Internet

IPv6 addresses – how many is that in numbers?

IPv6 is our Word of the Day today. The big difference between it andIPv4 is the increase in address space. IPv4 addresses are 32 bits; IPv6 addresses are 128 bits. That's a lot more, for...

IPTV or Internet TV?

When I selected IPTV for today's Word of the Day, it was in response to seeing articles about iTV (Internet television) and assuming -- silly me! -- that it was the same thing.

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g-speak: Oblong brings the “Minority Report” operating system to science reality

William Gibson noted recently that the cyberpunk fiction he'd been writing over the past quarter century has now become science fact. Pattern Recognition and Spook Country are both set in near-futures with technology and social norms that...

What is Blog Action Day? A chance to help fight global poverty.

Blog Action Day is, according to its founders, "an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day."

Chrome: A shiny Web browser from Google may just be the next global platform for running Web applications

Techies and geeks returned from one last weekend of sun, sand and summer to find news of a disruptive change sweeping the online business world. Meet

Bizzwords: Business lingo describes the state and style of the information age

Isn't it amazing how the business lingo of the times reflects the technologies, anxieties and energies of a period? My local NPR station, WBUR, featured a...

Google helps you keep up with the Olympics

These days, Google isn't just a search engine, though of course google.com is the starting point for most online searches. As Dylan Casey points out on the Official Google Blog, Google has now made it easier than ever for users to

How you can watch the Olympics live online (and what sysadmins can do about it)

After years of buildup, the Olympics are about to kick off tomorrow in Beijing. As Shamus McGillicuddy reports,

Video: Jimmy Wales on Google’s Knol

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, talked to WNYC's Brian Lehrer about Google Knol, a new competitor...

Bit.ly: A better URL shortener for developers, data geeks and microbloggers

The old adage about not reinventing the wheel doesn't quite extend to Web applications. URL shorteners may have been around for years but there is plenty of room for improvement. This