Comcast has added Michigan to its list of states – including Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Illinois and Florida — where the cable ISP is offering services that support the next-generation Internet standard known as IPv6. A leader in IPv6 deployment, Comcast has thousands of customers in the...

Over the past week, I have worked with a number of people who wanted to know if their Internet filter was working. There are the obvious things to do like try and access blocked websites yourself. However, in today’s world a lot of other applications use the standard web ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS)...

Microsoft last week patched the last vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) used by a researcher in March to win $15,000 at the The company had patched IE twice before to quash bugs exploited by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security to bring down IE8 on Windows 7 at Pwn2Own. For his efforts, Fewer was awarded a...

Google+ has quickly skyrocketed to 25 million plus users, and invitations to join the coveted limited “Field Trial” of the Google social network are in high demand… or so I thought. They used to be at least. I expected a mad rush to take advantage of my repeated offers to invite readers,...

Mozilla revealed preliminary plans today to take the Gecko engine that drives its Firefox browser and turn it into an open-source operating system that will eventually work on phones and tablets. Called Boot to Gecko, it is known that the source code will be released to the public “in real-time,”...