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This year's BBC Reith lectures came to a close today with the last of three lectures on Securing Freedom, presented by Eliza Manningham-Buller. The name may mean nothing to you but she was the Director-General of Britain's Security Service, aka MI5, between October 2002 and April 2007, and she reflects on 9/11, the wars in the Middle East and how
The Institute of Engineering and Technology's monthly magazine always has plenty of tech articles and this month is no exception with a look at the different approaches to space flight being adopted by the US and Russia in Gateway to the Stars. In the US, privateers are pushing forwards with the new Spaceport America in New Mexico, while the Russians
Sprint is rumored to be getting the iPhone5 in October. If that is true, they may have to adapt to the phone, instead of vise-versa.
Actually, I stopped using hotel WiFi because of this, too. You end up getting speeds slower than a modem and sometimes you are paying $10-$15 a day for it. However, with the cloud looming and people wanting to watch YouTube videos and doing live meetings like GotoMeeting, the average user's need for better speeds is a necessity. The standard 802.11b wifi
The USA is the worst country in the world for relaying spam, according to Sophos' latest report on spam. The US was responsible for 13.1%, followed by Brazil and India at 7.3% and 6.8% respectively, with the UK, Russia and Italy tied in 7th place. In a further twist, China has completely disappeared from the top 12 and now relays
So the numbers are getting better. According to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), 80% of Internet users are aware of the botnets and spam in email. They know that there is no national lottery or company that spells their product V1@gra. Still, 20 percent of users are still taking SPAM seriously. That is seriously a bad number and it shows,
In a report just issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the number of U.S. broadband users has nearly tripled between June 2001 and December 2003. As of the survey, 28 million lines of high-speed access to the Internet, defined as at least 200 Kbps bandwidth in at least one direction, are in use in the United States.