Nethercomm Corporation a Southern California Company is developing a new BroadBand Technology that effectively delivers a new generation of BroadBand services and does it at a low-cost.
Read More About it at Nethercomm.com
Sep
20
Is WiMax a solution to bring broadband Internet to the Jungle? Santa Clara, Calif. based chipmaker Intel, in conjunction with Brazilian schools and companies, has brought easily accessible broadband to Parintins, an isolated city of 114,000 on an island in the Amazon Basin.
A tower for WiMax, a long-range wireless technology, was set up on the island and connects two schools, a hospital, a community center and a university to a broadband network. To date, the Internet had been accessed primarily with dial-up connections, said Ricardo Carreon, regional director of Intel Latin America. The only broadband options were microwave or satellite. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett came to the city for the formal unveiling of the networks.
Intel estimates that the new network will serve about 1,500 students and 10,000 community members.
WiMax could be a solution to help developing countries gain the power of technology and the Internet. The hospital, for instance, will use the link for telemedicine and remote diagnostics.
Sep
19
The White House is distributing government-produced, anti-drug videos on YouTube, the trendy Internet service that already features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.
The decision to distribute public service announcements and other videos over YouTube represents the first concerted effort by the U.S. government to influence customers of the popular service, which shows more than 100 million videos per day.
The administration was expected to announce its decision later Tuesday. It said it was not paying any money to load its previously produced videos onto YouTube’s service, so the program is effectively free. Already by Tuesday, thousands of YouTube users had watched some of the government’s videos.
Sep
19
If you are a Earthlink customer a change recently made by the company to increase their advertising revenues has essentialy broke the Internet.
For most of us (at least, those of us who are lucky enough to have mainly trouble-free connections), our relationship with our ISP pretty much begins and ends with paying the bill. We pay, they provide open access to the Internet. End of story, right?
Well, maybe not if you’re an Earthlink subscriber. Earthlink has taken it upon themselves to institute a new “feature” that re-directs mis-typed domain names (”Dead Domains”) to a page that offers suggestions for the correct domain, a Yahoo search box, a whole listing of “suggested” links, and, of course, several different ads.
“So what?” you might be saying, “This doesn’t seem so bad.” Well, maybe not…as long as you’re surfing the Web. But as Ed Foster points out, the real issue starts to arise if you’re not using a Web browser. In that case, since the DNS doesn’t return an ‘NXDOMAIN’ domain error but instead returns the IP address of the Earthlink portal, non-Web programs that rely on that error to alert users of an incorrectly-typed domain name (such as FTP programs, video conferencing programs, or even email programs) might work in unexpected ways if given the wrong domain name.
Sep
19
A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of Vector Markup Language (VML) documents. This can be exploited by e.g. tricking a user into viewing a malicious VML document containing an overly long “fill” method inside a “rect” tag.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.