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March 2010 |
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Internet hardware company Cisco Systems has unveiled a router that is potentially capable of transferring data at up to 322 Terabits per second (Tbps), or around 32 times faster than a regular 100Mbps home computer network. Dubbed Carrier Routing System 3, the system is 12 times faster than its closest competitor which is Juniper Networks TX Matrix Plus which has a maximum throughput of of 25 Tbps. The Carrier Routing System 3 announcement came nearly six years after Cisco announced CRS 1, which has a |
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Feb 2010 |
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Google has said that from 1 March some of its services such as Google Docs, would not work "properly" with Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a January 2010 cyber attack on the search engine. The company urges users to upgrade their browser "as soon as possible". Google threatened to withdraw from the Chinese market following the "sophisticated and targeted" attacks, which it said originated in China. Following Google's revelations of a "sophisticated and targeted" attack where |
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Feb 2010 |
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UK psychologists have said there is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, finding that 1.2 percent of people surveyed were "internet addicts", and many of these were depressed. The conclusions were based on 1,319 responses to an on-line questionnaire, and recruitment was via links on social networking sites. People were asked how much they used the internet and for what purposes, and were also asked a series of questions to assess whether they suffered from depression. These "internet |
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Feb 2010 |
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Microsoft is investigating another flaw in its popular Internet Explorer browser. The new vulnerability affects users running its browser on older operating systems, which could result in an unauthorised disclosure of information. In a security advisory the software giant said that even though there are currently no attacks based on the flaw it could be used for a Web-based attack. This latest flaw could affect users running Windows XP and Internet Explorer on Windows XP. Those running the browser on a |
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Jan 2010 |
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Last month people were searching more than any month during the year, with Google the clear winner in the search engine stakes. ComScore release a study last week showing that 46 percent more searched were made in December 2009 than during the same period in 2008. The web tracking firm stated that people 15 years and older made 131 billion searches in December alone, an average of around 4 billion searches per day, or 29 million every minute. ComScore also indicated that United States internet users search |
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Jan 2010 |
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Search giant Google has increased its efforts to get traction for Google Voice on the iPhone by launching a new version of the Google Voice service. The new version of the application, which allows users to make cheap long-distance calls and to forward calls from a single phone number to multiple phones, among other things, can be accessed only via a phone's web browser, as opposed to applications that are downloaded directly onto a phone and installed. Back in July, Apple turned down Google's application |
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Jan 2010 |
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Facebook users are being offered a free 'firewall' that monitors their pages, in real time, for malicious posts, links and spam. The app, called Defensio 2.0, monitors all Facebook posts in real time against Websense's ThreatSeeker Network, a database of problem URLs. The app then decided if a post is malicious or unwanted. If a malicious or unwanted post if detected, the system informs the users, who can then decide which course of action to take. The app can also monitor web pages for rogue posting and |
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Jan 2010 |
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Google's video-sharing site YouTube will take its first steps into the online movie rental business on the 22nd of January, with an initial tome of only 5 different movies. The five movies that will be available to rent will be from the 2009 and 2019 Sundance film festival, and will only be available for rent in the US. Google-owned YouTube has been looking for ways to boost revenue and monetise the company since they bought it in 2006 for USD1.65bn, with some recent reports stating that it is losing |
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Jan 2010 |
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Social networking site Facebook will build its own data centers. It has previously leased server space and bandwidth from wholesale data center, but has grown to such an extent that a custom-built infrastructure would be more cost-effective."Facebook is always looking at ways to scale our infrastructure and better serve our users," said Facebook spokesperson Kathleen Loughlin said last week. "It should come as no surprise that, at some point, building a customized data center will be the most efficient |
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Jan 2010 |
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Research firm TeleGeography has said that during 2009 Skype-to-Skype calls accounted for 54 billion out of a total of 406 billion international call minutes or 13 percent. Stephan Beckert, an analyst at TeleGeography, said that while growth in international telephone traffic had slowed, Skype's traffic had soared. He said that Skype's on-net international traffic grew by 51 percent in 2008, and TeleGeography's estimate for 2009 is 63 percent growth, to 54 billion minutes. In 2008 TeleGeography put Skype's |
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Jan 2010 |
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has joined the social networking revolution with a "Hello World," joining the ranks of the Twitterati and quickly becoming one of the microblogging site's most popular attractions. Gates followed up with a couple of additional tweets, aimed at raising awareness about earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, also admitting he's a newbie when it comes to using the site. Twitter has put a "Verified Account" seal on the feed, indicating it has checked and determined that @BillGates |
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Jan 2010 |
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Authorities in France have joined the German government in urging citizens to use an alternative browser after the threat caused by a flaw which allowed Chinese hackers to attack Google's systems continues to grow. The world's largest software company last week admitted that the hack of Google's systems was caused by a vulnerability in version 6 of its popular web browser. "The vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference within Internet Explorer," read a Microsoft security advisory. "It is possible |
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Jan 2010 |
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation is calling for donations to help it dispatch a consignment of machines to aid workers in disaster-hit Haiti. The organisation announced in a statement this week that it is working with several technology companies to dispatch communication equipment to help aid efforts in Haiti. Tech companies - including Google, Microsoft and Apple - have also pledged help for the relief effort. The statement said "We want free ruggedized XO Laptops running Linux (with Wi-Fi, |
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Jan 2010 |
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Twitter's popularity and use continues to grow the world over, but according to new stats from Sysomos the microblogging site is not doing so well in the United States. The number of US Twitter users has declined but grown internationally since June 2009, with the high-growth areas being Brazil, Indonesia and Germany. Sysomos based its results on 13 million unique and active Twitter accounts from 16 October to 16 December 2009, found that unique US users totalled 50.9 percent. This shows a decline in US |
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Jan 2010 |
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Microsoft today announced that it will cut the duration it stores its Bing search engine searchers' IP addresses from 18 months to 6 months. Google cut their retention times to 9 months in August 2008. Microsoft executives said however that what thye're doing goes much further than Google in that Microsoft will delete all parts of the IP address after six months, while in contrast Google still retains part of the address after its 9 month cut-off point. The new policy will take between 12 and 18 months to |
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