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 AT&T has joined the ranks of telecommunications companies, which exploit the idea of limiting the amount of bandwidth that a subscriber can use monthly. The company began this month to apply such limits, testing them in Reno first. Subscribers of the slowest AT&T connection will have their downloads limited at 20 GB of data per...
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 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5 to 0 to approve the new use for the unlicensed frequencies, also known as white spaces. This comes after the objections of TV broadcasters and other groups and it should lead to low-cost, high-speed Internet access and new wireless devices. Even if the TV broadcasters, Broadway theater...
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 Amazon.com has decided to reduce the plastic clamshells, coated wire ties and fasteners that drive consumers crazy by a Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. In 2006, tech billionaire Mark Cuban sliced his hand trying to open a hard plastic packaging. Retailers got the message a bit later and companies like Apple, Johnson & Johnson,...
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 The Harvard University Library was one of the first to sign Google’s academic book scanning project, but it was also the first to say it won’t take part in the copyright portion in response to Google’s $125 million settlement with authors and publishers. Even so, the library might still take part in the settlement if the terms are more...
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 A new marketing scheme will be applied by MySpace and MTV Networks. Instead of triggering the usual take-down notices, copyright-infringing footage of select MTV Networks uploaded by MySpace subscribers, the companies have decided to use a technology that allows them to automatically redistribute the videos with advertisements that would...
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 The Sinowal Trojan, which uses a rootkit functionality to infect a PC’s master boot record in order to allow it to slip by malware defenses, has stolen 300,000 bank log-ins and a number of credit card and debit card numbers, with personal information. This was presented in a report by the RSA FraudAction Research Lab. Security...
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 Google has announced that it will begin including scanned documents in its search results. This means that Google has developed an advanced image recognition technology and that’s because scanned files do not contain any text data that Google’s spiders can index. Google has employed Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology,...
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 EstDomains, an Internet registrar known as an open house for malware distributors, received a letter from ICANN, where it was being announced that it would be shut down. Even if ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) told EstDomains on October the 29th that it will review its case, the conviction of EstDomains’...
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 Google has recently announced that it will become a single sign-on provider using OpenID solutions. Google users will login with their Google account information when signing up from new accounts on other sites. The giant company is not the first one to proceed in this way. Microsoft and Yahoo have already adopted the same strategy of...
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 The AT&T carrier is sending text messages to iPhone subscribers, pointing them to a web page that explains the free access to any of its 17,000 hotspots across the nation. The U.S. Wi-Fi hotspots are free of charge and users can connect to Wi-Fi access points at Starbucks Wi-Fi locations, airports, hotels, restaurants, bookstores,...
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