Using semantic markup like the Schema.org protocol helps third parties interpret and use your public HTML. Increasingly, people are finding things, getting directions, and connecting with the wisdom of the Internet via Siri and other apps on their...
The start of 2013 marks a significant milestone for the internet, as it is 30 years ago that Arpanet, precursor of the modern day internet, was switched to running on the TCP/IP protocol stack, a move that paved the way for the global internet as...
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol that helps provide secure Internet communications for services like web browsing, email, instant messaging, and other data transfers. It has been more than a year since Google announced its SSL enhancement.
Therefore, the telecommunications ministry is trying to find a way to solve this problem so that it can block YouTube in the HTTPS protocol while leaving Gmail accessible. Iran is known for its strict internet policies.
The vast majority of IP addresses in use today conform to Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and this is the standard that has been widely used on the Internet as most of us know it. The real solution is a new addressing scheme, which has been...
As part of the deal, Google was to provide search and applications to a new nationwide wireless broadband network and jointly create an “Internet protocol to work with mobile broadband devices (including Android-powered devices) and implementing...
Microsoft uses a 'self-declaration' protocol (known as “P3P”) dating from 2002 under which Microsoft asks websites to represent their privacy practices in machine-readable form. Microsoft also seized on the opportunity to tell users to “browse...
The option to sign in via the HTTPS protocol, which ensures that log-on data is encrypted, was introduced last year. It’s especially helpful if you use Twitter over an unsecured Internet connection like a public Wi-Fi network.
This filtering has impacted other sites secured with SSL (secure socket layer) protocol, such as Amazon. VPNs (virtual private networks) used to be a solution for Internet users, but this stricter crackdown means those aren’t even an option now.
No technology based around the current HTTP protocol is ever going to scoop that up in a timely fashion, let alone real time, which is the desire of the end user. The Internet and the World Wide Web are different things.
Many notable opponents have spoken out publicly, though there are a few the U.S.government may wish to pay particular attention to: the engineers who created the Internet, including TCP/IP co-creator Vint Cerf, Jim Gettys, editor of the HTTP/1.1...
Google issued warnings this morning of a possible man-in-the-middle attack against users attempting to access various Google services over a secured and encrypted HTTPS protocol. Since the news of this announcement, the Chrome team, Mozilla Firefox...
Were it not for Borges and other visionaries such as American inventor and engineer Vannevar Bush – who predicted the arrival of the “memex,” in which an individual could store all “his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized...
Well first, the protocol is new, developed by Google, untested in the wild, not well reviewed outside of Google, and the very process it uses opens up your code to a wider attack surface for things such as XSS (cross site scripting where someone...
IPv6 Day is the day Internet service providers have chosen to test the readiness of the world for IPv6, the new style of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Many Internet giants including Google, Facebook and Bing are part of the over 400 companies...
World IPv6 Day: firing up the engines on the new Internet protocol -Official Google Blog Paid search pays off over the holidays - Internet Retailer Disney and Yahoo in internet TV content talks: report - Reuters
In 2007 BitTorrent, a company whose "peer-to-peer" network protocol allows people to share music, video and other files directly over the Internet, complained to the Federal Communications Commission that the ISP giant Comcast was blocking or...
Part of the open graph protocol is that you can make any page on the Web function as a Facebook page," Lucich said. In fact, more precisely, after looking at the source codes of those pages, it was clear that the sites had all adopted the Open...
The upside to this, according to Kohan, is that Google announced they were adopting an existing search protocol used by SearchMonkey and have since worked with Yahoo on what tags are the most important to feature in HTML.
Google has acquired Gizmo5, a Voice over the Internet Protocol network and software provider. Google seems to be trying to downplay the change though, by vaguely labeling Gizmo5 an "Internet-based calling software" provider.
