Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Top 10 Key Information Technology Trends For 2012

Monday, October 31st, 2011

At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, said the Top 10 Trends show how IT is changing in that many of them in the past been outside the traditional purview of IT, but they will all affect ...

Royal Society Makes 350 Years Of Sciene Papers Freely Available Online

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

BBC reports that the world's oldest scientific academy, the Royal Society, has made its historical journal, which includes over 8000 scientific papers, permanently free to access online. You can reach all the old journal articles from this page at the Royal Society by selecting a journal and going to past issues." [caption ...

Future Tech: Visible Light Communications

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Visible Light Communication uses light emitting diodes (LEDs), for the dual role of illumination and data transmission. Using the visible light spectrum, which is free and less crowded than other frequencies, wireless services can be piggy-backed over existing lighting installations. With this leading edge technology, data ...

Facebook Adds Skype Video Chat Feature

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site. The move is likely to be seen as a shot across the bow of Google, which recently launched a Facebook rival, Google+, also featuring video calling. This is not the first time Facebook and Skype have ...

IPv6: Are You Ready?

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

As IPv6 is around the corner and set to grow in the coming few years, are you ready for it yet? Find out using this test if your network are ready for IPv6. IPv6 is an IP address standard designed to replace the current IPv4 protocol, which has been in use since ...

Broadband Internet Speeds 2009-2010: The Top 10 Countries

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The results of the second annual global study on the quality of broadband connections done at end of 2009 reveal that 62 out of the 66 countries analyzed had improved the quality of consumer broadband services since last year. However, new data from the study highlights ...