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Comcast unveils new broadband policy

September 26, 2008 — 10:00am ET | By Paul Mah
Comcast has revealed the details of its new plan to shift from a protocol-oriented approach to a scheme based on aggregate use of bandwidth instead. This comes on the heels of an FCC decision that... Read more...

Comcast to set monthly bandwidth limits

August 29, 2008 — 11:33am ET | By Paul Mah
Beginning October 1, Comcast, the largest provider of cable broadband in the U.S., will impose a monthly limit of 250 gigabytes of bandwidth on residential users. Customers who exceed the 250 G-byte... Read more...

Patch needed for web security

July 29, 2008 — 10:39pm ET | By Judi Hasson
Dan Kaminsky, a director at IOActive, a computer security firm, believes there are some major flaws on the Internet that need to be fixed, and fixed quickly to stop hackers from diverting users to... Read more...

FCC set to vote against Comcast

July 29, 2008 — 8:01am ET | By Paul Mah
If reports are to be believed, the majority of FCC commissioners will vote... Read more...

FCC pushes net neutrality

July 14, 2008 — 12:11pm ET
If Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gets his way, Internet providers will be barred from blocking their customers from downloading large video, music and software... Read more...

Comcast testing new methods of throttling bandwidth

June 6, 2008 — 5:00am ET | By Paul Mah
In the wake of the furor over the way Comcast uses TCP reset flags to throttle BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, the company is testing out a trio of protocol agnostic methods of... Read more...