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How college towns could lead the way to gigabit broadband

Until recently, America's major telecommunications firms always had plans on the drawing board for the next generation of Internet connectivity. In the 1990s, when most people connected to the Internet using modems with...

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Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 Net News No Comments

More Americans Worried About Cybarmegeddon Than Terrorism, Study Finds

Photo: Adrian Boliston /Flickr More Americans want the presidential candidates to focus on protecting the government and the electrical grid against hackers than fighting terrorism groups. That’s according to a new security study...

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Friday, May 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Scammers Try To Trick Cash From Surprised ‘File-Sharers’

Since October 2010, the French government agency set up to police the country’s file-sharers have been busy sending out infringement warnings. By early September 2011, ISP account holders on their first strike from...

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Thursday, October 13th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Pirates and eBooks

Some say that people don’t read as much as they used to but The Pirate Bay proves different. The “Top 100 most downloaded books” holds titles like The Lord of the Rings or...

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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Watchdog Groups Ask FCC to Examine Internet Data Caps

Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative say that with 56% of households now affected by data caps the FCC must ensure they are linked to "legitimate network capacity concerns."...

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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 Net News No Comments