Sunday, February 5th, 2012 2:49 pm

Comcast: New $7 equipment fee for business Internet customers

Philadelphia (ip-192.com): Staying connected has just become more expensive – at least for Comcast Business Class Internet customers. The largest cable operator in the U.S. has quietly added an equipment fee to its high-speed Business Class Internet service. The additional $7 fee (plus taxes) was implemented in December 2011 and will appear on new invoices [...]

Internet censorship: Web as a proxy server

Ann Arbor (ip-192.com): A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites. The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) and the [...]

$8.2 billion: Europeans move to the cloud

London (ip-192.com): European enterprises will spend $8.2 billion on consulting and migration to cloud computing by 2015, market research and analysis firm International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts. This represents a dramatic increase from $560 million spend by then entities in 2010 and shows that companies are starting to migrate existing applications to public or private [...]

IPv6: Worldwide test for Internet Protocol

Atlanta (ip-192.com): In a global experiment, engineers and content providers will test the viability of IPv6 on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. The new Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) will go live for one day on the public internet. “We're going to turn it on everywhere, at least for 24 hours, and see what happens - [...]