Comcast to Debut Usage Meter
12.03.2009
Comcast has released a Usage Meter as broadband household usage continues to spiral nationwide. Comcast customers in Portland, Oregon will get to preview the meter which will display the user's broadband usage on a per Gigabyte basis across a calendar month.

FCC Chairman: Broadband Access Should Be Universal
11.26.2009
The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, recently announced that the task of making broadband Internet universally accessible across America is his number one priority.

World's Fastest Broadband
11.05.2009
This week BusinessWeek published a story titled "World's Fastest Broadband" that discusses the issue of the public's access to broadband internet, and focusing on which countries or areas of the world have the fastest and most reliable high-speed Internet connections.

WiMax Coming to Philadelphia, Chicago, and Seattle
11.05.2009
Comcast, Sprint, and Clearwire will launch WiMax based high-speed wireless Internet service in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Seattle in the upcoming weeks. WiMax is a long range point-to-point Internet connection that connects a multitude of Wi-Fi spots to the Internet.

FCC Chairman Discusses Net Neutrality and National Broadband
10.27.2009
In a recent interview with BusinessWeek magazine, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski shared his thoughts on the nationalization of broadband internet, as well as net neutrality. As a person who holds great influence over the consumer electronics industry, Genachowski is the principal decision maker in terms of setting rules for both the wired and wireless forms of the internet.

News Corp boss Murdoch to close the pay gate on internet content
10.08.2009
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has hinted that he may charge fees to anyone wishing to read his numerous newspapers online - including the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and Times of London.

Web-aholics anonymous: Study finds internet addiction growing more common
10.07.2009
Taiwanese researchers who surveyed nearly 2,300 seventh-graders for signs of depression, ADHD, social phobia, and other mental health issues found that children who suffered from such issues were more likely to use the internet to the point of excess.

U.N. reports mobile broadband subscriptions outnumber wired connections
10.07.2009
More people around the world use cell phones, netbooks, and other mobile devices to connect to broadband internet than use fixed-line connections, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

FCC chief Genachowski lays out broad strokes of broadband plan
10.07.2009
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said today that he foresees a time of crisis for wireless broadband access and used his speech at the CTIA conference in San Diego to outline some of his ideas for defusing such a crisis.

Commerce Department doles out almost $7 million in first round of broadband mapping grants
10.06.2009
The states of California, North Carolina, Indiana, and Vermont were the first to receive federal funds from the $7.2 billion earmarked for broadband infrastructure projects under the Obama administration's recovery act. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said that it received applications from all 50 states and five U.S. territories, and plans to disburse more money soon.

House Republicans oppose net neutrality rules, citingmicromanagementconcerns
10.05.2009
In a letter to President Obama, two leading Congressional Republicans warned that the proposed tightening of FCC regulations on net neutrality would harm America's economy and could deter investment in broadband networks.

Europe poised to gain influence over critical internet commission
10.05.2009
A group that manages and lists all internet domain names will no longer be subject to a veto from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The move was welcomed by the European Commission.

Don't track on me: Americans dislike cyber-monitoring
10.02.2009
Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania released a survey this week saying that most Americans object to companies tracking their online movements, and that the number objecting rises once respondents are informed of the methods online marketers use to follow them.

Study: internet TV to take off within a few years
10.02.2009
A study by business auditing and consulting firm Ernst and Young says that a hybrid of TV and the internet could become the dominant paradigm within the next few years.