Latest news about advanced networking research.
What’s cooking at DEMO 2007?, 02/05/2007
Start-ups vie to get a chance to showcase their fresh innovations at DEMO. Attendees to this year’s event last week saw the launch of some 60-plus new products.
Cisco, Canadian cable provider test 100Mbps service, 02/05/2007
Videotron, a Canadian cable multisystem operator, said it can achieve Internet access speeds approaching 100Mbps using equipment from Cisco, writes Network World’s Jim Duffy.
Start-up launches its first power-efficient chip, 02/05/2007
A start-up chip company is introducing a power-efficient processor it has been developing for three years, just as the market clamors for energy efficiency, writes Robert Mullins of the IDG News Service.
U.Mass. professor gets federal money to study computer privacy, 02/05/2007
A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $500,000 federal grant to study privacy and accountability in computer database systems, writes Network World’s Jon Brodkin.
IBM Labs’ top-five research projects, 02/05/2007
IBM opened the doors to its R&D lab in Silicon Valley last week to show off some of the research that is happening around its research facilities in the United States. These include ‘IBM’s Next Five in Five’…
More kids stumbling across online porn, survey says, 02/05/2007
Children as young as 10 and 11 are increasingly being exposed to online pornography – and usually by accident, according to a new university study being published Monday.
Here’s to the research innovators, 02/01/2007
Columnist Johna Till Johnson weighs in on the distinctions between the R and D in R&D: “At last week’s Vista rollout, Steve Ballmer reportedly remarked that the Internet “wasn’t fully developed” in 1995.”
Enterprise R&D to hit Juniper profits, 02/01/2007
Juniper this week reported fourth quarter and full year 2006 earnings in line with analyst expectations, but cautioned that expenses in building its enterprise product portfolio and channel will squeeze 2007 margins.
Startup freeing the good stuff from university research labs, 02/01/2007
Buzzblog writer Paul McNamara writes that: “University research labs are not supposed to be like Las Vegas: What happens in them is not supposed to stay there, yet too often that’s what happens.”
New Face of Computing Symposium, 01/29/2007
Georgia Tech on March 2 is hosting a symposium with the name above. On the agenda are sessions ranging from where computer science education is headed to social computing to robotics.
Better fingerprinting?, 01/25/2007
Researchers are trying to come up with guidelines for using biometric hardware and software that could result in more efficient use and better results.
Can we make radio interference into a virtue?, 01/24/2007
A University of Illinois researcher is trying the wireless equivalent of making a silk purse out of sow’s ear, writes Network World’s John Cox.
