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Censoring the Internet - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

In what is, I guess, becoming a sort of recurring theme lately, I thought I d point out perhaps the most potentially dangerous example of an attempt to censor what has until now been the freest medium for speech ...

NY Pressures ISPs Into Blocking Child Porn Websites, News Groups - Tech Dirt

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has a history of using his position to threaten big companies into agreeing to take responsibility for something that isn't their responsibility. He did it when he got advertisers to pay fines because their >>> Read more The city of Los ...

Censoring the Internet - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

In what is, I guess, becoming a sort of recurring theme lately, I thought I d point out perhaps the most potentially dangerous example of an attempt to censor what has until now been the freest medium for speech ...

Topic: AT&T Inc. - PC Magazine

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Summer may bring the new BlackBerry Bold to AT&T, but here are our reviews of the best BlackBerrys you can get right now for each major carrier. When the dust settles in November, the next president will have his hands full with the usual issues. But >>> ...

Topic: Time Warner Cable Inc. - PC Magazine

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Time Warner Cable on Thursday began testing a service that charges consumers of high-speed Internet service based on their usage. Time Warner Cable plans to offer subscribers an easier way to bring Internet video to their television screens as part >>> Read more Should people who hog ...

Topic: Time Warner Cable Inc. - PC Magazine

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Time Warner Cable on Thursday began testing a service that charges consumers of high-speed Internet service based on their usage. Time Warner Cable plans to offer subscribers an easier way to bring Internet video to their television screens as part >>> Read more NEW YORK (AP) - ...

Top Technology News - KATC 3

Friday, June 6th, 2008

IN THE NEWS: COMCAST TO TEST PLAN TO CHARGE BIGGER INTERNET USERS NEW YORK (AP) - It's another test of what's become known as the concept of "Net neutrality." Comcast will launch tests this week to target some of its users who suck up huge chunks of ...

Go over your paltry monthly allotment of bandwidth and pay $1 per GB - DailyTech

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Time Warner is starting a new internet access payment method trial in Beaumont, Texas that is a throwback to the early days of the Internet when you paid for the amount of data you sent or received rather than the simple flat rate virtually all >>> Read ...

Blog: Internet The Internet Ends in 2012! Wait a second - DailyTech

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A colleague recently spoke to me about a certain rumor floating around the net, alleging that the Internet, as we know it, will end in 2012 due to a worldwide transition to TV-style pricing: rather than buying unlimited access to the internet >>> Read ...

AT&T, other telecoms, buy victory in lawsuits - Salon

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity >>> Read more IN THE NEWS: COMCAST TO TEST PLAN TO CHARGE BIGGER ...