Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the ...

"I am not an IP number, I am a free man!" OK, so that's not exactly what actor Patrick McGoohan said in the classic TV show, The Prisoner, but Number 6 would have agreed that people aren't numbers, ...

Every machine on the the Internet has a unique number assigned to it, called an IP address. Without a unique IP address on your machine, you will not be able to communicate with other devices, users, ...

An IP address which stands for internet protocol address is a digital code that is generated through a hierarchical system that involves the RIRs, IANA, and ISPs which allows computers to send and ...

If you are familiar with VPNs, you may have noticed that many of the best VPN services offer dedicated IPs as an add-on service. This gives you the security of the VPN plus an extra layer of privacy, ...

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a system for transmitting voice calls over the internet. IP phones use an internet connection rather than phone lines for transmission, but otherwise work the ...

Dan Misener is a national technology columnist for CBC Radio afternoon shows, and one of the minds behind Spark with Nora Young. In my books, Feb. 1, 2011, will go down as the day the internet got too ...

The Internet as we know it is now officially too big for its britches. The organization that assigns IP addresses in North America — the numbers that identify every computer, smartphone and device ...

When disaster strikes and internet access is knocked out, how can you communicate? Ham radios and IP over Avian Carriers are two options. If you’re reading this, you have internet access. You probably ...

Political and technological problems might sink China's New IP plan, but China could reshape the internet in subtler ways. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...