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The Register
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing

'Talk to us first'

After telling the world it will soon pimp customer data to NebuAd - a behavioral ad targeting firm along the lines of Phorm and Front Porch - Charter Communications has received a letter from Congress questioning the legality of such pimping.…

Faking it for data pimps

Updated Coding activists have developed an application designed to confound Phorm's controversial behaviour-tracking software by simulating random web-browsing.…

  Fri, 16 May 2008 00:38:46 +0200

Charter member

Charter Communications, the eighth largest ISP in the States, has jumped into bed with NebuAd, a behavioral ad targeting firm along the lines of Phorm and Front Porch.…

  Thu, 15 May 2008 12:22:32 +0200

How will we know when it starts?

BT is facing industrial action from union Connect, which has voted to reject the company's pay offer.…

  Thu, 15 May 2008 10:18:31 +0200

Farewell Ben Verwaayen

BT failed to increase profits this year, although turnover was up very slightly in the fourth quarter ended 31 March.…

  Wed, 14 May 2008 14:02:02 +0200

'J'accuse!'

What's worse than an ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic? An ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic while stepping on your privacy.…

Once more unto the vote, dear friends

The HomePlug Alliance (HPA) has once again beaten rival powerline Ethernet organisation the Universal Powerline Association (UPA) to become the lead candidate for the IEEE's powerline networking standard. But it won't know it's won for sure until July.…

Dance card amended

Tiscali has written up a wish list of companies it would like to sell itself to, and Carphone Warehouse has not made the cut.…

  Mon, 12 May 2008 14:02:02 +0200

Explores stream of unconsciousness

There's one question no one thought to ask: How did comScore know that all those paid clicks had disappeared from the world's largest search engine?…

  Thu, 08 May 2008 14:24:23 +0200

Unprecedented Ofcom smackdown

ITV must pay £5.67m in fines for misleading viewers using its premium rate phonelines - the largest fine regulator Ofcom has ever imposed.…

Insert fibre/ Wii/ pipe/ download / backdoor/ flush/ log pun here

Bournemouth will be the UK's first town to benefit from a town-wide fibre network, with 100Mbit/s access available to businesses and consumers, via the sewer system.…

250GB monthly cap

Comcast is considering monthly download caps for all those people on its cable-based internet service.…

Your broadband needs you

ISP watchers have launched a bid to get to the bottom of what's going on with UK broadband by recruiting people to install specially-adapted network gear on their line, to collect reams of independent performance data.…

  Mon, 05 May 2008 18:35:56 +0200

Raid on ISP's data centre

Peter Gabriel's online music empire is reduced to a holding page, following the theft of servers from his web host over the weekend.…

  Fri, 02 May 2008 15:45:47 +0200

Executive fails on Special Resolution 6

Nominet members have elected one of its leadership's sharpest critics to the board in a divisive election that some feared could jeopardise the not-for-profit UK domain registry's future in its current form.…

Memorandum of (mis-)understanding?

Virgin Media today sought to publicly clarify its relationship with Phorm, amid concerns that spin from the controversial ISP adware company has worried many of its customers.…

  Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:35:54 +0200

'Anyone want AOL too?'

Time Warner has today confirmed widely-expected plans to pacify its long-suffering investors with a cash windfall from the sale of its US cable tentacle.…

Satellite of love resentment

The BBC's streaming iPlayer is now available to three and a half million Virgin Media cable TV customers via their set top box.…

Spectrum analysis

Hospitals in the USA fear plans to fill white space - unused TV frequencies - will have a knock-on effect on the systems they use to monitor patients wandering around their buildings. So they are lobbying the Federal Communications Channel to reserve some more frequency for them.…

Nominet elections feel the hand of Rupert Murdoch

UPDATED An independent appeals panel has overturned a heavily-criticised decision to hand control of the myspace.co.uk domain to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media.…

All your cables are belong to us

Intel, Panasonic, Texas Instruments and Infineon have launched a bid to steer the development of a unified home networking platform - technology capable of combining coaxial, powerline and phone cabling.…

Sarah Connor never easier to find

NASA's Ames Research Center is teaming with the often sinister-sounding Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corporation (m2mi) to create a global networking system using small satellites they call "nanosats."…

  Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:36:11 +0200

Phorm and the Phormettes

The Anti-Spyware Coalition has launched a review of Phorm, NebuAd, and other behavioral targeting firms that track user data from inside the world's ISPs.…

Kitchenware blackness symposium to follow

The BBC Trust, Auntie's independent oversight body, has today defended the iPlayer against claims by James Murdoch that it squashes competition and innovation in online TV.…

A question of resets

Vuze wants to know if other ISPs are calling the same plays as Comcast.…

Targeting the key tight-fisted cappuccino-drinker vote

Brian Paddick, the Liberal Democrats' London mayoral hopeful, has pledged to build a city-wide free Wi-Fi network, despite the high failure rate of similar projects internationally.…

  Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:02:02 +0200

When the Hive Mob attacks...

