IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol (IP) for identification and location of computers on networks and Internet traffic routing. I’ve been waiting for it now for years but nothing ever seems to happen. I ...

Microsoft has been forced to start using its global stock of IPv4 addresses to keep its Azure cloud service afloat in the U.S., highlighting the growing importance of making the shift to IP version 6.

One of the vexing things about IP Security (IPSec) VPNs is network address translation (NAT); that is, converting private IP addresses to public ones when traffic crosses a firewall so Internet ...

Starting in late 1999, I was editor of CommVerge, a short-lived sister publication to EDN that focused on the convergence trend. We launched just as the Internet went mainstream and folded with the so ...

Today is World IPv6 Day. Don't worry, you don't need to send a card -- it's just a 24-hour test by Google, Facebook and many other websites of a new way of connecting to the Web. Richard Trenholm ...

The brain has a funny way of increasing the relative importance of any particular issue with temporal proximity. In other words, it is well known that we tend to do things at the last minute (no, ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the ...

Because I serve as an occasional docent at the Computer History Museum, I get messages from the other docents. These messages usually contain some pretty interesting and arcane information about ...