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  • Tweet   One of the internet’s pioneers $36 billion is "stunning investment" Filter net at production end, not distribution ONE of the internet’s founding fathers says he’s "jealous" of Australia’s $36 billion broadband network. Vint Cerf, who helped develop email and TCP/IP technology, told The Australian during a visit to Sydney yesterday he thought the [&hellip

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  • Tweet The internet is running out of addresses. With everything from smartphones to internet-linked appliances and cars getting online, the group entrusted with organising the web is running out of the ‘IP’ numbers that identify destinations for digital traffic. Google engineer Lorenzo Colitti says one solution is to switch to a standard called IPv6 which [&hellip

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  • Tweet The "father of the internet" says the world is going to run out of internet addresses "within weeks" – and it will be all his fault. Google’s chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, who created the web protocol, IPv4, that connects computers globally, said he had no idea that his "experiment" in 1977 "wouldn’t end". [&hellip

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  • Tweet Two in five mobile owners use location-aware services As some marketers wonder about the possible audience for check-in services like foursquare, which reached 2 million users and 100 million check-ins in July 2010, mobile owners are getting used to sharing their location in many ways regardless of their privacy worries. According to a survey [&hellip

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