More than 25,000 people and organizations have filed comments in a U.S. Federal Communications Commission inquiry into whether it should reclassify broadband as a regulated service, with the overwhelming majority appearing to favor such a move.
Thursday night was the deadline for the first round of comments in the FCC’s notice of inquiry (NOI) on [...]
By Grant Gross, IDG News
A bill in the U.S. Congress that would require Internet sellers in many states to collect sales tax would hurt small businesses online, a tech trade group said Wednesday.
The Main Street Fairness Act, introduced last Thursday by Representative Bill Delahunt, would allow states to force online sellers to collect sales tax, [...]
A rogue Vietnamese developer called Thuat Nguyen reportedly hacked into iTunes accounts and gamed the Books category in the Apple App Store to artificially inflate the ratings and sales for his book apps. Both The Next Web and Engadget websites reported Sunday that Nguyen apps accounted for 42 of the top 50 books by revenue [...]
Mark Sullivan / PC World
June 30, 2010
When it comes to broadband, I’m a socialist. Why? Because broadband service in the United States is currently provided by a cableco/telco duopoly, and, as such, is slower and more expensive than in most of the developed world, studies show. Because I don’t believe the FCC can fix that [...]
June 28, 2010
It’s a little hard to get heard over Julia Gillard this week.
I’m really rather shocked that no one is talking about Google unintentionally breaking its own terms and conditions relating to Privacy.
When you sign up to Google Analytics it states this in the T&C’s:
7. PRIVACY. You will not (and will not allow any [...]
June 29, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hulu introduced a new paid subscription service for watching TV shows and movies on mobile devices, game consoles, television sets and computers, and joined other media companies trying to strike a balance between paid and [...]
Microsoft Using All the Tools at Their Disposal to Stop Spam Scams
Two anti-spam systems developed by Microsoft for Hotmail designed to help ISPs track down offending users were abused by spammers, a lawsuit brought last week by the software giant alleges. The spammers are accused of attacking Hotmail’s Junk Mail [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) – A new program being spearheaded by Microsoft Corp. is designed to provide a trusted way for researchers to report stolen credit card numbers and other data they’ve found in the dark corners of the Internet.
Establishing [...]
Some worry about the Web making us dumber or lazier, but not me. I’d be lost without it.
Lance Ulanoff
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google Inc is working with U.S. and European officials to build a case that would argue Internet censorship acts as a trade barrier, a top company executive said on Friday.
Google shut down its mainland Chinese-language portal earlier this year over censorship concerns and a cyber attack it said it traced to China.
China [...]
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