| The Future of TV Arrives as Verizon Launches FiOS TV in Virginia Beach | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:15:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The future of television is arriving for consumers in parts of Virginia Beach as Verizon introduces FiOS TV over its revolutionary fiber-optic network. Verizon delivers FiOS TV over the nation's largest digital, all-fiber network. Only this network has earned the certification of the independent Fiber to the Home Council for providing fiber all the way to customers' homes. "The New Year is starting off right for Virginia Beach residents who are able to choose Verizon's FiOS TV," said Robert W. Woltz Jr., president of Verizon Virginia. "Customers who liked what FiOS has done for their Internet connection will love what it does for their TV." Verizon FiOS TV is available now to more than 37,000 households in parts of Aragona, Arrowhead, Carolanne Farms, Chesopian Colony, Great Neck, Haygood, Kings Grant, Lake Edward, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynbrook Landing, Lynnhaven Acres, Pembroke Manor, Point of View, Thalia and Witchduck Landing.... | |
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| | | Pakistan has 12 mn Internet users | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:00:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Islamabad, Jan 1 (IANS) Pakistan has 12 million Internet users, but the net is slow, says the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The number has grown significantly in the last couple of years with service providers moving beyond Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi to reach more of the country's 166 million population. According to the PTA, it is possible to connect homes with Internet at the low rate of Rs.2.50 per hour. .... | |
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| | | Record industry sends out subpoenas | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:14:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday said it sent out subpoenas to Internet service providers, in preparation for lawsuits it plans to file against hundreds of individuals who illegally distribute songs over the Web. "This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Filing information subpoenas is exactly what we said we'd do a couple of weeks ago when we announced that we were gathering evidence to file lawsuits," said a representative for the RIAA, the music recording industry's leading trade body. Sharply escalating the industry's battle against online piracy, which had so far focused on shutting down peer-to-peer services, the trade group in late June said it would track down the heaviest users of these services and sue them. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ISPs are required to provide copyright holders with such information when there is a good-faith reason to believe their copyrights are being infringed, according to attorneys for the RIAA.» Read more @ C|Net .... | |
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| | | Reflexion Networks Unveils 'Reflexion ISP' Tailored to Internet Service Providers | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:14:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | Reflexion Networks, Inc., a managed email threat protection company, today announced Reflexion ISP (RISP), a new email security service designed to bring the power of Reflexion's Protective Address Defense to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) looking to leapfrog the limited anonymous or disposable addressing capabilities offered by EarthLink, Yahoo! and Google. The well-documented flood of unwanted and malicious email erodes confidence in email overall, and results in significant economic costs, including wasted time, direct expenditures and unrealized efficiency gains. It can also lead to expensive business disruptions for web and email hosting providers. RISP addresses these issues with technology that surpasses that of larger email providers, plus unmatched pricing flexibility.... | |
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| | | Technology Bytes: Internet Providers Jack Up Web Surfing Prices | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:44:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Imagine this scenario: You are sitting there doing writing a research paper, and need to go online to do a search. You open up Firefox and try search Google. Much to your dismay, the page loads extremely slow, if at all, and you are forced to use a far inferior search engine. Or how about this:Aafter years of slaving away as a corporate slave for some shitty boss, you decide to quit, and open up an online business selling The Dark Side of UCSB crap. You get a host, set up your page, get things running, only to find that the majority of the people who are actually interested in your stuff cannot connect to your page because their Internet Service Provider does not provide service to the host of your website. Sounds like a horrible situation, right? It is, if the proponents of ending Net Neutrality have their way.... | |
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| | | KOREA: Government to check Internet speed | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:15:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | Korean Internet service providers say that their online connection speed is 100 megabits per second (Mbps). Subscribers may suspect that the real-time connection speed is not as fast as the service provider's pledge but they could not measure the real-time speed. To address the problem, the government plans to monitor whether the broadband operators provide the speed guaranteed in the contracts. "We seek to collect hundreds of volunteers later this year to gauge the Internet hook-up speed at their homes via special computer programs," said Chung Jong-ki, secretary-general at the Korea Communications Commission. The commission is a semi-independent regulator, which has the power to monitor the nation's fixed-line and mobile telecom markets and fine rule violators.... | |
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| | | Sullivan, CONXXUS receive tech grants to increase high-speed Internet access | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:17:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | RANTOUL -- The city of Sullivan and a broadband network serving three area counties received state technology grants Friday to increase Internet access.The Illinois Commerce Commission released the Digital Divide Infrastructure Elimination grants to help fund the construction of high-speed Internet facilities in underserved Illinois areas.The City of Sullivan will be receiving $105,545 for new technology to provide broadband access for economic and community development. Sullivan Mayor Ann Short said the city currently has a municipal fiber system and is looking to expand."Right now all of our municipal buildings are connected," Short said. "We're wanting to expand that to include other businesses." Short said high-speed connectivity would benefit businesses like Hydrogear and Agri-Fab, which do business worldwide."We want to provide the basic infrastructure to be able to do that and provide it at a low cost," Short said.Short said the city later hopes to expand the service to include medium-sized businesses as well as making it available to residents who wish to purchase high-speed, wireless connectivity from the city."I think it's important to expand because Internet service at some point in the future will become as common as our phone service today," Short said.... | |
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| | | Internet service survey shows decline in satisfaction | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:09:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ten thousand New Zealand Internet users have spoken, and a third of them say they are unhappy with their Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In an annual Consumers' Institute survey, 66 per cent of the people surveyed said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their ISP, down from 82 per cent last year. Telecom's Xtra was the worst-rated service, lurking at the bottom of every category, Consumers' Institute spokesman David Russell said. Only 55 per cent of Xtra users regarded their ISP as satisfactory or very satisfactory, a substantial drop from 78 per cent last year. However, more than half (51 per cent) of all respondents used the ISP, which dragged down the average, he said. Manawatu-based Inspire.net.nz was the top-rated ISP for the third year in a row, with 97 per cent of its users rating its performance good or very good.... | |
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| | | Internet hotline gets 14,400 reports of potentially illegal content | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:12:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | _ The Internet Hotline Center, working in tandem with the National Police Agency, received around 14,400 reports from the public about child pornography and other potentially illegal and harmful content in the first four months after the center's launch June 1, a center official said Saturday. The center, located in Tokyo, determined that a large majority --about 13,000 -- of the reports were outside the scope of its watch guidelines. It defines as "illegal information" content such as pornographic images and advertised sale of controlled substances and as "harmful information" content such as trading of guns, solicitation of murder contracts and encouragement of suicides. The center does not handle information on Internet sites operated by overseas providers. A total of 1,086 of the reports concerned content judged to be illegal by the center.... | |
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| | | FBI asks Internet providers to retain records for possible ... | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:04:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | On the heels of an MSNBC poll about privacy, CNET has reported that the FBI wants Internet providers to "track" users' Internet behavior. It's important to note that the request is for the companies to retain data they already collect, not to increase surveillance of customers. The story is patently misleading, then, when it makes references to forcing corporations to "record information." In this case the corporations already record it; the controversy is whether they should save it once it's no longer useful to them. That way, the pertinent information will still be around by the time the FBI can subpeona it. It's always amused me how uptight people get about database police work. For example, look at the controversy over looking through library histories under the Patriot Act — which requires a warrant.... | |
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