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1. Internet behemoths fight hard for net neutrality

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Twenty four CEOs and founders of internet companies have written to the FCC in a bid to influence the body on the vexed subject of net neutrality.Twenty four CEOs and founders of internet companies ...

2. AT&T slates Google Voice: nun today, nun tomorrow

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... issue, Google's call blocking is directly related to 'net neutrality'. Indeed Google's power to block calls - as well as its ability to abuse its market power in search and other services - dramatically ...

3. FCC scrutinizes Google Voice restrictions

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... lobbying efforts, this issue has nothing to do with network neutrality or rural America. This is about outdated carrier compensation rules that are fundamentally broken and in need of repair by the FCC," ...

4. AT&T ends controversial ban on iPhone VoIP apps

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... for use over its 3G network. "[The] iPhone is an innovative device that dramatically changed the game in wireless when it was introduced just two years ago," explained AT&T spokesperson Ralph de la ...

5. AT&T slams Google for 'systematically' blocking telephone calls

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... to the Commission's Internet Policy Statement even if Google Voice was considered an Internet application. "[The Commission's] fourth principle states that 'consumers are entitled to competition among ...

6. Wireless providers wary about net neutrality rules

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   New FCC proposals on 'net neutrality' are already drawing fire from the wireless industry. New FCC proposals on 'net neutrality' are already drawing fire from the wireless industry. Chairman Julius ...

7. California Democrat endorses Net neutrality bill

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   California Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman has formally agreed to co-sponsor the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. The bill - authored by Rep. Edward Markey - would prohibit ISPs from selectively blocking, ...

8. Net neutrality proponents upset by stimulus broadband rules

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   On Monday, representatives of broadband providers stated that an agency overseeing the $4.7 billion in broadband deployment incentives will slow down the spread of Internet access to areas which are underserved ...

9. Obama okays $7 billion to improve broadband: Is it enough?

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... and rural areas to the Internet's fast lanes. It's easy to dismiss the importance of this bill in light of broader economic uncertainties, but the fact remains that the infrastructure being established ...

10. New Google tool sniffs out ISPs manipulating Internet traffic

    (Software/Software Features)

      Google has developed new tools which attempt to identify which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are "choking traffic" by moving certain data packets into "slow lanes" while allowing others to pass through ...

11. Cox cable company to show bandwidth favoritism

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

      On February 9, the third largest cable company in the United States, Cox Communications, will implement a new policy of Internet traffic routing which could bring Net Neutrality arguments front and center. ...

12. Obama Truth Tracker website includes technology promises

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Corps to promote green energy in developing countries." Page 19, No. 373, "Encourage community service through online outreach and social networking." Page 20, No. 386, "Prevent corporate cyber-espionage." Page ...

13. Obama's grass-roots, 13 million to affect national tech policy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... on the table. IT related items on the Obama's agenda after he is sworn in as president include; Net Neutrality, selecting a new FCC chairman (which could have significant ramifications to the mobile ...

14. FCC chairman resigns, Obama plans former schoolmate replacement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... malfunction" by Janet Jackson was broadcast on CBS. He became a proponent of regulation against indecency on television following that event. Martin's team was also responsible for the migration away from ...

15. Google stands by net neutrality promise

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Google quickly reacted to a story published by the Wall Street Journal this morning, alleging that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are engaging in activity that violates previous net neutrality promises. ...

16. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo looking to bypass Net Neutrality with money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Three of the biggest advocates of Net Neutrality - the idea that all network traffic is given equal weight for distribution across the web - are now backing out of those positions and adopting ...

17. Barack Obama’s Top 5 technology promises

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... know his way around computers, Obama was regularly spotted using handhelds. The Internet played a key role in Obama’s fundraising effort. His campaign was omnipresent on the Internet, from a dedicated ...

18. Yahoo moves Zimbra hosted email into universities

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... accounts even while the network is down. Various mobile platforms are supported, including Blackberry, iPhone, Java Mobile Edition devices and any notebook with a web browser. The service will first launch ...

19. John McCain battles YouTube

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... determining whether or not the copyrighted material is actually covered by the fair use exemption. However, the majority of Internet sites do not want the responsibility of casting judgment in any sort ...

