Stories about: IETF

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    Google aims for faster Web downloads with SPDY protocol 16/11/2009 08:09:00

    Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it's experimenting with, the company said in a blog post.
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    Google advances multiple efforts to make the web faster 14/11/2009 12:21:00

    When you add up this week's top Google news, it paints a picture of a gargantuan, but immature, effort to make the Web faster.
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    Cisco pushes to open up telepresence 13/11/2009 06:40:00

    Cisco is making a concerted effort to improve the compatibility of its telepresence gear, something that industry observers say has been lagging, but that is sorely needed if it and other vendors are to succeed.
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    Is the Internet doomed to fail? 03/04/2009 10:40:00

    Sounds like a crazy question, in this era of Facebook, Twitter and a "digital millennial" generation that's grown up never not knowing the Internet.
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    The 5 best router and switch features you never use 01/04/2009 07:06:00

    It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities.
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    Fatal flaw for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible 26/03/2009 08:09:00

    The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 - a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol - is that it lacks backwards compatibility with the existing Internet Protocol, known as IPv4.
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    Antiphishing group develops e-crime reporting tool 12/03/2009 08:28:00

    A group dedicated to fighting phishing scams has developed a way for police and other organizations to report e-crimes in a common data format readable by a Web browser or other application.
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    Detecting Internet routing 'lies' 21/01/2009 12:12:00

    Australian Geoff Huston is one of the foremost authorities on Internet routing and scaling issues. We sent Huston, a former Chief Scientist, Telstra Internet, a few questions about the U.S. government's plan to bolster R&D to secure the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Here are excerpts of from what Huston had to say:
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    U.S. plots major upgrade to Internet router security 19/01/2009 11:53:00

    The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet's routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding digital signatures to router communications.
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    Experts to Feds: Sign the DNS root ASAP 26/11/2008 07:35:00

    Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the US federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS hierarchy, which is known as the root zone.
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    12 myths about how the Internet works 21/11/2008 14:10:00

    Thirty years have passed since the Internet Protocol was first described in a series of technical documents written by early experimenters. Since then, countless engineers have created systems and applications that rely on IP as the communications link between people and their computers.
 
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