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March 23, 2020
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Slow Wi-Fi? 8 ways to speed up your home office network

Now that you need your internet connection for work, video-conferencing, and Netflix, it’s time to tune up your home network. Slow Wi-Fi? 8 ways to speed up your home office network More>

March 2, 2020
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What’s the most popular web browser in 2020?

For ages, it was almost impossible to get hard data on which were the most popular web browsers. Sure, many companies claimed to have good information, such as NetMarketShare and StatCounter, but their numbers were massaged. The US federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP), … Continue reading →

February 27, 2020
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Let’s Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate

It wasn’t that long ago that most websites weren’t secured with Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. You could tell because the sites started with HTTP instead of HTTPS. Today, 81% of web pages use HTTPS globally, and 91% are secured … Continue reading →

February 26, 2020
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The for-profit takeover of the non-profit ‘.org’ top-level domain

At first glance, the proposed deal makes little sense. The Internet Society is trying to sell the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for the “.org” top-level domain (TLD), to the new private-equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. There are about 10.5 million … Continue reading →

February 24, 2020
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Mirantis co-founder leaves to create open-source 5G startup

Open source revolutized technology and networking but it’s done almost nothing in cellular technology. That’s because Boris Renski, co-founder of OpenStack and Kubernetes power Mirantis, explained, “cellular wireless is an oligopoly black box primarily due to historic government regulation.” But, now that the FCC has opened up … Continue reading →