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Welcome to Consumption-based Broadband

By Stacey Higginbotham Feb. 4, 2009, 4:29pm PT 43 Comments

The all-you-can-eat broadband buffet appears to be at an end as ISPs implement caps and metered pricing for broadband services. The stated goal is network management, but the real reason is to cash in on the increasing value of the web despite being a dumb… Read More »

Shareholder Activists Take On Web Privacy

By Stacey Higginbotham Jan. 27, 2009, 5:00pm PT 1 Comment

A group of seven investment bodies, including the New York City Pension Fund, have teamed up in an effort to get major U.S. Internet service providers to detail their privacy practices through the power of the shareholder resolution. As powers go, shareholder resolutions are far more… Read More »

March 12, 2008: Cable Woes and 3G Blows

By Stacey Higginbotham Mar. 12, 2008, 6:25am PT Comments Off

SAI: Hulu Household: Why I Got Rid of Cable The Inquirer: 5 New Fabs for $14.7B EETimes: Nokia, Techs Drop as TI Points to 3G Weakness ArsTechnica: Norton Places Big Bet on Mac Virtualization Vulnerabilities Light Reading: Charter Gets Nibbles EWeek: Nortel Rolls out 40… Read More »

Verizon's VoIP Patent Game Continues

By Om Malik Feb. 11, 2008, 12:14pm PT 2 Comments

Verizon’s VoIP patents have become a lucrative source of income for the second-largest phone company in the U.S. After squeezing out $120 million from Vonage, the company has been filing patent infringement lawsuits against all comers — from tiny startups to cable giants like Cox.… Read More »

Feb. 11, 2008; Cloudy Reception and Mobile Web

By Stacey Higginbotham Feb. 11, 2008, 6:23am PT Comments Off

The Times: Yahoo Seeks to Revive Merger with AOL Press Release: Sequans scores $28M for WiMax Chips NYTimes: Many Obstacles to Digital TV Reception, Study Says O’Reilly Radar: Reuters CEO Sees Semantic Web in Its Future Light Reading: Verizon Sues Charter Over VoIP… Read More »