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Release of Draft AT&T-T-Mobile Report Defended by FCC Chairman
A draft report, regarding the AT&T-T-Mobile deal, had been released and it had raised objections from the sidelines. Now, the FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has come forward defending the action. The chairman expressed that the commission did not release the report in order to reduce the deal’s chances at the Justice ...
Channel Island home phone plan to encourage competition
There's a reason why free competition is much desired across all industries. If you recall the monopolies of the past, there were countless people who were, in a way, cheated out of their hard earned money because they needed the goods or services being offered, and could not afford to ...
Ofcom plurality review received 45,000 submissions
The failed takeover of BSkyB by News Corporation, which is under Robert Murdoch, prompted Ofcom to call for a review in media plurality in October of this year. The regulator was called upon by Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to conduct an investigation on how media plurality could possibly be measured. ...
Agari Aims at Being a Trust Fabric for Email
Agari, spawned by Cisco and headed by Patrick Peterson, has been officially launched. It has been conceived in order to be a ‘trust fabric’ for email. Agari makes use of technologies that Peterson had developed at Cisco. It is looking to authenticate organization’s correspondence via email. The new concept will provide both ...
ISPs Looking to Hike Internet Price; Video Streaming Services Up Against Cable
Video streaming services like Hulu and Netflix had taken over from cable operators to satisfy users’ viewing needs. And people were satisfied, but that satisfaction is in for a bit of shock. Users are going to be drenched in higher prices, and by higher prices, we don’t mean that Hulu or ...
West Sussex Council unveils £50 million infrastructure and development package
The economy hit quite a snag in recent years, especially due to the crash that hit and affected a lot of companies big time. While the market's downfall was attributed to many reasons, it's been years since and bit by bit, the pieces are being picked up and placed together ...
Scotland secures £5 million to fund broadband plan
The Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project had many goals, specifically: to create a level playing field for incumbent providers and new ones; to open up access to infrastructure and to facilitate superfast broadband in many areas; and to facilitate the introduction of superfast broadband services in both remote and populated ...
Apple Pulls iTether From App Stores, Leaves App Maker Frustrated
Apple’s action of pulling back the iTether app from the App Store has been termed as a bait-and-switch tactic by the app maker. The company named "3052155 Nova Scotia Ltd" has claimed that Apple has played a tricky game with them by just removing the software quickly after 12 hours ...
Cloud Seen Driving Data Center Traffic; to Surge by 2015
Cloud is in. The cloud, a significant component that would rewrite the future of information technology and video/content delivery, is being seen by conglomerates as an important arena to log on to. With more companies getting on to this new computing services terrain, the cloud is turning out to be ...
Government aiming to rationalise public sector domains
It used to be that in order to reach people, you had to use the television and radio waves as mediums to do so. But times have changed and the online world has grown so huge and influential that corporations are taking notice and moving to make their online presence ...
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