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iPlayer chief pushes tiered charging for ISPs (23/12/08)
The executive in charge of the BBC iPlayer has suggested... More...
Three simultaneously cut undersea cables under repair (22/12/08)
Ships have begun repair work on three undersea cables More...
Sky 'withdraws' from Tiscali buyout talks (22/12/08)
Sky has reportedly pulled out of exclusive talks to buy Tiscali More...
Egypt offline for weekend after Med seabed cables cut (22/12/08)
Internet and phone communications remain troublesome across much of the Middle East More...
More execs quit Phorm (18/12/08)
When half of Phorm's board quit earlier this month, it was spun as a strategy disagreement More...
Be Broadband doubles down on ADSL to catch cable (16/12/08)
O2-owned Be Broadband is pushing copper wires to their limits... More...
Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users (16/12/08)
The UK's second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year introduce network monitoring More...
Openreach reaching for more cash (05/12/08)
Ofcom has opened a second consultation on increasing the amount that BT... More...
Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to 'regulate the internet' (03/12/08)
Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today... More...
Business ISP blunders on BNP list (03/12/08)
Zen Internet has apologised for including a link in its latest newsletter to a website More...
Prosecutors gather evidence on secret BT-Phorm trials (27/11/08)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is gathering evidence on BT's covert trials of Phorm More...
BT silences customers over Phorm (19/11/08)
BT has banned all future discussion of Phorm More...
BT threatens to pull plug on better broadband (17/11/08)
Cash-strapped BT has identified a vogueish fillip in its lobbying campaign for a looser regime More...
Warrington first to get Virgin Media 50Mb/s (14/11/08)
Virgin has invited 200 customers to be the first to try its forthcoming 50Mb/s broadband More...
Ofcom urges government restraint on new broadband (07/11/08)
The public sector should take a minor role investing in high bandwidth broadband capacity More...
Orange IPTV: Missing, presumed dead (05/11/08)
What if you launched an IPTV service, and nobody cared? More...
Sky 'to bid' for Tiscali (03/11/08)
Sky has entered "exclusive" talks to buy the UK ISP business More...
Orange ditches Phorm (30/10/08)
Orange is not going to use Phorm's data-snooping technology. More...
Virgin Media accused of shafting customers on upload rates (27/10/08)
Virgin Media is facing charges from customers More...
Portsmouth seeks ISP - no net access required (16/10/08)
We're sure that UK councils' equal opps policies do a great deal More...
Google's coup: The internet's first rule book (15/10/08)
The regulator's rule book for deciding what is permissible on today's roads is very thick indeed More...
CPS to consider private prosecution over stealth Phorm trials (14/10/08)
The Crown Prosecution Service will examine evidence that BT and Phorm's stealth advertising targeting trials broke wiretapping laws More...
London and Wales to get fast fibre (13/10/08)
...the first in the UK to be offered faster broadband via a fibre optic upgrade... More...
Virgin Media calls foul on web speed testers (10/10/08)
Virgin Media believes it is being shafted by comparison sites More...
Brussels bounces BT-Phorm quiz back to UK.gov (10/10/08)
The European Commission has again written to the government for an explanation More...
US telco: 'Public broadband is illegal' (10/10/08)
Like dozens of other communities across America More...
BT plots massive Openreach outsourcing deal (03/10/08)
BT is secretly considering outsourcing the operation of its heavily regulated and unionised network access division More...
BT's Phorm small print: It's all your fault (3/10/08)
BT subscribers who are invited to take part in its new trial of Phorm's internet monitoring.... More...
Telco compares merger to Challenger space shuttle (01/10/08)
Top brass at Thus are celebrating their merger with Cable and Wireless More...
BT claims UK broadband boost breakthrough (01/10/08)
BT has blamed Brits' poor broadband speeds on tellies More...
BT's third Phorm trial starts tomorrow (29/09/08)
BT will invite thousands of its broadband subscribers to voluntarily participate in a third trial of Phorm More...
