perspective Looking over the landscape of recent blog posts on open social networking, it's clear that folks are interested in connecting together some of their disparate accounts on a wide range of ...

“No new wires” is the rallying cry of four different standards contending for dominance in the potentially lucrative home-networking market. While it is increasingly common for new construction to ...

Standards should focus on interoperability among the various open source projects or cloud infrastructures and less on implementation. We still need standards, but the scope of standards needs to ...

The slow move to IPv6 has crept past another milestone, with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) stating on Monday that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses have been allocated. "As a result, we ...

Wireless and no-new-wires home network technologies advanced in recent weeks, with the HomeRF Working Group ratifying its speedier 10Mbps 2.0 specification and the HomePlug Powerline Alliance ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...

Tokyo – Undeterred by earlier failures to establish standards for home networking and digital media, more than 100 companies have joined the Digital Home Working Group since its formation last month.

Two home-networking groups have announced new specifications less than a week after the ratification of the G.hn standard for networking over all types of household wires. On Tuesday, MoCA (Multimedia ...

PC users sometimes take networking for granted on modern motherboards. After all, nearly every motherboard features onboard Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet. You might not need an expensive motherboard to ...