Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that customers have deployed more than 1 ...
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Dr Phillip Hallam-Baker, a vice president and principal scientist in charge of web security software development at security software vendor Comodo, has published a paper calling for a more robust internet architecture that can combat web ...
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Fast-growing semiconductor designer ARM has snapped up Sensinode, a Finnish start-up specialising in software technology behind the "internet of things". Like ARM, Sensinode makes money by licensing, but of software to semiconductor ...
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DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an unnamed financial services firm earlier this week using one of the largest traffic bombardments ever recorded, mitigation firm Prolexic has reported. The 167 Gbps peak attack hit what is being ...
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Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center ...
Google is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate SMS or voice communications into applications running on the company's App Engine platform. Working with Twilio, Google has created native Python and Java libraries for ...
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Nokia said on Monday it is not prepared to license any of its patented technologies that might be essential to the VP8 video codec that is backed by Google. VP8 is a video compressing technology that was acquired by Google in 2010 from ...
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There are three technologies that will fundamentally change the nature of video over the next few years, and these are having a significant impact on the collaboration market, according to Cisco. The first technology is High Efficiency ...
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The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, such as browser authentication cookies, from encrypted communications. The patching ...
IDG News Service - With an eye toward updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer ...
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN body that has played a standards-setting role for global telecommunication networks over the decades, Wednesday night suffered a website attack that severely disrupted a conference to ...
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Ericsson has launched the world's first WebRTC-compatible browser for mobile devices, which will allow developers to integrate voice and video communications in their Web-based applications. The WebRTC (real-time communication) ...
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There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the ...
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With an eye towards updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), the ...
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Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet, warned Internet pioneer and Google executive Vint Cerf. “The Internet is under ...
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