Is Hitwise in the Phorm biz? (29/09/08)
Front Porch – a Silicon Valley startup offering a Phorm-like online ad system More...
Phorm mulls incentives for ad targeting wiretaps (26/09/08)
Phorm is considering tugging on ISP subscribers' heartstrings by offering to donate to charities More...
Another London BT exchange hit by thieves (25/09/08)
Thieves bagged new networking gear worth tens of thousands of pounds More...
TalkTalk ad slapped for misleading on LLU (24/09/08)
TalkTalk's latest TV ad has fallen foul of advertising regulators More...
Carphone goes bargain hunting in Tiscali sell-off (22/09/08)
Carphone Warehouse has made a renewed, lowball offer for Tiscali More...
'Idiot' pulls cables, downs ISPs at Telecity (18/09/08)
A hamfisted worker at colo provider Telecity shut down "several" ISPs More...
BT lobbies Welsh Assembly for superfast broadband subsidies (17/09/08)
BT chairman Sir Michael Rake went to the Welsh Assembly on Monday More...
Sky drops download limit and tops satisfaction poll (17/09/08)
Sky has dropped gigabyte download restrictions on its "Max" package in order to offer unlimited broadband More...
BT's secret Phorm trials: UK.gov responds (16/09/08)
The European Commission is analysing the government's explanation More...
UK.gov told not to subsidise superfast broadband (12/09/08)
Francesco Caio has come out against subsidies for fibre More...
BT watchdog joins BT (12/09/08)
Sean Williams, a former senior Ofcom regulator who ran the process that created Openreach More...
BT's Mayfair exchange downed by burglary (11/09/08)
BT's Mayfair exchange was burgled last night More...
Digital divide looms again over superfast broadband for all (08/09/08)
An influential internet industry group said today More...
Phorm: Our business is fine, honest (04/09/08)
After its share price slumped to a new low More...
eMusic rattles ISPs over legal downloads (03/09/08)
The boss of Apple’s iTunes nearest rival eMusic has warned... More...
Why the US faces broadband price hikes (02/09/08)
Peer-to-peer file sharing just got a lot more expensive More...
Thus passes to C&W (01/09/08)
Thus, the company formerly known as Scottish Telecom More...
Comcast users get UK-style capping, throttling (29/08/08)
The Network Neutrality pigeons are coming home to roost More...
BBC fixes BT Home Hub auto-vomit bug (28/08/08)
BBC engineers have solved a mysterious, long-running bug More...
US utilities plot remote switch off (26/08/08)
HomePlug, the networking standard for sending data over mains wires More...
Mobile broadband: What's it for? (26/08/08)
In the next few weeks (hint: CTIA is in three weeks) I'm expecting mobile operators to be offered a new tool More...
BBC iPlayer upgrade prompts new ISP complaints (22/08/08)
The BBC is facing more criticism that the way it delivers iPlayer traffic More...
FCC pelts Comcast with rotten veg (21/08/08)
Having put the company in the stocks two weeks ago More...
Free the airwaves, cries Google (19/08/08)
Google has launched another round in the PR battle over American white space More...
Cock-up blamed for MCI customer site outage (15/08/08)
Human error is the "official" reason for a two-day outage More...
BT seals free Digital Vault (15/08/08)
BT will shutter its free 2GB online storage service More...
Be Unlimited pulls plug on home CCTV service (15/08/08)
A wheelchair user faces losing vital security and independence More...
Virgin Media ADSL punters suffer 2-day email meltdown (14/08/08)
Virgin Media says engineers are working to restore full email service More...
Phorm secretly tracked Americans too (13/08/08)
Phorm has also deployed its behavioral ad targeting technologies in the US More...
UK.gov misses deadline on EU Phorm probe (12/08/08)
The government has failed to meet a deadline to respond to European Commission questions More...
Google tells Congress it's not Phorm (12/08/08)
Google doesn't use Phorm-like deep packet inspection More...
Phorm papers reveal BT's backwards approach to wiretap law (11/08/08)
BT's long-held claim that legal advice said its Phorm trials did not breach... More...
