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Dartmouth's Computer Science Department has released a technical report comparing actual wireless network performance with what both models and most people think wireless performance actually is.Quoting from the abstract: Although it is tempting to assume that all radios have circular...
Akamai has suffered a denial-of-service attack affecting its major customers, including Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo. There is a minor report at vnunet.com . A more detailed report can be found at news.netcraft.com.Akamai's chief scientist Tom Leighton says that the attack,...
Dartmouth College has put out a really interesting technical report about the way that use of their 802.11 Wi-Fi network has changed over time.Part of their abstract:We employ several measurement techniques, including syslogs, telephone records, SNMP polling and tcpdump packet...
A group of hackers somewhere has created a virus for the Symbian mobile phones. It propagates by Bluetooth, according to this interesting and even somewhat informative article.Is this worrisome? Absolutely. The Symbian operating system has been marketed as a "secure"...
While Google continues limited beta tests of its new Gmail service, which offers one gigabyte of online storage, Yahoo has gone the search king one better, offering two gigabytes of storage to subscribers to its premium e-mail package, up from...
A survey released today by the Results for America project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute reveals that almost 75 percent of Americans support former First Lady Nancy Reagan's call for the Bush White House to lift restrictions...
Fifteen years on, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has finally gotten the sort of reward many tech pioneers of the '90s chased after--a financial one. Tuesday he will become the first recipient of the world's largest technology prize, the $1.2 million...
How's this for dedication? According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, fans of the upcoming shoot 'em up game, Half-Life 2, have reportedly helped federal agents nab the crooks who leaked the game's source code last fall. The leak caused the long-awaited...
I went on vacation and came back to find six different people (including my editor) had sent me copies of a recent New York Times article about a fan who had redone the soundtrack to Harry Potter and The Sorcerer...
Digital video recorders from TiVo or ReplayTV make it easier than ever to ignore the networks' programming schedules--not to mention their commercials. Now TiVo plans to use customers' broadband Internet connections to further lessen their dependence on the traditional networks...
