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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
The edge-centric Internet: Why isn't the edge of the network the center? More computes and storage gets shipped to consumers than to Internet data centers, so consumers should help power the Internet. And get paid for it. P2P vs Internet data centers A new project, spearheaded by National ICT...; Tags: Consumer, Internet Data Center, Data Center, Internet, Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Google to protect user identities, but not employees': Viacom and Google came to an agreement over what data Google will be handing over after a judge's ruling last week. Orignally, it was believed that Google would be forced to hand over personally identifiable information about the viewing habits of all YouTube users. Thankfully, the two companies...; Tags: Google Inc., User Identity, Agreement, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-07-15
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
FTC opposes online privacy law: Google and Yahoo favor a national online privacy law, the companies' lawyers told the Senate Commerce Committee but the Federal Trade Commission said its plans for industry self-regulation would solve the problem. Not at the hearing: the ISPs whose latest moves into tracking user behavior for better advertising were the...; Tags: Google Inc., Commission, Online Privacy, FTC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-09

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: 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: 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
xIPGadget (gadget): xIPGadget shows your public IP number, i.e, the IP number you have on the Internet. The gadget allows you to copy your IP number as well as lookup information about it (ISP, hostname, and localization). This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: IP, Gadget, Niklas Pahlsson, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Network Technology, Networking; Software downloads 2008-06-20
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
Metasploit Project's site hijacked through ARP poisoning: Metasploit, the open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code, got its official project site briefly hijacked on Monday by a well known member of the Chinese underground who left the following message offering a new zero day exploit for sale - "hacked by sunwear! just for fun! ring04h...; Tags: Zero-day Bug, ARP, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-06-03
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
In search of: Startups that could upend Google and Microsoft: Earlier this week at one of Mary Jo Foley's talk before the New York Software Industry Association one of the folks in the audience posed a great question. The gist: The Google vs. Microsoft online advertising war resembles Sears vs. Montgomery Ward years ago. The punch line: While Sears and...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., BzzAgent, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-23
NetGrid Studio (exe): NetGrid Studio gives you an inside look into your Internet connection. Internet Service Providers are playing all sorts of games these days with a unlimited and always on network connections, when really that is not the case. Many have also been found to be packet shaping and throttling network connections...; Tags: Network, Network Connection, BlueCrestStudios, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs); Software downloads 2008-05-22
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
Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says: And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...; Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
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: Comcast Corp., Broadband Reports, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Tcp/Ip, Business Services, Internet, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship: The Global Online Freedom Act, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), would penalize companies who facilitate other countries censoring the Internet. Call it the anti-Yahoo law. "American high-tech firms have produced the technology and know-how that has led to a modern-day information revolution," Smith said...; Tags: Olympic Games, Beijing, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-02