With today's bandwidth aggregation technology you may be able to purchase multiple low-cost lines and combine them to give you the bandwidth you need, allowing you to expand further (and gradually) as usage continues to grow.

What happens when your IM service goes down and you can communicate as quickly with the people who you need to contact? I ran into this exact dilemma yesterday when the Yahoo Messenger service was down. Check out the news story: “Yahoo outages frustrate some users.”  According to Yahoo spokeswoman Kiersten Hollars, “For a brief ...

A poll on TechRepublic and CNET.com asked users to identify the biggest nuisance on the Internet. Find out how IT pros and IT consumers differ in their number one answer to this question.

George Ou just posted another blog regarding Net neutrality, and I felt that the time was right for me to weigh in on this issue as well. His point is valid; why is it reasonable for a content provider to block or grant access, based upon who carries the last mile, but the last mile ...

Ask me again in five years...

The proposal to safeguard net neutrality has been rejected by the House of Representatives 269-152.  The proposed amendment to the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act) added clauses to force service providers to treat all internet traffic equally–preserving the very pillars which founded the internet–the free and unbiased flow of information. Sir Tim ...

I am very grateful that I am no longer at my last, super corporate job, and that at my current job, I run the IT systems. Why? Because Skype probably would have gotten me fired from my last job. Skype, like every other major instant messaging client, has a conversation history feature. Unlike the others, ...

Ready to go beyond the usual reactive methods of protecting against intruders and take a more proactive role? Instead of waiting for them to come to you, you can lure them in (and in some cases, catch them) by deploying a fake server or entire fake network called a honeypot or honeynet.

Berners-Lee, the founder/creator of the world wide web has warned that the efforts of some companies in the US to have legislation changed–could curb net neutrality.  This is the latest of many concerns to be aired on the subject of net neutrality; infrastructure providers who have invested heavily in creating an open and interconnected infrastructure ...

There have been times in my life when I’ve questioned my addiction to the Internet – when my ISP goes down, during my vacations from work, and sometimes in the evenings and on the weekends when a particular blog post receives a lot of new comments. Of course, I quickly justify my obsession with the Internet ...

While Yahoo, Microsoft, and others have spotted Google a huge lead in search, Microsoft appears to be putting its head down and digging in to make up some ground on the leader. Microsoft is obviously stepping up its rhetoric and its investment in search, as witnessed this week when Bill Gates touted a new approach ...

The W3C has made an attempt to establish standard guidelines for Resource Description Framework (RDF) / Topic Maps interoperability. This document analyzes the development background of both standards, and provides an overview of five different relationship proposals.

Growing businesses may have offices in several locations, and networking those sites can be a challenge. But there's a scalable and cost effective way to do it: implement a site-to-site VPN solution.

There have been estimates that over 35% of all Internet traffic is consumed by BitTorrent. Naturally, we have to be careful with those numbers because the files being transferred on most of the torrents are audio, music, and video files, which are exponentially larger than most e-mails or HTML pages. Still, this 35% stat shows ...

I would argue that we are in the midst of a technology boom, or at the very least a strong upswing. The current “boom” certainly does not resemble the hysteria and unbridled enthusiasm of the dot com years, but it has a much more solid foundation and better prospects for a sustained long-term expansion. Much ...