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  • Study: Cox blocking BitTorrent traffic, too

    Cox is the latest Internet service provider to have been found blocking peer-to-peer traffic on its network.

    The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a survey Thursday showing that 54 percent of Cox subscribers reported having their connections blocked when they tried to share files over the Internet. Comcast has been castigated for a similar practice, ...



  • FCC starts over with emergency network push

    WASHINGTON--A high-profile government auction earlier this year failed to attract enough private investment dollars for airwaves dedicated to a nationwide broadband network for emergency responders. On Wednesday, federal regulators began trying to resuscitate the idea.

    At its monthly meeting, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to begin accepting comments from ...



  • iPass to add in-flight Wi-Fi roaming

    Mobile Internet aggregator iPass it teaming up with in-flight broadband provider Aircell to give its customers access to broadband on planes.

    On Tuesday, iPass announced that it would offer Wi-Fi roaming with Aircell Gogo, an in-flight broadband service expected to launch soon in the United States. Aircell's service is ...



  • Google sets sights on IPv6

    Google announced Wednesday on its official blog that Google search is now available over an IPv6 connection. What?

    Right now, much of the world relies on the fourth iteration of the Internet Protocol, also known as IPv4, for its Web connections. The problem is, IPv4 facilitates only about 4 billion ...



  • EarthLink ditches Philly Wi-Fi network

    EarthLink said Tuesday that it is pulling the plug on its citywide Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia.

    EarthLink issued a press release on Tuesday stating that it was unable to find a buyer for the $17 million network that has been 80 percent completed. It also claimed that after months of ...