Broadband adoption in the United States is slowing, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. The number of U.S. residents with broadband Internet service...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2010
Try to imagine a "world littered with trillions" of wireless sensors. Now try to imagine the problems getting even a few thousand of them to work together in...Network World From ACM News | August 16, 2010
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a method to use a botnet's own technology to defeat it. Network World From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2010
Java/J2EE has become the most difficult skill set and position to fill, according to a new Dice.com survey. Java development has supplanted IT security and virtualization...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2010
DARPA announced an initiative to realize a quintillion calculations/second computer to "meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher...Network World From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2010
British historians have launched a project to digitize messages intercepted from Germany's Enigma machine during World War II. The encrypted messages were decoded...Network World From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2010
The U.S. Commerce Department and various government agencies are creating an Internet Policy Task Force to examine policy frameworks and ways in which the "challenges...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2010
U.S. employment rose for three high-tech job categories in 2010's first quarter, according to IEEE-USA, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Network World From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2010
Wireless power transmission systems become increasingly efficient as more devices are being powered, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2010
Enrollment in undergraduate computer science courses is at an all-time high at colleges nationwide. But this trend that's been hailed by the U.S. tech industry...Network World From ACM News | April 19, 2010
The technology for instruments used to see through fog also could be used for optical steganography, according to a team of researchers at Princeton University. ...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2010
The bidding for a National Electric Sector Cyber Security Organization that would shield the U.S. electrical grid from cyberattacks was officially opened up by...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2010
A few surprising Internet trends were detailed at the recent IETF conference, including an expected flood of silicon cockroaches—Internet-linked devices that run...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2010
U.S. government efforts to enforce H-1B visa rules could reduce the demand for the 65,000 available visas for fiscal year 2011, for which applicants could petition...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2010
Researchers who have tested the security of popular online tax, health, investing, and search sites report that the Web applications are becoming more vulnerable...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2010
Abilene Christian University's Mobile Learning project seeks to evaluate the potential of personal digital devices and social networks to transform teaching and...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2010
A new Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology report suggests that technically oriented women may face gender discrimination in their jobs at high-tech firms...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2010
In a recent Journal of Computer Science research article, "Resistance Factors in the Implementation of Software Process Improvement Project in Malaysia," the authors...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2010
Intel has created a microprocessor that is capable of delivering its specified throughput without requiring any reserve cycles to account for dips in power, changes...Network World From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2010
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will award $30 million across two to four projects to redesign the Internet via new security, reliability, and collaborative...Network World From ACM TechNews | January 29, 2010