30 posts tagged “wireless”
Majority of Atlanta Businesses Concerned About Wireless Security Threats; 79 Percent Have Installed Protective Software
AT&T has announced that one-third (32 percent) of small businesses in the U.S. are unconcerned about wireless data security, and one in six (17 percent) small businesses that use wireless technology has taken no precautions against wireless threats, according to a survey conducted by AT&T.
But in Atlanta, wireless security is top of mind. Sixty-three percent of Atlanta business owners are concerned about wireless data security for their businesses, and 79 percent have already installed software, such as spam filters or anti-virus protection, to keep their businesses safe from wireless security threats. Nationally, less than three-quarters (73 percent) of small businesses that use wireless technology have installed
software, such as spam filters or anti-virus protection.
Even with wireless security as a major concern in Atlanta, less than one-fourth (23 percent) of businesses surveyed actually have an employee who handles wireless security as part of his or her job, and only 15 percent of businesses have hired an outside consultant to handle security. Atlanta businesses were the least likely among cities surveyed to hire an outside consultant or company, with the national average at 23 percent.
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A 75-year-old Swedish woman has become the owner of the fastest residential broadband connection in the world.
Sigbritt Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second connection was set up for her by her son, Peter, a networking expert who works for Cisco Systems. Mr. Lothberg said: "We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed. "She's a brand new Internet user. She didn't even have a computer before."
A new modulation technique was used in setting up the connection, involving the sending of information between two routers spaced 1,240 miles apart, with no transponders in between. Using her high-speed Internet connection, Ms. Lothberg could download an entire movie in less than two seconds. This is thousands of times faster than a regular residential connection.
Ms Lothberg lives in Karlstad in central Sweden and mainly uses her connection to read online newspapers. The average residential internet connection speed is eight Mbps.
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Improving affordability of broadband will mean that almost three-quarters of U.S. households will have high-speed Internet access by 2012, according to new research.
Competition between broadband providers will encourage 36 million new subscribers in the next five years, according to Jupiter Research. The company predicts the decline of dial-up, saying that the new generation of Internet users is more likely to go straight to broadband. Jupiter Research analyst Doug Williams said: "As broadband becomes more attractive to consumers from an economic perspective, current dial-up users will be more likely to migrate to broadband service, and consumers who are new to the online population will never take dial-up service in the first place."
He went on to say that the main providers of broadband, namely cable operators and local exchange carriers, would continue to dominate the market and alternative methods of receiving broadband would trail behind. Jupiter Research provides independent research, analysis and advice about the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on businesses.
"We’re seeing continued and strong growth in the number of new broadband users, states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc, who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products. "We have also discovered that as consumers purchase or upgrade to broadband they also upgrade to digital and HDTV as well. We also believe that the next explosive area for growth will be in VoIP and digital voice"
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The results of Internet searches are exposing users to malware, according to a recent report from the software security company McAfee.
At least four percent of all search results could lead users to websites that could download malware, the study found. However, the study also found that the number of such results with malware fell one percent on last year's results.
Most likely to contain websites with malware are the sponsored search results purchased by their owners which appear at the top of a page. The author of the study, Ben Edelman, told vnunet.com: "The search engines could do more. "These advertisers rely completely on search engines, so the search engines are uniquely positioned to kill these businesses."
In the study, Mr. Edelman analyzed the initial 50 results from 2,300 of the most popular keywords on Yahoo! Google, AOL, MSN and Ask.com. Meanwhile, levels of malware have climbed over the last year at a greater rate than in the years before, a recent report has found. In their most recent report, IBM's Internet security systems researchers detected over 7,200 weaknesses, most of which could be exploited by attackers.
Spyware programs are sometimes installed as Trojan horses of one sort or another. They differ in that their creators present themselves openly as businesses, for instance by selling advertising space on the pop-ups created by the malware, states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “Most such programs present the user with an end-user license agreement which purportedly protects the creator from prosecution under computer contaminant laws. However, spyware EULAs have not yet been upheld in court.”
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Sprint has announced plans to expand availability of its new Wi-Max service to 100 million people across the U.S. by the end of 2008.
Trials in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington DC have proved successful for the mobile broadband service provider and will form a solid base for the service's launch. The company claims that mobile Wi-Max is "one of the year's hottest topics" and "is set to alter the competitive landscape for high-speed multimedia applications". Sprint aims to provide customers with a nationwide mobile data network that is faster, cheaper and more convenient a "more enhanced multimedia quality" than anything other service.
It will work with partners Samsung, Motorola and Nokia and plans to invest up to $800 million this year and between $1.5 billion and $2 billion next year. The "advanced, data-centric mobile broadband network" will enable an "Internet everywhere experience", the company stated. Sprint started out as Kansas-based Brown Telephone Company in 1899 and was eventually reborn as a long-distance service in 1986.
"Many companies are closely examining WiMAX for "last mile" connectivity at high data rates,” states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. “This could result in lower pricing for both home and business customers as competition lowers prices.”
