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Microsoft targets swept-up browser at broadband users
News The new version of AOL emphasises multimedia content, such as streaming video and music clips, which AOL hopes will appeal to more people accessing the Internet via faster connections. Microsoft plans to market MSN Premium to people already...
[August 27, 2003, 11:54]
Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa
News Brilliant Digital chief executive Kevin Bermeister says computers or Internet connections won't be used without their owners' permission. A few computers with fast connections will form the early core of the network and be asked to join first.
[April 2, 2002, 9:21]
A Year Ago: Will Pentium III live up to its hype?
News With truly high-speed connections, the PC hard drive will act as a PC VCR, storing frames even when a user has paused the playback. But that is only if Internet users have high-speed connections that transfer 1.5 million bits of data or more, Intel...
[February 17, 2000, 5:59]
Privacy Abuse by Technology
Blog There will be a paragraph or two that will surrender the user's rights to have his data connections kept private. By looking for a string of characters in the traffic passing through the user connections to the ISP, pirates will be identified.
[December 30, 2008, 8:34]
World's largest quantum-encrypted network unveiled
News In the past, quantum cryptography has only really focused on point-to-point connections, but the network — which is operated by the University of Vienna — has developed the concept by using a series of nodes each with three fibre connections to...
[October 13, 2008, 9:42]
Government subsidies 'would harm Broadband Britain'
News The UK achieved one million broadband connections last month and, as ZDNet UK reported on Friday, broadband take-up is thought to be currently running at 34,000 new orders per week. According to Oftel, around 15 million homes could get broadband...
[November 15, 2002, 15:10]
Fibre optic to dominate EU broadband market by 2010
News The EC is keeping a firm eye on the progress of broadband connections across the community. The EU predicts that 6 percent of home Internet connections could use FWA by 2006. ADSL is only a transitory technology that will be overtaken by fibre...
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News We have thousands of connections and they can't all be tested in situ. James Gillies, head of communications at Cern, told ZDNet.co.uk that each magnet in the LHC was tested before it was switched on, but not the electrical and vacuum connections.
[October 3, 2008, 14:07]
Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 beta is faster and lighter
News Browsers generally use two connections to the same site in order to retrieve data. Because web pages are becoming more complex, an increase in the number of connections supported by the browser should mean faster data retrieval.
[April 3, 2008, 13:09]
Overland cable connects India and China
News Noting the recent cable cut which took out connections in the Asia-Pacific region, he said the terrestrial cable, which takes a different route, will avoid the undersea turbulence which disrupted the sub-sea ACPN2 (Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2...
[August 27, 2009, 12:07]
Broadband TV could spark tighter Web controls
News As a rapidly growing number of Internet users move onto broadband connections, and those connections become faster and faster, there will soon be many million of households capable of receiving video broadcasts on demand over the Web.
[December 6, 2004, 11:15]
10 things you should know about deploying a UPS
News Be sure that a system receives sufficient time to close all open connections and applications and properly shut down. Sure, the UPS may guard against the PC or server being damaged by electrical surges reaching the system via a power outlet, but...
[June 21, 2006, 15:40]
UK 'lagging on VoIP usage'
News According to the OECD, there were just 0.6 percent broadband connections per hundred UK inhabitants, compared to 1 percent in France and 2.3 percent in The UK didn't catch up with France until the third quarter of when both were recorded to have...
[November 29, 2005, 15:15]
WiGig spec promises 7Gbps wireless streaming
News The technology could supersede wired connections such as HDMI cables, and would also be a potential successor to the latest Wi-Fi technology, 802.11n. Display interfaces are now at an "inflection point where the next generation solutions will...
[December 11, 2009, 11:55]
Cern plans gentle restart for LHC in November
News The machinery is immensely complex, with 10,000 high-current superconducting electrical connections. It was one of those electrical connections that misfired shortly after the collider was turned on for the first time in September 2008, causing...
[August 10, 2009, 11:30]
Get Set... (Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex)
Blog When you are in range of one or more wireless networks, the Network Manager will inform you; you can connect to a wireless network very easily, whether it is unprotected or has WEP, WPA or WPA2 security, both on Wireless-G and Wireless-N connections.
[October 29, 2008, 10:08]
Wireless Web fails the screen test
News Net connections via the computer are less common, and generally more expensive, in Japan than in the United States. There was a whole range of things that need to be changed," said Jakob Neilsen, an influential Silicon Valley computer consultant...
[January 18, 2001, 12:15]
DSL growth hits record high
News By most estimates, there are about 15 million cable modems in the United States, twice as many as there are DSL connections, but there are only five million other cable modem connections anywhere else in the world.
[December 11, 2002, 10:42]
Bits of Shiny Broken Windows
Blog This has an effect on the mapped drive connections the local IT guy insists on mapping with his start-up script. Mapped network connections in Vista come and go at some seemingly arbitrary schedule. The flying monkeys in Redmond might have...
[March 20, 2009, 1:22]
Eurostar plans Wi-Fi trials
News GNER has moved the furthest down the track toward enabling its trains with wireless LAN connections, in December launching a three-month trial on one train running from London Kings Cross to Scotland.
[February 6, 2004, 13:00]
