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BusinessWeek

Just how do Americans get their news and entertainment over the Web? And how does the Web stack up against TV, newspapers, and other media when it comes to media consumption? Those are questions that advertisers have long wrestled to answer, with mi

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BBC News

Internet users in major Chinese cities faced difficulties accessing Google's international site in the past week, Reporters Without Borders said. But Google.cn, the controversial Chinese language version launched in January, has not been affec

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CNET

Web media is the dominant at-work media and No. 2 in the home. Newspaper use peaked in the morning; that print media was consumed by 17 percent of the subjects between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. When this media was combined with Web consumption, the potentia

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PC Magazine

Businesses that moved to voice over IP calling services to lower their phone bills could see a portion of their savings disappear if the most recent FCC proposal to add VOIP services to the Universal Service Fund is adopted.

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AP

The head of the FBI says Internet companies should retain customer records for 2 years to help the federal government investigate not only porn but also terrorism. Law enforcers and industry representatives were expected to meet Friday

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By Jonathan Fildes - BBC News science and tech

The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

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Washington Post

[Yet another victimless crime we need to be protected from.] Today, the House Judiciary Committee will mark up a bill introduced by Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R) that would ban much online gambling, including bets on sporting events and games of chanc

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NewsFactor

Much of the research for Internet2 is based around its high-performance backbone, called Abilene, that currently runs at up to 10 Gbps. But the Internet2 group is planning to upgrade Abilene to 80 separate channels of 10 Gbps each, using different wa

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PC Magazine

The committee recently concluded hearings to address issues like net neutrality, VoIP, retransmission consent, rural broadband access. The result a 132-page draft bill that is a “sweeping set of policy reforms all wrapped up in one giant package.”

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Washington Post

A Silicon Valley company, Blue Security, simply asked the spammers to stop sending junk e-mail to his clients. Because those sort of requests tend to be ignored, they bombarded the spammers with requests from all 522,000 of its customers at the same

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By Michael Socolow - Baltimore Sun

The Bad Guys are very afraid and this is what they are going to do about it,... and how much do you know about this? Internet - Censorship - Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (COPE)

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Declan McCullagh - CNET News.com

MySpace and other social-networking sites like LiveJournal.com and Facebook are the potential targets for a proposed federal law that would effectively require most schools and libraries to render those Web sites inaccessible.

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Associated Press

Newspaper circulation fell 2.5 percent in the six-month period ending in March, according to data released Monday, as more people turned to the Internet and other media outlets for news and information.

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AP

A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine is profiting from illegal child pornography. Jeffery Toback, a member of the Nassau County Legislature, said Google has paid links to web sites containing pornography i

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PC World

As telephone and cable companies morph into multiservice giants that compete directly with each other, they also want to make more money from their data networks. To do this, they propose to charge their Web site customers for preferential treatment

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BBC News

Repressive regimes are taking full advantage of the net's ability to censor and stifle reform and debate. "Everyone's interested in the internet—especially dictators." Many dictators have been "efficient and inventive" in

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Alternet

Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) threw down the gauntlet just moments ago, introducing the Network Neutrality Act of 2006 [full text HERE], which "[offers a] choice between favoring the broadband designs of a small handful of very large companies, and safe

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