Analysis We have very little idea of how a hysteria can grip sensible, rational people - until it strikes. After Orson Welles's War Of The Worlds radio broadcast, the public reported sightings of Martians. According to urban legend, a farmer's water tower was peppered with small arms fire, in the belief that it was a Martian spaceship. During the McCarthyite Red Scare, the FBI's snitch lines rang red hot with reports of suspected un-American activity. And in Hartlepool 200 years ago, the locals tried and hanged a monkey, suspecting it to be a Frenchman.…

  Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:22:39 +0200

Ignores delay tactics

US Federal Communications Committee chairman Kevin Martin realises that Comcast has its very own definition for the word "delay."…

  Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:18:19 +0200

Profits up $.7bn on last year

AT&T's Q1'08 results show the telco, along with the American public, is becoming ever more reliant on wireless.…

  Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:02:03 +0200

Who ate all the cookies?

What's the story with Phorm, NebuAd, and other behavioral targeting firms that track user data from inside the world's ISPs? In some cases, even the ISP can't tell you.…

Tripping the light Comcastic

Left Coast Comcast Hearing "The most outrageous thing about this whole story," Larry Lessig told FCC boss Kevin Martin, "is that we can't get the facts straight."…

  Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:51 +0200

No longer just for socialist dreamers

Despite various attempts to change the world using mesh networks, real deployments are thin on the ground and the technology has not proved the panacea that some had hoped.…

Provider in the middle attacks

ToorCon Comcast, Verizon and at least 70 other internet service providers are putting their customers at serious risk in their quest to make money from mistyped web addresses, security researcher Dan Kaminsky says.…

  Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:18:01 +0200

Home phone? Go home

AT&T is sacking 4,650 staffers, about 1.5 per cent of its 310,000-strong workforce. Wearing the pink slips, mostly, are managers in the home landline business who don't talk to customers.…

  Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:15:08 +0200

Vows rescue of coders and consumers

Left Coast Comcast Hearing US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin wants everyone to know his agency has all the power it needs to regulate the likes of Comcast.…

Government bumbling exposes oversight gap

The government has refused to investigate BT's covert wiretapping of thousands of its customers in 2006 and 2007, despite its own expert's view that without consent Phorm's advertising targeting technology is a breach of criminal law.…

  Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:03:14 +0200

Skips FCC hearing

As the FCC continues to investigate its choke hold on BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic, Comcast has proposed a "bill of rights and responsibilities" for P2P users and internet service providers.…

Ducting the 100Mbit/s issue

Ofcom will today announce an investigation into whether the roll-out of next generation broadband can be accelerated by using existing utilities infrastructure, such as the trenches that play host to the water network.…

  Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:03:15 +0200

The BBC knows net neutrality is a bust already, it seems

Virgin Media (VM) today moved to calm fears that it will start throttling web video from providers who refuse to hand over a levy to deliver their content.…

  Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:22:22 +0200

'We are working speedily'

Updated Gaffe-prone web hosting outfit Fasthosts has suffered another major outage today, this time taking down many of its customers' dedicated servers.…

  Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:29:25 +0200

It's the economy, silly

Carphone Warehouse has disappointed investors by reporting lower than expected broadband connections in the last three months. Its shares tumbled more than eight per cent this morning.…

ISPs: 'Don't forget to write'

Ashley Highfield, the BBC's chief technology executive, is to quit the corporation to take the helm at Project Kangaroo, the cross-broadcaster internet TV venture.…

  Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:02:19 +0200

Satellite images used to ID Gulf cable miscreants

Two ships whose anchors damaged an undersea cable in the Gulf have been traced by the cable operating company using satellite imagery. The owners of one vessel have paid compensation for the damage caused, and the second remains impounded by Dubai port authorities.…

Hush-hush advertising experiment redefines 'small scale'

BT's covert trial of Phorm's ISP adware technology in summer 2007 involved tracking many thousands more customers without their knowledge than previously reported, it's emerged.…

Your site. Their marketing filth

Shameless domain registrar and web hoster Network Solutions is hijacking its customers' sub-domains, filling these pilfered pages with a sea of money-making ad links.…

To Phorm or Not to Phorm

Multiple American ISPs are sharing customer data with outside firms that deal in so-called behavioral ad targeting, and according to one of these firms, the Silicon Valley-based NebuAd, roughly 10 per cent of all US web surfers are affected.…

  Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:54:10 +0200

...and Sprint

Comment Former Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee may have made a massively bad job of managing the carrier's merger and other operational challenges, but he left three major innovations as his positive legacy, which may still be the key to a Sprint turnaround.…

Data protection probe into secret trials too

Updated The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a major revision to its statement on Phorm, insisting that the ad tracking system must be deployed on an opt-in basis to comply with the law.…

  Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:34:05 +0200

The Apprentice tops the charts

The BBC is set to launch a version of its popular streaming iPlayer catch-up service for Nintendo Wii owners in the UK today.…

'We don't take business advice from civil servants'

Outspoken broadband provider Tiscali has crossed swords with Ashley Highfield, the BBC's top technology executive, over calls he made for ISPs to lump the potentially devastating effect of the iPlayer on their business.…


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