The Netherlands has become the first country in Europe and only the second in the world to pass Net Neutrality legislation. The new law forces ISPs to treat all traffic equally and, crucially, also prevents them from peering too much into what the users are sending and receiving via their networks.
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9 May 2012
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Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has created a tool that allows users to detect if their Internet service provider breaks net neutrality rules by favoring some sites over others.Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet allows a small company to raise and take on a big one through better technology. It is one of ... |
5 August 2011
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Speaking at Bristol University as part of Wikipedia’s tenth birthday celebrations, Jimmy Wales, the founder of the world’s fifth most popular website, expressed his concerns on the biggest problems faced by the internet today.
According to the man, one of those is Apple.
Apple’s tight control ... |
14 January 2011
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Google has responded to some of the criticism and accusations it has been seeing recently after it announced a ‘net neutrality’ deal with Verizon. While Google has been trying to portray the deal as the best possible compromise on the matter, most people are saying that the company has ‘sold out.&rs... |
13 August 2010
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The details on the Google - Verizon deal that surfaced last week have finally been revealed. The two companies have indeed been working on an agreement concerning ‘net neutrality.’ And now that they’ve revealed what it’s all about, it’s not much clearer what it would mean for internet us... |
10 August 2010
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The latest rumor about Google and Verizon apparently having secret talks which would enable the ISP to provide preferential access to certain types of traffic managed to cause quite a stir. While the talks have been, partially, denied by both companies, most people agree that some talks are happening. So much so that... |
6 August 2010
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Google has officially responded to rumors saying that the company is in talks with US internet provider Verizon over an agreement which would enable the ISP to prioritize some traffic on its network. The talks would basically put an end to any discussion about net neutrality, a topic Google has been passionate about ... |
5 August 2010
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Google was present at the World Mobile Congress, the wireless industry's biggest get-together, and CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the reticent crowd of mobile specialists for the first time. The CEO was there to calm some of the worries of the mobile industry and extend an olive branch to a sector feeling increasing... |
17 February 2010
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Bandwidth throttling has become a fact of life for many Internet users and it's one of the major issues at heart of the net-neutrality debate. Most users don't like the practice, but ISPs say they are forced to do this because of network congestion. Now, uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client built by... |
2 November 2009
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Net neutrality is a hot subject in the US and the repercussions of the debate will affect the web worldwide for many years to come. The battle has been heating up lately with both sides amping up their demands ahead of the unveiling of FCC's proposed net-neutrality rules on Thursday. After pressure from the grou... |
19 October 2009
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