Hull falls off the internet (11/08/08)
Kingston Communications, lost all internet access on Saturday More...
American ISP flashes phantom bandwidth cap (08/08/08)
Yet another American ISP is toying with the idea of a ridiculously low bandwidth cap More...
1&1 botches Microsoft Exchange update (08/08/08)
Budget hosting provider 1&1 Internet has hit problems More...
Cable broadband shines in Virgin Media Q2 (07/08/08)
Virgin Media's recent move to push broadband to the centre of its offering is paying off More...
Virgin customer numbers dip (07/08/08)
Virgin is reporting a slight dip in customer numbers over the last three months More...
BT slams bandwidth brakes on all subscribers (07/08/08)
BT is throttling all of its broadband customers' bandwidth at peak times, not just heavy users More...
Please ignore the net neutrality sideshow haunting Comcast's BitTorrent bust (06/08/08)
According to narrow-minded ideologues on both sides of the increasingly childish debate More...
NebuAd jettisons PR firm, employees (06/08/08)
Now that Congress has put the freeze on its stateside ISP partnerships More...
Delta aims Wi-Fi at American planes (05/08/08)
Despite a champion effort to nickel and dime its way to profitability More...
Claranet blames data centre for downtime (04/08/08)
Claranet has blamed data centre Global Switch for a power failure early this morning More...
FCC enforces internet anarchy (04/08/08)
Regulators and network operators across the world will be watching events unfold in Washington DC More...
Campaigners celebrate Comcastration (01/08/08)
As expected, the US telecoms regulator has censured Comcast for violating "net neutrality" More...
Emirates airline website plummets offline in A380 excitement (31/07/08)
Dubai's government-owned airline, Emirates, forgot to renew its domain name this week More...
Up to 80,000 AOLers face the boot from Carphone network (31/07/08)
As it dials down broadband targets More...
BT shares plummet on margin pressure (31/07/08)
BT hit targets for the first quarter ended 30 June 2008 bringing in revenues of £5.1bn More...
Comcast plays New York anti-porn game (30/07/08)
After a legal threat from New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo More...
FCC censures Comcast for doing its job (28/07/08)
In a landmark decision, the FCC is set to censure Comcast for engaging in traffic management More...
Screwgle™ - Google's new ad revenue model (28/07/08)
Google's strict code of secrecy calls for extra silence when the subject is AdWords More...
Brits terrified of online fraud, but want magic cars, says BT (28/07/08)
Britons' fear of online crime has rocketed in the last ten years, according to BT More...
Proof of age system moves net ID a step closer (25/07/08)
The UK moved one step closer to online ID for all last week More...
Sky preps broadband music downloads with Universal (22/07/08)
Sky is launching a new music retail company in partnership with the world's biggest record company More...
Registrars turn blind eye to sites selling illegal steroids (21/07/08)
Next time you see websites brazenly pushing anabolic steroids More...
UK.gov tells throttling petition: Choke on it (18/07/08)
The government has told an e-petitioners calling for an investigation into ISPs More...
Police seek two for C&W network robbery (17/07/08)
Hertfordshire Police are searching for two men More...
EU tells UK to deal with Phorm - or else (16/07/08)
The European Commission has sent a message to the British government More...
Phorm protestors picket BT AGM (16/07/08)
Attendees at BT's Annual General Meeting today will have to run the gauntlet of an anti-Phorm protest More...
Google: the mother of antitrust battles? (15/07/08)
The US Senate today embarks on what could become years of antitrust investigations into Google More...
BT opens wallet to send fibre to the home (15/07/08)
BT will spend some £1.5bn on fibre optic cables to bring decent broadband to British homes and offices More...
FCC boss reshapes hardline stance on Comcast (14/07/08)
FCC boss Kevin Martin has said he doesn't want the regulator to fine Comcast More...
Rebellious BT computers refuse to take orders (14/07/08)
Hot on the heels of O2's iPhone debacle, the company's former parent BT More...
New York pressures more ISPs into child pornography crackdown (12/07/08)
Bowing to continued pressure from the New York Attorney General More...
