With all the hype circulating over Google’s gigabit fiber rollout, it’s easy to forget that availability remains somewhat limited in the cities scheduled for the service. Despite Olathe, Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Hills, Kansas on the short list for Google Fiber, nearby Lawrence (about 29 miles from Olathe) isn’t scheduled for coverage. In what […]
The body of Brown University student Sunil Tripathi has been confirmed found in the water near Indian Point Park in Providence, Rhode Island. While this might provide closure for Tripathi’s family, who have searched for him since mid-March, it’s also a potent reminder of how wrong Reddit users were when they falsely accused him of being […]
A recent report from The Mainichi claims Japan’s National Police Agency (roughly equivalent to the FBI in the United States) urges ISPs to block internet connections for users found abusing Tor (The Onion Router) clients. Tor’s purpose is to create secure, anonymous connections to internet sites by splitting up the data stream and routing it […]
Now that the July 9 deadline has come and gone, it appears few experienced a loss of their internet connection after all. According to the FBI (who shut down its temporary replacement DNS servers at 12:01 AM on Monday, as expected), only about 41,800 infected computers were accessing them from the United States as of […]
Only weeks after the FBI warned travelers of an increasing risk of data theft while using hotel internet connection, the FTC files a complaint against the Wyndham hotel chain for alleged failures in data security. Wyndham hotels had three security breaches within less than two years’ time, ultimately leading to hundreds of thousands of customer’s […]
With the proliferation of mobile gadgets connected to the internet, President Barack Obama declares it’s time the United States has a privacy Bill of Rights. Administration officials urged consumer groups and technology companies to craft and submit suggested privacy protections to add to guidelines they began crafting on Thursday. Initially, these rules will be voluntary […]
The U.S. House of Representatives put a freeze on SOPA legislation today, as Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia (R) announces he’ll take no further action on the bill. Although a somewhat unexpected move, perhaps it’s unsurprising considering the amount of negative press the controversial legislation has received and the fact that the White House stated […]
People would like to think that Yeshiva University is a Jewish haven in a modern world where influences of the outside world haven’t taken hold. During my time there, we didn’t have high-speed internet connections in the dorms, (I was using 56K dial-up to connect to the schools UNIX modem pools and used PINE for […]
“One shall stand, one shall fall.” Technically, the line refers to the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, but it could easily apply to the rivalry between Amazon.com and Google. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is creating an Amazon Prime-like shipping service for other online retailers to compete with Amazon. Details are […]
The just released, and extremely long, 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report illustrates how deeply ingrained the internet is with a young person’s daily life. This study surveys 2,800 professionals and college students 30 years old or younger from 14 different countries. Nearly half of respondents (62 percent of employees surveyed and 55 percent of […]
