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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - NETGEAR, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, today announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Infrant Technologies, Inc.
Founded in March 2001 and based in Fremont, California, Infrant is dedicated to bringing enterprise-level storage technology to small businesses and professional home users at […]

Chris Robb, an engineer at Indiana University’s Global Network Operations Center who works on Internet2, says Level 3 Communications cables used by the network went up in flames. The cables were on the Longfellow Bridge, which connects Boston and Cambridge across the Charles River.
Robb, who co-authors the Internet2 Network Upgrade blog, writes that Level 3 […]

The Pirate Bay, one of the most controversial p2p torrent trackers, has launched a music site in collaboration with Lamont, a Swedish rock band, and their manager Kristopher S. Wilbur. According to the team, the birth of Playble.com was due to their agreement that “the record industry – with its current business model – is […]

Nothing is free of errors — that absolute truth also includes satellite imagery. Apparently, a small village on the Chilean border got moved to Argentina, courtesy of Google Earth. That may confuse the residents…
The error actually has the government of Chile, a country in the southern half of South America (in case your own map […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. has expanded beyond a one-size-fits-all view of Web search to tie together its efforts to offer personalized Web searches under the iGoogle brand, officials said Monday.
In recent weeks, the Web search leader has introduced a variety of new customization features to its basic personalized home page, first introduced two […]

LAS VEGAS - Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, said Monday it plans to offer a streaming video service that stores and hosts video for its new Silverlight online media platform.
Silverlight, which is now available for download in a test version, is a rival to Adobe Systems Inc.’s dominant Flash player and a new […]

It was always just a matter of time before Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a run-in with The Chaser. Andrew Hansen, one of five stars of the hit satirical ABC television program, ambushed Wales’s question-and-answer session at the education.au conference in Sydney this morning.
Wales had just finished giving his keynote speech at the Hilton hotel, […]

Tokyo (Japan) - Scientists working on the bigger, better and most importantly faster Internet 2 have achieved a new world speed record. The Internet 2 Consortium has just announced that in late December and early January, scientists at the Univesity of Tokyo slammed gigabytes of information on an around-the-world path at more than nine […]

Seventeen major telecommunications companies signed a pact Friday to build a $500 million undersea fiber optic cable between Southeast Asia and the United States they claim will be relatively safe from earthquakes and tsunamis. The link will offer “a timely increase in both the capacity and diversity of Internet links between Asia and the U.S., […]

The links were displayed as “sponsored links” after visitors entered specific queries into Google’s search service. Clicking the links would ultimately go to a legitimate site, but by way of another site that attempted a “drive-by installation” of password-stealing software. Miscreants placed the links using Google’s AdWords service for advertisers.
“Google identified and canceled AdWords […]