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The new Wi-Fi: What you need to know about 802.11ac

Access points have already appeared, and devices will soon. Here's how to strategize the next leap in Wi-Fi

40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids

Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe remembers the sandals, the bean bags, and the unsung heroes at Xerox PARC

How to pick the provider for a solid Ethernet WAN

Not all Ethernet-based WAN circuits are created equal; be sure to ask these questions when shopping for a carrier

The meter's on all the time: Tech's 'greed is good' era arrives

Adobe Creative Cloud is the first blatant move to make us pay, pay again, and pay some more for nonservices technology

Syria disappears from the Internet again

Virtually all network connections became unavailable Wednesday morning

Sorry, IT still doesn't do attitude adjustments

Tech support can fix the VPN, but it can't bend the laws of physics for a demanding, bullheaded user

Verizon Enterprise chief looks past AT&T, eyes Amazon and Google as rivals

John Stratton discusses prospects of mobile platform to rival iOS and Android, how the cloud is reshaping IT, and more

Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy

The GreenTouch industry consortium says new technologies could cut network power consumption by 90 percent

What you need to know to build a solid Ethernet WAN

Sourcing solid network connectivity, such as for linking a pair of data centers, isn't always as straightforward as it might seem

Here's to 20 years of the Web -- may it stay open and free

CERN first made available the Web's source code 20 years ago. We can still learn from that spirit of openness today

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