FBI Director Asking ISPs To Track Users
What is this world coming to? Microsoft wants to track us via a new OS and keep tabs on registration activities, virus protection and more…and now, now the FBI is asking our ISP services to keep tabs on our travels along the internet by recording our private moves.
I’m against this. I feel my [...]
Iran Outlaws Broadband
The Iranian regime, ever vigilant for the tentacles of "Great Satans" everywhere has been "fortunate enough" to spot one early on before it "infected" households everywhere. In a bid to restrict foreign music, films, and television from undermining the Islamic culture among the younger generation, ISPs have been ordered to restrict connection speeds to 128kbs [...]
From the Internet straight to DVD
You won’t find Broken Saints, Floaters or Soup of the Day on network or cable TV’s fall lineups.
Yet these series are generating talk on the Internet, where they began. The fantasy epic Broken Saints, for example, attracted 5 million viewers during its three-year, 24-episode run – enough to inspire a DVD box set ($50, Fox).
Internet [...]
Fox Goes “On Demand”
Fox TV is set to launch a new ad-supported online service called Fox On Demand that will allow users to watch shows online after they have aired.
Using MySpace.com or the web sites of local Fox TV affiliates, Fox On Demand will "…offer shows such as ‘Prison Break,’ ‘Justice’ and ‘Bones,’" according to Reuters. [...]
Swedish Appeal(s) court clears man of file sharing
A 29-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden suspected of sharing files from his computer was today acquitted by Svea Court of Appeal. Last year the man was the first person in Sweden to be convicted of file-sharing, having been charged with making the Swedish film Hip Hip Hora available for download from the internet.
The [...]
Internet freedom reigns in Amsterdam
Amsterdam has the world’s busiest Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.
At a time when the neutrality of the Internet is at stake, and Internet service providers (ISPs) are moving to prioritize their premium traffic, the [...]
The Odd Browsers Out: Deepnet, Netscape, and SeaMonkey
Sure, you’ve use Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may have even dabbled in Flock and Opera, or even become a devotee of one of these lesser-known applications. But have you ever browsed the web with Deepnet Explorer? How ’bout SeaMonkey? And when’s the last time you used Netscape? Did you even know that it was [...]
U.S. to Renew Web Domain Pact
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that it would extend its oversight of the Marina del Rey- based organization that handles Internet domain name policies, while finding ways to improve the group’s accountability and transparency.
John Kneuer, the department’s acting assistant secretary for communications and information, said the government’s agreement with the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names [...]
News Corp. may not use Internet portals
Rupert Murdoch told an investor conference Tuesday that he didn’t see a need to distribute programming or other media content from his News Corp. conglomerate through Internet portals.
Murdoch, asked why he hadn’t made deal with large aggregators of online content like Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news) or Microsoft Corp.’s MSN portal, said he didn’t see [...]
(”Any of You Kids Pirates?”) Feds take a nip-it-in-the-bud approach to Internet piracy
The top official in the U.S. Patent Office took his message to a Bloomington elementary school to talk to the next generation of potential offenders.
Wearing a blue suit and a tight smile, the fed faced his audience.
This wasn’t just any Washington bureaucrat. This was the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a high-powered [...]
