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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Thursday unveiled new legislation that would ensure what he is calling "net neutrality," or equal delivery of content on the Internet for consumers and businesses. Under Wyden's bill, dubbed the "Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006," telephone and cable companie...
Some members of Congress want to tax the Internet, and they're trying to do it under the guise of "telecom reform." That's a trick Americans won't like. It's time to send Washington a message, loud and clear: hands off the Internet. During hearings on a government tax and welfare program called the...
Viacom is planning to get into the social networking game, the company announced this week, with CEO Tom Freston telling attendees at an industry event in New York that the company has designs on a portal of its own to compete with the likes of News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, the personal Web page ser...
Video game maker S2 Games is testing a new delivery system that is beginning to catch on with both independent computer game makers and industry giants: Web downloads. S2 Games plans to sell its new title "Savage 2: A Tortured Soul" exclusively online when it is released in October. High-speed Inter...
As an industry, delivery of television programming into the home over broadband connections is barely off the ground, but it's already showing signs of consolidation. A continuing series of acquisitions in the IP video market will ultimately result in a smaller number of vendors, according to a repo...
Police in Chicago -- and elsewhere in the state of Illinois -- are dramatically expanding the deployment of stealth cameras to catch alleged speeders. The cameras may be a massive invasion of privacy, however, according to some legal experts who are calling for precautions to be taken with the surve...
The Chinese government this week indicated it was tired of waiting for the U.S.-controlled International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to come up with Chinese character versions of .com and other top level domains and instead will create the domains on its own. News of the strategy was ...
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new technology that lets users control their computers with their feet. Step User Interface is one of more than 150 unique concepts featured at the sixth annual Microsoft TechFest, which is open primarily to company employees, in Redmond, Wash. The Step UI contains ...
Two new Trojan horses are being billed as "first-of-their-kind" bugs. Security alerts are warning of a "crossover" virus that leaps from one device to another; in addition, a new Java Trojan has been detected that could infect almost any cell phone. The Mobile Malware Researchers Association on Mon...
With Apple adding video to its iPod line of digital media players, the scramble is on to provide watchers with content to occupy their eyeballs. One way to obtain content is to pay for it. Since the introduction of its "vidpod," Apple has been steadily adding to the video library at its iTunes store...
Sony Ericsson and Google have introduced a phone aimed at a rapidly growing segment of Internet users -- bloggers. The phones will integrate Google's Blogger and Web search features on Sony Ericsson's mobile phones. The blog application will be tightly integrated to the camera and provide automatic ...
More mobile video is slated to come to the consumer marketplace via a service dubbed "Mobizzo" announced by News Corp.'s Fox Mobile Entertainment this week. The service will offer games, music, mobile phone wallpaper and ringtones, including Fox programming such as episodes of "Family Guy" and films...
America Online and Yahoo are under fire for plans to charge for e-mail. A group of nonprofit and public interest groups on Tuesday launched a campaign to protest the online giants' scheme to charge high-volume e-mail senders a fee in exchange for a guarantee that their messages will be delivered. AO...
Broadband penetration of the nation's rural areas has more than doubled since 2003, but it still lags behind urban and suburban areas by a substantial margin, according to a survey released this week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. By the end of 2005, surveyors found, 24 percent of ...
Identity theft and strong opinions go hand in hand. ID theft is rampant and is causing millions of dollars of damage every year -- or, it really isn't such a big problem, and few people are really hurt financially by it. Why such wide disparity? More importantly, what can a business owner, an IT ma...
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