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Obama Launches Cyber Security Arm; Seeks 'Tsar' to Oversee

On grounds that America's 21st century economic prosperity depends on them, President Barack Obama announced plans to protect the country's computer networks from cyber attacks. The Obama Administration   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 1st 2009

Bandwidth-Thirsty Developing World Poses Threat to Web's Bottom Line

Photo-sharing sites, social networks, and video distributors (e.g., Flickr, Facebook, YouTube) are booming in developing nations like Turkey, India, and Brazil - but struggling to turn a profit from online advertising alone. Internet entrepreneurs have always operated under the ideals of uniting everyone in a single online "village" by providing free services to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 28th 2009

Time Warner Takes $16B Loss

Time Warner posted a loss of $16.03 billion, or $4.47/share, in 2008's Q4. The results were due mainly to a $24.2 billion write-down for its cable, publishing and AOL assets, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. Prior to this, Time Warner predicted it would report an operating loss for the fourth quar  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009

Agency Clients Slash Budgets 20% or More, Digital Only Bright Spot

More than two-thirds (70%) of global ad agency CEOs say clients are cutting back their 2009 budgets, and more than 83% of that group say those cuts are at least by 20%, according to the latest Agency CEO Survey by Worldwide Partners Inc (WPI) (  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 2nd 2009

British Gov Drafts Eco- and Industry-Friendly Digital Plan

Yesterday the British government revealed a plan to boost its digital and communications industry, part of an effort to make the UK a competitive low carbon economy in the next 5 to 10 years. In the interim report, Digital Britain Lord Carter, the British minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, listed 22 recommendations based on an analysis of broadcasting and the UK's digital infrastruc  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 30th 2009

Digital Divide Thins: Half of Americans 'Frequent' the 'Net

Americans' frequent use of the internet nearly doubled in the past five years: 48% of adults -- many in groups that were historically less frequent users -- now report that using the 'net over an one hour per day, compared with 26% in 2002, according to results from a recent Gallup Poll,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 28th 2009

World Internet Audience Tops 1B; China Has Most Visitors

The global internet audience surged past the one-billion mark in December 2008, fueled by users in China -- the largest online population in the world -- and the Asia Pacific region, accounting for over two-fifths of total visitors, according to World Metrix data released by comScore.   [...]
Posted: Monday, January 26th 2009

Libya Takes Leap Toward Wifi Web Access

Libya Telecom & Technology, Libya's only internet service provider, is launching a major commercial wireless network that it claims will be among the most advanced in the world, reports the BBC. The effort, known as WiMax, has only been unrolled at a grand scale within a handful of countries. WiMax coverage in Libya will commence with 18 cities, and include a mobile access feature. WiMax enables users with USB-ready laptops to con  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 26th 2009

Backcountry Brits Take Broadband Into Own Hands

Though broadband penetration in Great Britain enjoyed a breakout year in '08, with 14 million households (and 9 in 10 at-home internet users) enjoying high-speed connections, connectivity is still less mainstream than UK residents would prefer. Tired of waiting for the big ISP's to launch faster network service, a number of rural communities are jerry-rigging their own methods. Some 40 loc  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 22nd 2009

House Approves Financing for Rural American Broadband Network

The House Appropriations Committee just approved financing up to $6 billion to develop broadband networks in rural America. "For every dollar invested in broadband, the economy sees a 10-fold return on that investment," the Committee preached. The $6 billion-for-broadband is part of an $825 billion stimulus package that was posed to Congress. Advocates for the bill remain cautiously celebratory. "Let's make sure the details are right," said Policy Director Ben Scott of Free Press. "Y  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 16th 2009

Obama Eyeballs Former IAC Exec for FCC Chairman

The Associated Press and Reuters report that President Elect Barack Obama is nominating a "key technology advisor" to Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The source was a person who worked directly with the transition team on technology issues. Julius Genachowski served as law clerk at the Supreme Court from 1992 to 1994, follow  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 14th 2009

Verizon Taps Microsoft for Exclusive Search, Ad Deal

Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the development of a coveted liaison with Verizon Wireless. The five-year contract makes Microsoft the default search provider to Verizon's sizable user base. It will also manage mobile advertising across the carrier's handheld units. Crucially, it gives Microsoft a foothold in an increasingly lucrative mobi  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 8th 2009

Hawaii Meds Association Pilots 'Net-Based Doctor Appointments

For a mere $10, Hawaiian residents with 'net access and a webcam or text chat will be able to "talk" directly to their doctors about medical problems. Beginning January 15th, a partnership between Hawaii Medical Service Association, the state’s Blue Cross-Blue Shield licensee, and web service American Well will allow the plan's 700,000 members to make 10-minute "face-to-face" appointments. (Uninsured patients must pay $45.) Because p  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009

