You won’t hear much about it until after November, but regardless of which way the US government races go there is a good chance that a bill will be introduced to add a tax to broadband internet services. The FCC has been eying the prospects of adding more clout to their Connect America Fund, an effort to make broadband internet connectivity available even in remote areas of the country. Technically, it couldn’t be true tax. The Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 prohibits that. Instead, it would be proposed as a fee to internet service providers that they could pass on to their customers if they choose….

Iran’s nuclear efforts have been more than a bit of a threat, and with that, US and Israel joined forces to create their own weaponry, Stuxnet. Stuxnet is a computer worm that was discovered in June 2010 to slow Iran’s nuclear efforts. After copies of the worm leaked, it was available on the internet in late 2010, early 2011. Therefore, intelligence agencies in the US and Israel sought out new targets that could further slow Iran’s progress down. The worm consists of a layered attack against 3 different systems: Siemens PCS 7, WINCC, and Step7. That is, until Tiffany Rad, a hacker altered the code….

There may be a lot more Chiefs fans coming to town soon as Google opens up their 1000 Mbps up and down speeds with no bandwidth caps and no overages. This, according to Google, is only the beginning of their plan to bring internet speeds in line with computing speeds and file size capabilities. According to The Verge: Google says there will be no monthly bandwidth caps, and no overages. It even comes with 1TB of cloud storage through Google Drive. But Google Fiber is more than just internet — it will also be a “great new TV experience.” Google Fiber TV comes with a Bluetooth remote and a search interface…

With the convenience of the internet and the google search engine, all your needs and searches are just a click away. However, when you “click” on your searches, what exactly is happening? On the northern theatre, search listings include larger, more relevant and engaging ad formats for any remotely commercial keyword search (crowding out less effective organic search results. While on the southern theatre their objective is to vigorously attack SEO web spam and to raise the privacy bar (no more sharing of these search queries) making it harder to rank in organic searches.So who takes…

When IPv4 was being developed in 1978, there was no way for its developers to imagine that it would eventually be globally adopted as the standard used by virtually every internet service provider and host agency. The IPv4 protocol used 8-bit addresses that were capable of producing four billion unique IP addresses for allocation. These early developers from the late 70′s could not foresee such vast growth of the internet; they could not foresee that eventually all four billion addresses would be used up. Only recently has this issue even become a concern. That is why the IPv6 protocol was created;…

For many, it’s a scary thought. What if the internet simply disappeared tomorrow? What if all of the connections we held and activities we performed online were suddenly not available to us? These are questions that most would not want to answer even if they weren’t actively involved professionally online. Those of us who work online could be devastated. In case you’re one of those who takes the world wide web for granted, here’s an infographic that takes us through the hypothetical scenario. The benefit, of course, is that more kids would go outside to play. Via: OnlineEducation.net…

Not much needs to be said, here. We’re all on the internet. There are definitely people who are not, but for the most part it is a tool that affects nearly everyone worldwide even if they aren’t users themselves. One would be hard-pressed to find anyone in western society who is not on the internet in one way or another. The effectiveness of the internet breaks down into two categories: availability and speed. When it comes to availability, the combined efforts of mobile carriers and the greater telecom industry in general has spread a generous blanket over most parts of the world that are part of the…

Unless a friend printed this article out for you, chances are you’re online right now. Billions of people are connected to the internet at one time or another and are able to truly express either their real personalities or the personalities that they are unable to let out in the real world. As a result, we have trolls, politicos, and several other internet user types to deal with on a regular basis. Understanding who is who can help in determining the best way to handle online situations. This field guide should help you navigate the dangerous world of the web that engulfs so much of our time and lives….

Statistics can be beautiful. They can point us in the right direction and tell us things about society that highlight good and bad, right and wrong. They can scare us, inspire us, or simply entertain us. This graphic should do a little of everything. Since 2008, internet traffic has more than doubled each year. Are we too dependent or is it a natural progression towards simpler communication and knowledge-sharing? There are a ton of questions that can be asked about the content of this graphic, but one thing is certain. We’re hooked. Click to enlarge. Created by: OnlineMastersDegree.com…

The majority of people would say that the internet has enhanced our lives. It has given us access to more information than many dreamed of a couple of decades ago and we can get it more easily than most thought possible one decade ago. These opinions, however, may be influenced by the fact that the majority of us admit that we are addicted to the internet. Can we trust our own opinions on something that may actually be harming us? Thanks to Google, we no longer need to “know” as much at any given time. Collective knowledge is readily available and (usually) more reliable than our own memories. With that…