With 34,000, 30,000 and 18,000 “5th generation” antennas / stations installed respectively, the three south korean companies / providers SKT, KT and LG Uplus made south korea the first in …
Falling onto the tracks doesn’t stop the train
Washington is trying to brake the global expansion of Chinese-origin 5G communications technology, codenamed Huawei. Right now Huawei is far ahead of every competitor worldwide: not just in research but …
the archaeology of cyberspace: the cry of Pandora
The cyberspace did not leap fully armed from the head of the informatics Leviathan. It was constructed, developed, and infiltrated every field of human activity in a methodical and by …
Social responsibility
Who would disagree? If you have a pet and you don’t take care of it, you’re an unworthy “owner”. In distant e-China this is not idle talk. Every dog owner …
Dragonfly
In Greek, this harmless (but impressive) insect is called a dragonfly. In English, it’s called a dragonfly. This name was given by Google engineers to a search engine (on Android) …
how they imagined – and designed – the internet during the cold war era
The most widespread version of the story about the origins of the internet refers to Arpanet: in order to ensure the operation of the communications network even in the event …
for the (completely anarchic) structure of the internet
«The issue is not that laws do not have power, but that the nation-state does not have power. It is not possible to regulate the internet.» Date: mid-1990s, when the …
Closed stores
Retail stores are closing as if they’ve been struck by an epidemic. In the USA, the world’s largest retail chain, Sears, announced it will shut more than 70 stores in …
Instant Response
What would the (capitalist) world be like in the 21st century if companies didn’t care about getting better? Google is one of them. Its engineers are working on an application …
Undersea cables the Achilles’ heel in lead-up to new cold war
It’s a little-known twist in the cyber-warfare between nations that carries potentially devastating consequences. At a time when more than 95% of everything that moves on the global Internet passes …
cyber warfare exercise
Killer robots are not only iron machines with lethal specifications, but also ethereal entities on the internet. Bots (a “pet-name” abbreviation of robot) are robotic programs – software robot devices …
after the internet: cloud computing, big data and internet of things
introduction On March 12, 2014, Google invited the world to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the internet, which was born, in the company’s view, when the first browser was released. …