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According to Cisco Systems, visual networking will drive a nearly exponential growth in IP traffic between now and 2012.
IP traffic to ‘double’ every two years - vnunet.com
In related news, Hughes Network systems has announced satellite broadband delivering download speeds of up to 3 Mbps.

SpeedGuide.net News :: Hughes Breaks Satellite Speed Barrier

Firefox 3 launched today — Download Day — and it’s time to upgrade to the best browser ever, IMNSHO. Your opinion, of course, may vary — but it doesn’t make you right. :p You can download it here. Do it today and help Mozilla set a 1-day download record that will be […]

Flat-rate broadband – however cheap or expensive (depending on your point of view) it might be – inspired the formation of Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Apple’s iTunes and MySpace, amongst others. It allowed us to freely experiment, to embrace both the applications and the ideas they represented, such as VoIP, online video, digital downloads and social […]

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the American News Project, a new video journalism site that produces short reports on political and environmental topics.
Investigative Reporting in 10 Minutes or Less

Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online. Increasingly, they don’t even bring laptops. Many engineers at Google, the leading internet company and a magnet for nomads, travel with only a BlackBerry, iPhone or other “smart phone”. If ever the need arises for a […]

RED BANK, N. J., April 16, 2008 — BigString Corporation (OTCBB: BSGC)
today unveiled a new self-destructing instant messaging technology that
enables users to send instant messages (IMs) that self-destruct after
being sent. Additionally, IMs sent via BigString’s service cannot be
copied, logged or screen-printed. BigString IM is a free advertising
supported service available at http://www.bigstring.com. It is
available as a […]

Google may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the Internet by a company that harnesses the power of next-generation Web technology, the inventor of the World Wide Web has said.
The search giant had developed an extremely effective way of searching for pages on the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee said, but that ability […]

The $31-a-share bid of cash or Microsoft stock is 62 percent more than Yahoo’s closing price yesterday. Before today, Yahoo had dropped 18 percent this year in Nasdaq Stock Market trading, and this week posted a 23 percent profit decline for the fourth quarter.  Bloomberg.com: U.S.

For those of you who’ve been wondering where you could put a free blog that will accept all those photographs from your vacation in Patagonia — and Antarctica — and Africa — and China — and… — you need look no further.  As of Monday, WordPress is offering 3 Gigabytes of free storage for all […]

TechCrunch informs us of a dirty little trick NS has come up with to revive its flagging domains sales.  [Opinion: it sucks]
As of Tuesday, if a user does a search on the site for a domain name,Network Solution immediately registers the domain in their own name. Ifthe user then goes to a discount registrar to […]

I received this email today. Every link on the page except for the link to view the card is a genuine link to the Hallmark site. The viewing link is to an executable file. I didn’t take it any farther than that. You may also notice that “recieved” is misspelled twice. […]

Kelsey Blodgett, writing for SAI, discusses Dartmouth University’s free wireless program, and the implications that it and other similar programs have for the telecom and ISP industries.
and…
Mike Elgan, writing for earthweb.com, tells us why a company called Asustek is becoming the most hated outfit in the PC industry…and what it has to offer you.
Finally, ABC […]

Wired News has an excellent article on “open source learning”…
There has never been a more exciting time for the intellectually curious.
The world’s top universities have come late to the world of online education, but they’re arriving at last, creating an all-you-can eat online buffet of information.
And mostly, they are giving it away.  Wired News - […]

Barbara Krasnoff takes a look at the latest Beta from Mozilla.org:
December 27, 2007 (Computerworld) New versions of favorite applications are always a little tricky; you want to keep up with the times without fixing what ain’t broke. With that in mind, I took a look at the newly released Firefox 3 Beta 2 to see […]

Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in
Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands of websites
susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors. …
One reason for the sheer volume of vulnerable applets: SWF files generated by six of the more popular content development tools automatically contain the bugs, according to the book. […]

The search engine company has developed a series of translation bots for its Google Talk application, which translate conversations in real time.
The service includes 24 translation bots, converting between languages such as English, French, German, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Google learns to speak your language

Security researchers have identified a Trojan that hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with “ads” from a different provider that are likely to be laced with spyware.
The Qhost-WU modifies an infected computer’s hosts file, thereby poisoning systems with bogus DNS lookup records. The hosts file matches domain names of websites with corresponding IP addresses. By […]

In the year ahead, a long-heralded revolution in wireless communications will finally come to pass. It may throw handset makers and service providers into turmoil, but over time it should be great for consumers. Fast, wireless data will become more widely available, the choice of data devices and mobile handsets will expand, and service just […]

Additional enhancements include more easily decipherable security notices, and a password manager that checks to make sure the correct password has been entered before Mozilla saves it. There is also an automatic check for insecure plugins, extensions and Java, and anti-virus integration with the new download manager.
Latest Version of Firefox 3.0 Goes to Developers - […]