FBI wants to use an early-warning system based on material 'scraped' from social networks instead of manually monitoring social media sites. The agency is looking for companies to build the software that will scan social networks for 'danger' words – and agents will respond to 'breaking news, incidents and emerging threats'. The application must be able to "provide an automated search and...

Spectrum Bridge, Inc., today announced the launch of the first commercial TV White Space (TVWS) network in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. The company's cloud-based spectrum management platform is the centerpiece of technology that taps into frequencies freed up by digital TV transition to provide wireless bandwidth and network access for a range of innovative...

American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their encrypted hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled a few days ago. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman Ramona Fricosu to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February 21 - or face the consequences including contempt of court. "I find and conclude...

Netflix said it had landed more than 600,000 new subscribers during a stronger than expected fourth quarter of 2011. Total domestic subscriptions are now 24.4 million, up from 23.79 million last quarter (and 19.5 million a year ago). That 24.4 million includes 21.67 million streaming subscriptions in the US and 11.17 million DVD-by-mail subscriptions - which is quite sharply down from 13.93...

Symantec has warned users of its remote access tool, pcAnywhere, to disable the product until it patches vulnerabilities related to the 2006 theft of source code by hacktivist group, Anonymous. Yesterday, Symantec confirmed the theft of source code from the 2006 versions of several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool. "Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source...

The 450Mbps Dual Band Wireless N Media Bridge, model TEW-680MB, connects all media center devices to the Internet over a high performance 450Mbps wireless network.

The four Gigabit ports on the back of the device allows you to connect gaming consoles, televisions, DVRs, and more. You have th freedom to use the TEW-680MB on the common 2.4GHz band, or on the less congested 5GHz frequency to...

The device's tiny size makes it ideal for use on the road and is powerful enough to satisfy almost any basic wireless application requirement.

TL-WR702N has one 10/100Base-T LAN/WAN port. It also features a Micro USB port and can be powered by an external power adapter or via a USB connection to a computer.

TL-WR702N provides WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK encryption, which can effectively and...

The DIR-524 includes an integrated 4-port 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet switch that gives you the flexibility to connect wired computers to the network.

The DIR-524 provides a high speed connection to other Wireless N 150 or 802.11n devices and is backward compatible with 802.11b/g, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of wireless devices. It also supports WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryption to keep...

Featuring dual-band combined speeds of up to 900 megabits per second, the Advance N900 delivers maximum data speeds on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands simultaneously.

Built for high speeds, the N900 uses the IEEE 3x3 standard to transmit data on three streams, which gives 50 percent better throughput. Additionally, Belkin's exclusive MultiBeam technology delivers a high-powered signal that...

With speeds three times faster than the 802.11g standard networks, the NBG-416N provides faster, and more reliable wireless connections for data and multimedia streaming.

With the Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) technology, the NBG-416N enhances user experiences for audio, video and voice applications over wireless networks with the capability to prioritize different network traffic types for...

The MBR1515 is an LTE Mobile router, intended for the North American market. The router has one SIM card slot, one 10/100Base-T WAN port and a 4-port Ethernet switch.

Built-in port forwarding settings, Universal Plug and Play (UPnP™) and virtual private network (VPN) pass-through make it simple to play Internet games, send instant messages, and host Internet services.

Firewall using...

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...