Apple's iPhone 4S announcement in Cupertino, Calif., predictably turned into a major social media event, prompting techies to post tens of thousands of related tweets on Twitter, thousands of thumbs-up likes on Facebook, and hundreds of comments on popular news sites during the 90 minute-long event.
IT budgets, salaries and staff turnover rates have returned to pre-recessionary levels, according to a new survey conducted by the Society of Information Management (SIM) that indicates increasing optimism among CIOs and IT executives nationwide.
BITS, the U.S. financial industry's IT policy arm, has a new leader: Paul Smocer, an expert in email security and authentication.
<a href="http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/">BlueCat Networks</a> has added new features to its DNS appliances aimed at simplifying the management of networks running IPv4 and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a>, the current and enhanced versions of the Internet Protocol.
Startup CloudFlare is turning the economics of IPv6 transition on its head with a free cloud-based IPv6-to-IPv4 translation service that is available to website operators starting today.
NTT Communications is expanding its IP network and services into one of the world's fastest-growing markets: Brazil.
At the 10-year mark of the nation's most devastating terrorist attack -- and one of its biggest disasters of any kind -- the United States is finally getting serious about overhauling its emergency response systems, particularly its workhorse 9-1-1 call centers.
The Internet engineering community is close to solving the thorny technical problem of identifying and routing emergency calls over the Internet similar to how they are handled over the regular telephone system.
Ten years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks demonstrated huge gaps in the nation's emergency communications systems, there is still a long list of standard networking capabilities that are unavailable to first responders and 9-1-1 operators.
Hurricane Irene produced more than record flooding in Vermont: On Sunday, Aug. 28, the state's emergency personnel received twice as many 9-1-1 calls as ever before, putting its new dynamic call routing system to the test.
Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a>, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4.
Where are the users? That's what popular websites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook are asking the Internet engineering community when they are questioned about their long-range plans to deploy IPv6.
The Internet's biggest content providers -- including Yahoo, Facebook and Google -- are reporting a significant decline in their measurements of "IPv6 brokenness," a term that describes end users with misconfigured systems that can't access websites supporting the next-generation Internet protocol called IPv6.
More than 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/022411-ipv6-misconceptions.html">IPv6</a> within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals conducted by Network World. Plus, 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then, too.
Upgrading your Web site to support IPv6 doesn't have to be hard or expensive. Here are six simple steps toward adopting IPv6 from companies that are already offering IPv6 content: