Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

Last Tuesday’s presidential inauguration was one of those moments where I think all business except for vital functions like transit and public safety stopped all over the country as people tuned in to watch Obama’s swearing in. Another thing that stopped for a lot of people was the inte...

I woke up this morning to find a bustle in the blogosphere’s hedgerow. It seemed that the Wall Street Journal was leading off today with news that Google had been trying to cut deals with cable and Internet providers to give it a “fast lane” for delivering its services to users. In...

SteveOHT writes "Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry hype superhighway traffic with a prospectus to create a fast lane for its own content, as it should be to rule to compilations reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google has traditionally been one of the loudest ...

Boyko.at.netqos writes "Timothy B. Lee (no sibling to Tim Berners-Lee), a frequent friend to Ars Technica and Techdirt, has latterly written 'The Durable Internet,' a paper published by the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. In it, Lee argues that because a neutral network works better than a non-n...

One interesting fact, told on CNBC this morning, is that while most people are very pessimistic about the current economy most think things will get better in the next year or so. They will. That's because the present trends are pretty easy to reverse, and once reversed should stay that way. Simply ...

The internet monitoring company powering Charter Communication's proposal to eavesdrop on its internet customers for advertising reasons insists individuals can opt out of the web tracking. Charter, the nation's fourth largest ISP, is planning to test web eavesdropping technology from NebuAd, a Sili...

The net neutrality issue is much more complicated than the debates in Washington, and is really about the rise of internet video forcing cable companies to want a piece of the internet advertising pie and to discover that all you can eat internet pricing plans are flawed, accordi...

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut -- Internet service providers that monitor their networks for copyright infringement or bandwidth hogs may be committing felonies by breaking federal wiretapping laws, a panel said Thursday. University of Colorado law professor Paul Ohm, a former federal computer crimes prosec...

Two powerful House members asked Charter Communications Friday to put a hold on its plans to monitor its customers' web habits in order to serve them targeted ads, questioning whether the scheme complies with federal privacy laws. In a letter (.pdf) to Charter CEO Neil Smit, Massachusetts Democrat E...