Superhighway &#39;Could Crumble&#39; under Weight of Users
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The end of the world wide web may be nigh, top technology companies have warned. Predicting a future which would horrify many businesses and email addicts, some experts fear
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Investor's Business Daily - Big Blue might be ready to lose another key link to its hardware legacy.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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Simply reorganizing the web giant's business may not turn things around -- it might be resignation time at the top. In Epicenter.
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SAN FRANCISCO A panel of leading computer scientists has warned in a report that unless the federal government significantly increases support for advanced research on supercomputing, the United States will be unable to retain its lead on that
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Pricey Product will offer low error rate, company says
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Number of users with high-speed connections has tripled in the last three years.
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Government official warns of the danger of falling behind other countries in broadband speeds.
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Nearly four years have passed since the peak of the fiber-optic boom, but overcapacity continues to plague carriers, and prices for bandwidth continue to fall. By Joanna Glasner.
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Blog: Mobiloscenti say devices are robust and networks ready, but carriers and content producers are gumming up the works.
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When you&#39;re 17 or 18, the world is only possibilities. You&#39;re immortal, accelerating down the fast lane of a superhighway stretching to forever.
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There may be limits coming to high-speed Internet from Time Warner Cable, according to details of a memo obtained by Broadband Reports.
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Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
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Internet decisions aren't always made at Internet speeds.
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RealNetworks could lose $2 million from below-cost sales -- but will give its service a huge boost,&quot; says Forrester Research analyst Rebecca Jennings.
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Underpromising in order to overdeliver can't make up for sluggish operating results.
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Intel is leading the charge against internet failure, claiming that with an ever increasing number of online users, &quot;We&#39;re running up on some architectural limitations&quot;.