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Article | 9/02/2011 Qualcomm aims at peer-to-peer with FlashLinq
Qualcomm plans to demonstrate a peer-to-peer wireless technology that will let devices form "neighborhood-area networks" at the Mobile World Congress ...
Article | 9/02/2011 Nokia Siemens integrates Wi-Fi and cellular networks
Nokia Siemens' Smart WLAN Connectivity Solution will free users from having to manually switch a device's data connection between Wi-Fi and cellular b...
Article | 8/02/2011 Suddenly everybody's selling IPv6
For IT professionals and network industry vendors alike, the events of last week represent a game changer regarding IPv6, which was developed in 1998 ...
Article | 5/02/2011 Why you shouldn't worry so much about IPv6
A critical juncture in history arrived this week as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned the last IPv4 addresses to the five region...
Article | 4/02/2011 Internet filter on track for July 2011: Conroy
Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has denied Internet filtering is on the backburner and said the voluntary filter is on track for impl...
Article | 4/02/2011 Egyptian activist: Internet shutdown backfired
The Egyptian government's move last week to shut down the Internet in the country backfired because it further inflamed antigovernment protestors, a d...
Article | 4/02/2011 The Internet kill switch that isn't
A cybersecurity proposal in the U.S. Congress, called an "Internet kill switch" plan by some critics, isn't exactly what that sounds like.
Article | 4/02/2011 ICANN assigns its last IPv4 addresses
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has handed out its last IPv4 addresses, leaving the remaining blocks to regional registries that in som...
Article | 3/02/2011 Blocking Internet cost Egypt at least $90M, says OECD
The Egyptian government's five-day block of Internet services cost the national economy at least US$90 million, the Organization for Economic Cooperat...
Article | 3/02/2011 Egypt reverses 'kill switch' to restore Internet access
Egypt returned to the Internet earlier today by reversing the "kill switch" move it made last week when it withdrew router announcements, experts said...
Article | 2/02/2011 IPv4's funeral expected to come Thursday
A press conference taking place on Thursday in Miami is expected to mark the last allocation of internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses by the ce...
Article | 2/02/2011 Advanced antennas, virtual modems to make networks greener
The GreenTouch Consortium demonstrated its work Tuesday into how using large-scale antenna systems and virtual modems, along with splitting mobile net...
Article | 2/02/2011 US peer-to-peer traffic lower than world average
The U.S. has one of the lowest relative rates of use of P-to-P (peer-to-peer) networks compared to the rest of the world, according to a new study.
Article | 1/02/2011 Address allocation kicks off IPv4 endgame
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has assigned two large blocks of IPv4 addresses to the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, activating a r...
Article | 1/02/2011 Internet 'kill switch' bill reintroduced as Egypt remains dark
On the heels of what's being described as the biggest electronic shutdown by a government, legislators in the U.S. are trying to reintroduce a bill th...
Article | 1/02/2011 Africa to continue using IPv4
Africa will continue using Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) after the global supply is exhausted in coming weeks.
Article | 1/02/2011 Egypt goes dark as last Internet company pulls the plug
Egypt is now off the grid.
Article | 1/02/2011 Vodafone says it had to cut mobile service in Egypt
Vodafone, with 28 million cellular customers in Egypt, and France Telecom restored mobile voice services there on Saturday, one day after service stop...
Article | 1/02/2011 Ericsson demonstrates HSPA at 168M bps
Ericsson has demonstrated HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) with download speeds up to 168M bps (bits per second) and 24M bps on the uplink, the company...
Article | 1/02/2011 As IPv4 disappears, transition poses hazards
With the last IPv4 addresses about to be allocated, the good news is that IT managers -- at least in the U.S. and Europe -- don't suddenly have to get...

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