Telecom and Networking

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IEEE has an interesting article Bitcoin Gets Its Own TV Network that tells that in September 2014, if all goes according to plan, the Bitcoin blockchain will take to the radio waves in Finland. The project is called Kryptoradio. Koodilehto and FIMKrypto have secured the rights to transmit updates to the Bitcoin blockchain across digital →

This is a very cool service I found when looking at news on Internet of Things (IoT): IFTTT (short for “If This Then That”) is a service that enables users to connect different web applications (e.g., Facebook, Evernote, Weather, Dropbox, etc.) together through simple conditional statements known as “Recipes”. If This Then That (IFTTT) is a →

Home automation has been a hot topic lately.Home is quickly becoming just another node in the worldwide Internet of Thing. Latest home automation news story series started on the Google bying NEST. It was followed with latest news on Apple’s Home Automation and Nest opening its APIs. For more details on the latest development on →

Advanced research needs nowadays advanced ICT. It means typically fast signal capturing, fast networks and big data handling capabilities. CERN’s openlab has published a document explaining stuff it wants someone to invent so it can get the most out of the large hadron collider (LHC) and its other instruments. CERN openlab Whitepaper on Future IT →

A port scanner is a software application designed to probe a server or host for open ports. This is often used by administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by attackers to identify running services on a host. The de facto standard for port scanning always has been the venerable Nmap program. The →

News on the problems on Internet security have been very frequent during last 12 months, and there does not seem to be any stop on news on Internet security problems. The news started with NSA relevations that showed ho much NSA spied on the Internet users and how it has weakened the technologies used to →

Security for the ‘Internet of Things’ (Video) posting an Slashdot provides one view to security of Internet of Things. What happens when your oven is on the Internet? A malicious hacker might be able to get it so hot that it could start a fire. Or a prankster might set your alarm in the middle of night. →

I needed to interface PC to some RS-485 test circuits, so I decided to try this cheap USB to RS485 Adapter – Black + Green adapter for that. I selected this specifically because of the cheap price (it is considerably cheaper than anything else I have seen for the same purpose). There should not be →

For something as ubiquitous as the internet today, it certainly isn’t easy to find where it all started. You might know History of Internet quite well in technical details, but what about the locations? Gizmodo article This Is The Room Where The Internet Was Born shows where the first ARPANET node was installed, where communications →