W3C Introduces an HTML5 Logo
HTML5 W3C unveiled today an HTML5 logo, a visual identity for the open web platform. The World Wide Web Consortium is a collaboration of sorts...
Major Websites Commit to 24-Hour Test Flight for IPv6
Facebook, Google and Yahoo websites are joining major content delivery networks Akamai and Limelight Networks, and the Internet Society, for the first global-scale trial of...
Mozilla and Opera Disable Web Sockets In Their Browsers Due To Vulnerabilities in the Protocol
Mozilla and Opera put their Web Socket plans on hold this week after a recently demonstrated attack against the protocol. The Web Sockets...
MIT Researchers Promise an Internet 100 Times as Fast
A new network design developed by MIT researchers avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones and could boost capacity while...
FCC To Seek Better Legal Framework For Broadband Internet Access
The Federal Communications Commission today opened a new proceeding to identify the legal approach that will best support its efforts to ensure universal access to...
Global IP Traffic to Increase More Than Fourfold by 2014
Cisco's annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than...
First Non-latin Web Addresses Go Live
Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters. For the first time in the history...
Bell Labs Achieves 300 Mbps Over Two DSL Lines
Alcatel-Lucent today announced that its research arm, Bell Labs, has successfully demonstrated a technology that boosts the transmission speeds achievable over just two digital subscriber...
FCC Outlines Broadband Plan
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will deliver to Congress a National Broadband Plan setting an ambitious agenda in an effort to bring affordable, high-speed Internet...
FCC Launches Broadband Speed Tool
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet. The 'Consumer Broadband Test'...