Website Rating System Hits Obama Administration's Table

Andy Burnham, the United Kingdom's minister of culture, says the country is contemplating the use of a rating system for websites. Like existing rating systems for films, American TV shows and video games, the online variant represents an attempt to prepare users for potentially provocative content and protect children from potentially harmful of offensive material. The results may be far-reaching. Burnham says the government will work with the Obama administration to draft "international   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 29th 2008

FCC Puts Wireless Spectrum Plan on Backburner

A project to avail portions of advanced wireless services-2 spectrum to telecommunications companies, in exchange for free nationwide public internet services, has been put on hold until next year, when the new administration takes office. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled the meeting in which members would vote on the initiative soon after two Democratic lawmakers asked that it be temporarily suspended, Mediapost   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008

Aussie Gov't to Pilot Nationwide 'Net Filter

The Australian government is moving forward with plans to implement a nationwide online filter of objectionable material. The filter is one component of an $82 million cybersafety effort to protect children from exploitation and discourage adults from downloading illegal content, including terrorist materials or child pornography,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008

Obama to US: Broadband for All!

In his regular weekly YouTube address to Americans, President-elect Barack Obama announced broadband connectivity would be a top priority in a massive public works campaign he will direct while in office. "It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption," he said. In terms of average internet speed, the US lags behind South Korea, Hong Kong, Sweden and Be  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 9th 2008

Take the Airwaves, But Give Us Free Internet, FCC Proposes

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may consider auctioning public airwaves to private companies -- on the condition that the winning bidder provide free internet access nationwide. Chairman Kevin Martin put the proposal before the commission on Dec. 18. Mobile phone firms are displeased with the prospect of giving out free internet, arguing it is not a feasible business m  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 3rd 2008

Obama's Fireside Chats Hit YouTube

With what The Guardian called "an ultra-modern echo of Franklin D. Roosevelt's regular folksy radio broadcasts," President Elect Barack Obama has launched a weekly address to the nation -- via YouTube. Like Roosevelt's "fireside chats," Obama uses a contrived intimate setting to discuss issues plaguing the country -- the economy, energy, healthcare, education -- and outlines plans to resolve them:   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 17th 2008

White Spaces Could Morph into 'WiFi on Steroids'

Last Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously to allow the unlicensed use of the white space spectrum. So-called "white spaces" are the 300MHz to 400MHz of unused spectrum that sit between broadcast TV channels. It may prove a useful way to provide wireless broadband services, for example, because it can penetrate walls and travel long distances. Broadband penetration rates in US, while still in the top 20 worldwide, have slipped in rank conside  [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 6th 2008

South Korea Leads in Broadband Connectivity, Delaware Top in US

South Korea again tops the list of countries with the greatest levels of high broadband (greater than 5 Mbps) connectivity in Q2, while Delaware leads US states, according to the latest "State of the Internet" report from Akamai, writes MarketingCharts. The report, w  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 15th 2008

BT Gives Phorm's Behavioral Ad Model Another Go

UK telecom BT is dipping its feelers back in the behavioral advertising market. The company has decided to re-test Phorm, whose technology enables participating websites to serve ads to users, based on web-surfing data provided by their ISPs. Revenue is split between the ISP, website publishers and Phorm. BT courted media contempt when it ran two secret Phorm trials between 2006 and 2007. Discove  [...]
Posted: Monday, September 29th 2008

EU Commission May Declare Broadband 'A Universal Right'

The European Commission (EC) may establish that broadband internet access is "a universal right" during a review of its Universal Service Obligations (USO) for the region's telecoms companies. Fixed line standards for "functional internet access" are now set at dial-up speed (28.8 kilobits per second), but may be re-written to force telecom firms to make broadband available to all, reports the BBC. Between 2003   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 29th 2008

United Kingdom Cracks Down on 'Suicide Sites'

Since the Suicide Act of 1961, the United Kingdom considers it illegal to promote suicide. The act will be amended to include web publishers with so-called "suicide websites," and to help internet service providers police sites for such content, reports the BBC, following concerns that users querying for suicide information hope to locate sites encouraging them to do it. "Updating the language of the Suicide Act [...] should help to  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 17th 2008

Comcast Challenges FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling

Comcast is challenging the FCC's demand that it cease slowing internet speeds to heavy bandwidth users. In early August, the FCC voted 3-2 against Comcast's practice of "throttling" broadband for users of peer-to-peer filesharing sites. Comcast was ordered to manage periods of heavy data flow in a less discriminatory manner. The ruling was a coup for net neutrality proponents,  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 5th 2008