Web could buckle, says Intel

Intel has warned that the current Internet, based on technology developed in the 1970s, will begin to buckle under the weight of millions of new computer users from developing nations.

Reuters quotes Intel CTO Patrick Gelsinger as saying at a technical conference in San Francisco that an entirely new network is needed to sit on top of the existing Internet. This network should support new Web services, adapt to security threats and work around sudden bursts of traffic to particular Web servers.

A model of such a network already exists in the form of PlanetLab, a collection of 429 computer "nodes" in 181 sites around the world. PlanetLab, which is funded by Intel, has won support from 150 universities and corporate research labs, including Princeton, Cambridge, Hewlett-Packard and AT&T.

Nokia has teamed up with Web logging company Six Apart to unveil an integrated phone and blog product that allows mobile phone users to quickly and easily blog photos from their phone, or from a PC, according to a PR Newswire release.

Both the phone and PC version of Nokia`s Lifeblog software now work directly with Six Apart`s personal publishing service, TypePad, to enable easy mobile blogging, or moblogging.

Users will now be able to upload multimedia like photos, videos, text messages and multimedia messages to their TypePad account, says Christian Lindholm, director of multimedia applications, Nokia Ventures Organisation.

Toshiba says its digital photocopier sales increased by 44% in the past year. Neil Kirkwood, MD of Copy Type Electronics, importer and distributor of Toshiba digital multifunctional photocopiers and facsimiles, says the appreciation of the rand resulted in lower landed costs for photocopier importers in SA, and savings were passed on to consumers.

"We decided to pass on the savings and create a larger installed base, service and consumable revenue stream."

Symantec has launched its Symantec Network Security 7100 Series - the company`s first line of intrusion prevention appliances offering multi-gigabit intrusion protection and "one click to prevention" capability.

The series leverages the new Intrusion Mitigation Unified Network Engine, which combines multiple detection technologies such as protocol anomaly detection, vulnerability attack interception, signature recognition, denial-of-service and scan detection, and IDS evasion detection.