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Qualcomm's wireless power technology allows for pad-free charging
If Qualcomm's vision becomes a reality, users will be able to wirelessly recharge smartphones and tablets without placing them in direct contact with charging pads.
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Vint Cerf hails 30th birthday of the modern-day Internet
The Internet, a global system of interconnected computer networks that has transformed the lives of billions of people across the world, turned 30 on Tuesday.
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The Internet doesn't need the ITU's help, says Vint Cerf
Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet, warned Internet pioneer and Google executive Vint Cerf.
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Lego robot in Germany controlled from space using futuristic network
A robot in Germany has made its first moves on Earth under commands from an orbiting spacecraft.
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Secret wartime projects drove 'incredible' advances, says Vint Cerf
The Enigma cypher machine used by the German military in World War II is still a tough nut to crack today. The total number of ways it can be configured for every letter is around 150 million million million. That's enough to keep it beyond the reach of all but the most determined of brute force attacks.
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IPv6 is the new normal, says Internet Society
IPv6 is the new normal for the internet. So claimed the Internet Society (ISOC) as it summed up the early results of its World IPv6 Launch Day on June 6.
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Cerf: IPv6 'launch' was 20 years in the making
The official World IPv6 Launch yesterday, passed with little if any attention from the typical Internet user. For some in the Internet engineering community, however, the day marked the culmination of two decades' worth of work.
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Google applies for 50 top-level domains, including .lol
Google has applied to run more than 50 new top-level domains (TLDs), as part of a programme by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to expand the current pool of 22 suffixes, which includes .com, .info, .net, and .org.
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Wireless charging will be combined with TransferJet
The TransferJet Consortium will show devices at the Computex trade show in Taiwan next week that wirelessly charge and transfer data simultaneously.
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IP network run over xylophones by California researchers
Vint Cerf once wore a shirt that read "IP on Everything," a wry comment on the versatility of the Internet Protocol he helped invent, a protocol that underlies all Internet communication. Now a University of California Berkeley researcher has put Cerf's maxim to the test, running an IP network over a set of xylophones, played by human participants.
