A recent report from StatCounter has shown that Google's Chrome is now the most popular Web browser worldwide, surpassing Microsoft's Internet Explorer for the first time. After years of slowly chipping away Internet Explorer's market share, Chrome took the lead with 32.76 percent share, while IE dipped to 31.94 percent. While Chrome is leading the browser market worldwide, in the U.S. it still...

Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable today announced that they will enable each other's high-speed Internet customers to access their metro WiFi networks, totaling over 50,000 hotspots. To simplify access, a new network name, "CableWiFi", has been created for subscribers to use when accessing the WiFi hotspots outside their home market. The first...

IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6TM-2012, optimized to serve wireless communications needs for ultra-low power devices operating in or around the human body. Created for a variety of applications, IEEE 802.15.6-2012 is designed to address and compensate for the effects of a body on network...

Facebook will announce today its IPO which is reportedly priced at $38 a share. At that price, Facebook's IPO will be the largest tech IPO in history. It's the third largest U.S. IPO ever, trailing only the $19.7 billion raised by Visa in March 2008 and the $18.1 billion raised by automaker General Motors in November 2010, according to rankings by Thomson Reuters. Initially, the expected price...

Comcast reportedly plans to adopt a usage-based billing system for customers using broadband services. The new system will replace the 250 gigabyte-per-month cap for its broadband customers. With the new system, heavy users will pay more. In the past those who went over the cap risked being cut off instead. The cable operator plans to experiment with a couple of different ways to manage data...

The P.RG A4202G is an integrated platform for Triple-play services - it combines an ADSL2/2+ connection with a wide choice of LAN interfaces (Wi-Fi, FXS, FXO, USB and Ethernet), for wired/wireless data, Voice-over-IP and IPTV offers.

File and printer sharing is easy, thanks to the DLNA Digital Media Server functionality. Users can simply plug a USB hard disk and share multimedia content...

The DWL-3600AP is an indoor 802.11n Wi-Fi Access Point designed specifically for deployment in business environments.

The DWL-3600AP's 2x2 MIMO 2.4GHz radio delivers up to 300Mbps of network throughput. In addition, the DWL-3600AP features RadioProtect technology, which ensures all users receive an adequate level of service even in an environment where many users are accessing the network...

The Cisco RV180 VPN Router delivers highly secure broadband connectivity and remote access for multiple offices and remote workers. Designed specifically for small businesses, it delivers a comprehensive combination of business-class features and ease of use.

The Cisco RV180 features a built-in 4-port Gigabit Ethernet managed switch that lets you connect network devices and transfer files and...

The DWL-6600AP Wireless N Dualband Unified Access Point is an indoor AP designed specifically for business environments. With high data transmission speeds and a load balancing feature, the DWL-6600AP offers high-quality and reliable wireless service.

The DWL-6600AP can be flexibly deployed as a standalone wireless Access Point or as a managed Access Point controlled by a D-Link's DWC 1000...

The D-Link HSUPA 3.75G Residential Router allows users to access worldwide mobile broadband networks. Simply insert your UMTS/HSUPA SIM card to share your 3.75G Internet connection through a secure 150N wireless network or using any of the two 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports.

While accessing your 3.75G Internet connection, you will still have the ability to answer incoming mobile calls and respond...

The LevelOne PLI-3411 200Mbps Powerline Wireless Access Point can be used to bridge Ethernet devices such as modems, routers, PCs, set-top-boxes, and game consoles, allowing users to share network access via existing in-home power cabling.

The device has an extra built-in 802.11n access point, enabling users to enjoy mobility, high-speed wireless connection and better coverage with no more...

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have a great potential to speed up your system, and they're becoming mainstream with prices dropping and the technology maturing. SSDs are faster, have no moving parts, use less power, are quieter, less succeptible to physical shock, with lower access time and latency than traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs). However, SSDs use memory chips to store data, which makes them quite different than traditional mechanical drives and most current...

Introduction With the popularity of wireless networks and mobile computing, an overall understanding of common security issues has become not only relevant, but very necessary for both home/SOHO users and IT professionals alike. This article is aimed at illustrating current security flaws in WEP/WPA/WPA2. Successfully cracking a wireless network assumes some basic familiarity with networking principles and terminology, as well as working with command-line tools. A basic familiarity...

This article is intended as a primer on some TCP/IP networking concepts and factors that determine an optimal TCP Receive Window.   The TCP Window  The TCP Window is the amount of outstanding data (unacknowledged by the recepient) that can remain in the network. After sending that amount of data, the sender stops and waits for acknowledgement back from the receiver that it has gotten some of it. As such, this value is probably the single most important...

Microsoft enforces a limit on half-open TCP/IP connections that is hard-coded in tcpip.sys. The maximum simultaneous half-open (incomplete) outbound TCP connection attempts per second that the system can make is intended to limit the spread of malicious viruses and worms, as well as limit the possibility of launching a DDoS attack. However, it has proven to also limit some applications using many TCP connections, such as P2P and P2PTV programs. When the OS reaches the half-open...

Introduction The Travel Mate 292XC is a part of the 290 Series laptops from Acer. There is a large range of models within the 290 series with different specifications, some Centrino based, and others just Pentium M. This particular model being reviewed, the LX-T3505.455, is a Celeron M 330 processor version and it is a very well priced for its specifications. This model was purchased for about $599.99 CAD and has the following specs: Processor: Intel Celeron M 330 Processor...

Introduction D-Link was founded in 1986, and since then has catered to both consumer and SOHO users. D-Link is already a well known name in the home networking market, however in the past D-Link products have been considered inferior to those of their competitors such as Linksys (Cisco) and Netgear (Bay Networks). Recently this stigma has begun to disappear with D-Link taking a large portion of the home and SOHO markets. The D-Link DI-524 is one of the company's new series of Wireless-G routers,...

Introduction Compex is an established, yet forward-thinking company in the networking, wireless and telecommunications industry. The company was founded in 1987 and focuses on designing, development and manufacturing a complete line of networking products for the home, SOHO, broadband, and WLAN market needs. The NetPassage 26G is a notable addition to the wireless wave of broadband routers that is sweeping the current home/SOHO market. It comes with a...

Netgear is well known in the networking market.  Originally a consumer-oriented subsidiary of Bay Networks, they have since been spun off to become their own company.  Some of the first consumer routers came out of Netgear, and they have been a major player in the home networking scene.  Their latest line of products sports a new sleek look, a major change of the square purple boxes for which they were known.  Personally, I was a fan of the old box, but then again, not everybody wants a...