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Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges

Today's Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar on a troubling trend of bandwith caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial pipe from Comcast: Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Tcp/Ip, Business Services, Broadband Reports, Internet, Networking

Blog posts 2008-05-08

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News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good enough to pay for? Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, HD-DVD, Jason Perlow, SOA, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-06-29

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearings

The FCC is broken, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) informed Julius Genachowski, the nominee to head the agency. Fix this agency. Or we will fix it for you. Really. I'm not sure Congress has ever fixed an executive agency. Legislative oversight just...

Tags: FCC, Agency, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Verizon dismisses Cablevision 101 Mbps claims; Price war looming?

Cablevision appears to have struck a nerve at Verizon with its launch of a 101 megabits-per-second broadband service.  On Tuesday, Cablevision detailed the launch of Optimum Online Ultra, a 101 Mbps service, available in the New York area. The service, which will be offered in Cablevision's region,...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., DSL Reports Karl Bode, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Hide your iPod, the tax man cometh

CNet News.com reports that Mississippi has passed a law that will levy sale and use taxes on goods delivered electronically, including digital movies, digital audio including music and ringtones and digital books. HB1461 which was adopted in mid-March and goes into effect July 1. A growing number of states...

Tags: Goods, Apple iPod, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?

The Australian federal government plans to build its own fiber to the home network.  Renai LeMay at ZDNet AU reports that the Australian government didn't get any viable proposals from the big telecom players. Instead, the government will build its own network in partnership with the private...

Tags: FTTH, Australia, Government, Fiber Optics, Vertical Industries, Optical Networking, Broadband Internet, Telephony, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-07

New law sinks Swedish net traffic

Wow, maybe Draconian anti-piracy laws really do work. Two days after a new law went into effect in Sweden, Internet traffic has nose-dived and it's yet to pick up, Computerworld reports. The law allows copyright holders to trace IP addresses to individuals, thus making filesharing officially non-anonymous....

Tags: Sweden, Traffic, Fall-off, Piracy, Internet, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Verizon Hub

When T-Mobile launched its @Home service last year, it marked the first time a cell phone provider dipped its toe into Voice-over-IP services. All you need for the @Home service is a specially configured router from T-Mobile, a home broadband connection, and a regular telephone. The service only costs $10...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Monitors & displays, Wi-Fi, Cellular phones, phone, Verizon Communications Inc., touch screen

Product reviews 2009-03-06

Will telcos ever embrace open source?

Will telcos ever embrace open source?You're not really discussing open source here.You're talking about the business model for the delivery of information.So when you write:The Internet itself grew up in defiance of the telcos. Its business model is anathema to them. Thus telcos and cable operators do all they can...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, open source, telecommunications company, Internet, cable, business model

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Britain's technology stumbles in snow; Seattle shares concerns

England, England, England. Home of the Yorkshire pudding, the field plough, a chip butty and international cricket. One thing we are not so used to, is the snow. Over the last week, we've had more snow sweeping over the country than we've had in two decades, and...

Tags: Network, Snow, Seattle, Networking, Web Site Development, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-06

MIDs haven't made it, but Intel is undaunted

Stop me if you've heard this one before. . . BusinessWeek reports that Intel is readying a big push for a new class of handhelds known as MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices. Intel has been talking up MIDs--devices that sit awkwardly between a smartphone and a netbook--for...

Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, Intel Corp., MID, Moblin, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Cellular Phones, WiMAX, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-01-26

News to know: Microsoft's layoffs, Google's profits, Win7 netbooks, White House tech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall short Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, White House, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Advice for Obama: Keep the Blackberry; Get a Mac

The newly sworn-in leader of the broadband generation and his faithful staff of Facebookers, MySpacers, YouTubers and Tweeters (Twitterers?) showed up for work yesterday to discover that the White House is still living in a dial-up world. Among the findings: computers with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software, a scarcity of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Barack Obama, White House, RIM BlackBerry, Federal Government, Social Networking, E-mail, Handhelds, Government, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration

Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administrationObama = Socialism...Good luck with that, he is going to tax the living daylights out of the middle class to 'spread' the wealth to people who do not work.Just wait, when summer hits and electricity is mega expensive we will see how...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, Free trade, Broadband Internet, band interference, Technology Initiatives, Obama Administration, goverment, government

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

CRM 2.0: The Government, Public Service & A Transformed World

I KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET columns loves technology. I get that.  I also KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET blogs loves it when the bloggers dish on technology companies - especially, it seems, Microsoft.  I realize that coolness and government don't go together very well - probably something...

Tags: Institution, Singapore, Public Service, CRM, Stuff Legend, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Blu-ray sinks the PS3

Sony's Blu-ray fiasco is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest gift: handing the game console market to Microsoft and Nintendo. The Blu-ray albatross The Wall Street Journal subscription may be required reports that US sales of the PS3 fell 19% last month from a...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Blu-ray, Nintendo Wii, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-12-30

Clearwire, WiMax face uphill battle vs. tight credit

Looks like 3G is going to be around for awhile. Today's Wall Street Journal notes that Clearwire's plans to rollout its Clear WiMAX network faces hurdles thanks to the still-tight credit markets. Though Clearwire Corp.'s recent merger with Sprint Nextel's wireless broadband unit put the company on...

Tags: Clearwire Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-17

WSJ: Google backtracks on Net neutrality; Google says WSJ doesn't understand caching

Updated: Google has reportedly approached network providers to get a so-called fast lane for its content over the Internet, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google shot the Journal story down and said it was merely looking at co-locating content to speed delivery time--also known as caching. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Net Neutrality, Journal, Internet, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-15

White House hates Martin's free Net plan

Bad week for FCC chairman Kevin Martin. First he has to suffer through a 110-page litany of his management failures and now, the Wall Street Journal reports, the White House is hard-set against his plan for free Internet. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez sent this letter to Martin...

Tags: FCC, White House, High-speed Internet, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Government, Telecommunications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-11