IP based geolocation gets more accurate

IP based geolocation gets more accurate London: A new online tracking system will allow websites to pinpoint your location to within a few hundred metres, without your permission. Internet sites will be able to work out where users are within an average of 690 metres, using information about their internet connection. At the moment they can only track users' locations to within a radius of about 200 km, but the new technique will narrow this down...
03:20 PM, Apr 25, 2011

Mobile device boom sparks US Net address shortage

Mobile device boom sparks US Net address shortage Washington: The United States could run out of unique Internet addresses to assign to new devices by the end of next year, a telecommunications official said on Tuesday. Internet Protocol version 4, known as IPv4, provides the dominant architecture for the Internet. It requires devices to have unique identifiers, known as an IP address, but it only has space for 4.3 billion of those addresses. The recent profusion of mobile...
06:22 PM, Sep 29, 2010

World wide wreck: Internet heads to chaos

World wide wreck: Internet heads to chaos 85% of web addresses used up; rest will be used up in 1,273 days. ...
11:32 AM, Jul 06, 2008
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