net neutrality news from FierceCIO

It's become routine and almost an imperative for businesses and marketers to engage in online tracking of customers to their websites, but the public is not happy about this practice. A survey by... Read more...

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to outline rules on Monday that would require Internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. Central to the plan is... Read more...

Congress took another stab at dealing with the complex issue of net neutrality last week. A number of House members introduced a bill to preserve the open nature of the web, asking the Federal... Read more...

If there's a chance for tech, President-elect Barack Obama will take it. In one of his latest moves signaling his embedded interest in IT, Obama intends to nominate his technology adviser, Julius... Read more...

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...

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...

Always vocal about its stance in favor of net neutrality, Google has finally thrown down the gauntlet and declared that it is working on software tools that will enable users to detect whether their... Read more...

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...

The presidential candidates are getting up to speed on technology slowly. Although they acknowledge that technology is a big driver in today's economy, they have spent little time on an issue that... Read more...

The House of Representatives is once again delving into the issue of Net neutrality. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said that without new Net neutrality laws, "telecommunications and cable... Read more...