There were emotional scenes last night at the headquarters of underground international atom-smasher science alliance CERN, as joyful boffins celebrated the successful restarting of the Large Hadron Collider
DOD requires written ethics approval for senior officials, who have worked personally and had major decision-making authority on a DOD contract.
Computerworld - The two lawmakers who successfully added H-1B hiring restrictions to the financial bailout bill earlier this year have introduced legislation that would bar any firm that lays off 50 or more workers from hiring guest workers.
The New York City Council was scheduled to hold a meeting Friday morning on a resolution backing strong network neutrality principles.
Sony has formally announced plans to bring true 3D gaming to the PlayStation 3.
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission began to lay the groundwork for a bigger federal role in the broadband business Wednesday, outlining the hurdles the U.S. needs to overcome to improve the availability of high-speed Internet access
According to the Wall Street Journal, the FCC is seriously considering re-establishing some kind of open access rules, which would give new entrants access to incumbent infrastructure at reduced price.
It's a simple principle of economics: competition and more customer choice results in lower prices.
Again, the inference that the flat-rate pricing model doesn't offer the money needed to fund investment is simply not true, should you look at any major ISP balance sheet.
After Time Warner Cable's PR implosion, most ISPs are in a holding pattern on the idea until they can sell consumers on it, something they haven't done a good job of so far.
Broadband speed, capacity, infrastructure, and mobile delivery are all priorities for the Department of Homeland Security, according to a Federal Communications Commission field workshop on broadband's role in public safety communications and emergency response.
Of course, the density argument only goes so far -- U.S. consumers pay more money for less speed than more than a dozen countries because of a lack of sustained competition in most markets.
Consumer advocates are asking a lot of questions about a company as large as Comcast controlling both the delivery pipe for broadband, voice and TV -- as well as a giant slice of the content being delivered over those pipes.
It's pretty clear from interviews this week that Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt still dreams of imposing expensive overage fees on his customers:
EFF points us to yet another massively expensive computer system that can't do some rather basic things.
Brooks writes "Speaking at a cable broadcaster's summit, Steve Burke, Comcast's COO, said: "An entire generation is growing up, if we don't figure out how to change that behavior so it respects copyright and subscription revenue on the part of distributors, we're going to wake up …
One of the top copyright lawyers in the US takes Big Content to the woodshed in his new book, saying that "the Copyright Wars are a fight against our own children and it is a fight that says everything about the adults and very little about the children."
Group's President Says Broadcasters Unfairly Limited Compared To Competitors
CDD, U.S. PIRG File Comments To FCC In Advance Of Agency's Dec. 7 Workshop
Verizon Had Challenged the Operator's Ad Claim It Provides Services Over A 'Fiber-Optic Network'
Yesterday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) held a conference call with bloggers to discuss net neutrality. He and Rep.
Washington — Comcast characterized the Federal Communications Commission as a winded fighter on the ropes in its version of the battle over the agency's BitTorrent decision that found the top U.S. cable operator in violation of the agency's network-openness principles.
the latest version of the popular uTorrent BitTorrent client is slightly more intelligent, detecting network congestion and adjusting its behavior in order to compensate.
Cable operators have been talking about charging more for Bandwidth-heavy users
Could pave way for a vote on the bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee