Category Archives: Internet News

Court: FCC does not have the authority to regulate net neutrality

By Michael Becker | Published: April 6, 2010
The FCC does not have the author­ity to enforce net neu­tral­ity, a fed­eral appeals court ruled today. The case cen­tered on the FCC’s 2008 deci­sion to ban Comcast from throt­tling file-sharing ser­vices for video and TV shows, Reuters and the Associated Press report. Before the court deci­sion, Amit Schejter, pro­fes­sor of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions pol­icy at Penn State, [...]
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Why Dave Winer stopped worrying and learned to love the Fail Whale

By Michael Becker | Published: October 18, 2009
Good stuff, as usual, from Dave Winer: The Internet abhors a fun­nel: “This might be one of those fun­da­men­tal Internet laws, or it may just turn out to be a way to express another one. The Internet is a bunch of pipes and tun­nels with proces­sors located at the junc­tions and at the ends of the [...]
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Obama will appoint tech officer to cabinet if elected

By Michael Becker | Published: October 22, 2008
Business Week reported on Oct. 19 that, if elected, Barack Obama will likely appoint the first Cabinet-level chief tech­nol­ogy offi­cer because he feels the coun­try “is not doing nearly enough to cre­ate jobs through tech­nol­ogy.” The CTO’s job would be to expand broad­band ser­vice to even more parts of the U.S., espe­cially rural areas into [...]
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Government likely to antitrust Google

By Michael Becker | Published: September 9, 2008
The Justice Department may sue Google over its upcom­ing adver­tis­ing part­ner­ship with Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reports. The depart­ment has hired high-profile lawyer Sandford Litvack and has been depos­ing wit­nesses and gath­er­ing doc­u­ments about the deal for weeks. Under the ad part­ner­ship, Yahoo would show the valu­able Google ads along with its own ads. The [...]
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Google counts a trillion URLs

By Michael Becker | Published: July 25, 2008
Google reported today that its Web index now con­tains a tril­lion unique URLs. On its blog, Google said that this is more a sta­tis­ti­cal mile­stone than any­thing — the com­pany has no way to visit all tril­lion sites to see how many of them offer unique con­tent, for exam­ple, nei­ther should this be taken as [...]
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