Friday | 8 August, 2008
Stories about: Federal Communications Commission
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FCC rules against Comcast P-to-P throttling 04/08/2008 10:49:04
The US Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its broadband network, with officials there saying the cable provider was "invasive" in its network traffic management. - +
Groups cheer reports of FCC acting against Comcast 29/07/2008 10:56:09
Consumer rights groups cheered reports saying the US Federal Communications Commission is ready to take action against Comcast for the cable-based Internet provider's decision to slow some peer-to-peer traffic on its network. - +
Airlines get ready to test fledging Wi-Fi in flight 17/07/2008 08:04:52
In-flight Wi-Fi will eventually take off for passengers aboard some US airlines, but it won't happen before months of testing and slow rollouts of the wireless service. - +
Sweatshirt helps nail Citibank card scammer 04/07/2008 08:37:56
A bank-card scammer using stolen Citibank account numbers and PINs netted hundreds of thousands of dollars, but was caught because he didn't spend enough on clothes, according to court documents. - +
Study calls for 1G broadband in US 24/06/2008 13:08:05
The U.S. should aim for 100M bps (bits per second) of broadband available to all U.S. residents by 2012 and 1G bps by 2015 in order to catch up to other countries that are moving forward with broadband rollouts, recommends a study released Monday. - +
Electrical contractor to pay $3.3 million for E-Rate fraud 19/06/2008 09:18:48
An electrical contractor based in Fresno, California, has pleaded guilty and agree to pay US$3.3 million in fines and restitution for rigging bids on a U.S. government program designed to help schools and libraries in poor areas connect to the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice said. - +
Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel for $28B 06/06/2008 09:23:39
Verizon Wireless Thursday officially announced an agreement to purchase Alltel for US$28.1 billion, which would make the new company the largest wireless carrier in the US with 80 million subscribers. - +
Study says Uncle Sam should get out of Web publishing 06/06/2008 08:47:56
In an ironic digital twist, the US federal government - the driving force behind the creation of the Internet - has not been able to fully embrace the second incarnation of the Internet, according to a study released late last month. - +
iPhone: One year later 03/06/2008 08:36:36
What a difference a year makes. This month, the hip iPhone celebrates its first anniversary, following its riotous US launch last June 29 . Its birth followed six months of prerelease hype that was ignited by Apple CEO and industry luminary Steve Jobs. - +
WiMax vs. Long Term Evolution: Let the battle begin 15/05/2008 10:20:44
A long-term battle is brewing between two emerging high-speed wireless technologies, WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE). Each would more than quadruple existing wireless wide-area access speeds for users. - +
A surfeit of US network neutrality legislation 14/05/2008 12:28:43
Largely due to the continued dumb statements and actions of a few apparently PR-challenged carriers, the network neutrality issue is alive and well in the United States. Since any issue like this seems to create a legislative void that must be filled, we now have at least two network neutrality related bills for Congress to consider. If one liked legislation-based solutions, merging these bills and tossing out a bit of Federal Communications Commission make-work would not be too bad, but there would still be some questions left unanswered.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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