In an escalating war of words, Comcast Corp. shot back yesterday at its chief federal regulator, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, saying his proposal to limit Comcast’s subscriber growth would unfairly help two giant competitors, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.
TechWeb - A Web site overhaul helped Overstock.com avoid the transaction slowdowns that plagued some other sites.
Gmail - multi user chat - zklamáníABCLinuxu.cz, Czech Republic - 4 hours agoSome of your contacts, including those connecting through a federated network like Earthlink, Gizmo Project, Tiscali, Netease, Chikka, and MediaRing, …
If Google wins the 700MHz wireless spectrum auction in January, expect Google-branded phones galore.
narramissic writes “A report released Thursday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) finds that Comcast continues to use hacker-like techniques to slow down customers’ connections to some P-to-P (peer-to-peer) applications. The EFF said that Comcast appears to be injecting RST, or reset, packets into customers’ connections, causing connections to close. ‘The investigators say that their …
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AP - AOL on Friday scrapped its year-old pay-for-download service in favor of Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.’s technology for selling movies and TV shows online.
PC World - A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.
InfoWorld - A CA security researcher is sounding the alarm that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than anyone has imagined in tracking people's Web activities outside the popular social networking site.
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If Google wins the 700MHz wireless spectrum auction in January, expect Google-branded phones galore. There may just be a Google phone after all. Google said on Friday it would apply to bid in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 700 megahertz band wireless spectrum….
AP - Facebook pushed the boundaries of ad targeting when the online hangout presumed users would want the site to mine their Internet activity.
TechWeb - Actions taken on external Web sites will continue to appear at the top of a Facebook user's News Feed, but only if they opt-in.
AP - Google Inc. confirmed its plans to bid for a prized piece of the airwaves in an upcoming government auction, further underscoring the Internet search leader’s determination to shake up the wireless market and plumb more profits from mobile phones.
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