FCC chief wants to throttle Comcast (11/07/08)
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking aim at Comcast More...
Thieves take out Cable & Wireless centre (10/07/08)
Cable and Wireless's Watford network site went offline at 1am this morning More...
NebuAd plays cat and mouse with data pimping opt-out (10/07/08)
Though Phorm-like behavioral ad targeter NebuAd More...
Fixing the UK's broadband crisis (10/07/08)
If you throw a rock in the air in London on any day of the working week More...
Nominet changes 'fail to cut main cost of domain name disputes' (10/07/08)
The body in charge of the .uk internet domain has announced changes to its dispute resolution policies More...
NebuAd makes meal of opt-out cookie (09/07/08)
As it prepares for a Congressional pow-wow on the "Privacy Implications of Online Advertising," More...
EU accidentally orders ISPs to become copyright police (09/07/08)
Part of the EU Telecommunications Package, agreed by MEPs on Monday More...
ISPs laud their data pimping services but refuse to use them (07/07/08)
Another American ISP has frozen its plans to embrace behavioral ad targeting More...
Europe drafts law to disconnect suspected filesharers (06/07/08)
France has suggested an amendment to the pan-European Telecoms Package More...
Ofcom flashes cash guarantees at BT for fibre investment (04/07/08)
The boss of Ofcom has given the clearest indication yet More...
Midwestern data pimping alive and well (02/07/08)
Though the head of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet has urged American ISPs More...
Virgin Media ads throttled by peak time bandwidth squeeze (02/07/08)
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rapped Virgin Media More...
Cable and Wireless left cableless by double line break (02/07/08)
Several of Cable and Wireless' large corporate customers were booted offline on Moday More...
CenturyTel joins Charter in data pimping freeze (30/06/08)
Another American ISP has put the skids on its data pimping plans.
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Commercial iPlayer faces anti-trust shakedown (30/06/08)
Project Kangaroo, the commercial on-demand web TV service being developed More...
C&W closes in on Thus acquisition (30/06/08)
Cable and Wireless has increased its offer for smaller rival telco Thus Group More...
Ankle-biting hackers storm net's overlords, hijack their domains (27/06/08)
The websites of two of the net's most critical oversight organizations were hijacked More...
AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6 (26/06/08)
AVG has rejiggered the fake traffic it's spewing across the internet More...
ICANN approves customized top-level domains (26/06/08)
ICANN, the organization that oversees internet addresses, will soon allow anyone to apply for his very own generic top-level More...
Charter suspends NebuAd data-pimping experiment (25/06/08)
Charter Communications has suspended plans to deploy NebuAd's web usage tracking technology More...
Spam DDoS assault cuts off south Pacific state (26/06/08)
Citizens of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific have been left without a functioning email system More...
Heart Internet spreads the love passwords (24/06/08)
Web hosting outfit Heart Internet has caused security-conscious customers to skip a beat More...
BT and Siemens slammed over prisoner call rates (24/06/08)
BT and Siemens are facing a "super-complaint" More...
FCC preps puritanical broadband (23/06/08)
It's official. FCC boss Kevin Martin wants a free US-wide wireless broadband network More...
Researcher: NebuAd forges Google data packets (23/06/08)
The man who caught Comcast blocking BitTorrents has now turned his attention to NebuAd More...
Virgin Media rubbishes P2P throttling rumours (23/06/08)
Virgin Media has today strongly denied a charge it is running secret tests More...
Virgin Media collects customer banking details on CD, then loses it (20/06/08)
Virgin Media is conducting an internal inquiry into why 3,000 customers' bank details were burned to a CD More...
How the iPhone puts a bomb under mobile networks (20/06/08)
If you think everything that could have been written about the iPhone already has been written More...
Yahoo! email! fans! get! more! domains! (19/06/08)
Yahoo!’s free online email service is to grow new tentacles More...
Vodafone hangs up on Tiscali auction (19/06/08)
Vodafone has done an about-face on its ambition to acquire Tiscali's broadband punters More...
