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Entries from April 2005

A pile of numbers

April 11th, 2005 No Comments

Not sure what to make of some of the numbers in Media Life’s article Long slow win over illegal downloads. Numbers from ComScore show about 19.5 million visits to the top five P2P sites (a huge drop), versus 26.44 million visits to the top 10 retail music sites (a modest increase).
That’s big news. But [...]

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Breaking WEP in 3 minutes

April 11th, 2005 No Comments

It’s not news in the security community, but demonstrating that WEP is so insecure that even the FBI can break it: TomsNetworking discusses a demonstration where the Feds broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes.
WPA is much better, but still a target.
The solution? VPN, of course. And since your wireless [...]

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New top-level domain names

April 11th, 2005 No Comments

I see that ICANN has approved new top-level domains .travel and .jobs. A quote from the registrar who will operate the .travel TLD :
I would say there is a great deal of pent up demand for this domain name now.
Really? Where is the demand coming from? Aside from the registrar’s pent up demand [...]

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An Industry on the Move

April 1st, 2005 1 Comment

Some happenings in the web analytics industry that caught my eye today:
Omniture announced a new line of executive chairs that have built-in LCDs. This could be just the thing for busy folks to keep tabs on their site stats. The new division, Omni Furniture, has promised additional pieces in the future.
Urchin Software announced [...]

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