Democrats push ‘Net neutrality
Democrats, who all but sank major communications reform legislation in the previous congressional session over the issue of so-called ‘Net neutrality, marked the first day of the new Congress by introducing a bill that will mandate ‘Net neutrality, which is intended to guarantee the equal accessibility and flow of content over the Internet.
The Internet Freedom [...]
New Sony TVs will stream video from the internet
New BRAVIA Internet Video Link device will allow new Sony “Internet video-ready” TVs to access free video content on the internet with the push of a button.
The ongoing Consumer Electronics Show(CES) in Vegas continues to produce exciting new announcements from electronics corporations the world over.
In addition to the recent news that Netgear will partner [...]
With IE 7, green means go for legit sites
Starting early next year, the address bar in Internet Explorer 7 will turn green when surfing to a legitimate Web site–but only in some cases, not all.
The colored address bar is designed to be a sign that a specific site can be trusted, giving people the green light to carry out transactions there. It is [...]
‘Enemies of the internet’ named
A list of 13 “enemies of the internet” has been released by human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while Nepal, Libya and the Maldives have all been removed.
The list consists of countries that RSF believes are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet.
The civil [...]
Web inventor fears for the future
The British developer of the world wide web says he is worried about the way it could be used to spread misinformation and “undemocratic forces”.
The web has transformed the way many people work, play and do business.
But Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he feared that, if the way the internet is used is left [...]
Web access for autos goes on the road
The personal computer has finally gone to driving school.
Three decades after they began appearing on desktops, PCs are about to start showing up in vehicles. They will let people check e-mail, avoid traffic jams or make restaurant reservations via the Web while on the job or at play.
The idea could prove especially popular among younger [...]
Record labels wake up to online music reality
For years, major music labels have waged a doomed war against file sharing in the hope lawsuits and secretly corrupted files would convince the millions who download music illegally to return to the record store.
But new relationships between music companies, advertisers and file-sharing networks are signalling a major change in the corporate attitude toward illegal [...]
US publishers say Child Online Protection Act should be struck down
A group of US online publishers and a lobby group is taking the Government to court to challenge an eight-year-old law which it says amounts to censorship of the internet. The challenge is to the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which became law in 1998.
Designed to protect children from viewing pornographic and harmful content on [...]
Internet Television: Corporate TV Goes After P2P Networks
The phenomenon of Internet television is rising many controversies among the supporters and owners of traditional corporate TVs, because of the potentially devastating changes it might provoke in the mass media world. The unstoppable growth of the online social media networks automatically leads internet users to question whether there are alternatives to the corporate media [...]
Video-hungry users could push Net to brink: Nortel
Soaring demand for games, video and music will stretch the Internet to its limits, Canada’s Nortel Networks Corp. says, and it expects service providers will make big investments in its technology to avoid a crunch.
But the telecom equipment giant, still struggling to turn its fortunes round after the tech bubble burst, is treading carefully as [...]
