Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Earthlink on the Rocks: SF and Chicago Call It Quits
The woes at Earthlink continue as both San Francisco and Chicago tell the company to pound sand after Earthlink announced that it expects the cities to chip in for the "free" WiFi networks they planned to operate. Based on Earthlink's decision to allow 900 employees to pursue other options compounded by staggering [...]
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Comcast Skewers Net Neutrality By Throttling Torrents
I guess Comcast figured that no explicit requirement for net neutrality was just an open invitation. The word on the street is that Comcast has now started breaking the ability to share torrent files outside of other Comcast users and seriously throttles your download speed when trying to grab a torrent. The cable giant [...]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
White Space Devices Flop, Manufacturers Call Foul
After the FCC denied a license to a "white space" Internet device, so named because it uses the space between broadcast television channels to communicate, manufacturers shot back that the prototype tested was defective and that the FCC didn't bother testing a spare they had in their possession at the time. What makes [...]
