds of thousands of set top boxes, hugely popular in Europe, to be essentially split into two — one side is the user interface side, the other a virtualised Peer-to-Peer storage client that stores and sends media in the same way a data center would. Ideally there would be millions of these boxes each acting as a mini data center — hence the Nano Data Center

Growing Popularity, Ubiquitous Broadband to Change the Face of Internet Search

FRISCO, TX, Aug 23 (MARKET WIRE) -- (PINKSHEETS: NXPC) A recent survey conducted by PEW Internet & American Life Project (PIP) reveals that "almost half of all Internet users now use search engines on a typical day," an increase of 69% from 2002 when Pew Internet & American Life Project first tracked search activity. The PIP survey also finds that those who use broadband connections at home are "significantly more likely" to use search than those with a dialup connection. According to Scott Grizzle, chief marketing officer for NeXplore Corporation, search's growing popularity and the proliferation of broadband will drive dramatic changes in the Internet search experience, particularly in how consumers interact with search engine results pages (SERPs).

Cable And Wireless Launches BlackBerry Internet Services In The Caymans

Cable and Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced that voice and data services for BlackBerry smartphones are now available from Cable and Wireless for pre-paid bmobile customers in the Cayman Islands and other countries in the Caribbean.

D-Link Now Shipping Wi-Fi Digital Photo Frame; Makes Internet Uploads a Snap

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA, Jul 09 (MARKET WIRE) -- D-Link today announced that it is now shipping the new Wi-Fi digital photo frame that lets users quickly and effortlessly display and share photos, as well as popular Internet content, using a convenient website or with a drag and drop widget. The D-Link(R) 10" Wireless Internet Photo Frame (DSM-210) combines the benefits of a digital photo frame with the convenience of the Internet, letting users easily manage digital photos stored on their computer or photo sharing website such as Flickr(R), Picasa(R) and Facebook(R). The D-Link frame also enables streaming of Internet content directly to the frame such as news, weather, sports, trivia, and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds without the need to connect with a PC.

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