For many people that have broadband spending hours trawling through websites can be a frustrating experience. However, one ISP believes that it may have the answer. Many people that have broadband connections spend many hours a week – or in some cases even a day – trawling the Internet to try and find the best websites for their purposes. With most people already having little enough time this is something that can take up a great deal of precious... 

Another very important aspect to consider for a modem is the speed at which it works. The truth is that we are all in hurry one way or the other and will want everything around us to reflect this. A snail’s speed internet connection will make its users very sick.  Read More →

The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices, without comment, decided Monday to review a lower-court decision surrounding the concept of so-called “ informational privacy .” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down intrusive background checks last year on nearly three dozen National Aeronautics and Space Administration... 

The FCC has begun their sales pitch for the nation’s first national broadband plan ahead of its formal unveiling next week. As we’ve been discussing, we haven’t been too impressed by the plan’s failure to tackle competition , or its tendency to make proclamations that sound good but are rather empty upon closer inspection . The FCC is back today making headlines about how the agency hopes to help the estimated 100 million... 

The FCC said today that as part of its National Broadband Plan it might allocate spectrum for a free or low-cost wireless broadband network as a means to help address the affordability of broadband for poor people . If all this sounds familiar to you, maybe you recall the efforts of M2Z Networks, a Kleiner Perkins backed venture that tried to offer filtered, low-cost broadband using WiMAX. A source at the FCC assures me that the agency’s... 

The CEO of Lifelock, Todd Davis, became famous for advertising his Social Security number on television ads and billboards promising his $10 monthly service would protect consumers from identity theft. The company also offered a $1 million guarantee to compensate customers for losses incurred if they became a victim of identity theft after signing up for the service. But the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that the claims were bogus (.pdf)... 

According to a new 46 page Illinois study by a state Judge, Verizon’s proposed sale of their networks in Illinois would harm consumers. The $8.5 billion deal immediately infuses Frontier, which has 2.3 million customers, with 4.8 million new residential and small-business phone lines and 1 million broadband connections. Such a huge influx of new customers will restrict Frontier’s ability to offer low-price, quality service —... 

Compared to other types of high speed internet, satellite internet is more expensive. But if you can’t get cable or DSL where you live, a satellite package may be your only alternative. Prices vary considerably depending on your needs, so it is possible to get cheap satellite internet service. Here’s how.  Read More →

Fresh off a suite of price hikes last fall that included an increase in the cable modem rental fee from $3 to $5 a month, Comcast is notifying customers they’re raising prices again starting April 1. Many Comcast users are being sent these letters informing them that there’s several new rate hikes for broadband and TV services starting April 1, including a hike in the cost of several of Comcast’s lower-priced broadband tiers... 

It has been revealed that a number of residents have been standing up to BT, stating that they will not allow them to fit the boxes needed to roll out super-fast broadband. There are many people across the UK that are very keen for super-fast broadband to be rolled out, and many would be happy to do whatever it took to get access to super-fast broadband, which will benefit from consumers and businesses in a number of ways. However, it seems that... 

A number of lobby groups have united to form a coalition, and have now launched a national campaign to address the issue of lack of broadband in rural areas. Both residents and businesses in rural parts of the UK have expressed concerns over the lack of broadband access, and there have been many reports that have highlighted the disadvantages of having restricted or no access to broadband in these areas. Whilst the government is planning to get... 

It has been suggested that as a result of consumers and business users accessing the Internet via mobile broadband connections and WiFi the desktop PC as we know it may become ‘irrelevant’. Just a few years ago many of us were totally reliant on our desktop computers in order to access broadband internet , and most of us had no other option but to get online from a fixed location such as the home or office, with the …  Read More →

Writing letters to friends and relative is a matter of past. Present scenario is witnessing the arrival of various ways to communicate with our long forgotten peers. One of such way calls out to be Internet. Internet access has become more convenient and simpler with the advent of mobile broadband.  Read More →

After doing some intense research I have found that Bing is formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search and is from Microsoft. This new search engine was unveiled by Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 and since when full on inline June 3, 2009.  Read More →

Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year. The department’s antitrust division, along with nine state attorneys general, filed the civil antitrust lawsuit (.pdf) in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., charging that the acquisition threatened competition....