The Business Review of Albany (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five Internet service providers, or ISPs, serving New York have signed an agreement by the state Attorney General's office to rid their servers of child pornography Web sites.
broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
After the FCC voted to " sanction " Comcast earlier this month for throttling P2P traffic, the network neutrality debate thankfully quieted down. Apparently unhappy with this tranquil lull in hyperbole, executives from several major ISPs met in Aspen this week at a think tank event to hint that network neutrality was both an "absurd" and "paranoid" argument. A theme throughout the event seems...
The Business First of Buffalo (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Five Internet service providers, or ISPs, serving Western New York have signed an agreement by the state Attorney General's office to rid their servers of child pornography Web sites.
Mauricio Freitas: My window to the (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apple has released its iTunes Movies service in New Zealand last week, and this has shown us how badly the ISPs are performing. First we have the problem with "data caps". Most people I know are on 10GB or 20GB plans, which means that they either pay a premium for any excess traffic during the billing period, or have their connection throttled down to dial-up speeds. yes, dial-up speeds! Take...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
We've already talked about how Italy's plan to have ISPs block all access to The Pirate Bay has failed by getting more people to visit the site. However, TorrentFreak points out another oddity in this whole ordeal. For the sites that did redirect The Pirate Bay, they pointed people to an IFPI-owned website . That seems highly questionable. Why should ISPs direct traffic intended for one...
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
YouGov says traditional services could be impacted ISPs could face counting the pennies if the popularity of mobile broadband - using a dongle or data card on your laptop or PC - continues to rise. ... Read Mobile broadband could hit ISPs on Pocket-lint now
The Los Angeles Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
Woodland Hills' is among a group of Internet service providers that have signed an agreement by the New York Attorney General's office to rid their servers of child pornography Web sites. The agreement also requires the providers to eliminate access to child porn newsgroups, a type of message board that can supply illegal images. The other ISPs joining United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD) are LocalNet,...
Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
It looks as though ISPs could end up losing out if the popularity with Mobile Broadband continues to increase. More people are now taking up new contracts with mobile phone companies so that they can get broadband speeds on the move. Mobile broadband is much easier to get now thanks to the new dongle that just [...]
Broadband Finder Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Traditional ISPs are having to fight harder than ever to retain their customers as more and more of us are switching to mobile broadband. According to the recent YouGov Dongle Track Report the increasing popularity of mobile broadband could pose a serious threat to Internet Service Providers offering fixed-line connections. The survey found that one in [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Uganda: Spectrum Allocation a Concern for Telcoms, ISPsEdris KisambiraKampalaPlayers in Uganda's Internet arena have expressed concern about both the way the industry regulator has allocated WiMax broadband spectrum and possible looming increases in the costs of spectrum licenses.Today, the UCC (Uganda Communications Commission) charges US$7,500 per year for 1 megahertz (MHz) and has allocated...
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
iiNet, Australia's third largest ISP, and Internode have blasted Communications Alliance, the telecoms industry's peak body, over a report to the ACCC on migrating telephony services to the unconditioned...
broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
While NebuAD has gotten plenty of heat in the U.S. for their plan to buy user browsing data from ISPs and deliver targeted ads, a company in the UK by the name of Phorm has seen even greater scrutiny. That's in part because the company began its money-making life as a spyware and rootkit developer named121 Media. Whereas NebuAD is fairly forthcoming about their systems (even if ISPs...
Shane Richmond (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
I'm on holiday at the moment. While I'm away I've asked several guests to share their thoughts on the internet and how it affects the music industry. Today Paul Sanders , founder of several music distribution businesses including Playlouder MSP and Consolidated Independent, offers his opinion.
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Looks like Phorm may be facing another headache as The Register has found out that it was quietly used by some American ISPs , as well. Earlier stories had suggested that Phorm, which tracks your web surfing at the ISP level and customizes ads based on your clickstream data, was only testing the service in Europe, while competitor NebuAd was focused on the US. Phorm is facing some legal inquiries...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
In the US, both ISPs and the RIAA have gone after the individuals that are sharing copyrighted music; the former by throttling capacity, the latter by filing lawsuits. So far, however, the RIAA hasn’t gone directly after the broadband providers for laying the pipes through which the sharing to take place, although it has made threatening noises about doing so in Congressional testimony. In...
