Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Iran – Blocking the Internet (Part 2)
This has many Western nations worried of the implications of having a country that has been tied and accused of having links to many terror organizations that span the globe having the capability and technology to deploy nuclear weapons. The country says it is purely for power generation yet their testing of an intercontinental ballistic [...]
Read More..>>Online-Advertising Pays
Recent studies have shown that retail sales in stores all across the US this holiday season are on the rise because of online information. People nowadays do research on the products they are interested in from online catalogs and make decisions whether the said products are the ones they really need and then go to [...]
Read More..>>More on Voip
More on the Voice over Internet phenomenon, even telecommunications providers are offering them and for the first time they have been seen to take over the main revenue earners for phone companies. In 2008, phone line applications for internet use are projected to overtake phone only applications for the first time in the internet’s history. [...]
Read More..>>Microsoft Xbox Live???
There is growing disgust in how problems with Microsoft�s Xbox live is really performing as users grab Microsoft products and hook up to the internet failing to get access and even getting dropped. Some complain of getting only actually a fraction of game time even after several hours of connection to the site. The company [...]
Read More..>>An Internet that Understands You???
The technology is there, the only problem for today’s internet users? It isn’t FREE. The internet has remained the same since it was put up as a system to link computers and aid in America’s Nuclear Defense strategy. Today, it has become the biggest social networking system man has ever known. The internet is a [...]
Read More..>>Improving Netflix
It is quite sometime now since Netflix, one of the web’s largest movie rental businesses has posted a challenge worth $1 Million. To date, no one has taken the top prize was for a recommendation system that would improve products movement more than the one they already have. Many have been working on the said [...]
Read More..>>Web Sites That Count
Many companies got so engrossed in the design and facilities of their web sites that they forgot to put their mouths behind their said web sites. Many of these so-called killer sites utilized the latest technology in their stunning graphics and visual presentations. Many even winning design awards based solely on the way their sites [...]
Read More..>>Google Expansion
Google, one of the biggest web based searched engines has announced the launch of it’s expanded search capabilities to the global market. Google�s powerful custom search was previously available to the US market and with this announcement makes it the premier search engines of the world. The said Custom Search feature uses the latest technology [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits you and me? (Part 3)
With common transactional data, 128 bit encryption is standard for it is estimated that it would take a couple of years for a computer that is fast enough to crack it. Take it a notch up, and you get a time frame goes up to a couple of decades or so till technology can get [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits You and Me? (Part 2)
That all happens in a couple of minutes without you ever knowing that there was some very fascinating stuff happening in the background. For credit cards and other major bank transactions, they are now using PCI-DSS; an encryption standard that encrypts the transaction information as it travels thought the network. Anyone who taps into the [...]
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