Category: Internet

Business Internet

AT&T brings 300Mbps fiber internet to Austin in December, gigabit by ‘mid-2014’

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala Now that AT&T is actually laying down fiber-optic line in Austin, we have yet anotherreason to be jealous of Texas’ weird city. According to Ma Bell, “tens of thousands” will be getting 300Mbps downloads (and uploads), the “fastest internet speeds available” in town to the general public, come December. Those subscribers can snag a free upgrade to gigabit service — GigaPower, as the company calls it — when it’s available in the middle…

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Google Internet

Google Fiber Compared To Broadband By Putting A Middle Age Guy In A Bath Robe And Soaking Him With A Firehose

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Provo, Utah is getting Google Fiber in the next few months. So how do you explain to the people of this small city north of Salt Lake what that will mean for their Interent service? You get a guy to wear a bath robe and stand next to a raised swimming pool with a garden hose, symbolic of broadband service. Then you drench him with a fire truck deluge gun and two…

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Education Internet

Mindsy Wants To Be The Netflix Of E-Learning

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As reported on TechCrunch. by STEVE O’HEAR Launched publicly last month, Mindsy is a new UK startup that’s building a Netflix-style service for consuming e-learning content, specifically online video courses. Instead of selling individual courses as per sites like Udemy and Skillshare, the company is repackaging some of the same premium video content in a subscription ‘all you can eat’ model, costing $29 per month. Mindsy also recently raised a small amount of funding: An £80,000 seed round…

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Government Internet Security

New Revelations Detail How The NSA Scans 75% Of The Internet Through Telco Partnerships

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Today the Wall Street Journal reported the existence of several NSA programs that were either previously unknown, or little was known about. Meet Blarney, Fairview, Oakstar, Lithium and Stormbrew. The programs allow for far greater surveillance than the government has admitted to, and, importantly, detail how the government forces Internet service providers (ISPs) to hand over raw data. The programs have the ability to “reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic,”…

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Internet

This is the future of web browsing

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris So long as web developers actually embrace it An article shared on Sidebar today highlights the mind-blowing power of HTML5. Web developer / Mozilla evangelist David Walsh has collated nine demos that use just native web technologies to show how much can be done in your web browser without the need for plugins like Flash and Silverlight. Here are three of the best.   The first demo, Zen Photon Garden, lets you draw on…

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Business Internet

Bell Labs doubles beams in fiber optic lines to reach 400Gbps on a global scale

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas It’s comparatively easy to run fiber optic lines at high speeds; it’s another matter to sustain that pace between continents. Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs has found a way to go that extreme distance by relying on the basic concept behind noise-cancelling headphones. When the researchers send data across two light beams in opposing phases, they can superimpose the signals and neutralize the distortion that would normally occur at long ranges. Such clean output lets…

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Business Internet

US Senate passes internet sales tax bill, faces a stiff fight in House

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas The debate over taxing out-of-state online sales in the US has been raging for years, but there are signs that the often messy saga is finally winding to a close… well, maybe. The Senate just voted 69-27 in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would make internet retailers collect out-of-state sales taxes that Americans are already obligated to pay, but rarely do under a current system that…

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Internet

Offline: how to use the internet

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As reported on The Verge. By Paul Miller After a year away, the internet is a little bit scary and totally enthralling Whew! What a week. First came Monday, and then Tuesday, and then there was the internet. You know how in Star Trek when they engage the warp engines and the Enterprise kind of stalls for a moment while its projection blurs toward the future, toward the stars, and then it’s gone? I’m in the blur phase.…

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History Internet

CERN celebrates 20 years of a free, open web by restoring world’s first website

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As reported on Engadget. By James Trew The web as we know it was famously invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working atCERN, but it wasn’t until a few years later — 1993 to be precise — that it’d truly be set free. On April 30 of that year, Berners-Lee’s then employer would make the technology behind the WWW available license free, bundling a basic browser and some key chunks of code into the deal. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of…

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Government Internet

Three Men Arrested For Attempting To Cut Undersea Internet Cable In Egypt

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS Egyptian authorities arrested three men off the coast of Alexandria for attempting to sever an undersea Internet cable. The SEA-ME-WE 4 main line was part of a cable network that spanned the Mediterranean and connects Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe and has 39 landing points, including Alexandria. Seacom, a cable operator, said that the attacks reduced network speed in Egypt. The line belonged to Telecom Egypt.…

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