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During April, average European usage of the Internet beat out usage by Americans, according to the Internet data company comScore.
An average of 122 million Europeans over the age of 15 used the internet daily during April, the comScore figures showed. This is in contrast to the average of 114 million Americans who used it every day during the same period.
The countries with the largest proportions of their populations on the Internet at any one time, was Denmark with 68 percent and Holland with 83 percent. However, as a whole, Internet penetration in Europe stood at 40 percent, compared to 66 percent in the US. The most visited website in 13 out of the 16 countries was, perhaps unsurprisingly, Google, most often followed by Microsoft.
Included in the survey was Russia, which was the last of countries ranked for internet penetration, with only 11 percent. What are described by the company as "massive" databases are maintained by comScore to monitor the different ways that the internet is used.
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Now Verizon Wireless customers are able to call technical support at any hour of the day or night when things go wrong.
The company has announced the debut of its new Premium Technical service, which offers customers in need expert assistance with problems like spyware, viruses, Internet security, hardware malfunctions and so forth. To cost $9.99 per month, the service goes far beyond that offered by most Internet carriers, Verizon claims.
Frank Nelson, director of Verizon Broadband Solutions Group, said: "Our customers need help with more than just their online service and now they can get it from us right away. "Verizon support is available over the phone to solhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifve a variety of computer problems and customers can avoid expensive, in-home or business service calls."
The advisors on the other end of the line are prepared for almost any problems that may be encountered by a broadband user, Mr. Nelson added. Verizon has invested $35 billion in the last seven years on maintaining and upgrading its operating systems.
"Last year more than 40 million Internet users in the United States had problems with Internet security," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "More than 21 million had hardware or software issues; and more than 11 million struggled with home networking."
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People who have broadband end up spending almost half their free time surfing the internet, according to recent research.
During the week, users with high-speed internet spend approximately 48 percent of their free time on the net, a survey from Media-Screen shows. And 48 percent of young users of the broadband go on the internet to find out information about the entertainment sector, compared to 25 percent who rely on TV, the survey discovered.
Josh Crandall, managing director of Media-Screen, said: "Many broadband consumers go online for entertainment and to talk about entertainment with other fans. "Marketers need to leverage that interest and focus on catalysing a conversation now, instead of just talking to their fans via traditional advertising channels."
Of the time spent on the internet 27 percent is spent communicating with others, while 12 percent is spent shopping and nine percent searching for news or information. Meanwhile, a fake version of the next book in the popular Harry Potter series has hit the internet and fooled thousands of readers.
With a length of 250,000 words, the fake version of the book is similar enough to the real books that it took in legions of fans of the teenage wizard.
Communication giant AT&T has offered its wireless and broadband Internet customers a year free access to the Napster To Go service.
From April 1st broadband subscribers that add wireless phone service, or vice versa, will be able to use the Napster service, which offers over three million songs. Currently AT&T's wireless unit, Cingular, is America's largest cell carrier, boasting in excess of 60 million subscribers.
Rick Welday, chief marketing officer of AT&T Consumer, said: "By tying Napster To Go to AT&T's robust communications network, we're turning up the volume nationwide on both consumer value and added convenience." By joining communication with entertainment, AT&T is showing that it is committed to delivering content at home and "on the go", added Mr. Welday.
AT&T has also announced that residents of Kansas City will now be able to its U-verse services. U-verse features AT&T's fiber-rich network with television and high-speed Internet services available on demand.
"Napster concludes their fiscal year 2007 with over 830,000 paid subscribers, which many believe makes them the largest on-demand music service in the industry," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative website. "This would make Napster larger than Rhapsody, and larger than all of the other remaining competitors combined."
For more information on broadband and other digital related products and services visit www.broadbandnatinal.com
Less than one-third of American households have access to the Internet and do not want it, according to recent survey.
Most of these people do not see the Internet as being able to help their lives in any concrete way, the research from technology research firm Park Associates found. Some forty-four percent of households without the Internet said that they were not interested in anything it had to offer, while 22 per cent said they could not afford a computer or the service.
And 17 percent said that they did not have the Internet because they did not know how to use it and three percent said that the Internet did not reach their house. John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates, said: "The industry continues to chip away at the core of non-subscribers, but has a ways to go. "Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull in the holdouts, it's going to be applications that make the Internet more akin to pay TV."
Meanwhile, new research from the Pew Hispanic Center in the U.S. has found that Hispanics are falling behind other cultural groups in the use of the Internet because their English skills are lacking. A full 56 percent of Hispanics in the US use the Internet, but this figure is well below that of other groups, the report from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet Project found.
We've identified two groups of people that are resistant to the Internet," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the industries leading comparative website. "Hispanic's that don't speak or read English and the elderly that feel computers are too difficult and complicated to use. The industry needs to take greater steps to embrace theses market segments because the growth potential is enormous."
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