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Can Netflix survive as an independent, or will Verizon sink it like Napster?

Posted February 6, 2012 - 2:23 pm

Netflix faces tough competition for its cloud-based TV- and movie-content-streaming service: carriers who not only have deeper pockets to pay for content, but own the wires and customer Internet accounts, too. Can Netflix survive? Or is it this decade's Napster?
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Cisco: Playing fair with streamed 'net content will crush EU hopes for decent broadband

Posted February 2, 2012 - 2:55 pm

A Cisco executive speaking at the company's European user conference this week, criticized net neutrality provisions in the EU's new privacy regulations. Big companies won't be able to afford the investment in good broadband if they're forced to give customers what they paid for. Duh.
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'Data Hog' study hypocritically blames customer for 1% of phones that eat 25% of bandwidth

Posted January 9, 2012 - 4:51 pm

iPhone 4S' and Android smartphones use far more data than other phones, but that's what they were designed to do, is described in promises carriers made to sell them to leading customers and have become scapegoats in carrier lobbying for even more privileges.
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No. 1 tech story of 2011: The war for control of the Internet (and your data)

Posted December 30, 2011 - 6:38 pm

From net neutrality to CarrierIQ to Twitter subpoenas, the battle over digital rights and privacy rages on.
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Everyone knows Verizon didn't really mean it supports net neutrality, right?

Posted December 6, 2011 - 11:55 am

Verizon and Google teamed up to promote net neutrality, to the point they almost wrote the FCC's regulations themselves. Then Verizon sued to nix the FCC's ability to regulate the net. Now it is blocking Google Wallet to favor its own service. What does it think Neutrality means?
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Verizon Wireless launches exciting new app service: The Oxymoron

Posted August 11, 2011 - 10:27 am

Verizon Wireless is launching 'Application Innovation Centers' to get mobile app developers to build software for its network, if they can overcome Verizon's abhorrence of innovation.
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Dutch parliament deals bitter blow to online advertisers, web publishers

Posted June 22, 2011 - 4:20 pm

Will web publishers flee The Netherlands now that they're required to get permission to place cookies on users' PCs?
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Netflix isn't swamping the Internet; ISPs are overstating their congestion problems

Posted May 19, 2011 - 6:02 pm

Netflix streaming media makes up the most common form of Internet traffic, but it's not swamping ISP backbones, despite their complaints to the FCC, which lets them throttle with abandon.
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Protests over low AT&T data caps, high penalties for violating them

Posted May 9, 2011 - 8:57 am

AT&T penalties are far too high for bandwidth usage caps that are far too low, according to consumer advocacy groups; the problem will get worse following merger with fellow giant T-Mobile.
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Inventor of web really wishes Twitter would 'stop foaming at the mouth'

Posted April 28, 2011 - 4:03 pm

The guy who literally invented the World Wide Web is somewhat troubled by the crude level of discourse found on microblogging site Twitter.
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Out of court, Net Neutrality becomes political football in Congress

Posted April 7, 2011 - 2:07 pm

The lawsuit over FCC Net Neutrality rules has been delayed, but the House is trying to overturn them anyway; the Senate and White House say 'no'
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AT&T Internet usage billing off by as much as 4,700%

Posted March 25, 2011 - 2:14 pm

AT&T instituted usage-based pricing on some Internet customers, then showed why it needs adult supervision
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$1M Google award to give users more power on the web

Posted March 24, 2011 - 3:53 pm

Google awarded researchers in Georgia $1 million for tools to show end users what's really happening to their packets on the way to Facebook.
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House tries to remove protections for Internet users

Posted February 21, 2011 - 2:16 pm

If a House bill passes the Senate, the FCC may not even be able to enforce the weak limits it tried to put on rapacious behavior by ISPs.
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FCC fails to protect 'Net, consumers, while defending itself

Posted January 31, 2011 - 2:42 pm

"Fatally premature and should be dismissed" is a great personal criticism, but not a good defense from a regulator who believes in its mission.
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Helpless telecom giant asks court for protection from not very much

Posted January 21, 2011 - 2:48 pm

Verizon isn't satisfied the sheriff responsible for enforcing net neutrality is blind, deaf and unarmed; it wants the law run out of town.
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Here's your chance to tell the FCC to get straight on net neutrality

Posted January 14, 2011 - 3:55 pm

Everyone but the FCC seems to hate new net neutrality rules, but most don't have a platform for complaints; now they do.
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Net neutrality becomes an issue again, at CES

Posted January 7, 2011 - 5:33 pm

Verizon's representative made clear it didn't like new FCC regulations, while the FCC guy obviously did. The audience wanted more protection; no one listened.
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Holiday Party: Ogling the Oligarchs

Posted December 31, 2010 - 5:51 pm

I can always tell what politicians are going to fight over next year by who people pay me to watch, and who their special friends appear to be.
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What you lost in FCC's net neutrality ruling

Posted December 22, 2010 - 2:18 pm

Carriers and ISPs kept the right to filter traffic as they like; allowing owners of that traffic to pay extra to not slow it down would be discriminatory.
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FCC creates a monster, gives it control of the Internet

Posted December 21, 2010 - 4:01 pm

FCC "network management" guideline lets carriers throttle or block traffic, raise fees for service that already can't live up to its billing.
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Finally, common ground in D.C.: everyone hates FCC net neutrality plan

Posted December 16, 2010 - 12:22 pm

Complaints and criticism have been raining on the FCC ever since its chairman the commission would side with telcos on net neutrality regulations.
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Why you don't want tiered Internet costs

Posted December 13, 2010 - 2:27 pm

'Tiered' or 'Dynamic' pricing is attractive for end users if costs shrink or grow with their usage; it's less attractive if costs only go up.
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Media companies, carriers aim to pick your pocket

Posted December 13, 2010 - 1:35 pm

Content companies are joining carriers in pressuring Netflix in an effort to squeeze more money out of business plans that are already disrupted and obsolete.
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FCC sides with telcos against consumers on net neutrality

Posted December 3, 2010 - 4:18 pm

Proposed tier system rewards carriers for anticompetitive behavior, squashes innovation, threatens access to online services for businesses and individuals.
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