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FCC To Take First Crack at Neutrality Rules

As expected, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday voted to begin the rule-making process that will move the US toward network neutrality - a major shift from its earlier 'hands off' policy on web regulation. The theory behind this principle is that as the number of broadband providers grow smaller and more concentrated, these players will favor access to their own products and services - a deep concern to Web 2.0 companies that offer competing offerings. FCC Chairman Juliu  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

State of the DTV Transition: Senate Approves Digital Delay

1-27-09: Senate Approves Digital TV Delay The Senate has voted to delay the transition to digital television - originally scheduled for Feb. 17 - until June 12, because some viewers are not yet ready for the switch. Similar legislation awaits action in the House, reports The New York Times (via  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 28th 2009

Tech Magnates Welcome Obama with Lavish (Financial) Support

Silicon Alley Insider compiled a list of tech icons that made sizable donations to Barack Obama's Presidential Inaugural Committee. Listed endorsers from Google averaged $25,000 each, while executive donors (and spouses) at Microsoft averaged $50,000. Just one Yahoo notable made the cut -- Associate General Counsel Laura Covington, who gave $10,  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 30th 2008

Dell and Microsoft Join (Red) Anti-AIDS Squad

Dell and Microsoft have joined the promotional fight against AIDS in Africa. Dell will market a line of red computers for (Red), a campaign started by U2's Bono and chairman Bobby Shriver of Debt AIDS Trade Africa. (Red) Dell XPS computers will run on Microsoft Ultimate (Product) Red. The Global Fund shall receive $50 for every laptop sold. Desktops will net $80 api  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 24th 2008

Poll: The 'Net's No Guru, But it Makes an Okay Lover

The internet won't make you dinner or give you a massage, but nearly one in four Americans -- 24 percent -- say it can occasionally serve as a substitute for a significant other, according to a poll by 463 Communications and Zogby International, writes sister  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 2nd 2007

In Stake Talks, Microsoft Prices Facebook at $10BN; Google Interested Too

In yet another sign pointing to Facebook's explosive growth, Microsoft has expressed interest in buying a stake that could value the social network at US$ 10 billion or more if talks prove successful. The deal would entail that Microsoft pay between US$ 300 million and US$ 500 million for an up-to-five percent stake, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google is also in  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 25th 2007

Hitwise Election 2008 Data Center Launched: Obama, Paul, Clinton Popular Online

Hitwise this week launched its Election 2008 Data Center, highlighting which presidential candidates' websites are visited the most, and which generate the highest search volume, reports MarketingCharts. Hitwise also released initial data from n  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 9th 2007

FTC Gives Net Neutrality the Big 'What For?'

Last week the FTC issued a report dismissing claims that the government must help preserve the fairness of online networks in the U.S., according to Ars Technica. "This report recommends that policy makers proceed with caution in the evolving, dynamic industry of  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 2nd 2007

'Great Firewall' Marks Flickr its Next Victim

China's Internet censors are upsetting a new generation of Web-hungry users who, far from aspiring to cyber dissidence, merely want to check friends' photos, for example, reports NewScientistTech. Access restrictions in China have found a new casualty in Flickr, which was for the most part blocked after images of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre appear  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 21st 2007

Most Want Congress to Legislate Corporate Social Responsibility

The vast majority of Americans say it is either very or extremely important for Congress to ensure that companies address social issues, according to a Fleishman-Hillard Inc. (FH) and the National Consumers League (NCL) survey, writes MarketingCharts (  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 18th 2007

Tech, Politics Top Lists of Top Blogs

Political and tech blogs are the most popular types of blogs in the United States according to a new study. A new study by global PR firm Edelman and blog-tracking service Technorati has determined that blogs covering tech news and political commentary dominate the list of top 10 blogs, AdWeek reports. Four of the top blogs were tech related and four were devoted to political passions   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 11th 2006

Sites Fold as Congress Bans Online Gambling

Even before President Bush has signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, gambling sites are suspending activity in the U.S. Late last week, Congress approved legislation that requires banks and credit card companies to block payments to the estimated 2,300 offshore gambling sites located outside U.S. jurisdiction. Three of the world's largest online gambling sites, PartyGaming Plc, SportingBet Plc, and 888 Plc, all publicly traded British corporations, announced   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 3rd 2006

Stealth Browser Hides IP Addresses

A group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts has released a Firefox-based fully portable browser designed to allow anonymous web surfing. Called Torpark, the browser created by the Hacktivismo organization establishes an encrypted connection to the TOR (The Onion Router) network, which supplies a succession of different IP addresses,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 28th 2006

European Union Fines Microsoft $357MM

The European Union has fined Microsoft $357 million (280.5 million euro) and threatened it with more to come, saying it failed to abide by a 2004 antitrust order to share information so that rivals' software might better communicate with Windows, reports the Associated Press. Microsoft said it would appeal, claiming the file amount is unfair. The EU imposed daily fines of 1.5 million euro ($1.91 million) f  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 12th 2006

Support Builds for ISP Snooping

Politicians on the federal and state levels are apparently lining up in support of efforts to require internet service providers (ISPs) to record the online activities of their users - just in case the information may be useful in any law-enforcement investigations that may be launched in the future, writes CNET in a longish piece. Not surprisingly, privacy advocates are concerned. Bush administration offici  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 17th 2006

Congress on Convergence: 'Deregulate'

The Senate Commerce Committee heard varying angles on the impact that technological convergence has had on competition; Thursday's testimony came during the final hearing that the committee will hold before it revamps the communication regulatory policy by revising a bill that might update the 1996 Telecommunication Act, writes Broadcasting & Cable (  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 31st 2006

The Internet Revolution and China's New Gang of Four

Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo officials were grilled yesterday during a Congressional hearing for their role in helping the Chinese authorities keep a tight lid on the internet revolution that's coming to a boil in a market with vast potential for serving up plenty of corporate profits. The chairman of a House subcommittee dealing with human rights and international operations, Christopher Smith (R-NJ), called it a "sickening collaboration" that was "decapitating the voice of the d  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 16th 2006

Internet Companies Face Grilling in House on China Policies

Four internet companies doing business in a booming China - Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems - are being pressed in Washington for more complete answers about their business practices in China and the implications for human rights, writes the New York Times. The House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations is today questioning company officials and witnesses critical of the compan  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 15th 2006

Congressional Hearings Slam Tech Firms' China Hijinks

Experts on Wednesday told an informal hearing by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus that U.S. tech firms are pushing aside principles in the pursuit of profit by helping China censor the internet, reports Reuters. The Congressmen, who are likely not strangers to the concept of sacrificing principle to expediency, excoriated Google, Ya  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 2nd 2006

Europe May Fine Microsoft Nearly $2.4MM per Day

The European Commission has threatened to fine Microsoft more than $2 million a day unless it agrees to share more technical information with its competitors, reports the New York Times. The EC and Microsoft are at odds over the latter's compliance with a 2004 European Union antitrust ruling. The EC says Microsoft has failed to live up to its agreement. Europe wants the data-serving software made by rivals to work as easily  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 23rd 2005