What’s Happening on the Internet?
There are all kinds of questions people have about the shape of the Internet. Some people wonder how many websites there are, or what country sends out the most spam email on the planet. Everything from the market share of web browsers to web servers is of interest to anyone who follows trends in cyberspace, and if you are working in an industry like online marketing, distance education, or even just personal blogging, all of this should be of interest to you. This kind of information can help you make decisions today that will affect your business (or hobby) tomorrow. But first, a...
read moreHappy World IPv6 Day!
This will go down in history as the Day We Got Our IP Addresses Back. Until today, IPv6 has been in place for many websites traditionally accessed using IPv4 addresses, but the only way to see them via IPv6 was to manually change the settings in your browser. Internet security company Arbor Networks, which montitors use of the IPv6 protocol globally, reports that today’s test run of the system went smoothly. “We didn’t see any big problems or slowdowns today. Things went much as they had the day before,” a spokesman said. Another added, “We take this to be an...
read moreInternet Traffic Will be Off the Charts by 2015
More people than ever will be using the Internet on a daily basis, In a new prediction following Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Report, a dramatic leap in Internet traffic will occur as a result of four key factors. direct tv programming More devices: Internet connected devices are expected to outnumber the world’s population of human beings by 4 to 1 as the number of tablets, smart phones, PDAs, and other connect. More people. By 2015, more than 40 percent of the world’s total population is expected to be online. That’s more than 3 billion people, an all time...
read moreWhen Technology Becomes Magic
If you are like most people in today’s busy and technologically inundated world, then you’re probably packing a small arsenal of gadgets on your person at all times. In the not so distant future, the number of technological devices you feel the need to carry around with you everywhere you go will be exponentially diminished. No, this isn’t because of a new iPhone or Android mobile device — and it’s not something Apple, Inc. has dreamed up and patented but hasn’t released yet. What I’m talking about are neural interface devices. These little...
read moreInternet Safety
Internet safety is a big issue for parents of young children, who might meet unwanted “friends” through social networking sites and instant messaging clients. Some families create rules for a minimum age at which children will be allowed to interact with those kinds of programs online, while others install commercial Internet filters to help protect their family’s experiences from becoming unintended forays into the world of the corrupt side of the Internet. Still other parents completely restrict Internet use, both at home and at public schools (by opting out of the...
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Net News
- Should doctors use a ‘shopping cart’ for health care services? February 22, 2012RAND Corporation’s Robert Brook makes the case for an Amazon.com-like checkout system of medicine, in the latest issue of JAMA: What if every time a practitioner used an electronic medical record system to order a procedure or test for a patient, an electronic shopping cart appeared, indicating how much that “purchase” would cost? What if at the end of the d […]
- The GOP’s big donor advantage, and small donor problem February 22, 2012Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam profile the “rarefied group of millionaires and billionaires acting as kingmakers in the GOP contest.” “I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections,” casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who is funding a pro-Gingrich super PAC, said in an interview published this week in Forbes magazine. “But as long as it’s doab […]
- Our unequal tax system, in one HTML table February 22, 2012Bruce Bartlett and Kevin Drum point to a striking table in the 2012 Economic Report of the President (pdf) showing that there’s a huge variation in what people of similar income levels actually pay in federal taxes: Read full article >> […]
