Air Force evaluating high-frequency, focused mobile networks

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How tech companies got their names Google launching 20 Internet balloons per day Network World Daily News PM November 21, 2014 Air Force evaluating high-frequency, focused mobile networks The Air Force this week said it was looking into the technologies like advanced antennae and amplifiers it would take to build high frequency, directional mobile networks.The idea is to develop networks that can be focused point to point to make more efficient use of higher bandwidth – over 500Mhz –which could make such nets less prone to interference and jamming while at the same time increase capacity.+More on Network World: Gartner: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 IT can't ignore+In its Request For Information, the Air Force said this so-called directional networking would focus a greater amount of radiated energy on an intended receiver through a combination of transmitter and/or receiver aperture improvement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 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Learn More How tech companies got their names From Apple to Amazon to Microsoft to Twitter, the names of some of the world's most popular tech companies tend to have interesting and significant backstories. READ MORE Google launching 20 Internet balloons per day Yesterday we wrote about a South African farmer finding one of Google's Project Loon Internet balloons crashed on his property. Coincidentally – or at least I assume it was a coincidence – the Project Loon team yesterday issued a progress report in a blog post.Seems Google is now launching 20 of these balloons every day and, according to the company, they're remaining aloft 10 times longer than they were last year, with 100 days now normal and 130 days being the record.From that blog post:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER 5 steps to more mobile-security-savvy employees When it comes to mobile device security, we are our own worst enemies. Despite the fact that many people have come to rely on their mobile devices 24/7, most users don't appear to be getting any smarter about security, researchers say. The training module presents statistics about devices lost in airports and follows up with steps people can take to avoid misplacing their gadgets. Then the fun begins. Users assume the role of a Mario-type character in an online game, and they have 90 seconds to find 12 lost or stolen mobile devices in an airport based on the information they just learned. The user-controlled character runs through the airport — complete with check-in counters, a food court, a security conveyor belt and trams between terminals — and there's a rewarding "ding" for every device the user finds. 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When Apple released the first beta of Yosemite little over two weeks ago, it asked developers to pay particular attention to several issues, including WiFi, which has been a constant source of complaints since the OS came out.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE FCC chairman gives no timeline for net neutrality decision The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has no public timeline for voting on proposed net neutrality rules, despite pressure from President Barack Obama and some net neutrality advocates.FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler declined to give a target date for a net neutrality vote when asked Friday by reporters, saying instead that the agency is working to make sure that any rules would hold up to an almost inevitable court challenge."The big dogs are going to sue, regardless of what comes out," Wheeler said. "We need to make sure that we have sustainable rules. 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Work began this year with vendor Copper Mobile, and the application won't be live until 2016.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE App o' the week: Simplenote makes keeping and sharing lists easy (and free) For a project I'm working on I needed to share a list of to-do's with my business partner. We were using a basic CRM solution but that turned out to be a little too much for what was a very simple list. After a little research I decided to try a free application, Simplenote published by Automattic, and much to my delight I found I'd stumbled over the perfect solution.Simplenote is available as a free app for iOS, Android, OS X, and Kindle (but not for Windows) and can be accessed from the Web. On the Web site there are references to a premium plan but I couldn't find any further information; it appears that they may have dropped this version .To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Incapsula estimates DDoS attacks cost $40,000 per hour This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  In my daily routine I go to a variety of websites to gather information and news. I've noticed that recently, two of my regular sites have been totally unavailable from time to time. It seems this lasts for an hour or more and then the site is open for business again. While I don't know for sure, I suspect that these websites could be victims of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.According to Incapsula, DDoS attacks occur much more frequently than many people suspect. Incapsula just released its 2014 DDoS Impact Report, which found that nearly half (45%) of all companies have been hit by a DDoS attack at one time or another. Of these, almost all (91%) reported an attack during the last 12 months, and over two-thirds (70%) were targeted two or more times. It's possible that my regular news sites are among those repeat victims.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER How to set up 802.1X client settings in Windows Understanding all the 802.1X client settings in Windows can certainly help during deployment and support of an 802.1X network. 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