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Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Every office generates so much email, IM and internet traffic it's all but impossible for management to keep track of exactly what's being said, seen and done online. But how can execs be confident that all these digital... [22 Oct 2009]
Facebook Connect: Wizards and translators aim to connect with more sites
News At last count, about 15,000 sites had implemented Facebook Connect, a product that statistics firm Hitwise says gave the social network enough momentum to propel it past once-bigger rival MySpace in terms of US traffic. [01 Oct 2009]
Google: Fast Flip to let publishers in on the ad action?
News Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations at the New York Times, called Fast Flip "a modest R&D project" designed as an experiment to gauge click-through rates and traffic, rather than any sort of... [15 Sep 2009]
Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
News The problem was caused by a classic cascade in which servers became overwhelmed with traffic in rapid succession. However, the twist this time was Google had made some changes to the routers that direct Gmail... [02 Sep 2009]
Datacentres get a bridge to the Amazon Web Services cloud
News It also allows IT departments to treat EC2 as just another resource; to specify an IP address range of their choosing; to examine cloud traffic with existing security and network technology; and to manage EC2 with their... [27 Aug 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News is whether the changes it is making to the core properties that drive a huge proportion of its traffic are enough to get the ship moving in the right direction. finally got to the point where it's exchanging peanut... [25 Aug 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News Researchers have come up with a new way to route internet traffic that could save big internet companies like Google millions on their electricity bills, according to an article published by MIT's Technology Review. [19 Aug 2009]
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
News We're back up and analysing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack," the company said. Twitter's servers were on the fritz again on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party... [12 Aug 2009]
Inside Caffeine: Google's shot in the arm for search results
News That's not necessarily indicative of how the results would be presented, once Caffeine goes live, but it is evidence that the update will require those dependent on Google to drive traffic to their sites to study the... [12 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News The barrage of connection requests overwhelms the target sites, making it so that legitimate web traffic can't get through. A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and... [07 Aug 2009]
'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 nature of web protocols would make... [05 Aug 2009]
Microsoft and Yahoo! finally unite in search deal to battle Google
News per cent of search revenue from traffic on Yahoo! Microsoft and Yahoo! have agreed to merge their search technology and advertising operations, with Microsoft's Bing engine powering Yahoo! s search and Yahoo! [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 applications. [29 Jul 2009]
Machine shall speak unto machine: Vodafone goes M2M
News Under the TomTom deal, Vodafone supplies the company's navigation devices with aggregated traffic-flow data. Vodafone is to launch a services platform for companies that want to deploy and manage large machine-to-machine... [22 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 applications,... [20 Jul 2009]
