Yesterday on Capitol Hill, two Democratic representatives introduced a House bill that would require broadband ISPs to “interconnect with the facilities of other network providers on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis.” It also requires them to treat all content, applications and services as the same, with “equal opportunity to reach consumers,” says an IDG story [...]
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has put ISPs on notice that he’s going to do everything he can to preserve Net Neutrality, telling ISPs to “think twice” before they start to corrupt the connections they provide to their customers.
From the Article: “Wyden delivered his ultimatum at a Computer & Communications Industry Association conference in DC, where [...]
Nobody keeps a secret like AT&T, and by that I mean nobody keeps a secret quite so poorly. Boy Genius Report and other sites are talking up an internal Death Star memo that asks employees to hold down the fort during the June 15 - July 12 window. Vacations should be moved if possible, says [...]
Later this month, Apple is opening its latest flagship store on Boylston Street in Boston. The store’s main claim to fame? It’s frickin’ huge. We’re talking largest Apple Store in the world, by square footage. The store, in the city’s historic Back Bay district, looks like a four-story glass cube. It’s the first store inside [...]
Yahoo! has partnered with McAfee to integrated the security firm’s SiteAdvisor technology in Yahoo! search results. That means Yahoo! will remove some of the most dangerous sites from search results altogether, and will include highly visible warning messages on search listings that force downloads, include browser exploits, or sites that send unsolicited emails.
Google offers a [...]
To put a lid on bloggers’ speculation about police getting “backdoors” to Windows security, Microsoft is starting to hush up on the subject. In an e-mail to BetaNews on Friday, a spokesperson described COFEE as a “customizable framework.”
Despite releasing a few more facts on Friday about a controversial new tool for police officers, Microsoft has [...]
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced a new partnership with the non-profit organization Companions in Courage which is dedicated to supporting families with children who are dealing with life-threatening medical conditions. As part of the partnership, Microsoft will be supplying hundreds of standalone Xbox 360 kiosks to children’s hospitals across the country.
The first wave of [...]
TmoNews has gotten their hands on a seemingly internal T-Mobile doc discussing their imminent 3G plans. As tipped, it’ll launch in NYC tomorrow and 20+ major markets by the end of the year. One thing to note, in the doc it discusses the “great call quality” and “more network availability” 3G will offer — not [...]
The Los Angeles Times reports that Sony is planning on making movies and TV shows available for download through the PS3 “as early as this summer.” Sony hopes to make use of the roughly 4 million PS3s already sold in the US to compete with similar services such as XBox Live, which began offering video [...]
Cheer up, New Yorkers! Sure, the Red Sox beat our Yankees in this week’s series and we fell to the Birds last night and we’re in 3rd place in the AL East, but there’s good news, too!
ifoAppleStore is reporting that two new Apple Stores have been confirmed for The Big Apple. First, the borough of [...]
All of us who’ve been waiting for 3G on T-Mobile have been waiting longer than we’ve been waiting for The Police to get back together, but it looks like May will be the month that all this patience finally pays off. TmoNews is pegging the first launch to be in NYC, and spreading to the [...]
Last July, a research team from the University of Washington released an online tool to analyze whether web pages were being altered during the transit from web server to user. On Wednesday, the team released a paper at the Usenix conference analyzing the data collected from the tool. The found, unsurprisingly, that ISPs were indeed [...]
How often do you open and save files on your computer? I’m sure that even the most casual users will do it several times throughout the day. Whether it be adding an attachment to an email, uploading a photo to a website, or simply saving a document you’ve been working on… opening and saving files [...]
Charles Perry has written a good article for the LA Times about Phillipe the Original, a restaurant that’s celebrating its 100th anniversary in downtown Los Angeles this year. The restaurant is probably the origin of the French Dip sandwich. (A nearby place called Cole’s also claims to be the creator.)
From the Article: “The restaurant spreads [...]
A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from [...]
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