web traffic
'Completely unworkable': The plans to track your web habits
News Government proposals to monitor all web communications are technologically unworkable, according to the organisation that switches the majority of web traffic for the UK. The dynamic... [05 Aug 2009]
Microsoft and Yahoo! finally unite in search deal to battle Google
News per cent of search revenue from traffic on Yahoo! Google currently has about 70 per cent share of the search market, according to web analytics firm Compete. Microsoft and Yahoo! have agreed to merge... [29 Jul 2009]
BlackBerry maker RIM unleashes new developer tools
News Both plug-ins include BlackBerry smartphone simulators for application testing, together with application profiling for checking on the data traffic and load time implications of web content used in the... [29 Jul 2009]
Email hits 3G networks harder than P2P
News Operators can't just focus on how much traffic is sent - they have to consider how the traffic is sent. Email puts a much heavier load on 3G networks than web surfing or peer-to-peer... [20 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office's role in safeguarding national security means Vernon has oversight of the most high profile and controversial IT projects in the UK, ranging from organising IT security at the London 2012 Olympic Games to the Impact... [10 Jul 2009]
IT Manager Webcast: Closing the Network Backdoor: Using Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 2 to Create a Safe Web Experience (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast describes how Web 2.0 evolves the threat landscape from the network to the content and application layers, and explains how the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 2 can help... [04 Jul 2009]
SonicWALL and Gartner Discuss Next-Generation Firewall: Driving Productivity, Security & Efficiencies Webcast
White Paper At the same time, the growth of unsecure Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture(SOA), social networking and streaming media applications have increased the need for greater... [04 Jul 2009]
From Web Browsing to Social Networking: Securing Employee Internet Use in a Web 2.0 World
White Paper Instead Internet traffic is dominated by Web 2.0 applications such as Video, Voice, IM (Instant Messaging), P2P, and social networking. It is no longer about e-mail and web browsing. The... [01 Jul 2009]
Introducing the Webb Spam Corpus: Using Email Spam to Identify Web Spam Automatically
White Paper Fundamentally, Web spam is designed to pollute search engines and corrupt the user experience by driving traffic to particular spammed Web pages, regardless of the merits of those pages.... [01 Jul 2009]
Phishing, Pharming, and Vishing, Oh My! a Guide to the "INGs" and How to Remain Protected
White Paper The flaw in the DNS (Domain Name System), which acts like the Internet's telephone book, could allow Internet traffic to be secretly redirected so thieves could, for example, hijack a bank's Web address... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers With Advertisers
White Paper This paper focuses on one prevalent type of spam - redirection spam - where one can identify spam pages by the third-party domains that these pages redirect traffic to. Spammers use questionable Search Engine... [01 Jul 2009]
Fishing for Phishing From the Network Stream
White Paper Anti-phishing techniques could be more effective if they could detect phishing attacks automatically from the network traffic; could operate without cooperation from end-users. This paper performs a preliminary study to... [30 Jun 2009]
The Dirty Secret Behind the UTM: What Security Vendors Don't Want You to Know
White Paper Such a layered defense strategy requires complex systems to effectively secure all of the firm's network assets, as well as the ability to stay abreast of the company's network traffic to determine if there are any... [30 Jun 2009]
Google Analytics and Google Apps Help the Huffington Post Keep Its Edge
White Paper It uses analytics to quickly gauge traffic spikes and update the content in minutes to drive the publication's editorial direction. Online publisher The Huffington Post has surpassed approximately 8 million unique users,... [23 Jun 2009]
Using a Clever Solution Based on Google Maps for Enterprise, Transit Companies Save Gas and Time - Driving Sustainable Results Toward Smoother Customer Service and Increased Efficiencies
White Paper The ideal application would deliver bus route, traffic, and fleet data directly to clients' web browsers and hand-held devices in lightning-fast speeds. An innovative California company called... [23 Jun 2009]