Phorm failed to mention 'illegal' trials at Home Office meeting in 2007 (18/06/08)
The Home Office held a private meeting with Phorm in August last year More...
UN calls for single child helpline (17/06/08)
UN telco branch the International Telecommunications Union has called on member nations More...
AT&T brainstorms Time Warner-like bandwidth cap (16/06/08)
Like Time Warner Cable and Comcast, AT&T is mulling overage charges for American bandwidth lovers More...
UK's first caller ID-spoofing service shuttered after five days (13/06/08)
Spookcall, the UK's first caller ID-spoofing service More...
Google preps net neut dowser (13/06/08)
In an effort to identify traffic discrimination More...
Property slump hits Carphone Warehouse (12/06/08)
Carphone Warehouse hasn't been connecting as many ADSL customers as it had hoped More...
France gets closer to 'three strikes' downloader web ban (12/06/08)
The globalisation of internet law continues apace More...
ASA slaps down Vodafone 'unlimited' data claims (11/06/08)
Vodafone has today been ordered to withdraw an advert More...
Hacker cops to $70k botnet rampage (11/06/08)
A 21-year-old American has admitted to using a potent botarmy More...
New York talks net giants into child pornography crackdown (10/06/08)
After discussions with the New York Attorney General's office More...
MPs urge action as spooky caller ID-faking services hit UK (10/06/08)
Communications watchdogs have today been pressed by MPs More...
EU mulls intervention over BT's secret Phorm trials (10/06/08)
The European Commission is considering intervening over the failure of UK data watchdogs More...
Competition watchdogs urged to act on 'commercial iPlayer' (9/06/08)
Competition watchdogs are probing Project Kangaroo More...
Cavalcade of privacy watchdogs bark for data pimping probe (06/06/08)
Fifteen privacy watchdogs - yes, fifteen - have tossed a letter at Congress More...
Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing (06/06/08)
Breathe Networks Limited (BNL) has acquired small ISP Fast4 for an undisclosed sum More...
Dotcom icon ISP Breathe inhales Fast4 (06/0608)
Breathe Networks Limited (BNL) has acquired small ISP Fast4 for an undisclosed sum.
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Comcast rolls out brand new bandwidth throttles (05/06/08)
Comcast is testing a brand new means of throttling More...
Ofcom asks ISPs nicely to stop mis-selling broadband on speed (05/06/08)
Ofcom has today published a new voluntary code of practice More...
Time Warner gives America metered internet (03/06/08)
Time Warner Cable is two days away from rolling out metered internet service More...
Tiscali subscribers to be sold to Vodafone tomorrow: report (03/06/08)
The Italian board of Tiscali will tomorrow approve a Vodafone offer More...
America.com auction fails to hit cash target (02/06/08)
America.com, assumed to be one of the web's most valuble addresses More...
Fire at The Planet takes down thousands of websites (01/06/08)
A fire at The Planet's H1 data center in Houston More...
Ofcom mulls BT Openreach price hike (30/05/08)
After months of lobbying, BT has got its wish More...
Phorm opponents to picket BT shareholders (30/05/08)
Opponents of BT's involvement with Phorm will protest outside its annual general meeting in London More...
Comcast hack leaves users without email (29/05/08)
The portal of US communications giant Comcast was hacked on Wednesday night More...
DVLA, Tiscali, Barclays rake in phoneline cash (29/05/08)
Which? magazine has produced a list of 30 companies and organisations it found to be using high-rate numbers More...
Thus Group gives amorous Cable and Wireless the brush off (28/05/08)
Cable and Wireless has shuffled alongside smaller business telecoms outfit Thus Group More...
What's wrong with LINX? (28/05/08)
Last night there was another outage at the London Internet Exchange (LINX) More...
Yet another hole found in BT Wi-Fi router (28/05/08)
Users of Britain's most popular Wi-Fi router have yet another reason to change the default settings toute de suite More...
FCC boss mulls free* wireless for all (27/05/08)
The US Federal Communications Commission is mulling a plan that would blanket America with free wireless broadband More...
