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Internet addresses and why you should care
Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:21 PM
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So who cares about Internet addresses? You will if it means things link your cellphone, e-mail, Facebook or Skype don't work. Internet addresses allow devices to talk to each other. Some nations have already run out of old addresses called IPv4. The global agency regulating them announced a month ago there are no more except those already allocated but not in use. Last week Microsoft spent nearly $12 apiece for a few million addresses that Nortel owns. We'll all hit the wall in about two years.
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