News tagged with network connections


Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new "guilt-by-association" threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper ...





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SoftAP/VWiFi Architecture

Microsoft Incorporates Virtual WiFi Technology into Windows 7

Technology / Software

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual WiFi will enable Windows 7 and future operating systems to see a single WLAN adapter as multiple WLAN adapters by the operating system. This feature is available in Windows 7 RC1, ...


Random Network

Random network connectivity can be delayed, but with explosive results, new study finds

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

In the life of many successful networks, the connections between elements increase over time. As connections are added, there comes a critical moment when the network's overall connectivity rises rapidly with ...


Study shows hotels' Internet connections unsafe

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Travelers who use a hotel's Internet network risk the possibility of data theft, concludes a new study from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.


A Better Shot at Immunization

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A new immunization strategy could reduce the vaccine doses needed to protect a population from disease (and reduce the antivirus updates required to protect a network of computers) by as much as 50%.


Scientists describe technique for extracting hierarchical structure of networks

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 5

Networks -- used throughout the sciences in the study of biological, technological, and social complexity -- can often be too complex to visualize or understand.


Brain

Manipulating the Brain Network Could Improve IQ

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 7

In an attempt to investigate why some brains are more intelligent than others, researchers have found that efficient wiring between different brain regions is associated with a higher IQ. This understanding ...


New insights into the dynamics of the brain's cortex

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Using mathematics and a computer model of brain activity, Roberto Fernández Galán, Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has shown a direct link between activity ...


Greeks to register prepaid cell phones

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Greece's prepaid mobile phone users will now have to register their identities in a bid to tackle illegal immigration and other crime, the communications minister said Tuesday.


Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...


Function of a neglected structure in neurons revealed after 50 years

Function of a neglected structure in neurons revealed after 50 years

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland, have elucidated the function of a microscopic network of ...



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