If you aren’t already using OpenDNS to protect your small-business network, you should take a few minutes now to set it up. The security benefits are well worth the time investment: OpenDNS is free, ...

Cisco has announced the acquisition of OpenDNS, a ten-year-old Internet security company, for $635 million. To understand what OpenDNS does, it's first important to understand a fundamental part of ...

A security system undergoing testing by a San-Francisco-based company aims to speed up the detection of websites and domains used for cybercrime. The technology is being developed by OpenDNS, which ...

Content delivery network Akamai is still attempting to speed up the web and it has teamed up with OpenDNS to add optimized DNS routing to its arsenal of services. For customers using OpenDNS, content ...

OpenDNS is a new start up that wants users to redirect web traffic through its DNS nameservers, where an unusually large cache and an aggregated list of sites deemed guilty of phishing will make our ...

Google, OpenDNS and various content delivery networks have formed the Global Internet Speedup initiative, a project aimed at helping web pages load faster than before. Announced on Tuesday, the scheme ...

Malicious Web sites install code without our knowledge, or rely on our gullibility, in order to hijack our computers. Anti-malware software can help by blocking known attacks, but does little or ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. His ...

A domain name system helps computers translate domain names into IP addresses. Every domain name has its own unique IP address, giving it an address on the Internet. When you type in a website address ...

Geeky tech startup OpenDNS-- whose service is designed to make Internet access faster and safer -- got its first 20 million users mostly by funding itself with cash flow. Now the company is planning ...

The Internet can be a scary place these days for big businesses, especially those running highly-regulated, mission-critical applications. The web has plenty of bad neighborhoods where malware, ...

OpenDNS, the service that makes it easy to set up an alternative DNS server, has announced a new service that allows users to browse the web by using keyword shortcuts. The new service allows people ...