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Comcast Appeals FCC Web-Blocking Decision
msnbc: WASHINGTON - Comcast Corp. is appealing an FCC ruling that the company is improperly blocking customers’ Web traffic, triggering a legal battle that could determine the extent of the gove...
Google Removes Qwnership Claim from Chrome EULA
Following complaints by users, Google has removed the section of Google Chrome’s end-user license agreement which claims that Google has the right to use any content submitted through its browse...
Sony Recalls 440,000 Laptops due to Wiring Faults
440,000 Vaio laptops have been recalled Image: Adonis Chen. Technology company Sony have recalled 440,000 Vaio laptops due to a fault in the wiring which could result in overheating. The recall invo...
Majority of Banking Websites Found Insecure
yahoo tech: A new study from the University of Michigan has found that more than 75 percent of banking websites are not completely up to snuff when it comes to security. The study looked at 214 financ...
Why is YouTube Hoarding Data?
laTimes: Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against Google’s YouTube has enormous implications for the flow of information online. At stake is the degree to which websites will have to monito...
Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers
nyTimes: WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government’s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought c...
Mozilla Firefox (3): 8.2 Million Downloads in 24 Hours
Mozilla’s new browser Firefox 3.0 has been downloaded over 8 million times in 24 hours. The Mozilla Foundation has encouraged users worldwide to download their latest browser in an attempt to en...
US Energy Department Reveals World’s Fastest Computer
Tuesday, June 10, 2008: The supercomputer, which can perform trillions of calculations per second… The US Department of Energy yesterday unveiled the IBM Roadrunner, the world’s fastest co...
Comcast’s New Bandwidth Black List: You Use, You Lose
nyTimes.com: Some Comcast customers who actively download software and video files may soon find one set of unexplained delays replaced with a different sort of equally cryptic slowdowns. Comcast is s...
Corporate America’s Rejection of Windows Vista
msnbc: General Motors may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer operating system from Microsoft. The automaker has encountered so many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that ...
High Tech Gadgets Threaten Internet’s Future?
reuters.com: LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned...
Net Neutrality’s Quiet Crusader
washingtonPost.com: Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest. Members of public-interest group Free Press weren...