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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf tells Congress ‘Net neutrality law needed, 02/07/06
The man often called the father of the Internet told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that the future of the Internet is at risk if Congress does not pass a law prohibiting broadband providers from discriminating against competing Web applications and computer …
3GSM – Mobile show to signal no end to innovation, 02/07/06
Visitors attending the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona next week may find little time to enjoy the city’s great sights and food. This year’s event is shaping up to be one of the biggest and busiest ever, with plenty of new technologies, services and …
Politics sometimes trumps technology, 02/06/06
As appliance functionality migrates to the switch, political issues can outweigh the technological ones.
Opinion: Is Apple creating the FCC’s worst fear?, 02/06/06
The FCC and the courts have taken the RBOCs’ side for the past five years. The master regulatory strategy has been simple: Let the RBOCs and the cable companies fight it out to create competition. To equalize the regulations on both players, the FCC …
Lawmakers promise action against phone record sales, 02/01/06
Members of a House of Representatives committee on Wednesday promised fast action to outlaw the sale of telephone and mobile phone call logs.
Complexity stifles Web services, 02/01/06
Although deployments are occurring, a morass of complexity and a long, head-spinning list of proposed standards continues to hobble Web services technology, according to participants at an SDForum interoperability event on Tuesday.
