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Feb29
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Last week, the FCC held public hearings on the Internet in Boston. Specifically, the hearings were about “net neutrality” and Comcast’s attempts at controlling certain types of network traffic, especially peer to peer file sharing. The FCC wanted to hear from the public. Comcast apparently did not. Comcast, or some unknown Comcast partisan, filled the hearing room with paid “seat holders”, many of whom fell asleep during the hearings Over 100 concerned citizens, most of whom seemed anti-Comcast, were unable to get into the hearing room due to over crowding.  Craig Aaron, a spokesman for Free Press, one of the groups that filed the complaint against Comcast, said "The sad thing about this is that literally hundreds of people who were not paid to stand in line, or paid by their employer to attend, were prevented from even entering the building."
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Feb27
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The Senate has passed a bill that mandates that VoIP telephone service providers, including cable companies, can deliver 911 service to their customers. A similar bill passed in the House last fall. It should not be difficult to reconcile the...
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Feb26
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As Verizon and AT&T spends billions of dollars bring fiber optic cable right to your door and cable companies across the country are spending billions more upgrading their fiber optic backbones, Japan has launched a satellite that promises to provide...
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When the lights went out across the Northeast in August 2003, there weren’t that many people using VoIP telephone service. Today’s massive electrical blackout in Florida exposed a major problem with VoIP. VoIP telephone service requires power. Traditional telephone service...
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Feb25
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The Pakistan government has decided that video sharing site YouTube is not acceptable for its population. For most of us that’s not that big a deal, except that because of an error in Hong Kong, more then half the world...
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After holding hearings on Comcast’s network management policies, the FCC has said that is intends to enforce the principle of net neutrality. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said “The commission is ready, willing and able to step in if necessary to...
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Feb22
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T-Mobile has decided to dip its toe into the home VoIP market. T-Mobile is testing a service in Dallas and Seattle that will allow its wireless customers to add a VoIP home phone line for just $10. The offer is...
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Feb21
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Vonage, the largest private VoIP service provider, has weathered a host of storms in the past year. Vonage has settled numerous patent infringement lawsuits and has stemmed the tide of customer defections. Vonage has yet to turn a profit, but...
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Feb19
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Unlimited calling plans have been the norm for home phones for a while now. Cell phone service has still been based on plan minutes used and there are still hefty charges for going over your plan minutes. However, Verizon Wireless...
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Feb18
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That’s what Vonage spent in advertising for each new customer it signed up in the last quarter of 2007. Vonage spent $63 million in advertising and signed up 56,000 new subscribers. Massive lawsuits scared away many prospective customers and caused...
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Feb17
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The high definition DVD format war is over. HD DVD, championed by Toshiba, has been beaten by Blu-Ray, invented by Sony. The competing formats fought for years to attract both movie studios, retail distribution channels, and hardware makers. As...
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Feb14
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The democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet has proposed a bill to promote the idea, known as ''Net neutrality,'' of treating all Internet traffic equally.The bill was introduced partially in response...
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Feb13
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In official comments yesterday, Comcast told the FCC that it is reasonable to obstruct some file-sharing by its subscribers in order to keep Web traffic flowing for everyone. Comcast says it must restrain some file-sharing traffic because a few high...
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Feb12
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I read two stories today that I’d like to share. The first one is in Money Magazine. A woman buys a hard drive and when she opens the box at home inside are 3 bags of dried beans. She goes...
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I read two stories today that I’d like to share. The first one is in Money Magazine. A woman buys a hard drive and when she opens the box at home inside are 3 bags of dried beans. She goes...
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Feb11
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Here is a copy of the email RIM has sent to it's users. However, if the BlackBerry system is down, when and how many of them will actually receive this note is not know. Just so you know, your carrier can't do anything...
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If you’re wondering why you haven’t gotten that email you were waiting for, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is experiencing a major outage of its BlackBerry wireless email service, its second nationwide outage in the last year. RIM notified its...
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Feb 9
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Last week 3 undersea fiber optic cables went down cause wide spread Internet outages across the Middle East and India. Now a 4th cable has gone down; the Qatar-UAE Submarine Cable System, which links United Arab Emirates to Qatar. So...
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Feb 8
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For many years most people only had one option for pay TV service; cable. Satellite TV offered some level of competition, but you need line of site access to the satellite and apartment and condo owners are generally out of...
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Do you stand in front of the microwave screaming, Hurry Up! Do you scream hurry up at your computer when you are trying to download a huge file? Well if you do and you live in Quebec, Canada then I...
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Feb 7
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There has been a lot of good news about DSL in the past few weeks, but now there is some bad news. AT&T has decided to raise the price of its three most popular DSL packages by $5 a month. ...
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Feb 6
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Talking on a cell phone for hours every day may have an effect on the quality of a man’s sperm, according to preliminary research. A study of over 350 men seen at their infertility clinic found an association between the patients’...
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Feb 5
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A new report detailing how government policies have been partially responsible for widespread broadband Internet service adoption in America has been released by the White House. Frankly, I think advances in technology, lower prices, and a more comptetive marketplace are far more...
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Feb 4
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The good news for DSL just keeps rolling in. RIM Semiconductor had announced a new DSL technology that can offer speeds of up to 40 MB/s. That would be faster then cable or even fiber optic Internet access. DSL speeds...
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Feb 1
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Another undersea fiber optic cable has been damaged. This cable, located in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, makes 3 undersea fiber optic cables that have been cut this week. The other 2...
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Another undersea fiber optic cable has been damaged. This cable, located in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, makes 3 undersea fiber optic cables that have been cut this week. The other 2...
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