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SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP

On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY ("speedy"). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), researchers at Google think they can do ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, LXer,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

2010 could be the last year for IPv4 as we know it

This was also the moment the IETF realized that at some point, we'd run out of IP addresses. Its estimated date for the well to run dry was 2005. Although they got the year wrong, they were right about their notion that 32 bits wasn't enough for the ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: IBM,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  John Curran (politician)

Saving us from forged DNS data: an update on DNSSEC

Like so many of the Internet protocols invented decades ago, the Domain Name System has some serious security issues. Earlier this week in Stockholm, the Internet Society (ISOC), the Internet Engineering Task Force, and DNS experts provided a status ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  30 Jul 2009

Better router tech: Mind the flows, not the packets

Anagran has found in testing these techniques in an office environment, that P2P users can be identified with high accuracy if during any four second period the user has more than 5 flows and more than 50 Kbps of traffic. In a recent article for ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  12 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Lawrence Roberts,  Cisco Systems, Inc.

Comcast to provide wholesale IPv6 service

At the 46th North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) meeting in Philadelphia last week, cable operator Comcast announced it was making IPv6 available to wholesale customers that connect to its fiber network. The most remarkable part here is what ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  22 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Comcast,  Netflix,  Skype

Internet Society promotes IPv6 as IETF extends IPv4

It's March again, the start of spring, and that means the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is meeting for one of its three yearly meetings. Last year in Philadelphia, the IETF "ate its own dogfood" by turning off IPv4 and depending exclusively on ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  25 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Ars reviews iWork '09: fourth time's a charm?

A year and 5 months after releasing iWork '08, Apple finally updated its productivity suite to version '09. Keynote 5.0, Pages 4.0, and Numbers 2.0 all sport some refinements, but this time around iWork isn't joined by a new family member. Apple touts ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  23 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Intel

Czech router "creativity" causes 'Net traffic chaos

Monday afternoon local time, Czech network operator SuproNet apparently decided that it didn't like the way traffic from the Internet flowed towards its network. So the company made a change. The result was that a number of routers elsewhere started ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  19 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.

GPGMail finally works under Mac OS X 10.5

When you think about it, it's ridiculous: almost all of those billions of e-mails that find their way around the globe every day are sent in the clear with no encryption of any kind applied to the message. There are two ways to encrypt e-mail: with ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  29 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Hands on: rejected Podcaster now in App Store as RSS Player

The normal price for RSS Player is $4.99, but it's currently available for $1.99. However, the question is whether RSS Player adds anything to the extensive podcasting features added to the iPhone in version 2.2 of the firmware? The answer: no, yes, ...

From ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM, Ars Technica,  27 Jan 2009

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