Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Verizon, AT&T: Net neutrality not OK for wireless — The wireless industry is gearing up to fight new Net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission is formulating to keep the Internet open. — On Monday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a speech at the Brookings Institute …
Archive for September 21st, 2009
Verizon, AT&T: Net neutrality not OK for wireless (Marguerite Reardon/CNET News)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
FCC plan for open internet ‘perfect,’ Lessig says; AT&T, Verizon critical (Sam Gustin/DailyFinance)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Sam Gustin / DailyFinance:
FCC plan for open internet ‘perfect,’ Lessig says; AT&T, Verizon critical — The U.S. on Monday announced a bold plan designed to keep the internet open and competitive and prevent web-service providers from unfairly discriminating against content that competes with their offerings. “It was perfect.
Facebook to Partner With Nielsen (Jessica E. Vascellaro/Wall Street Journal)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Partner With Nielsen — Facebook Inc. plans to announce a deal with online measurement company Nielsen Co., in a step to address advertisers’ frustration with measuring how their ads perform on the social network. — Under the partnership, terms of which aren’t expected to be disclosed […]
Does the Internet Need More Regulation? FCC to Decide (David L. Cohen/Comcast Voices)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
David L. Cohen / Comcast Voices:
Does the Internet Need More Regulation? FCC to Decide — Today, the Chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, announced that he will ask the FCC to adopt new regulations on the way that companies like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Hughes Satellite, and thousands of others provide Internet services […]
Republicans Move to Block Network Neutrality (Roy Mark/eWeek)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Republicans Move to Block Network Neutrality — Senate Republicans react quickly to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal to expand the Federal Communications Commission’s network neutrality authority. Working on an unrelated appropriations bill, Republican senators push an amendment …
Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking (Matt Cutts/Google Webmaster Central Blog)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Matt Cutts / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking — Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn’t use) the “keywords” meta tag in ranking web search results. Suppose you have two website owners, Alice and Bob. Alice runs a company […]
Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht (Charlie Sorrel/Gadget Lab)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht — Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built in to his latest oversized yacht. The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of which has almost doubled since original plans were drawn to almost $1.2 billion …
Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest (Steve Lohr/Bits)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest — Netflix, the movie rental company, has decided its million-dollar-prize competition was such a good investment that it is planning another one. — The company’s challenge, begun in October 2006, was both geeky and formidable …
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
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MySpace Syncs with Twitter (Sharon Nguyen/MySpace Blog)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Sharon Nguyen / MySpace Blog:
MySpace Syncs with Twitter — Today we’re beginning the global beta rollout of a new functionality on MySpace that empowers our users to sync their MySpace status updates with their Twitter feed. Any U.S. user can opt-in to sync their status so that any update created on MySpace will appear […]