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Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just as the leaks predicted , the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill , which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively change the law at will with little to no oversight. Basically, it would let the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, change copyright law through secondary legislation, which requires no Parliamentary approval....
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Bits du Jour (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Saturday 21 Nov EST you can get Bandwidth Usage Monitor at a reduced price. Our price: $4.99 List price: $9.99 You save: 51% Have you heard what the Internet Service Providers are thinking of doing? They're considering charging you more money if your bandwidth usage exceeds a certain threshold! Either that, or they'll throttle back your speeds automatically, or cut you off completely! Now, more...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
The new rules mean rights owners, like music companies, would be able to obtain the name and address of persistent offenders from internet service providers.
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hurricane Electric, a Fremont, Calif., ISP, will announce on Monday that its IPv6 network has doubled in size in less than a year -- a sign of how rapidly IPv6 traffic is increasing across the Internet. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html ">IPv6: The essential guide IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, known as IPv4....
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Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you take your Internet security seriously, now there’s an app for that. Launching today in Apple’s App Store, Cisco’s SIO To Go is a free iPhone app that allows users to get customized alerts on new and breaking security threats as well as additional information for safe web browsing. SIO To Go pulls its information from Cisco’s SIO (Security Intelligence Operations) system,...
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Blue Mass. Group - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
BMG has obtained an advance copy of Senate candidate Steve Pagliuca's policy statement on Net Neutrality. You read it here first! Defending Net Neutrality A Pagliuca for Senate Report Preserving the internet as an open resource for free speech, innovation, and job creation Since its creation, the internet has been a transformational force in the United States and an engine for job creation across a...
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | yesterday
The New York City Council is voting on a resolution this morning supporting the idea that Internet service providers cannot discriminate against web traffic on their networks. As gestures go, this resolution supporting net neutrality is more symbolic than it is useful, and to that end has already yielded a couple of photos of FCC [...]
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The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
Someone tell Lord Sith about encryption Claims from minister Stephen Timms this morning that the Digital Economy Bill has widespread support have been thrown into question, after the Internet Service Providers Association insisted it is strongly opposed to aspects of the legislation.…
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to 'future-proof' government proposals to safeguard the UK's creative industries Read the government's statement on the bill Read the digital economy bill Stephen Timms, the Treasury secretary, has defended the government's controversial plans to give ministers sweeping powers to combat online piracy as necessary to "future-proof" its proposals...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK | AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed as much as 36 percent of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month. Major job cuts had been expected, but the magnitude hadn't been known until Thursday. AOL, which now employs 6,900 workers, is asking for 2,500 volunteers to accept buyouts. If it falls short,...
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Broadband Expert Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to recent reports the Digital Economy Bill, which is to be published this week, will be tackling a number of issues including broadband piracy. Broadband piracy has been at the forefront of broadband related news for some time now, with the government, consumers, Internet service providers, and entertainment industry officials all voicing their opinions with [...]
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dot.life (Free subscription) | yesterday
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill . In brief, this sets out to take Lord Carter's Digital Britain report and turn some of it into law. Amongst the main measures: • Action against illegal file-sharing forcing ISPs...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK - AOL L.L.C., an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, said yesterday that it wanted to shed up to 36 percent of its workforce as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month.
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Three hackers have been indicted for redirecting the Comcast.net Web site to a page of their own making in 2008. When Comcast customers visited the Comcast.net site during the attack on May 28, 2008, they were redirected to a Web site that displayed a message attributing the attack to members of the Kryogeniks hacker gang. Because the site redirected to that page, customers were unable to access their...
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Switched (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
For over a year, France has been considering plans to ban illegal downloaders from the Web. In the U.S., the FCC may actually begin regulating the Web by forcing providers to charge various fees. But neither of those disturbing developments compare at all to the rumors gathering momentum in England. Various outlets are reporting that the U.K. Secretary of State Peter Mandelson, referred to as the...
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geoff bell | 10/26/2009
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brianwolffe | 10/22/2009
Wireless Week LMDS Spectrum for Sale Posted In: Business | Technology | FirstNews By Monica AllevenTuesday, October 13, 2009 IDT Spectrum is accepting offers for its portfolio of 38 GHz and 28-31 GHz spectrum licenses, which the company says...
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gaocomm123 | 10/14/2009
?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Toronto, Canada- GAO Comm ( www.GAOComm.com ) has rolled out its portable ADSL tester designed for xDSL testing, including ADSL,ADSL2, ADSL2+ and READSL. It is an ideal solution for xDSL installation and maintenance in telecommunication systems. The ADSL tester provides ADSL2 plus auto modem mode and multi modem mode for selection.
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