Nate Anderson reports that concerns about internet bandwidth being overutilized in the near future causing congestion is over-hyped and breaks down some statistics from the University of Minnesota's read more » DiscussBury
Robin Wauters reports on how retail stores fared as holiday traffic ramped up with Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Good news: activity is up for web-only vendors. Bad news: Overall, things aren't loo read more » DiscussBury
Brad Reed writes, "Japan accounted for 30% of all attack traffic monitored worldwide for the second quarter of 2008, according to a new study issued by content delivery network provider Akamai. The study, which was conducted by monitoring Akamai's global network of more than 30,000 servers, measured distributed denial-of-service attacks, Web site hacking attempts and DNS hijackings for 139 countries around the world." read more » DiscussBury
Michael Krigsman reports on a FAA computer failure in Atlanta which has caused a slowing in air traffic patterns throughout the United States. The processes have been relocated to a facility that is similar but generally only cares for West coast flights. read more » DiscussBury
"Comcast announced this week that it will no longer target individual protocols for traffic shaping, and will instead slow Web traffic for individual users who consume a "disproportionate" amount of..." read more » DiscussBury
