News Articles
5/10/10
BitTorrent CEO weighs in on net neutrality
Internet service providers must regulate their networks on their own in response to consumer demands, according to BitTorrent chief executive officer Eric Klinker.
5/10/10
United Kingdom, France and India boast best mobile broadband prices
ABI Research found in a recently conducted study that the United Kingdom, France and India have the least expensive mobile broadband plans in the world.
05/02/10
Vermont pushes communities to seek broadband funding
In an effort to improve broadband access throughout the state, Vermont's government has encouraged...
04/29/10
Minnesota-based broadband provider seeking funding for improvement
HickoryTech, a broadband provider with headquarters in Mankato, Minnesota, recently announced ...
04/23/10
Google, Verizon CEOs praise National Broadband Plan
In an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal on March 31, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg praised the Federal Communications Commission for its recently released National Broadband Plan...
04/21/10
Lack of competition slows down U.S. broadband
The primary criticism of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan is that it does not adequately call for an increase in provider competition...
04/06/10
Broadband crucial to rural development
Many Americans that live in rural regions of the nation do not have access to reliable broadband internet.
03/25/10
Important source of online info about Islam shaken by workers' protest
Members of the staff at one of the most popular websites in the Muslim world have staged a sit-in protest at their Cairo office over what they see as improper interference by management in the editorial direction of IslamOnline.
03/22/10
UK voters launch 38 degrees website to provide for input on Digital Economy Bill
A controversial proposed law in Great Britain will now be subject to comment and debate online as the opponents launch a website to gather voter opinion about the Digital Economy Bill.
03/17/10
Microsoft claims victory in instant message spam case
A nine-month-old legal battle between Microsoft and Hong Kong-based Funmobile has been settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, and the Redmond, Washington-based computing giant appears to be very pleased with the result.
03/10/10
Federal funding to help Massachusetts' South Shore, Cape Cod
The OpenCape Corporation announced earlier this month that it received a $32 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to improve broadband speed and access in Massachusetts' Cape Cod.
02/25/10
Fed issues ruling to make internet available at schools after hours
The Federal Communications Commission held a vote recently that will open schools up to the community that will allow access to high-speed internet.
02/23/10
Google donates $2 million to help keep Wikipedia online
The next time a user performs a Wikipedia search for Google they may see an addition to the company's entry highlighting its philanthropic efforts toward Wikipedia.
02/19/10
Iran reportedly shuts down Gmail
Iran's telecommunications agency has reportedly suspended Google's Gmail service in its country as it readies a national email service for Iranian citizens.
02/11/10
Microsoft patch leads to computer troubles
Just two days after Microsoft released security updates on February 9, some Windows users reported that they were unable to reboot their systems after installing the updates, getting only a blue screen, according to posts on a Windows forum.
02/05/10
Student hackers may be trying to earn an 'A' by breaching security to change grades
Even as cyber attacks become more the territory of organized crime and nation-states, there is still a chance that today's hackers can still just be a bunch of kids with some technical know-how and a motive.
01/27/10
Phishing for personal info on Social Media sites keeps users on guard
The proliferation of phishing attacks and other online security threats have users worried about sharing information when visiting social networking sites, according to a recent survey.
01/22/10
Report confirms kids spend a lot of time connected to the internet
If parents think that kids today are spending more time today connected to electronics be it online, in front of a TV or holding an iPod, it's because they probably are.
01/18/10
Mobile apps downloads to skyrocket in 2010
As smartphones continue to take over a significant share of the mobile phone market, consumers will continue to look for apps.
01/12/10
New processor to boost laptop performance
AMD will reportedly put triple-core processors into laptops to fill a power and performance gap, according to PC Magazine.
01/07/10
Microsoft, security firms warn PC users to protect their passwords online
A recent article from TechTarget revealed that Microsoft and several security firms are warning users about protecting their account credentials from hackers during the holiday shopping season in the wake of an increasing number of people shopping for gifts online.
12/28/09
Bogus Pharmacy sites finding new ways around spam and search engine filters
For years, email inboxes – and hopefully spam folders – have been barraged by offers for performance enhancing drugs, Viagra alternatives and other offers from bogus pharmacy sites.
12/17/09
Cold-calling scam mimics online rogue anti-virus software
PPerhaps trying to bypass malware and anti-virus protection, some scammers are taking their computer phishing scam low tech.
12/15/09
Official Ascentive Press Release on Recent Renewal Email
During the weekend of Dec 11th to Dec 13th, a subscription auto-renewal email was accidentally sent to everyone in the Ascentive email database.
12/14/09
The Skype's the limit for VoIP
Skype VoIP, the popular technology that allows users to make voice and video calls over broadband internet connections is still in development, announcing two new beta versions.
12/08/09
Google readies beta version of Chrome web browser for Mac OS X
More than a year after its initial release – and several trips in and out of beta versions – Google has set a deadline to release a Mac OS X-compatible version of the Chrome web browser by the end of 2009.
12/06/09
Facebook forms Facebook Safety Advisory Board to keep kids safe
Facebook has teamed up with five leading internet groups in its continuing efforts to help protect kids, the social-networking site said.
12/01/09
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 promises faster web surfing
Microsoft's next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC's graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser's overall performance, according to Microsoft, which introduced the web browser at its Product Developers Conference (PDC09).
11/27/09
'Godfather of Spam,' sentenced to 51 months in prison
Alan Ralsky, the man the Feds nicknamed the “Godfather of Spam,” was sentence to prison for his part in a stock fraud and spamming scheme, which he pleaded guilty to in June.
11/05/09
Microsoft: Scareware is fastest-growing malware type
Numbers from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center indicate that rogue anti-viruses and related products are the dominant type of malware attacking U.S. users, while other types of malicious programs target users abroad.
11/05/09
Facebook wins big in lawsuit against king of spam
Social networking site Facebook last week won a decisive victory against a man some referred to as the “spam king,” Sanford Wallace.
11/05/09
Microsoft: Windows Vista safer than Windows XP
Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report, released earlier this week, says that users of the company's Windows Vista operating system were less likely to be affected by cyber security threats than users of the older Windows XP.