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- Net Neutrality
- NETwork neutrality A level playing field for Internet transport. It refers to the absence of restrictions or priorities placed on the type of content carried over the Internet...
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- AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approval
- From Washington comes late word tonight that a compromise has apparently been hammered out that will clear the way for AT&T to acquire BellSouth for $85 billion.Thats the AT&T headed by "one-time," fierce net neutrality opponent Edward Whitacre, Jr. Youre lookin at him. The compromise is said to be...
- Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., SBC-AT&, T, Net Neutrality, General, Regulatory
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- Net Neutrality foes seize on Sony Playstation-Akamai deal
- From the Progress and Freedom Foundations Center For The Study of Digital Propertys IPCentral.info blog:High bandwidth Web hosting and distribution service Akamai and Sony have struck a deal whereby Akamai will distribute Sonys PLAYSTATION Network. The news story, translated from Japanese, says: Through the use of Akamais...
- Tags: Progress & Freedom Foundation, Net Neutrality, Regulatory, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- FCC Commish's reservations on voting in AT&T-BellSouth merger cheer net neutrality advocates
- Turns out that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell wont vote on the AT&T-BellSouth merger.I have to tell you I am surprised. In the last six years, we havent seen all that many Republicans buck the "free market" mantra enthusiastically championed by the GOP. And it is not common that regulators...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Federal government, McDowell, Net Neutrality, Gigi Sohn, FCC, merger
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Online gamers: without net neutrality you're so hosed
- Thats "World Of Warcraft: Eye Of The Storm."You may think this is a pretty cool experience, but try it on an Internet without net neutrality guarantees. In one of the other places I hang my blogger hat, I wrote a post this morning about a study by technology consultancy...
- Tags: Games, online game, game, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Why tomorrow's election won't change net neutrality debate
- I know that many advocates of meaningful Congressional action on net neutrality are hopeful that tomorrow's elections will result in a shift of power to a Democratic party that generally seems to be more sympathetic to pro-net neutrality arguments than the Republicans are.There's two reasons why tomorrow's results are not...
- Tags: General, Regulatory, News, House, U.S. Senate, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
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- Amazon's "Remembers" feature needs to go further
- Several of my ZD Net colleagues noted the launch to Amazon's iPhone app this week. The feature that is most interesting, in my opinion, is the Amazon Remembers, which lets users snap a photo of a product with their iPhone and upload it refer to later, when shopping, and so...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Remembers, Scanners, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
- It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...
- Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for
- Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...
- Tags: Consumer, U.S., Cost, Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
- The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...
- Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Information Agenda: A strategy shift from applications to information
- Stuck between business challenges on the one hand, and information management systems on the other hand which simply limit your ability to respond. IBM's Tom Inman wants an easy way to spread your information across the board. Commentary--As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report...
- Tags: Information Management, Business, Information, Information Agenda, IL&P, Competency Center, Strategy, Management, customer relations, IBM, application agenda, IT, Tom Inman IBM, Special to ZDNet, Tom Inman IBM Information Management division, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-12-04
- Comcast to launch meter to track Web usage
- It only seemed fair that Comcast would give its customers a way to track their Web usage, seeing how the company imposed a a 250 GB limit on the Web data that its customers use in a month. But when the company announced that limit earlier this year, there was...
- Tags: Web, Comcast Corp., Usage, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domainsThey will just come backunder a different nameThe backlash is probably coming in 2009I applaud the anti-spamming and anti-phishing measures that many registrars are taking, but there is going to be some backlash. There are still many governments and NGOs around the world...
- Tags: ICANN, DirectI, Estdomains, backlash
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Slicing up Sun
- Slicing up SunDell seems a better fit.If any company could make money on Sun's current products, Sun itself is the most likely to do so. That Sun cannot produce profits means that the buyers would not be interested in continuing what Sun is now doing.Sun's most important assets are...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, OPEN SOURCE, Manufacturing hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie
- Research in Motion said its third quarter sales and earnings will be lower than expected primarily due to "shifts in product launch dates" and a weak economy. In a statement late Tuesday, RIM said that revenue for the third quarter will be $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion....
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, Storm, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- AV on my Macs? Say it ain't so!
- As fellow ZDNet blogger, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, notes, Apple now recommends the use of antivirus software on your Mac. UGH. Really? The relative immunity of Macs to the plethora of malware floating about the Net has always been a selling point for the machines, especially in schools. ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Malware, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Sage results show impact on SMB market
- Earlier today, Sage, the UK's largest software vendor announced its full year results to 30th September and provided an update on how it sees the market going forward. Both the UK and US markets are the most affected by the economic downturn. In his review, CEO...
- Tags: Revenue, Growth, Health Care, U.K., Small And Medium Business, Sage, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- The code is all right
- The code is all rightVendor difficultiesGood discussion.Though you might consider what happens when open source has displaced proprietary software.As you observe, the new vendor has difficulty making a profit. The old vendor has even more difficulty, having lost part of his clientele. And probably most if not all...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Motorola Krave ZN4 (Verizon Wireless)
- Motorola Krave ZN4 Verizon WirelessKrave ZN4 the Ming WannaB?As I read your reviews my attention keeps returning to my 3 year old Motorola Krave ZN4. No...wait a minute...that's my Motorola A12. The venerable and much loved, MING.Where I come from, if it looks like duck, and it sounds like...
- Tags: Verizon Wireless, Krave ZN4, Motorola KRAVE ZN4, Motorola Krave, Motorola Inc., Ming
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, studyBSThere is no shortage of core IT skills, there is a shortage of people willing to pay for them.Auditing, project mgt, are overwhelmingly financed, while IT skills, or any operational skill for that matter, are considered to be of little value and...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workstations, information technology, core skill, dire shortage, IT Skills
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
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