IDG News Service - A court in the U.K. has ordered key Internet service providers in the country to block three torrent sites on a complaint from music labels including EMI Records and Sony Music. The High Court of Justice, Chancery ...
Last week the content-creating industry launched a new effort aimed at preventing copyright infringement: the Copyright Alert System—CAS, also called "six strikes." It's a warning system intended to curb illegal downloads of music, ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward an expansion of the spectrum available for Wi-Fi, with the agency launching a rulemaking proceeding to open new parts of the 5GHz spectrum to unlicensed uses. The ...
Tags: Wi-Fi, 5GHz spectrum, FCC
Egypt‘s telecom regulator said last week that it is not viable for it to follow a court order to block YouTube in the country, and is appealing the ruling. The order banning YouTube and some other websites for 30 days was issued by ...
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Egypt's telecom regulator says it is not viable for it to follow a court order to block YouTube in the country, and is appealing the ruling. The order banning YouTube and some other websites for 30 days was issued by a Cairo court after ...
Tags: YouTube, technically, Google search
The European Union's Clean IT Project has become the subject of online ridicule following a recommendation in its latest report that a "Report this site for terrorism" button should be integrated into every web browser. The report, which ...
Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their implementation of the UPnP (Universal Plug and ...
Tags: network-enabled devices, routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras
Global IP Telecommunications shows for the first time the software telephone "Juggler" that gives rise to substantial advances in the ergonomics of electronic office communication. "We simply need space on our desktops! Therefore our ...
Samar Khalil, Network Management Department Director, IDM Blue Coat systems on Thursday announced that it had tied up with one of Lebanon’s biggest internet service providers, IDM, which will now optimise its web content delivery ...
Tags: IDM, Blue Coat systems, CacheFlow appliances
A satellite operator's proposal to offer an extra channel of Wi-Fi might actually give average Wi-Fi and Bluetooth users less bandwidth, according to some industry groups that have commented on the plan in filings to the FCC. The plan by ...
Tags: WiFi, satellite operator, Bluetooth
Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
Tags: Verizon, snooping technology, drones, phones, privacy threats
Network World-Traditional news companies and other websites covering this year's presidential election are preparing for a flood of Web traffic over the coming months,and not just from political junkies.Politically motivated hactivist ...
Tags: media sites, hactivist attacks
The Internet Society today sends the message around the world that it is time to embrace IPv6. A number of high-profile technology companies will turn on the protocol and make the permanent transition from IPv4. "Major internet ...
Tags: IPv6, IPv4, ISP, permanent transition
A judge has approved the text of a letter that is to be sent to O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing adult films made by Ben Dover Productions. In March, the film company won a court order forcing O2 to identify the users of more ...
Tags: O2, illegally sharing, adult films, Golden Eye, piracy
Proposed laws could protect virtual intellectual property. A number of Internet laws that aim to protect intellectual property rights online have been proposed in recent months. While only one piece of legislation has passed, proposed ...
Tags: Business Implications, Computer Products, Cyber Legislation