Posts Tagged ‘ broadband ’

Apple and Google square-off for duel over streaming video.

If you number among the hardcore techies, your monitor probably measures ten times the size of your television and has far better picture quality and resolution. To you, then, the latest Apple-Google arm-wrestle looks more like a sporting event than an epic struggle for control of broadband’s next frontier. For a billion or so...
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Appeals Court Rules in Baffling “Internet Neutrality” Case

Siding with Comcast in Comcast Corp. v. FCC , a federal appeals court ruled late last week that the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to block Comcast’s prohibition of peer-to-peer bit-torrent streaming and sharing of large files.  In effect, the court agreed with Comcast that, because the...
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New FCC Broadband Plan Sparks Fierce Debate

Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission released its guidelines, policies, and proposals for the future of broadband and wireless communication in the United States.  As they released the 360-page document, FCC officials emphasized that it remains a work in progress, a foundation for meaningful discussions among the full array of internet stakeholders.  They...
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