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Thursday rally aims to 'save the Internet'

Anne Broache posts on News.com's Politics blog about a rally to save net neutrality, featuring Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Moby, Thursday in Washington. Sponsored by the Save the Internet Coalition, the rally takes place at the Cannon House Office Building at 1 pm and is billed as a forum...

Tags: Markey, Internet, Ed Markey

Blog posts 2006-05-17

Net neutrality bill fails in House. Surprised?

Who is really surprised to learn that AT&T and Verizon pack more weight around the halls of Congress than Google and Yahoo? The House Committee on Energy and Commerce shot down an amendment by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to a telco regulation bill that would have banned a two-tier Internet....

Tags: Markey, Ed Markey, telecommunications company

Blog posts 2006-04-27

Congressman to SBC IP head: why are you only targeting the well-off?

Broadcasting & Cable magazine's John Eggerton sat in on a fairly contentious House of Representatives Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.When the subject of the hearing turned to VoIP, there was a frank exchange of views between Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and SBC's Lee Ann Champion, senior executive veep for IP...

Tags: Markey, SBC, Ed Markey

Blog posts 2005-04-21

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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

One forward step for Waxman-Markey bill, the easiest step

One forward step for Waxman-Markey bill, the easiest stepCap and Trade is...completely idiotic. It won't fix a thing and will only cost money. I hope this bill fails miserably.A better read for everyone ... link attachedCEI just released a draft of the report the EPA censored as it did not...

Tags: global warming, Waxman-Markey, Cap-and-trade

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook

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: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistent

John McCain can't get online without his wife's help, but the storyline is that doesn't matter because as former chair of the Commerce Committee, McCain is intimately familiar with tech policy issues. At panels at the Demo Convention today, Democrats assailed that argument, saying that, ""On McCain's...

Tags: Broadband, John McCain, Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Google tells Congress about DoubleClick cookie

Google is implementing a DoubleClick ad-serving cookie across its content network that will give advertisers new powers to target advertising. The cookie also gives users the ability to opt-out, the company told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter released yesterday. in...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Network, U.S. Congress, DoubleClick Inc., Cookie, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Congress moves - slowly - towards new privacy laws

Slowly, Washington is moving to put some constraints on Internet services' and ISPs' collection and use of personal data. But, oh, so slowly. New York Times reports that 33 companies are due to report to Congress this week on their privacy policies. With that information, Rep....

Tags: u.s. congress, internet service providers (isps), regulations, strategy, internet, government, management, richard koman

Blog posts 2008-08-11

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Risking Another Frontline Disaster

The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...

Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Auction over, FCC ponders public safety D block

Bidding has closed on the great 700 MHz auction and the FCC has raised $20 billion from the spectrum given so long ago to the great television networks of the past. That's $4.75 billion for the prized C block, but no word yet on who the ultimate winner is. Pretty...

Tags: FCC, Auction, D, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

MPAA: Net neutrality an assault on creativity

So the movie industry is lining up four-square with Comcast on this net neutrality thing. MPAA boss Dan Glickman just gave a speech PDF this week, in which he announced: Today MPAA and all of our studios are standing up in opposition to broad-based government...

Tags: MPAA, Net Neutrality, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Support for Markey bill as Comcast strikes at FCC power

Google, Amazon.com -- as well as FreePress and Public Knowledge -- are lining up in favor of Rep. Ed Markey's new version of net neutrality legislation, PC World says. In the last go-round of the net neutrality debate -- in which legislation went down to failure -- the big...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Telecommunications, Net Neutrality, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-18

Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"

Without mentioning Comcast's broadband Internet throttling by name, Google's Public Policy analyst and blogger Derek Slater has just made a post resoundingly in favor of the net neutrality legislation introduced this week by Congressmen Ed Markey and Chip Pickering: Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip...

Tags: Google Inc., Broadband, Net Neutrality, Broadband Policy, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-14

911 Modernization and Public Safety Act would tie VoIP to 911 backbone

A bill winding through the U.S. Congress would go along way to making E911 calls over VoIP lines more efficient. I am referring to the 911 Modernization and Public Safety Act. If passed and signed into law, VoIP providers would be able to obtain direct access to...

Tags: Backbone, Phone, E911, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-13

House moves to pass broadband census bill

A House subcommittee passed a bill Wednesday to identify broadband penetration in the US and how it's being used, Ars Technica reports. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet passed the Broadband Census of America Act. The bill forces providers to break out specific subscriber numbers, the broadband...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Friday rants: RealPlayer is annoying; iPhone-AT&T whining; Watching someone read your blog

A few odds and ends to mull over as the weekend nears...Why is RealPlayer so #@!$#@ annoying?I've avoided RealPlayer like the plague, but regrettably forgot why until this week. I wanted to view a Webcast that was only available in RealPlayer. Firefox informs me I need a plug-in so I...

Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, iPhone, Hollywood on Demand, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-13

A rational debate on Net Neutrality

The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject.  Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning.  Is it even possible to have a rational debate...

Tags: Technology policy, News, Networking, Net Neutrality, Mobile/Wireless, Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-06-04