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Networking basics include switches and routers, which can help your business share applications, speed information access, and enhance customer service.

How to Pick the Right Hosted VoIP Provider Posted by VoIP Guru on Saturday, July 11th

IDG News Service - If the hardest part of the "Internet of Things" is getting to the Things, Cisco Systems is offering a lifeline. The so-called IoT encompasses a range of Internet-capable devices that could be almost limitless: Thermometers, electric meters, brake assemblies, blood pressure gauges and almost anything else that can be monitored or measured.

Verizon brought the case in which a court ruled against the FCC's net neutrality rules. A federal appeals court has struck down Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) from restricting access to legal Web content.

Gogo's 2Ku service received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration this week, clearing the way for it to be installed on commercial airplanes later this year.

MELBOURNE, Australia - 13 August 2014- Specialist Australian solutions integrator and FlexPod Premium Partner, Envisian, today announced that its current directors are acquiring Australian IT hardware, accessories, networking and business software reseller, Digiworld. Digiworld will continue to operate under the same brand, and will maintain exceptional service to existing and new customers, once the acquisition takes effect on 25th August 2014.

With the "irrational exuberance" of the early Internet economy, speculators spent billions laying thousands of miles of fiber optic cable for backhaul, expecting Internet use would continue growing at the unprecedented rates of the late 1990s. As part of the great dot com bust of 2000, however, most of the speculators went bust, leaving so-called "dark fiber" to wait for demand to catch up.

Over the course of the last few days, I've written a number of articles related to the celebrity photo thefts that surfaced Sunday. Many of those posts have focused on how safe - or unsafe - various cloud service providers are.

AT&T is going to track and monetize the webpages you visit, the time you spend on each, the links or ads you see and follow, and the search terms you enter if you have their new gigabit broadband service (such as in Kansas City). If you don't want to be tracked, "fortunately" they let you opt-out for a $29 / month fee.

A group of 38 mayors and other elected officials from cities like Boston, Seattle, and Kansas City Thursday urged the FCC to strike down state laws that restrict the development of public high-speed Internet services and allow municipal networks to flourish.

Data is what makes today's business world go 'round, and IBM on Thursday launched a suite of new tools designed to help companies make the most of what they've got. Targeting developers and data scientists, the four new offerings are part of IBM's Cloud Data Services portfolio.