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Do Patterns of Internet Use Reveal Emotional State?

By now, most of us know that Internet marketers and other third parties attempt to track our Internet usage to create a profile of our likes, interests, and other information that allows them to target certain advertisements at us. But...

June 19, 2012

Technology Usenet

German ISP Reaches 4.7 Gbps World Record

Using common infrastructure and technology, German cable provider Kabel Deutschland has reached a new Internet speed record, hitting 4.7Gbps. The speed was seen at a school in the German city of Schwerin in the northern part of the country. Local...

June 8, 2012

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Prepare for IPv6 Launch on June 6

Dubbed ‘World IPv6 Launch Day’ and backed by tech companies like Facebook, Yahoo!, Bing, Comcast, AT&T, Cisco, and more, June 6 will mark the day that several Internet companies turn on IPv6 networking technology on a permanent basis. Short for...

June 5, 2012

Technology Usenet

Web Traffic Expected to Quadruple Current Usage by 2016

Cisco released its annual Visual Networking Index, and the report contained quite the whopper. Web traffic, the report predicts, will quadruple by 2016. The report predicts 1.3 zettabytes in annual traffic in 2016. The 2011 total online traffic was 369...

May 31, 2012

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Verizon Set to Offer 300Mbps FiOS Residential Internet

Verizon is preparing to allow FiOS subscribers to pick from new Internet packages, one of which allows download speeds up to 300Mbps (65Mbps upload speed) The entry level 15Mbps (5Mbps upload speed) remains unchanged from previous offering, but speeds get...

May 25, 2012

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Newsgroups Reveal Microsoft Office Soon Available on iOS and Android

Rumors of Microsoft Office soon to be available for the iPad (and other products using iOS) and Android tablets are not completely new, but now USENET newsgroups are citing a source in claiming a November release for the new Office...

May 24, 2012

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Intel’s New Processor, Ivy Bridge, Offer Greater Speed, Efficiency

Intel’s new Ivy Bridge line of processors is the first to include features at 22 nanometers. Other chips offer feature as small as 32 nanometers, and Intel’s new processors allow transistors on the chips to be more densely arranged. The...

May 15, 2012

Technology Usenet

Disney Researching Screen-Less Touch Technology

Science fiction movies are becoming closer to reality; or rather reality is catching up with science fiction. Disney Research is developing a new technology called Touché that uses your body and other objects as in place of a touch screen....

May 9, 2012

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Newsgroups Report That More Than 20K HTTPS Sites Insecure

According to a newsgroup posting, Ninety percent of the Internet’s top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) attack, according to a report released Thursday by the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), a nonprofit organization...

April 27, 2012

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Inaugural Internet Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced

The names of the inaugural Internet Hall of Fame inductees were announced today at the Internet Society’s Global INET 2012 conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Internet pioneers and luminaries from around the world gathered at the conference to mark the Internet...

April 23, 2012