Facebook, Google and Yahoo websites are joining major content delivery networks Akamai and Limelight Networks, and the Internet Society, for the first global-scale trial of...

Mozilla and Opera put their Web Socket plans on hold this week after a recently demonstrated attack against the protocol. The Web Sockets...

A new network design developed by MIT researchers avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones and could boost capacity while...

The Federal Communications Commission today opened a new proceeding to identify the legal approach that will best support its efforts to ensure universal access to...

Cisco's annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than...

Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters. For the first time in the history...

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that its research arm, Bell Labs, has successfully demonstrated a technology that boosts the transmission speeds achievable over just two digital subscriber...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will deliver to Congress a National Broadband Plan setting an ambitious agenda in an effort to bring affordable, high-speed Internet...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet. The 'Consumer Broadband Test'...

Four in five adults (79%) regard internet access as their fundamental right, according to a new global poll conducted across 26 countries for BBC World...