20. FCC mulls regulating network practices

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    At an agency hearing at Stanford, FCC chairman Kevin Martin said the FCC should carefully examine what constitutes "reasonable" network management for ISPs. At an agency hearing on broadband services ...

21. People cynical about Comcast's P2P "bill of rights"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Comcast this week sent out a press release talking about a "bill of rights and responsibilities" for peer-to-peer applications over the Internet.  In part, Comcast says "P2P users should have the ...

22. Comcast opens up super-speedy Internet

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Comcast this week began offering a new tier of Internet speed, allowing users a 50 mbps connection, which is quick enough to download a full HD movie in 10 minutes.  Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota ...

23. Comcast to put an end to file-sharing block

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Telecommunications company Comcast announced today that it will no longer restrict Internet subscribers from accessing file-sharing programs and websites.  In the last few months, reports began to ...

24. Comcast says it only blocks excessive use of file sharing

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Comcast told a federal regulator that its decision to block users from popular network sharing software was due to a small number of customers hogging too much bandwidth on its broadband network. The ...

25. Bill bars web traffic discrimination

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's ...

26. DOJ says Net Neutrality regulation is “premature”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    In a case of dueling agencies, the Department of Justice is opposing any Net Neutrality regulation in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission. Washington DC – In a case of dueling ...

27. AT&T co-sponsors study to determine Net Neutrality is bad

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    A new study from AT&T Labs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Nevada, Reno says that setting up the Internet on a tiered level would offer "significantly more" capacity ...

28. FTC avoids net neutrality

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    The Federal Trade Commission is taking a wait and see attitude on net neutrality. Washington DC – The Federal Trade Commission is taking a wait and see attitude on net neutrality.  FTC Chairwoman ...

29. Google ready for legal action in absence of net neutrality

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer and Google VP, has told reporters that if the US Senate does not pass net neutrality laws then Google would readily file antitrust complaints against network operators ...

30. No net neutrality in Internet franchise bill passing Stevens' committee

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    To the surprise of very few, language from a net neutrality bill offered as an amendment to a House bill on national Internet franchise licensing, was defeated in a Senate Commerce Committee vote. But ...

31. 'Net neutrality' provision to block Internet fast lane defeated in US House

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    A provision that would have amended legislation under consideration in the US House of Representatives, making it illegal for Internet service providers to offer different tiers of service to selected ...

32. Network neutrality "a phantom problem," says industry association

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The US Internet Industry Association (USIIA) opened another chapter in the discussion about a possible legislation to ensure "network neutrality," which aims to prevent the creation of a tiered Internet ...

33. "Net Neutrality" bill aims to prevent two-tiered Internet traffic

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Ron Wyden, the Democratic US Senator from Oregon, has introduced his Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006 which promises to stop companies from establishing two-tiered pricing for email and other traffic. ...

34. Dueling DRM frameworks prolong high-def confusion

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... digital rights management systems in disparate devices to authorize a licensed user to play purchased content on all those devices. It may be the first step toward building a network of multimedia service ...

35. Net's dad wants net neutrality

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Charging tolls on the information superhighway would dampen innovation and hamstring the United States' competitiveness in the world market, warned Vinton Cerf, a father of the Internet and a top ...

36. Progress in negotiations for final AACS copy protection specification for HD discs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of region codes outnumbered supporters by a substantial margin. Nonetheless, lack of consensus among AACS LA members about how to address the issue of East Asian pirate videos flowing into European and ...

37. iHD less expensive than Blu-ray alternative, thanks to Vista, says HP

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... members, including 20th Century-Fox and, as of last week, Warner Bros., are on record as opposing such guarantees in Blu-ray's AACS Internet-based copy protection system, saying studios should have the ...

38. New Blu-ray member Warner Bros. would support iHD layer, oppose mandatory managed copy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to the consumer by way of the offer the made to the consumer by the studio, through the AACS network. This interpretation stands in stark contradiction to the picture of AACS emerging from Microsoft, which ...

39. HP to Blu-ray: Take us seriously, or we'll join HD DVD

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... System (AACS), the principal Internet-oriented copy protection system which both Blu-ray and HD DVD claim to support. "AACS is what gives both formats the ability to offer 'Managed Copies,'" states Lanier's ...