New York (ip-192.com): The IEEE standards association has ratified a new 40/100 Gb/s Ethernet standard, providing a single architecture that supports up to 100 Gb Ethernet and a physical layer specification. In addition to the increased bandwidth pipeline, the IEEE 802.3ba standard remains compatible with existing IEEE 802.3 installations, thereby preserving significant industry investment in [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google has released the next generation of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Chrome 5.0 is the fastest version of Google's browser yet, thanks to improved JavaScript performance. The V8 engine, updated from version 1.3 to 2.2, compiles JavaScript to native machine code before executing it. With the new [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google Wave, a collaboration tool that combines email, instant messaging and rich content such as video, interactive polling, and maps, has been released to the general public. The availability of the online tool, which Google described as "a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration," was announced during Google's I/O conference [...]
Islamabad (ip-192.com): Pakistan blocked access to Google's YouTube service due to "objectionable content." A day earlier, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked access to the social networking site Facebook, following a court order. More than 450 web links were unavailable; including certain pages on Wikipedia and Flickr, as the government widened a crackdown on material [...]
Bedford (ip-192.com): Computer networks in 441 Fortune 500 companies had systems accessed by infected machines, RSA reports. The security division of EMC says that advanced forms of malware such as the Zeus Trojan can silently capture a wide variety of data and credentials contained on enterprise computers and laptops, including proprietary information such as legal [...]
Mountain View (ip-192.com): Internet users in China experience new disruptions when they try to use Google’s search engine. Queries are dropped even for innocent searches that have not been censored before. Several media reports indicate that almost all searches on Google initiated by users in mainland China seem to be blocked now. Google confirmed that [...]
