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- Students: the broadband troubleshooter
- Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...
- Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- COPA is unconstitutional
- COPA is unconstitutionalgovernment censorshipNow that Andrew Cuomo AG NY has had most of the ISP's Eliminate ALT* Bineries newsgroups. Does this action, which is like finding a book in the library and burning down the complete facility . Eliminate Cuomo's actions and allow the ISP's to again carry ALT Bineries...
- Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- 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
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008I proposed a solution a while back.Any ISP can see who is compromised. That's obvious from the accurate stats you have. My idea, simply put, enforce all zombied machines to a proxy. This proxy...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Verizon Telecom Italia, Verizon Telecom, Zombied, Brasil Telecom, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008
- When was the last time you heard something in the lines of "We do our best to protect our customers from the threats posed by..." ? In reality though, the statement should end up like "protect our customers from the threats posed by the rest of our customers". China may...
- Tags: Telecom Italia, Verizon Communications Inc., Internet Service Provider, Malware, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting
- A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- A Modest Privacy ProposalOK.For some strange reason, people refuse to realize that the internet is a public place. Maybe because they sit in their bedroom and surf.Maybe instead of all these regulations and bureaucracies, we should just hang signs everywhere that read:Hello! The Internet is a Public Place. Don't do...
- Tags: Robots, robot, private property, Public Place, Internet, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily
- When you get so much spam that your anti-spam provider decides to use you in a marketing campaign, your spam problem turns into an asset for the community, and researchers running honeypots can only envy you for the sample of spam emails you receive on a daily basis. According to...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Internet Service Provider, U.K, Spam Email, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- 44% of North American ISP traffic is peer-to-peer
- 44% of North American ISP traffic is peer-to-peerNo bias here....We sell "Network Management" devices to ISPs who don't want P2P on our networks. Did we say 445? We meant 88%.
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), NETWORKING, P2P, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- 44% of North American ISP traffic is peer-to-peer
- P2P applications represent 44% of all bandwidth consumed on networks operated by North American Internet service providers, up from around 41% in 2007, according to Sandvine. by AM
- Tags: P2P, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, AM
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service
- Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority is reporting that a sustained spamming attack during the past 24 hours managed to cause a successful Denial of Service attack on the email services of the islands only Internet Service Provider. More info on the attack : More...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Spamming, Attack, Email Service, Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority, E-mail, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Online Communications, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Brightcove refreshes with brand new service and new focus
- Brightcove refreshes with brand new service and new focusHow will Brightcove be affected by ISP cap limitsMany US ISPs are making noise about capping downloads. With download caps, does Brightcove face challenges when TimeWarner,Comcast and others institute such caps? Is that possibility even on their radar? What do their investors...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Brightcove, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Is your ISP throttling your network connection?
- Is your ISP throttling your network connection?let's start with "false advertising."if companies advertise a certain speed, and charge for it, but don't deliver it, then customers will have a reason to get upset.my worry is that ISP's will develop their own "Internet Mall Farms" that have priority over other internet...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), network, Internet Service Provider, Internet, network connection
- Discussion threads 2008-06-15
- Is your ISP throttling your network connection?
- If you aren't sure, you will soon be able to download a tool from Google that will tell you once and for all if they are. If ISP's aren't going to tell their users exactly what is happening with their network connections, Google wants to make sure that these...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Internet Service Provider, Network Connection, Tool, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Productivity, Networking, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- AVS-iTimer (exe)
- AVS-iTimer is a graphical network traffic counter, which helps you control the time, spent in the Internet. On the main program panel you can activate any of the following counters: current session time; total time; current session cost; total cost; KB sent; KB received; total KB sent; total KB received;...
- Tags: Counter, Internet Service Provider, AVS-Soft, AVS-iTimer, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Free Trade, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-06-03
- Comcast, Cox block BitTorrent 24/7
- Comcast and Cox are blocking BitTorrent traffic, regardless of the time of day or day of the week, students from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems report. And despite suggestions that BitTorrent blocking is widespread across ISPs, the Institute's Glasnost test found that the two cable...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Call for military to operate botnet
- Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- NJ court: IP-related info is private
- NJ court: IP-related info is privateOops!Seems to me that the cops would not have had any trouble getting a warrant. An affidavit from the owner should have been good enough.RE: NJ court: IP-related info is privateWhile I applaud NJ on their privacy protections of their citizens, I would argue...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, NETWORKING, IP, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Will the Internet remain neutral?
- Will the Internet remain neutral?Let the sheeple read their daily gossipbut for goodness sake don't stop us techie types from pushing the boundaries which creates new technologies.I think creation forces are as big as market forces in the internet arena. It's not like there's just this one product in the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), market-force, censorship, Internet, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
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