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- FCC starts inquiry into Comcast P2P blocking
- After months of newspaper reports, customer complaints and numerous petitions, the FCC has initiated an inquiry into Comcast's throttling of P2P traffic. Comcast has until Jan. 25 to respond in writing to some questions from the FCC. And on Monday the agency opened the public comment period on a petition...
- Tags: FCC, Petition, Comcast Corp., P2P, Vuze Petition, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Frontline asks FCC to reconsider auction rules
- Following Verizon's lawsuit against the FCC trying to block the open access rules for next year's spectrum auction, Frontline Wireless LLC filed a petition for the FCC to reconsider its rules that shut out small bidders. In addition, AT&T is looking for relief from a rule that requires some spectrum...
- Tags: FCC, Petition, Spectrum, Federal Government, Government, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Dear Apple: Where is the MagSafe auto adapter?
- Dear Apple: Where is the MagSafe auto adapter?Mister Jason D. O'Grady I hear your plight , but you must understandthat Apple has been really busy lately with the iPhone and Leopard . I understand also that Apple should have licensed the MagSafe auto adapter , but they are in the...
- Tags: energy loss, MagSafe, inverter, adapter, Apple Inc., petition
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Microsoft criticized for Open XML petition
- Microsoft criticized for Open XML petitionMicrosoft criticized for Open XML petitionThis guy is not making any sense. He's upset that Microsoft is making a standard too. I thought free software was all about standards and competition and free choice and how its a good thing but now that...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Office, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., petition, Open XML
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- MI is the most wired state government in US
- Michigan took first place in a survey of the most digitally advanced state governments conducted by the Center for Digital Government. The Digital State Survey examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies. And the winners are: 1st...
- Tags: petition, state government
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Anti-SOA 2.0 petition nears 400
- At last count, the online petition against the "SOA 2.0" moniker, posted by Macehiter Ward-Dutton, had reached 398 signatures. (Update June 30: Just crossed the 400 mark!) Just a week ago, last time I reported on it, it had passed the 100 mark. At that time, Oracle dug in its...
- Tags: petition, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is not
- MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is notThis reasoning promotes the problem it describesIt occurs to me that at a time when Republicans seem to be questioning traditional Republican beliefs (supporting the Bush administration, not caring for the environment), the feedback of thousands...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Naivety, MoveOn.org, MoveOn, Pulver, petition, Net Neutrality, Internet, Barnes & Noble Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-21
- MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is not
- This week, liberal political and citizens' actions organization MoveOn.org sent a "Save The Internet" petition to its more than three million members. The petition asks MoveOn.org members to beseech their legislators to approve net neutrality legislation. "Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most...
- Tags: petition, MoveOn.org
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
- Verizon exemption could make businesses pay
- Verizon exemption could make businesses payThe money quote"But Verizon argues that being freed of these regulations will actually lead to more competitive pricing and allow it more flexibility in serving customers."Translation:But Verizon argues that being freed of these regulations will actually lead to the ability to fix prices at arbitrarily...
- Tags: Federal government, Broadband Internet, POTScos, Verizon DSL, Verizon Communications Inc., FCC, petition
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- Electronic Petitions Enhance Public Influence and Participation in Democratic Process
- The Scottish Parliament in partnership with the International Teledemocracy Centre at Napier University has implemented an electronic petitioning system using Microsoft Active Server Pages and structured around a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. The e-Petitioner system is open to any citizen or organisation to raise an e-petition and a discussion...
- Tags: Petition, Microsoft Corp., e-Petitioner System, Business Structures, Databases, Scripting Languages, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development
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- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates
- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone ratesYou should see how much Rogers charges for cableThey do like their high prices. With the Canadian market being only 10% of the size of the US market, the level of competition between sellers is not the same as the US.For that matter, you should...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Rogers, Rogers iPhone, Canucks, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- '.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix
- '.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffixDangerous ground[i]However, Twomey told Agence France-Press that the organization will still try to block or reject any domain name that it deems inappropriate for security or [b]moral[/b] reasons.[/i]And just what morality standards will they be using?Personally, It wouldn't bother me if all porn...
- Tags: INTERNET, SECURITY, ICANN, domain suffix, IPCC
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence voteSounds like the testers and MS are doing good work[i]The best thing that happened in response to this latest action is that the Entity Framework team responded to it immediately[/i]Good for the testers for demanding better, and good for MS for responding immediately....
- Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Corp., Entity Framework, no-confidence, MJO
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote
- A number of testers who've been dabbing with the first version of Microsoft's ADO.Net Entity Framework are unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken with the technology -- so much so that they've created a "no confidence vote" petition to make their gripes public. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Corp., Tester, ADO.Net Entity Framework, Business Object, Persistence Ignorance, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009
- New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009Not a factor in deployment plansMost of my customers are still on XP and Office2003. It will take more than lipstick and sharepoint to get them to move, even with new hardware to replace the old. They don't see the value proposition for anyone...
- Tags: Groupware, Databases, Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Office 2009, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Latest spectrum auction could mean national wireless network
- The FCC is set to vote on rules for a new spectrum auction that would require the winner to deliver wireless Internet across wide swaths of America, AP reports. "We're hoping there will be increased interest in the proposal and for the fact that this will...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Spectrum, Auction, Wireless Network, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- HP, Lenovo join Dell in extending Windows XP
- Rumors of Windows XP's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I wrote about Dell's downgrade program in a post earlier this week (Windows Vista just can't catch a break). It looks like Dell may have started something. Both HP and Lenovo now plan to offer Windows XP to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- Microsoft releases more Ultimate Extras - Search parties are out looking for the "Wow!"
- Microsoft releases more Ultimate Extras - Search parties are out looking for the "Wow!"Microsoft tried this stunt with Plus!...and look how that went....RE: Microsoft releases more Ultimate Extras - Search parties are out looking for theAnyone who thought Ultimate Extras was any more than a marketing ploy was kidding themselves....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Ultimate Extras
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Fickr user revolt; Why I deleted my twitter account
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Flickr video feature spurs online revolt. Not all that surprising to see a mini user revolt after Flickr finally added video uploads. A segment of the...
- Tags: Flickr, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAP
- Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAPBetter than the other reason to give your garbage man's Daughter a computerBolivia and Amar Maha Roma; spending his new life on his personnal Land Expansion off the Coast of India. It is beautiful there from the video I've seen, India....
- Tags: Sales strategy, Hardware upgrade, Sales force management, SAP AG, Waste Management
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
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