Stories about: Metcalfe

Mac is hacked first at CanSecWest; Toshiba's robot helps control remotes; Boston hosts a robotic competition and Steve Wozniak talks on tech; Intel introduces a new Classmate PC; Mobile Internet Devices use Intel's Atom processor; and AT&T uses Microsoft's Surface computer.

A new workgroup led by an Australian developer says the social networking-Web 2.0 boom has created a conundrum: How to securely deliver sets of personal data across the ever-growing flock of such applications and Web sites with a minimum of pain and complexity.

Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by countless techies to quickly cook sandwiches and hamburgers after a long day in the data center.

Lack of a business-grade accounting system tailored for Australia's onerous taxation system has long kept even the most die-hard Linux fans tied to Windows, but all that is set to change with the open source SYMBOL Accounting.

Ethernet is right up there with magnetic resonance imaging, the LP record, air bags, and soft contact lenses. So says the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which included Bob Metcalf, inventor of the ubiquitous LAN technology, in its latest round of inductees.

A University of Minnesota researcher said he expects to unveil a Web site in the next few weeks designed to track Internet traffic around the world.

U.K. local authorities are far less likely to use open-source software than those of some other European countries, according to findings from a Dutch study. The study has so far found that 32 percent of local authorities in Britain use open-source software, compared with 71 percent in France, 68 percent in Germany and 55 percent in the Netherlands.

Bob Metcalfe's at it again. Mr. Ethernet, now a venture capitalist, technologist and pundit, is making wild predictions and this time it's about ZigBee, the 2.4GHz wireless standard -- IEEE802.15.4 -- aimed primarily at monitoring and control rather than data transfer.

Anyone tracking the steadily increasing adoption of Linux by businesses around the globe is bound to be interested in up-to-date data on the Web technology choices being made by large enterprises. So it’s no surprise that someone of the caliber of Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and co-founder of 3Com Corp., should have called the UK site Netcraft 'cool'--because this is exactly what Netcraft does. It’s a UK based site devoted to tracking technology used on the Internet.

Everybody probably wishes they looked as good at 30 as Ethernet.

Three axioms will drive the future of enterprise networking: Moores Law, Metcalfes Law and Petreleys Law, which I will define for the first time here.