The people who run the internet are expected to announce (update: they announced it) that they’ve allocated the last set of internet addresses today. In a matter of months, the old addresses based on ...

Remember when telephone companies ran out of phone numbers and forced us all to dial 10 digits to make a call? The Internet is now in a similar bind, the Wall Street Journal reports. This week, the ...

An Internet Protocol address, also known as an IP address, is a unique number that identifies a device connected to the ...

Engineers who created 4.3 billion Internet Protocol addresses back in 1981 probably thought that by the time we ran through all those, we’d be puttering around in flying cars. Flying cars are going to ...

The idea that there is an Internet address shortage looming in Asia or any part of the world is "misinformation," according to a senior executive at the body responsible for Internet addresses in the ...

The MPAA, RIAA and other copyright holding companies have long used Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to identify users for their lawsuits. They'll find that people at various IP addresses have used ...

WASHINGTON—A technology executive pleaded guilty to federal wire-fraud charges on Tuesday, closing an obscure but potentially influential case that could shape future criminal prosecutions involving ...

An internet protocol (IP) address is a unique identifying number assigned to a device that connects to the internet. It functions as an online device address―characterized by a string of numbers―used ...