Paul E. Black, a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new “top-level domains” such as .com, that people type in navigating the Web.
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According to Parks Associates’ National Technology Scan survey 20 million US households are with out internet access. The survey is due to be published.
It was also revealed that around one-fifth of all US heads-of-household have never used email.
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Virgin Media is planning to introduce 50Gbps network services later this year after a successful trial with Nortel and Juniper in April. The trial named “North-South” trial was the first of its kind in the UK.
They carried 40Gbps traffic on the Virgin network over a 350km stretch between London and Manchester. It also demonstrated […]
The legal challenge from two prominent advocacy groups has forced FBI to with draw its secret request for information about a user of the Internet Archive digital library.
The case dates to last year but only became public on Wednesday.
Seth Lloyd, a researcher at MIT, believes that a new architecture for QRAM could be used to not only reduce the energy wasted by RAM, but also be used for completely anonymous Internet search.
In classical computing, random access memory (RAM) is needed to do things. But it is subject to a certain level of energy […]
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China has surpassed USA as the no.1 nation in Internet users. According to estimates from official Chinese statistics by the Beijing based research group BDA China, the number Internet users in China hit more than 220 million as of February 2008. This will be confirmed by Chinese government in July 2008 when it releases […]
