WIRED– The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents … Read More
SALON– The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today [PDF] that the Federal Communications Commission doesn’t have the authority to enforce “net neutrality,” which requires companies to treat all traffic over their networks equally. The case was brought by Comcast. A little history: the initial case started in 2007, when Comcast customers noticed the company was … Read More
MSNBC– Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider. It … Read More
MSNBC– If Internet service providers’ current experiments succeed, subscribers may end up paying for high-speed Internet based on how much material they download. Trials with such metered access, rather than the traditional monthly flat fee for unlimited connection time, offer enough bandwidth that they won’t affect many consumers — yet. But as more people use the Internet to watch TV … Read More
PITTSBURGH LIVE– In the midst of a battle with state regulators over the capability of its broadband service, Verizon Communications is now being challenged by a consumer group that says the telecommunications giant owes Pennsylvanians $2.1 billion for promising a faster network than it has delivered. The accusation by TeleTruth, a New York City-based nonprofit, cites the same 1995 network … Read More
