WildBlue Embraces Google
I’d wager that not a lot of people visit their Internet service provider’s homepage on a daily basis. Still, whoever drops by the WildBlue.net homepage will, starting in 2008, see an absolute swarm of Google’s services. read more More: continued here wildblue embraces google
Google Frowns On Rogers Injection
Rogers Internet in Canada provides its subscribers with an advisory when they are approaching their account’s bandwidth limits, by injecting that notice into a web page they are viewing.The example of Rogers dropping a notice onto Google’s homepage began making the rounds yesterday. Some people called it a threat to net neutrality, which seems a [...]
SAFE Act Passage Panic Overblown
The Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act looks scary on a privacy level at first, but is not as fearsome as it appears. The government did not pick up a blanket license to arrest people with Wi-Fi connections should an illegal image cross their networks, despite the suggestion at Declan McCullagh’s Iconoclast blog that the SAFE [...]
Verizon Gives Up FCC Suit
After sufficient sound and fury from Verizon’s camp filing suit against the Federal Communications Commission to overturn rules governing a block of 700 MHz wireless spectrum, the telecom has dismissed its suit. Not because of any crisis of conscience, mind you, but because the Court of Appeals refused to hear the case in advance of [...]
Comcast Impersonates China and Gnutella, Too
Some of the uproar last week was regarding Comcast’s blocking of BitTorrent traffic, a move that, by itself raised concerns about the power over content and packets the cable company was usurping. Over the weekend it came to light that Comcast not only blocked BitTorrent, but also Gnutella and Lotus Notes. Back in September, CNet [...]
Porn Picks Bone With Torrents
It’s hard to have sympathy for a dirty, exploitative medium when the producers of it cry foul over piracy – after all dirty is as dirty does, and karma can be your friend or your enemy. But at the same time, copyrights are copyrights and are intended to protect the truly artful from thieves as [...]
Feds Can’t Have ISP Records
A federal judge said no to part to the Democrat green-lighted new version of the Patriot Act yesterday. The Feds will have to get permission from the court before they can order ISPs to turn over customer records without telling the customer. I invoked him yesterday, and I’m invoking him again today, Nelson Muntz joins [...]
‘Free’ Broadband Sparks Constitutional Debate
Though M2Z Networks threatened to take to the FCC to court to force a decision on the company’s "family friendly" free nationwide wireless broadband proposal by September 1, a likely "no" vote from the commission has made M2Z decide more public debate is necessary. M2Z CEO John Muleta, as a former FCC commissioner himself, is [...]
Business.com Sells For $350 Million
The $7.5 million price tag for Business.com paid by two businessmen in 1999 looks like a fantastic bargain now that R.H. Donnelley has purchased it for roughly $350 million.That $100 million for Dictionary.com may have been a bargain for Answers.com. If they had wanted Business.com, they would have paid three and a half times the [...]
UOL, Buscape Get Accounts With Google
I often ignore unusual punctuation marks (“Yahoo!” becomes “Yahoo,” for example), but “Buscape” sounds like some futuristic thing involving mass transport. So, instead, I’m here to report that Google has signed deals with UOL and Buscapé in Brazil. This simultaneously represents a win for Google and a loss for one of the company’s biggest rivals. [...]
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