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Comcast's federal circuit court victory over the Federal Communications Commission this week appears to have thrown a wide range of federal-level Internet plans into question. Only three weeks ago, the FCC announced its National Broadband Plan, with ambitious initiatives aimed at making high-speed ...

Google has become the target of another lawsuit alleging privacy violations in connection with the February rollout of Buzz, its social networking application. The suit, Feldman v. Google, was filed in a federal court in San Jose, Calif., by New York resident Barry Feldman, who is seeking class acti...

Photographers and illustrators claim that they are not being fairly compensated by Google. Seeking what the visual artists assert is their fair share, James J. McGuire, lead counsel for the group, filed a class action copyright infringement suit against Google Wednesday morning in the U.S. District ...

Cloud computing and SaaS are on the rise in a big way, but for some companies, there's an issue that is starting to come up in a lot of conversations with their service providers: the geographical location of their data. While it may not seem a big deal to some, conflicts with national privacy laws ...

Egged on by the chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, the Federal Trade Commission may be considering an effort to block Google's $750 million purchase of mobile advertising firm AdMob. The FTC reportedly is assembling a team of attorneys to h...

The expected spinoff of subscription music service Rhapsody from parent company RealNetworks has arrived, and it could be a good thing for both parent and child. The formal decoupling, announced in February, was completed March 31 but announced in a regulatory filing released on Tuesday. Real, which...

Companies have often focused on projects that save costs -- both operational and capital -- across a wide range of IT functions. The one area where companies have generally shied away from making any drastic changes has been in the area of data center buildout and operations. This area, in most case...

A group of 47 companies and organizations, including Google and AT&;T, have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to help provide consumers with more information about their energy use. "Studies and experience show that when people have access to direct feedback on their electricity use, t...

Microsoft will hold a press conference on June 12, and expectations are high that it will use the event to launch two smartphones from its secretive "Pink" project. Among those working on the Pink project are staff who joined Microsoft when it acquired Danger in 2008. Danger used to make the T-Mobil...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has issued a ruling that could spell the end of Net neutrality -- or merely redefine the battle terms a little. It's a matter of perspective. The court ruled that the FCC did not prove it had the authority to order Comcast to change it network m...

The discussion so far about the iPad -- a discussion that has officially engulfed the mainstream media and leaped the shark tank to include appearances on David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon's late-night shows -- has focused on the potential for joining media-hungry consumers as a third screen on their...

For many years, a clear line has separated the capabilities of servers based on Intel's x86 microprocessor architecture and "enterprise class" systems leveraging RISC, EPIC and mainframe technologies. People may argue over the length and width of that line, but the traditional reliability, availabil...

T-Mobile has launched a promotion offering credit toward the purchase of its high-end HTC HD2 to anyone willing to trade in an iPhone. The company reportedly is offering credits from $100 to $350. The HD2 sports a 1-Ghz processor, a high-resolution touchscreen and a 16-GB memory card. Its only seemi...

In a startling development, New York is now taking the position that sales of online services are subject to sales tax -- believe it or not -- as sales of canned software. In other words, the Department is alleging that there is no meaningful difference between purchasing an online service and, for ...

For the upcoming March 2010 Aberdeen benchmark report, Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Advantages of the Centralized Approach, 163 organizations were surveyed regarding their use of multi-site and campus-area wireless LANs. Certain vertical sectors had an especially strong representation a...