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FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday ruled 3-2 that Comcast overstepped its network management authority by blocking BitTorrent peer to peer traffic, but stopped short of fining the cable company. The move clarifies the boundaries a bit for other carriers and sends the message that the FCC enforces network neutrality...

Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Neutrality, Network Neutrality Rule, Deborah Taylor Tate, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-01

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HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up

HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight

The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....

Tags: Software, Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Reuters, Adobe, Microsoft, Silverlight, video

News items 2008-08-25

Corporate Innovation . . .

Late last week I caught part of SDForum's SDForum's first "Corporate Innovation and Research Fair." Here is an edited video of the lunchtime panel: From left to right: Roger Meike, Sun Microsystems Harold Yu, Orrick David SMith, Tynax Deborah Magid, IBM Roy...

Tags: Innovation, Dr., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder

The Linux project lead has said new contributors should 'start small' to avoid becoming frustrated with the Linux kernel development process Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel. In an email interview with ZDNet.co.uk...

Tags: Developer, Patch Management, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Open Source, Patches, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, developer. Linus Torvalds, Linux Foundations, Linux kernel, coders

News items 2008-08-18

Space Siege demo (exe)

In 2199, the colony ship Rebecca Lee arrive at the second planet orbiting Beta Canum Venaticorum. Every scan of Beta CVn II showed the same thing: a perfect world for sustaining life; a paradise 27 light years from Earth; a new home for humanity. The colonists christened it Elysium IV...

Tags: Colony, Earth, Sega Corp., Kerak, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-11

FCC set to slap Comcast's wrist

It's almost official. In the latest step forward, a majority of FCC commissioners voted Friday to "affirm" a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent traffic, the Washington Post reports, although the punishment is likely to be a "slap on the wrist," according to one analyst. The final...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Republican, Wrist, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Are hospitals really safe?

Are hospitals really safe?More on the Medical Device Interoperability Program MD PnPDear Mr. Piquepaille, Thank you for referencing our work.The Technology Review story may have left the impression that I'm not very optimistic about the adoption of medical device interoperability. However, the story didn’t have enough room to convey that...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, medical device, hospital

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails

Brad Taylor, Google's Gmail Spam Czar, has just posted details on the ongoing cooperation with PayPal and Ebay, two of the most targeted brands in phishing emails, the effect of which is rejecting compared to flagging as spam each and every email pretending to be coming from paypal.com and ebay.com...

Tags: Google Gmail, DomainKeys, PayPal, eBay Inc., Authentication, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Opera patches serious code exection flaw

Opera Software has joined the list of browser vendors shipping fixes for serious remote code execution vulnerabilities. The company's new Opera 9.5.1 patches at least four security issues, the most serious being a flaw reported by Microsoft's Billy Rios that could be used to execute arbitrary code....

Tags: Opera Software, Patch Management, Flaw, Security Statu, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Dishing It Out

There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...

Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-02

FriendFeed, the glue for social networks

Dan Farber and Rafe Needleman interview Bret Taylor, co-founder of FriendFeed.com, a Web site that enables friends to instantly share and discuss everything they find interesting on the Internet.

Tags: Glue, Network, Rafe Needleman, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, Dan Farber, Bret Taylor, webware, friendfeed, twitter, social networking

Videos 2008-06-25

Nextel: 'We can't charge government those termination fees'

Nextel admitted in internal emails that it could never charge the government the kind of early termination fees it charged consumers, the Associated Press is reporting. In documents unearthed as part of one such lawsuit, employees at Nextel — now part of Sprint Nextel Corp....

Tags: Nextel Communications Inc., Termination, Termination Fee, Government, Workforce Management, E-mail, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Kozinski's porn site: Nobody's business if he do?

Granted, it's got to be embarrassing for Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski to have his private porn stash exposed – especially when presiding over an obscenity trial. But in an editorial, the L.A. Times, which broke the story, asks this question: So what? ...

Tags: Porn Site, Judge, Kozinski, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-13

News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ... Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective:...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Father's Day gifts for gadget freaks

With Fathers' Day around the corner – and this being the first time I get to actually receive a gift in addition to giving one – here are five items that I think should be on every dad's short list. (If I didn't already own several of these, theywould all...

Tags: Freak, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Father's Day gifts for gadget freaks

The top five gifts I want the Father's Day Fairy to drop off at my place this Sunday. by Josh Taylor

Tags: Freak, Josh Taylor, gadgets, gear, product photos

Image galleries 2008-06-11

iPhone 3G: The official rates from AT&T

Now that the iPhone 3G announcement has finally come and gone, turns out the most common rumors were right -- big price drop, GPS, slightly thicker, Exchange-friendly out of the box, not immediately available -- others not so much (nope, no Product RED version....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Minute, AT&T Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Samsung announces 3G 'iPhone killer'

Samsung announces 3G 'iPhone killer'3GCan you honestly believe 3G wasn't solid enough to add? It's not like it was brand new, or GPS perhaps?If lacking those features...already available in other phones is not a flaw, then yes, you are correct.Other people who don't chug the Kool-Aid might think otherwise.Not...

Tags: Cellular phones, Cell Phone Quality, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple Inc., cell phone, iPhone-killer, phone

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

FriendFeed's meteoric rise

CNET News.com's Dan Farber talks with FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor about new features coming in his fast-rising content-discovery and social-networking service, and how it compares with the likes of Twitter.

Tags: News. dan farber, twitter, friendfeed, social networking, Bret Taylor

Videos 2008-06-05