Topic: Internet Connectivity

iFive: Spycam-Twitter Suicide, Net-Savvy Shoppers, Microsoft Fights Patents, Government Adopts Future Net Code, iPad Tethering

It's Thursday, it's early, and it's time to read today's first bits of news:READ»

Staci Palmer Helps Farmers Operate Tractors Remotely

Director of strategic market development, low-power embedded processing, Intel Chandler, Arizona Palmer, 44, works with equipment manufacturers to develop applications using Intel's Atom processors to lend intelligence and ...READ»

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Google, Verizon Team Up to Support Net Neutrality, but With Wires (and Strings) Attached

The meaning of Google and Verizon's new net neutrality proposal.READ»

What the U.K.'s Growing Rural-Urban Net Divide Can Teach the U.S.

As the U.S. broadband expansion plan stalls at the starting blocks, officials could learn a trick or two from the old country. The U.K.'s Net development plans demonstrate both shining examples and pitfalls to avoid. READ»

Death Star vs. Japan: How Adidas Survived One Viral Ad Campaign Gone Wrong

Adidas came up with an ingenious viral marketing campaign tied to its Star Wars collaboration. Too bad it offended the entire nation of Japan.READ»

FCC Pushes for Net Neutrality and Internet Regulation: What Happens Next? [Update]

Net neutrality, considered a centerpiece initiative for FCC chair Julius Genachowski, would effectively stop Internet providers from slowing or blocking access to Web sites. It's among the most important political topics that ...READ»

Wired Broadband Could Get a Lot Faster

Think ADSL broadband is old hat and fiber is the future? Think again: Researchers at Alcatel Lucent have worked out how to get data rates of 300 Mbps over normal copper telephone wires. That, in case you didn't know, is fast.Most ...READ»

How to Avoid Getting Gmail's New Suspicious Account Activity Alert

While the suspicious account activity alert is helpful, it only kicks in AFTER a potential intruder has accessed your account. Rather than wait for the scary red alert, lock down your Web mail now. Whether or not you use Gmail, here's how.READ»

FCC's Broadband Measuring Tool Gets 150,000 Takers, Shows West-Coast Bias

A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we've got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on Android, iPhone and Web platforms, ...READ»

Virgin Media to Start Trialing Overground Fiber-Optic Broadband in the U.K.

Inhabitants of the picturesque village of Woolhampton, 50 miles west of London, are set to be guinea pigs for an interesting broadband experiment. Virgin Media is to trial running fiber-optic cables from telegraph poles, piping ...READ»

Top Benefits of a Virtual Project Management Office

A virtual project management office is an online location where professionals and business associates can meet to have private discussions, coordinate project details, and otherwise share and collaborate without having to be in the ...READ»

Top 5 web design ways to a faster loading web site

No website user wants to sit waiting for a page to load. Most users would not return to your site if it doesn’t load fast.READ»

Net Neutrality – Where We Stand

You can’t watch TV or read the papers this holiday season without coming across the issue of Net Neutrality. It’s been fascinating to watch how various groups have gone about debating this topic, spurred by the FCC looking into ...READ»

All about Broadband Service and More

The easiest way to explain it is that broadband is the term used to define the channel between our computers and the internet. READ»

People and Powers-That-Be Disagree on Broadband

Net neutrality: Like it or loathe it, you can't deny it's a hot topic at the moment. And while Cisco's just done some research to show bandwidth hogs don't necessarily exist in the way they're portrayed, the GOP is trying to delay the ...READ»

IFPI Appoints 'Anti-Piracy Czar' To Police High Seas of File-Sharing

The recording industry, or at least the disjointed array of labels, trade groups, and intellectual property authorities that represent it, has had little success in curbing music piracy on the Web. In what is perhaps an admission that ...READ»

FCC Embraces Net Neutrality, Enforces It On ISPs

The FCC is embracing rules that enforce Net neutrality on ISPs, and in a surprisingly open way.READ»

Facebook Lite Just Isn't Twitter

Facebook gained pop stardom by allowing college students to create their own little PR campaign: the pictures they wanted seen, the books and films they wanted to boast they loved. It was an orderly, sanitized place where users could ...READ»

AT&T Plays the B**tard Censor, Starts Blocking 4Chan's /b/? [Updated]

There are reports surfacing that suggest AT&T has begun blocking access to parts of 4chan. Oh-oh. Considering how popular its message boards are, and the net-rascals who frequent them, AT&T's just censored the wrong ...READ»

New Bill May Outlaw ISP Data Caps; Nerds Relieved

Earlier this year, Time Warner Cable began trialing the use of data caps on its broadband service. It later abandoned the project after a welter of bad publicity, but the encounter scared a lot of Web users into believing we need ...READ»

Fixing the Music Model: Virgin Media, Universal to Launch Subscription Service in U.K.

In another ambitious scheme to repair the music industry and discourage illegal downloading, Virgin Media inked a deal with Universal Music to offer an unlimited-download subscription service to customers in the U.K. by year's end. ...READ»

How to Build a More Effective Website

On July 25, 2008, Google announced that it had indexed over 1 trillion unique URL's (web addresses). And today, there are an estimated 9 billion live web pages in cyberspace. With so much clutter and traffic on the Internet, how will you get your website to stand out in the crowd? Here are some important considerations for healthcare practices.READ»

Time Warner's Antics in Wilson, N.C. Give Another Reason to Snip the Cable

Ah, Time Warner Cable--friendly supplier of your choice of cable TV and broadband internet. Or, as residents in Wilson, North Carolina are finding out, not friendly at all: TWC is trying to close their community-based, cheap, and ...READ»

Congress Seeks "Kill Switch" For Internet

Congress is considering legislation that could give the President power to shut down large swaths of domestic Internet traffic, should he perceive a threat to national security. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would give the government ...READ»

The Google Guide to Infuriating Your ISP

Google [GOOG] has launched a new website in cooperation with a pair of nonprofit organizations. It does two things: it analyzes your network connection, and it makes companies like Comcast [CMCSA] and TimeWarner [TWX] wish that Google ...READ»