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Oct 19, 2010

Antenna in Space to Provide 4G Wireless Service

A new communications satellite that aims to provide 4G wireless mobile services to potentially millions of subscribers in the United States is heading for the launch pad. Boeing today announced that it has shipped the LightSquared SkyTerra 1, a high-capacity mobile communications satellite, from the company's integration and test complex...

Nov 4, 2010

Web’s Undersea Cables Need Revamp to Prevent Catastrophe

The massive set of undersea cables that makes up the infrastructure of the Internet needs to be revamped to ensure security during a crisis, according to a top security expert. “At the national level, it’s been implemented -- the most important communications get through. But other countries don’t have the...

Nov 4, 2010

What Net Neutrality Means for Small Business

The Internet has leveled the playing field between big businesses and small. On the Internet, after all, nobody knows you’re just two men and a dog working out of your garage. Until now, net neutrality has ensured that as long as you could meet your customers’ needs, no one could...

Nov 17, 2010

Girls Play Down Intelligence and Kindness Online

Teenage girls present a different image to the world online than they do in person, a new survey shows. A national survey of more than 1,000 girls ages 14 through 17 found that many downplay certain aspects of themselves online – namely qualities such as intelligence and kindness. While 82...

Nov 17, 2010

eTomb Tweets from Beyond the Grave

Humans have marked burial spots since caveman days, and constructed wonders like the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids of Giza to commemorate the dead. But c'mon, this is 2010, and a giant pile of rocks just doesn't cut it for a generation that mostly lives online anyway. Enter the...

Nov 22, 2010

Ho Ho Hoax: Christmas Tree App Virus is a Facebook Fakeout

Facebook users are currently spreading a warning urging their friends to avoid a fraudulent Christmas tree application, but it turns out they're all barking up the wrong tree. Security firm Sophos has noticed thousands of Facebook users posting messages with the title, WARNING!!!!!! DO NOT USE THE Christmas tree app...

Nov 23, 2010

Satellite Internet Is Set For a Big Leap Forward in 2012

Broadband Internet delivered via satellite stands to get a big boost in 2012 when HughesNet, one of two major providers in the United States, launches a next-generation spacecraft. The new satellite, named Jupiter, will be able to transfer data faster than the company's current dedicated Spaceway satellite and an array...

Dec 16, 2010

Gap Between Young and Old Web Users Shrinking

The online behavior of Gen Y (ages 18-33) and Gen X (ages 34-45) engaged various activities from social media use, reading blogs and playing games is becoming more uniformly popular, as well. The percentage of all adult Internet users who watch video online also jumped in the last two years,...

Dec 20, 2010

Top 10 Tech Stories of the Year

Looking back, 2010 wasn’t marked by technological innovation so much as technological maturation. This wasn’t the year that social networking started, but it was the year that your grandmother joined Facebook. This wasn’t the year that Google got huge, but it was the year Google started wrestling with the problems...

Feb 1, 2011

Could Satellites Bypass an Internet Shutdown?

Online censorship and Internet kill-switches could meet their match if satellite-enabled services and ground peer-to-peer networks become more widespread in the future. That's the view of Kosta Grammatis, CEO and founder of ahumanright.org, who sees Internet access as a basic necessity. An independent satellite operator could have kept Egyptian protesters...

Feb 2, 2011

Internet Service Restored in Egypt After 5-Day Blackout

Amidst ongoing political protests, the Egyptian government restored Internet service to the country Wednesday after a five-day blackout. “Egyptian Internet providers returned to the Internet at 09:29:31 UTC (11:29 a.m. Cairo time),” said a blog post by the Web-monitoring firm Renesys. (That’s 4:29 a.m. EST.) The Egyptian Stock Exchange, Commercial...

May 10, 2011

Navy Uses Massive Multiplayer Online Game to Develop Anti-Pirate Strategy

To fight piracy off the coast of Africa, the U.S. Navy has deployed advanced warships, robotic drones and even elite special forces. The Navy has now added a new weapon to that fight: a World of Warcraft-like multiplayer game called MMOWGLI. The game brings experts from around the government into...

May 20, 2011

High-Speed Internet Is Fast Track to Rx Drug Abuse

The expansion of high-speed Internet connections to rural towns and inner city America has helped introduce more people than ever to the commerce and knowledge of the Information Age. However, a new study says that the widespread increase in access to high-speed Internet connections could also be directly connected to...

Sep 6, 2011

Communicating on the Web (Infographic)

Here's how the 2 billion people on the Internet are communicating. (Image credit: Ross Toro, ) ...

Nov 7, 2011

Time Warner Confirms Nationwide Internet Outage

Time Warner Cable experienced a massive Internet outage across most of its service markets on Monday morning, the company has confirmed. Time Warner Internet subscribers from New York and Los Angeles to Dallas and Kansas City, Mo., were unable to connect to the Internet for less than a minute this...