Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
- Dell and Facebook prepping ’significant’ announcement
Two of the biggest names in tech are teaming up on a cloud computing project that they plan to announce at a special event next week. Facebook amasses billions of photos, friend connections, and status updates and stores them up in “the cloud,” and Dell is working on being one of the main providers of the infrastructure–servers–that makes the cloud possible.
- Almost one mobile phone for every South Korean
Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday. The data means each of the country’s 15.8 million households has almost three mobiles on average, it said.
- 24 Ways to Make and Save Money With Your Computer
You probably rely on your computer to accomplish a lot of things (and waste some time), but do you realize that computers and the Internet are some of the most powerful tools you can have in your financial toolbox? There are many ways that your computer can help you make and save money that weren’t available just a few years ago.
- We’re running out of IPv4 addresses. Time for IPv6. Really.
Unless something unexpected happens, we’ll be out of IPv4 addresses at some point in the neighborhood of 2012. So when the next Olympics come around, it’s very possible that some of us will have to watch them online over IPv6. (Actually the official website of the 2008 Olympics is already available over IPv6.)
Here are some interesting links from today:
- How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar.
After making sure that I wasn’t downloading a virus, I installed DoSHTTP and started playing around with it. Along with offering customizable options to advanced users, there was also a nice option for beginners like me. After entering a URL, I could initiate an attack by clicking something that said “Start Flood.” A flood did follow—war at the touch of a button.
- Dropped calls plague iPhone 3G, and not just in U.S.
If you’re having problems with dropped calls on your new 3G Apple iPhone, you’re not alone.
From New York to Stockholm, 3G iPhone owners are complaining loudly about connection failures – sometimes repeatedly – during calls. The problem typically occurs when the device attempts to move from 3G to another network.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Sharing 2999 Songs, 199 Movies Becomes ‘Safe’ in Germany
Prosecutors in a German state have announced they will refuse to entertain the majority of file-sharing lawsuits in future. It appears that only commercial-scale copyright infringers will be pursued, with those sharing under 3000 music tracks and 200 movies dropping under the prosecution radar.
- Network Access Control: Deploy Now or Wait?
Network Access Control (NAC) sounds like something of a panacea—: technology that can not only authenticate who is using your company's network, but also ensure that users' methods of access are virus-free and fully comply with your company's corporate security policies. And NAC has been getting a lot of press lately—proponents tout its ability to keep corporate networks clean and healthy in ways that technologies of the past couldn't.
- VMware Bug is Worse Than a Glitch To Users Who Depend on It
When VMware VI3 Update 2 was release, VMware placed incorrect sizes for the ISO images on their website, apparently due to some automation issue. However, a worse problem awaited people on August 12th; A problem that would disable licensing and keep new VMs from being booted. But already running VMs worked just fine.
- New PCs can wake up when they get phone calls
Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet.
Here are some interesting links from today:
Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
- Behind NBC’s Olympics Website
Four years ago there was just a few dozen hours of video up on the site. Thousands of machines are needed to encode and serve the video and the site. Interesting conversation, hope you enjoy a little look behind one of the people who worked behind the scenes for months on this site.
- 6 Reasons Today’s Olympic Swimmers are Breaking so many World Records
For some reason every swim event in this Olympics is a record smasher. And it isn’t just Michael Phelps who’s seconds ahead of that daunting green world record line. Curious what’s making this year’s athletes so much faster? Here are 6 possible answers.
- Moving Beyond Passwords For Security
The solution urged by the experts is to abandon passwords — and to move to a fundamentally different model, one in which humans play little or no part in logging on. Instead, machines have a cryptographically encoded conversation to establish both partie
