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'Day of Silence' for Internet radio

Gandhi would be proud of what probably is the Internet's first passive resistance protest--the "Day of Silence" coming to Internet radio on June 26. As a response to a court ruling that imposes huge increases on the royalty rates Internet radio operators must pay - which are applied retroactively, no...

Tags: Courts, Congress

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Will Congress lift moratorium on Internet sales tax?

As the Internet increasingly becomes a place for people to shop and do business, the federal government wants a piece of the action. Several proposals are making the rounds of Congress that would undo a moratorium that blocks states from imposing their own taxes on Internet access, reports Wired NewsAt...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Congress

Blog posts 2007-06-13

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ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Sente 6.0.21 (Mac)

Sente 5 is the premier academic reference manager for Mac OS X. Sente's iTunes-like interface makes finding, reviewing, organizing and using the academic literature in your field easier than ever. Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world,...

Tags: Data Source, Result, Apple Macintosh, Third Street Software, Sente 5

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers

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: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-11

60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war

Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Regulations, FERC, Obama, hacker, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites

It`s About Time!they should block and prosecute those sites that send and try to install virus/spyware throught peoples computers.they should loose their internet connection right way,and have their name/info somewhere in a database, that a ISP can check before they can sign up for a internet service.DOING that i`m sure...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, Internet Service Provider, fraud site, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites

a U.S. House of Representatives bill is taking the unusual step of requiring Internet providers to block access to certain online financial scams - or face fines and federal court injunctions. For the last decade or so, Internet service providers have been dealing with requests to block access to...

Tags: Internet Provider, Financial, U.S. House Of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Internet Service Provider, Investor, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, ISP, scam, Declan McCullagh

News items 2009-11-04

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

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.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

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: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step

Net neutrality can only...be accomplished by a company divesting the provision of the infrastructure from the provision of the services that use the infrastructure. As long as the same company provides both services there will never be neutrality. These companies have to much at stake in delivering services that ride...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step

For over a century the Bells have been masters of the bureaucratic game. Their failure in the Bell break-up, which delivered huge profits to investors, only taught them to fight harder. So after putting themselves together like the broom in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," of course they're going...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-23

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

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. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Bookends 10.6.1 (Mac)

Bookends is a full featured and cost-effective bibliography/reference and information management system for students and professionals. With Bookends you can easily import references (information about journal articles, books, etc.) from EndNote, and directly search and import from PubMed, the Web of Science, Google Scholar, JSTOR, Amazon, the Library of Congress,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Bookend, Reference, Sonny Software, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Content Management, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-16

Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?

What are you going to do about it?Please,reveal how many more extremists there are for the secrete service to watch.I'm as big an Obama fan as anyoneBut the fact is that he hasn't accomplished anything worthy of such a prize. He says the right things, certainly, but until plans are...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Nobel, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)

Let the whining by the Neo-Cons begin. nt:-(RE: Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)bingoKeep your damn politics out of itCan't we just discuss technology issues without injecting our political views? There are valid arguments on both sides; let's focus...

Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, net neutrality rule, broadband investment, broadband, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The Open College Textbook Act of 2009

ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Republicans back off net neutrality gambit

RE: Republicans back off net neutrality gambitas a republican you have to favor net neutrality. it is the only way to encourage innovation and competition within the marketplace. call or email your congresspeopleThe FCC net neutrality principles are astonishingly good sense. Contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them to...

Tags: Net Neutrality, off-net neutrality gambit, neutrality gambit, off-Net

Discussion threads 2009-09-23