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Tweet GOOGLE said overnight it will hire a record number of people this year, taking on more than 6000 workers "across the board and around the globe." The internet giant added more than 4500 "Googlers" to its employee ranks in 2010 and plans to easily eclipse that figure this year, Google senior vice president of [&hellip
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Vint Cerf ‘jealous’ of Australia’s $36 billion broadband plan
By mike, Jan 24 in blog with 0 commentsTweet 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 Google just dropped a bombshell: Eric Schmidt is out as CEO (as announced in the company’s earings report. We’ll be covering the company’s earnings call, which is sure to have more on this. He will step down from the role starting April 4, and co-founder Larry Page will take charge of Google’s day-to-day operations [&hellip