Microsoft has splashed out again. They have just acquired open-source source code management and sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn. GitHub has a community of 28 million developers and hosts 85…
Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017
Aryaka released their State of the WAN report for 2017 today. This is a report that uses data gathered from over 5000 locations in 63 countries, and reports on the…
Engadget: Virgin Media Wifi is starting to add capacity to it’s network
Virgin Media Wifi is starting to add capacity to its network, using customers SuperHub v3 routers to according to Engadget. This will use separate bandwidth provisioned to the SuperHub router…
Product Announcement: Cisco Spark Board
Billed as a break-through wireless presentation display, the Cisco Spark Board is a digital whiteboard, and a next-gen video conferencing system. As an all-in-one device, it provides everything you need to collaborate with your teams…
SD-WAN – or should we say WAN4.0?
Is the current buzzword "SD-WAN" really new, or is it actually a progression of the WAN technologies we all know and love? Is it going to be a revolution or…
RFC7169: The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension
In a move to counteract some of the recent security concerns on organisations being compelled to relinquish keys to national intelligence agencies, an RFC has been raised to provide an…
RIP: John McCarthy, founding father of artificial intelligence
Computing is losing a generation of legends. Following the recent deaths of Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie, today I learnt of the death of John McCarthy, founding father of artificial…
A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.
30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…