Deutsche Telecom caught doing an HP (27/05/08)
Deutsche Telecom has been caught snooping on its board directors and journalists in an apparent effort to stop directors talking to the press More...
BT industrial action is off - for now (23/05/08)
Union Connect has suspended industrial action at BT More...
Broadband bumpkins overtake city surfers (22/05/08)
Ofcom is prematurely claiming victory in closing the digital divide today More...
EU sets out mobile satellite services (22/05/08)
The European Parliament has approved a proposal that demands mobile satellite services reach at least 60 per cent More...
Time Warner and Time Warner Cable split (21/05/08)
Time Warner Cable Inc has agreed to completely sever ties with its parent company Time Warner Inc More...
Oz carrier Primus blitzed by DDoS attack (21/05/08)
Australian telco Primus said it came under an intense denial of service attack on Wednesday More...
DISH Network awarded $1,050 in NDS card crack case (20/05/08)
NDS Group is going to have to tighten its belt More...
How Free Press breaks the citizens' network (19/05/08)
In 2003 the journalist Ron Suskind captured one of the quotes of the decade More...
US Congress questions legality of Phorm and the Phormettes (16/05/08)
After telling the world it will soon pimp customer data to NebuAd More...
Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise (16/05/08)
Coding activists have developed an application designed to confound Phorm's controversial behaviour-tracking software More...
American cable giant joins data pimping club (15/05/08)
Charter Communications, the eighth largest ISP in the States, has jumped into bed with NebuAd More...
Union gears up for BT strike action this month (15/05/08)
BT is facing industrial action from union Connect More...
BT profits nothing to phone home about (15/05/08)
BT failed to increase profits this year More...
Bell Canada chokes P2P and privacy? (14/05/08)
What's worse than an ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic? More...
Tiscali crosses Carphone Warehouse from bidders list (13/05/08)
Tiscali has written up a wish list of companies it would like to sell itself to More...
How ComScore can track your mouse clicks (12/05/08)
There's one question no one thought to ask More...
Bournemouth floats UK's first 100Mbps sewer broadband network (08/05/08)
Bournemouth will be the UK's first town to benefit from a town-wide fibre network, with 100Mbit/s access More...
Comcast mulls overage fees for bandwidth lovers (07/05/08)
Comcast is considering monthly download caps for all those people on its cable-based internet service More...
ISP reporting network to pierce bandwidth smokescreens (06/05/08)
ISP watchers have launched a bid to get to the bottom of what's going on with UK broadband More...
Server theft knocks Peter Gabriel off the web (05/05/08)
Peter Gabriel's online music empire is reduced to a holding page More...
Nominet critic wins boardroom seat (02/05/08)
Nominet members have elected one of its leadership's sharpest critics to the board More...
Virgin Media distances itself from Phorm 'adoption' claims (01/05/08)
Virgin Media today sought to publicly clarify its relationship with Phorm More...
Time Warner to amputate cable tentacle (30/04/08)
Time Warner has today confirmed widely-expected plans to pacify its long-suffering investors More...
BBC iPlayer continues platform sluttiness with Virgin Media launch (30/04/08)
The BBC's streaming iPlayer is now available to three and a half million Virgin Media More...
White space fillers are hospital system killers (29/04/08)
Hospitals in the USA fear plans to fill white space More...
MySpace stripped of myspace.co.uk domain victory (29/04/08)
An independent appeals panel has overturned a heavily-criticised decision More...
NASA researching 'nanosats' for orbiting 5G space network (26/04/08)
NASA's Ames Research Center is teaming with the often sinister-sounding Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corporation More...
Anti-Spyware Coalition probes data pimping (25/04/08)
The Anti-Spyware Coalition has launched a review of Phorm More...
BBC defends iPlayer against Murdoch Jr's 'anti-competitive' claims (25/04/08)
The BBC Trust, Auntie's independent oversight body, has today defended the iPlayer More...
