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FCC: Bar Comcast from Imposing Web Restrictions
Net Neutrality at an Impass Federal regulators are prepared to take action against sellers of Internet access that want to restrict what their customers can do online. If it turned out that the system accidentally or deliberately discriminated against online television, that would be anticompetitive because online television competes with Comcast. Marvin Ammori, the ...
Bush Signs Spy Bill, ACLU Sues
File Under Big Brother or Oh Brother President Bush addressed reporters Thursday morning as he signed a bill expanding his surveillance powers. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Thursday over a controversial wiretapping law, challenging the constitutionality of the expanded spy powers Congress granted to the president on Wednesday. The federal lawsuit was filed with ...
Beatles All You Need is iPod
New Beatle iPod goes on sale at Bloomingdales Though the Beatles' music remains unavailable on iTunes, Bloomingdales may play host to the first official meeting of the Fab Four and Steve Jobs' device. The department store has acquired the rights to Beatles images from Apple Records and will produce a series of T-shirts, jackets and accessories ...
FCC: Comcast Violated Net Neutrality Rules
Battle of Network Neutrality FCC chief says Comcast violated Internet rules Company violated agency principles that guarantee open access to web This is going to be a bellwether. The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open ...
Music Web Site Last.FM Launches Royalty Program
Music Web site Last.fm this week launched a royalty program that will pay artists a percentage of the company's advertising revenue for streaming their music on the site. “This is a big day for independent artists as it marks the first time that musicians not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency can collect revenue ...
Making Your Nation Scarier with Photoshop... Almost
A few days ago, in one of those chest thumping moves cash flush despots sometimes do, Iran tested a few missiles, then released photos as documentary proof. The New York Times reports the Iranian photo -- an impressive shot with four missiles climbing skyward, plumes of smoke trailing behind -- was distributed by Agence France-Presse and ...
FCC Chief Open to More Terms on XM-Sirius Deal
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday he would consider imposing further conditions on Sirius Satellite Radio Inc's acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc if it were needed to win support of other FCC commissioners. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said some of the FCC's other four commissioners had expressed concerns ...
Customers Line up to Buy the New iPhone 3G
iPhone You Phone Spencer Duclos, 16, a tourist from Reno: The iPhone is the end all and be all of all phones. You don't need anything else. Many people with old iPhones who tried to download the new software have run into problems. The download is taking a long time, and then some are ...
UK Computer Chaos Hits iPhone Launch
Don't worry if you aren't getting an O2 iPhone - nobody else is either. Especially if they haven't sent their passport. Well, the day dawns for the launch in the UK of the 3G iPhone, and the people who decided not to queue are getting about as many iPhones as the ones who did. A quick ...
BMW to Build Electric Mini Cooper
BMW is planning to build 500 all-electric Mini Coopers, and they're coming to California to help the automaker meet the new zero-emissions mandate, according to Autopia. The mandate requires car manufacturers to build 7,500 non-polluting cars by 2014. The report quotes unnamed BMW sources as saying that 490 of the cars will be leased to selected ...
