Global business leaders and heads of government gathered in Geneva last week to discuss the future of Internet domain naming. These include domain name organisation, IP addresses and protocol numbering.
Small and medium sized companies - which make up almost 90 per cent of European businesses - are still opting for simple, low-cost dial-up accounts. Business-to-business ecommerce is set to cause a huge surge in demand for Internet access in Europe...
It's only going to get worse because the demand for .com domain names is set to rise exponentially this year and the current system will be really pushed to handle it", he added. Network Solutions - the US group responsible for managing the world's...
Since that deal went west when AOL made a play for Time Warner, Bertelsmann has been setting out its own path. By 2004, a Gartner Group survey predicts, Germany will be out in front and if you combine the activity of these two front running nations...
We do not believe in adding an inter-governmental layer of bureaucracy over such a dynamic medium as the internet. Less than two weeks before a United Nations summit on the internet begins, technology firms including Google, IBM and Microsoft are...
Starting from the last: bi-directional working means equal bandwidth for upstream and downstream transmission. They also had a vested interested in selling their tired and outdated copper networks, mired by cross-talk limited performance, making it...