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TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

The Register -- Google is flirting with yet another effort to offer unfettered internet access over American airwaves, and as usual, it's facing endless back-and-forth with the FCC. Last Thursday, the world's largest search engine sent a note to the good ol' Federal C.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Jan 11, 2007 @ 2:35pm neoform

ZDNET -- A Brazilian court said Tuesday that Internet service providers could allow Web surfers access to the popular video-sharing site YouTube, a day after they started blocking it because of a celebrity sex video... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Feb 13, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering. A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- More than a third of Africa's citizens should have access to broadband internet by 2012, a conference of technology leaders is set to hear. Fewer than four out of 100 Africans currently use the internet, and broadband penetration is below 1%. The ba.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- If you're displeased with the way a company treats you, you're free to air your feelings in public, right? Not necessarily if you receive high-speed Internet access from AT&T Inc. or Verizon Communications Inc. Buried deep within both companies' volumi.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 12:35am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- More than 33 million people have used mobile phones to access the Internet this year, according to Nielsen Media Research, which announced a new effort to measure such use Wednesday. With Nielsen known primarily for its ratings service for television v.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Mon May 21, 2007 @ 1:13am neoform

Alter Net -- Verizon's proposed plan of a $2.7 billion transfer of local access lines to FairPoint Communications -- a small, largely nonunion North Carolina firm -- is part of a nationwide trend toward rural telecom redlining. Northern New England is just emerging.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 3:14pm neoform

MSNBC -- Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday. The Defense Department will begin blocking access ".. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 4:00pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The Federal Communications Commission told phone companies that they must require customers to provide a password to access their records by telephone, a move meant to discourage fraud. Phone companies, including those that use Internet-based calling t.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 11:05am neoform

BBC News -- A move to provide free internet access to native Indian tribes to help protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging has been announced in Brazil. Environment Minister Marina Silva said land protection was the key aim of the plan, which will provi.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 9:28am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A Turkish court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked on Wednesday, after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Paul Doany, head of Turk Telekom, Turkey's larg.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 8:21am neoform

Tech World -- PC users around the globe may find driver software is stopped from working by Vista if it detects unauthorised content access. Peter Guttman, a security engineering researcher at New Zealand's university of Auckland, has written A Cost Analysis of Window.. Read More