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Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things: Selected Challenges
White Papers In future, WSNs are expected to be integrated into the "Internet of Things", where sensor nodes join the Internet dynamically, and use it to collaborate and accomplish their tasks. However, when WSNs become a part of the Internet, one must...
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
10 things you should know before buying satellite broadband Internet service
White Papers Until fairly recently if you were in a location without cable television service or further than a few miles from a telephone substation, you were stuck with dialup Internet service. But today there are several one- and two-way satellite Internet...
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
'No danger' of Internet-address shortage
News The idea that there is an Internet-address shortage looming in Asia or any part of the world is "misinformation", according to a senior executive at the body responsible for distributing and registering Internet-address resources in the Asia...
[June 24, 2003, 14:22]
The value of an Internet usage policy
Talkback Yes the Internet is a powerful too and has many nasties on it, but you must always assume the network is under threat and install things that can protect every step of the way. Its called an internet security gateway, something like eSafe by www...
[September 15, 2006, 16:09]
EU to look at cost of Internet access
News The high price of Internet access in Europe will be top of the agenda at the forthcoming EU summit in Lisbon, as European leaders consider legislation to bring costs down. The cost of Internet access in the UK has become headline news as Prime...
[February 29, 2000, 10:55]
US Report: Trekkers staging an 'Insurrection'?
News Droves of Star Trek fans are boldly going onto the Internet on the eve of Friday's launch of the "Star Trek: Insurrection" movie -- posting film stills, poster images and even fan art on hundreds of Web sites.
[December 11, 1998, 9:24]
Jane Wakefield: Keep on believing the Internet hype
News Soon we will be describing ourselves as "former users" and thrusting our noses in the air at the outmoded use of the Internet for such things as banking, shopping and email. The Daily Telegraph began the vicious rumour that the Internet was just a...
[December 8, 2000, 14:01]
Vint Cerf hears VoIP calling
News For someone widely regarded as the father of the Internet, Vint Cerf can be surprisingly coy about predicting the future. I can do video, imagery, text -- run programs -- and there's room for new services not created yet like using the Internet...
[September 11, 2003, 10:00]
Archbishop Carey bemoans 'dot.com society'
News Carey hit out at those in Britain still in the grips of Internet gold-rush fever saying, "We are so often seduced into believing that all that matters are things like power, success, fame and money. This is just the latest attack launched by the...
[April 25, 2000, 11:49]
Internet concepts build new ways of storage
News The Internet way of doing things, on the other hand, makes everything on the network available to everyone, with the links being as lightweight and simple to implement as possible concomitant with scalability and good-enough reliability.
[April 10, 2002, 15:56]
Future Net: Six technologies to make a bulletproof Web
News The Internet didn't just magically appear, and it won't just magically get better. Stephen Deering speaks of the Internet Protocol layer of the modern model for public exchange of data over communications networks as if it were a faceted jewel...
[September 7, 1999, 16:09]
Google wins porn probe fight
Talkback I don't think we should worry so much about privacy if everyone was doing descent things on the internet. I ask what is the alternative to censoring the internet for minors? Are we hiding behind the virtue of privacy because we really want to cover...
[March 21, 2006, 22:06]
Internet rights are hard to divine
Leader There is a natural order of things ordained by God, which includes the US running the Internet. The US has maintained its grip on the Internet, and the rest of the world meekly follows. New international bodies have been set up to consider Internet...
[November 16, 2005, 13:15]
Microsoft 'Cloud OS' takes shape
News Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying internet services opened up to developers, the software maker made clear this week. But, quibbles over nomenclature aside, Microsoft made clear this...
[July 12, 2007, 12:57]
Dr Vinton Cerf - Founder of the Internet
Talkback On March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Realm Media http://www.newrealm.com.au interviewed Dr Vinton Cerf who was in Brisbane Australia to present ‘Internet, Infinity and Beyond’ excerpts from Dr. Cerf relating to the development of the Internet...
[June 28, 2007, 1:21]
Microsoft vs. Google: Who's greener?
News As Google and Microsoft battle for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a new question has cropped up: Which one can better save planet Earth? No doubt, Google and Microsoft, two of the top Internet sites in the world, use massive amounts of...
[June 6, 2006, 15:40]
The Net's new neighbourhood watch
News What makes things worse is that reports of such incidents to Internet service providers (ISPs) are, more often than not, met with silence. It's a recipe for paranoia: take a garden-variety PC, connect it to the Internet over a high-speed line, and...
[December 6, 2000, 12:09]
Jane Wakefield: Why we need a slice of American pie
News It is, unfortunately, the old, old story of how much better the Americans do all things Internet compared to us. I was to spend the week visiting high-tech firms in the legendary Silicon Valley (that is why no column appeared last week -- I would...
[February 7, 2000, 9:00]
Microsoft: Many Windows 7 features can be disabled
News Testers had noticed that users of recent Windows 7 builds could turn off the Internet Explorer 8 web browser, in addition to many other things that were already part of a 'Windows Features' dialogue box.
[March 9, 2009, 10:31]
Sorting security fact from fiction
News Many hoax warnings have appeared claiming that a particular site or Internet service puts a cookie on your hard disk that will allow anyone to read "any of the information on your drive". This virus warning, in various forms, has been making its...
[April 11, 2006, 16:20]
