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 Facebook IPO will encourage the social network company to up its fight with Google for the online advertising market. However, Google is not going to back down. While Facebook is a social network and Google a search engine, both companies make money from advertising, and they're both battling for the same advertising dollars. Facebook has to solve for advertising, and most likely will do so...

Two of the US largest wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon are considering to roll out shared-data pricing plans this year. Fran Shammo, Verizon's chief financial officer, has reportedly confirmed the news at an investor conference. Verizon will soon force subscribers to ditch their $30 per month unlimited data plans when they upgrade to 4G LTE phones. Instead, customers will be offered...

Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are developing a network that would be able to automatically change its setup and configuration in order to protect itself from hackers. Scott DeLoach, professor of computing and information sciences, and Xinming "Simon" Ou, associate professor of computing and information sciences were granted $1 million from the Air Force Office of Scientific...

The CVD31T is a cable modem with 2 PacketCable voice lines. It bonds four channels in each direction together to deliver usable downstream data rates of 152 Mbps with 108 Mbps upstream.

The CVD31T is fully compliant with DOCSIS 3.0 and is backwards compatible with DOCSIS 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0. It incorporates QoS for high real time VoIP and Video performance.

The modem delivers customer data...

The MAX206M2 provides users with seamless broadband wireless connectivity and the freedom to surf the Internet and access any information at home, in the office or anywhere under WiMAX coverage.

The MAX-206M2 gateway comes with dual 5dBi gain antenna integrated into the device with 27dBm output power and a built-in ICSA certified firewall.

Its versatile design, including two VoIP ATA ports,...

The pocket-sized 3GM2WN is packed with the latest connection, sharing and security features for reliable broadband access without boundaries. Convenient for travel, the device offers flexible 3G/4G or ADSL2+ broadband Internet connection options.

Sharing the connection is easy. Create an instant and portable WiFi zone for multiple devices such as laptops, PCs, gaming consoles, tablets and...

The NETGEAR CG3000DCR Gigabit Router with integrated 8 x 4 DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. It features 8 Downstream plus 4 Upstream Channel bonding on the WAN, delivering up to 320 Mbps downstream and 160 Mbps upstream.

Along with four Gigabit Ethernet ports, this full featured high performance gateway is an ideal solution for the connected business with multiple computers and network enabled devices...

The P.DG A1010 is a versatile data gateway for high-speed broadband connectivity. It features one 10/100Base-T LAN port and a USB 1.1 port, intended for client PCs.

With its field-proven ADSL2+ chipset, the P.DG A1010 delivers the highest level of interoperability with central office equipment, resulting in fast service introduction and no
additional qualification costs.

ISPs will reduce...

TL-R600VPN, TP-LINK's SafeStream™ Gigabit Broadband VPN Router, supports Gigabit Ethernet connections on both WAN and LAN ports which guarantee high-speed wired connectivity.

TL-R600VPN's abundant security strategies such as SPI Firewall, DoS Defense and IP-MAC Binding help protect your network against most known attacks.

The router supports IPsec and PPTP VPN protocols and can handle...

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...