International bandwidth prices are plummeting, with some routes offering 10 Gbps connections for less than US$5,000 per month.

That's the cost of a link between New York and London, according to international telco analyst firm Telegeography (best known for its submarine cable maps ). That route, however, has always been one of the most contested in the world: in 2014, Telegeography's Brianna Boudreau noted on Tuesday , the price was already well under $10,000.

By comparison, the New York to Tokyo route, costing roughly $15,000 per month (median price) for a 10Gbps link in 2014, has fallen to around a

Bill Morrow, CEO of the nbn™, the company building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has learned to Fear The Wrath Of Gamers.

Morrow angered gamers with comments to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the NBN, which he on Monday he told that some “super users” on its fixed wireless services are downloading “terabytes” per month. The company is considering fair-use clause in contracts (as apply to its SkyMuster satellite services) or even traffic shaping to cope.

nbn™ has clarified that it wasn't “blaming” gamers for congestion on its wireless networks.

As an example of heavy users, Morrow included gamers, a

The US government has formally asked whether it should reassert its control of the internet's administrative functions, effectively reversing a handover to non-profit organization ICANN two years ago.

"Should the IANA Stewardship Transition be unwound? If yes, why and how? If not, why not?" reads one of 23 questions that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has put into a formal notice of inquiry [PDF] published on Tuesday in the Federal Register.

In effect, should Uncle Sam regain ultimate control of IANA – the ICANN department that oversees the planet's domain-name system, IP address allocation, and network protocol number

Pools have come a long way. It used to be you had a pump and if you were lucky it had a mechanical timer switch on it. That was it. Now you have digital controllers and spa jets and heaters. You can even get them that connect to your home automation system. If your pool isn’t new enough to do that already, you can get a range of add-on accessories. For a price. [Rob] paid $500 to get a remote for his pool. It wasn’t even WiFi, just a simple RF remote. In 3 years, the transmitter had burned out …read more

ROUNDUP FireEye has borrowed from the credit card industry to try and detect malicious logins.

The company's reasoning is that someone in Sydney at 9AM can't legitimately log into a system from (say) Hong Kong an hour later.

So the company's announced GeoLogonalyzer to try to detect malicious logins by their source.

A “geo feasibility” analyser, GeoLogonalyzer aims to detect authentication attempts from distant locations; a user account logging on from improbable IP addresses (for example, an IP in one city but the user also has logons from locations they're unlikely to be located); logon attempts from locations nobody's travelling