Surprise: McCain Biggest Beneficiary of Telco/ISP Money
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is the top recipient of campaign contributions from large Internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast over the past two years, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics.
Five Big Hopes for Net Neutrality
With the Federal Communications Commission approving a process to formalize network neutrality rules, a period of official debate begins on how our Internet traffic is managed, as if there wasn't enough debate already. In a nutshell, the FCC wants to stop Internet service providers from slowing down or blocking particular uses, such as peer-to-peer downloading, as long as they're legal.
Net neutrality could lead to inexpensive, high-quality broadband services for businesses
Net neutrality could lead to inexpensive, high-quality broadband services for businesses.
Anxiety over net neutrality grips SuperComm
Carriers, vendors at Supercomm express reservations, worry about new FCC proposed rules on net neutrality.
Challenges mount as broadband grows
If it is true that as Gartner says the US will add over 27 million new broadband customers in the next four year, service providers and the FCC need to address a whole host of issues from pricing to services lest there be mass confusion and tons of consumer complaints.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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