Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Both digital TV and broadband internet access increased in Europe in 2007. In a study released by the cable television industry in Europe, revenues increased broadly.
t said that digital cable TV customers more than doubled in the past two years to 13.9 million -- including a 40% growth spurt ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Earthlink has a problem on their hands. The company, who is no stranger to controversy, is now under fire for their attempt to redirect typos of URLs into advertising dollars.
The vulnerability was in a service called Barefruit, which Earthlink has been using since August 2006 to return ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
LG Powercomm has announced that they've signed up 1 million users to their 100Mbps Internet Service. The service is much faster than traditional means of accessing the internet, and people are signing up in droves.
LG Powercomm is Korea's largest ISP and 54 percent of its' estimated 1.82 ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
The music industry wants ISPs to police their customers, and one broadband isp says that is clearly not his job. Carphone Warehouse runs the TalkTalk service, and they say it isn't their job to prevent users from downloading music.
"Our position is very clear. We are the conduit that ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
In a move that has been expected for awhile, the BBC has gotten tough with ISPs.
But instead of giving the ISP’s a sympathetic ear the BBC’s Director of Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield has been reported as posting a blog which could only be described as “Threatening” as he ...
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