P2P site cries traffic shaping foul at Canuck ISP (25/04/08)
Earlier this week, the Silicon-Valley P2P entertainment content distributor More...
Lib Dem mayor candidate jumps aboard muni Wi-Fi failboat (24/04/08)
Brian Paddick, the Liberal Democrats' London mayoral hopeful, has pledged to build a city-wide free Wi-Fi network More...
Man discovers his net wasn't neutered (23/04/08)
We have very little idea of how a hysteria can grip sensible, rational people - until it strikes More...
FCC tells Comcast to unblock P2P (23/04/08)
US Federal Communications Committee chairman Kevin Martin realises that Comcast has its very own definition More...
Americans love wireless - and AT&T too (22/04/08)
AT&T's Q1'08 results show the telco, along with the American public, is becoming ever more reliant on wireless More...
Data pimping catches ISP on the hop (22/04/08)
What's the story with Phorm, NebuAd, and other behavioral targeting firms that track user data More...
Lessig leads Net Neut charge in Stanford inquisition (21/04/08)
The most outrageous thing about this whole story More...
Ruckus and Terranet rewire Mesh Wi-Fi dream (21/04/08)
Despite various attempts to change the world using mesh networks More...
ISP typo pimping exposes users to fraudulent web pages (20/04/08)
Comcast, Verizon and at least 70 other internet service providers are putting their customers at serious risk More...
BT's secret Phorm trials open door to corporate eavesdropping (17/04/08)
The government has refused to investigate BT's covert wiretapping of thousands of its customers in 2006 and 2007 More...
Comcast proposes P2P 'bill of rights' (16/04/08)
As the FCC continues to investigate its choke hold on BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic More...
Ofcom taps water network for next generation broadband (16/04/08)
Ofcom will today announce an investigation into whether the roll-out of next generation broadband can be accelerated More...
Virgin Media mops up CEO's 'boll*cks' outburst (15/04/08)
Virgin Media (VM) today moved to calm fears that it will start throttling web video More...
Fasthosts' dedicated servers go titsup (15/04/08)
Gaffe-prone web hosting outfit Fasthosts has suffered another major outage today More...
CPW broadband targets feel the crunch (15/04/08)
Carphone Warehouse has disappointed investors by reporting lower than expected broadband connections More...
BBC technology chief bounces on to Project Kangaroo (14/04/08)
Ashley Highfield, the BBC's chief technology executive, is to quit the corporation More...
Dubai impounds cable slicing ships (14/04/08)
Two ships whose anchors damaged an undersea cable in the Gulf have been traced More...
BT's 'illegal' 2007 Phorm trial profiled tens of thousands (14/04/08)
BT's covert trial of Phorm's ISP adware technology in summer 2007 involved tracking many thousands More...
Network Solutions hijacks customer sub-domains for ad fest (11/04/08)
Shameless domain registrar and web hoster Network Solutions is hijacking its customers' sub-domains More...
American ISPs already sharing data with outside ad firms (10/04/08)
Multiple American ISPs are sharing customer data with outside firms that deal in so-called behavioral ad targeting More...
Revived cableco alliance could save Xohm... (09/04/08)
Former Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee may have made a massively bad job of managing the carrier's merger More...
Information Commissioner: Phorm must be opt-in only (09/04/08)
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a major revision to its statement on Phorm More...
BBC to launch iPlayer for Wii (09/04/08)
The BBC is set to launch a version of its popular streaming iPlayer catch-up service for Nintendo Wii owners More...
BBC vs ISPs: Bandwidth row escalates as Tiscali wades in (09/04/08)
Outspoken broadband provider Tiscali has crossed swords with Ashley Highfield More...
Demo shows how web attack threatens fabric of the universe (09/04/08)
Showing how the web's underpinnings can be abused to attack assets presumed to be secure More...
Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article (08/04/08)
Phorm has admitted that it deleted key factual parts of the Wikipedia article More...
BT hands top job to Retail chief (08/04/08)
BT has promoted its Retail unit boss Ian Livingston to CEO of the entire group More...
