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DROID-buddies Verizon and Google offer net neutrality truce
Amidst all the rancor that we’ve seen during the last few weeks over the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed net neutrality rules comes a joint filing by Verizon and Google that asks a refreshing question. What do the antagonists have in common regarding this vexing problem? “Because our businesses rely on each other, it is appropriate for us to jointly discuss a number of things,” wrote Alan Davidson of Google and Thomas Tauke of Verizon on Thursday, such as “how we ensure that consumers get the information, products and services they want online; encourage investment in advanced networks; and ensure the openness of the web around the world.” And so they’ve come up with a set of broad principles and the outline of a voluntary industry-wide system for handling network management disputes, with government intervention included only in the most dire cases—a set of “overarching values that create a framework to guide players throughout the Internet space.”
Continue reading »Google leaks small biz stats to random people
Traffic data snafu blamed on ‘human error’ Google has inadvertently leaked web traffic data for multiple small businesses to random third-parties across the web.…
Continue reading »FBI Says ‘Money Mule’ Scams Now Top $100 Million
The hackers looting bank accounts of small and mid-sized businesses around the county are hitting new victims every week, and have now racked up approximately $100 million in attempted losses, the FBI said Tuesday. “The infection vector has not been determined in every case,” the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center wrote in an intelligence note on the growing scam. “However, FBI analysis has identified more than two dozen different pieces of malware on the compromised account holders’ computers all containing key loggers.” Using these Trojan horses, cybercrooks have been intercepting victims’ web-banking credentials and then initiating money transfers to mules around the country.
Continue reading »Box.net Gets Wiser, Adds Integration with Salesforce
The file storage and sharing start-up, Box.net has taken the next step to what it hopes it will mean a new category of loyal users – integration with Salesforce.com (one of the pioneers of the software as a service [SaaS] model of distributing business) software. The new deal will enable businesses to add a Box.net app to their Salesforce accounts which means they will gain quick access to their files (documents, media) from directly within their CRM. In addition, the app offers support for Box.net’s OpenBox platform which makes other services that have been integrated in it easily accessible.
Continue reading »Telstra rejects Aussie gov calls for split
Stephen Conroy finds some more people to annoy The incumbent Australian telco Telstra is unimpressed with broadband minister Stephen Conroy’s calls for reform and the possible division of the company up into retail and wholesale businesses.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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