5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012

	Plano, Texas schools see benefits from district-wide Wi-Fi | Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers
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	5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990s, when this network-of-networks stopped being a research project and became an engine of economic growth. Read More WEBCAST: BlackBerry See What is New in BlackBerry Management Planning your infrastructure is a critical part in ensuring the long-term success of your mobile deployment. With the increasing number of employees "going mobile", today's organizations are tasked with supporting, managing and securing a wide array of mobile devices. Learn More In this Issue Plano, Texas schools see benefits from district-wide Wi-Fi Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say Competitor: GoDaddy is thwarting domain transfers 2012 tech predictions: From IDG's editors worldwide IT Blogwatch: SOPA bill prompts boycott of supporters WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Open Source Virtualization FAQ Learn the key advantages of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), reasons for moving from Xen open source to the KVM hypervisor, RHEV's scalability, and avoiding the rising costs of VMware. Learn More Plano, Texas schools see benefits from district-wide Wi-Fi At the Plano Independent School District in Texas, 82 schools and office campuses are equipped with Wi-Fi offering private channels for teachers and staff and a public channel for students. Read More Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers said Wednesday. Microsoft today shipped an emergency update to fix the flaw. Read More IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say Next year will see one more regional Internet registry run out of IPv4 addresses, but 2012 will be more of a year to prepare for the inevitable shift to IPv6 than an Internet doomsday, according to networking experts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sourcefire The Case For The Next-Generation IPS A Next-Generation IPS (NGIPS) offers a logical and essential progression of capabilities needed to protect networks from emerging threats. Read Now Competitor: GoDaddy is thwarting domain transfers In the face of an avalanche of bad publicity, domain registrar GoDaddy is being accused by a competitor of dragging its feet on allowing customers to leave its service. Read More 2012 tech predictions: From IDG's editors worldwide Consumerization of IT is the consensus choice of the new year's major technology force, one that will manifest itself in several forms Read More IT Blogwatch: SOPA bill prompts boycott of supporters The widely-hated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is causing its supporters to suffer boycotts. Organizations such as GoDaddy and 3M are being targeted by serious activism. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder protectionism and DNS Balkanization. Read More
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