FIPR: ICO gives BT 'green light for law breaking' with Phorm (07/04/03)
The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) has slammed the Information Commissioner Office's (ICO) for glossing over doubts over the legality of Phorm's More...
Carphone Warehouse stares down BPI and UK.gov on three strikes (04/04/08)
Carphone Warehouse has called the government's bluff by stating that it will not cooperate with the record industry to clamp down on copyright infringement More...
Carphone Warehouse mulls Tiscali bid, report claims (03/04/08)
Carphone Warehouse is mulling a bid for Tiscali's UK broadband user base, according to a report. More...
BT: 'We did not let anyone down over Phorm... it was not illegal' (3/04/08)
BT Retail wheeled out Emma Sanderson, its "director of value added services", on BBC Breakfast More...
BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed (03/04/08)
Relationships between the BBC and internet industry have plunged to an all-time low More...
DDoS packets soak up to 3 per cent of net traffic (03/04/08)
As much as three per cent of the net's traffic is malicious garbage designed... More...
BT hits 'undo' on anti-spam email update (02/04/08)
BT has been forced to roll back changes it made to its rules on outgoing email addresses More...
BT and Phorm secretly tracked 18,000 customers in 2006 (01/04/08)
BT secretly intercepted and profiled the web browsing of 18,000 of its broadband customers in 2006 More...
Danish ISP bundles free music subscription (01/04/08)
TDC, Denmark's biggest ISP, is bundling a free music service with its broadband offering More...
Virgin Media in talks to trial three strikes regime against P2P (31/03/08)
Virgin Media could soon become the second major ISP to attempt to implement a "three strikes" system More...
Internet Archive bestows golden pipes on public housing (28/03/08)
The inventor of the Internet Wayback Machine is delivering free broadband net connections to San Francisco More...
MPs pile pressure on ISPs over Phorm (28/03/08)
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport More...
Ofcom climbs on Byron bandwagon (28/03/08)
Ofcom has declared it is parents who are going to have to take responsibility for how their children consume digital media More...
Comcast admits it can do the impossible (28/03/08)
Faced with continued scrutiny from the US Federal Communications Commission More...
Bell Canada chokes BitTorrent traffic on someone else's ISP (26/03/08)
On March 14, Bell Canada began throttling peer-to-peer traffic on pipes it rents to third-party ISPs More...
WiMAX has 'failed miserably' (26/03/08)
Australian wireless carrier Buzz Broadband has shuttered its WiMAX network More...
Parallels pads hosting play with ModernGigabyte buy (26/03/08)
Parallels - the software artist formerly known as SWsoft - has snatched up billing dandy ModernGigabyte More...
Domain hijackers forced to return numeric names (26/03/08)
Two Dutch companies must return thousands of numeric domain names they got on a first-come-first-served basis from SIDN More...
BT 'security upgrade' causes email headaches (25/03/08)
BT broadband customers who don't use an @btinternet.com address are being forced to jump through hoops to send email More...
Dear Hull, all your typos are belong to Karoo (25/03/08)
Hull's broadband monopoly, Karoo, has joined the ranks of Verisign, Tiscali and Orange in redirecting net users' mistyped URLs to pages displaying advertising More...
Verizon makes nice with P2P (24/03/08)
From an ISP’s point of view, P2P traffic can appear to be exceptionally daunting More...
AT&T and Verizon thrash rivals with $16bn spectrum swipe (20/03/08)
AT&T and Verizon Wireless barreled through the auction of some prized US airways More...
Virgin Media in premium rate U-turn (20/03/08)
Virgin Media will drop premium rate charges to its technical support line in June More...
Comcast accuses FCC of impotence (19/03/08)
Comcast has told the chairman of US Federal Communications Commission that he has no legal right to prevent the company from busting BitTorrents. More...
Phorm agrees to independent inspection of data pimping code (19/03/08)
Phorm has agreed to allow an independent software expert to inspect its source code More...
How the BBC plans to save your ISP (19/03/08)
The BBC iPlayer is now an undeniable success with consumers. More...
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