Filed under: Industry, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Comcast Cl’A’ (CMCSA)
The FCC says that cable company Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is slowing service to some of its customers, especially those who use a great deal of bandwidth on video downloads and peer-to-peer software applications. Comcast says it is simply managing its network so that it does not get overloaded and hurt service to all customers.
The debate came to a head yesterday. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), “Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin warned cable giant Comcast that the government is `ready, willing and able’ to cease companies from improperly hobbling Internet traffic.”
The FCC position is a little out of touch with reality. Telecom companies and cable firms do not have an unlimited amount of bandwidth to offer each and every home. At some point, the pipes do become overloaded. The cynical view is that these big companies want to charge heavy users more money for taking up more bandwidth. What’s probably more accurate is that, unless there is some governor of world wide web use, the system will slow for everyone.
A cup can only hold so much water.
Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.
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An anonymous reader writes “Late last year a company affiliated with the French RIAA hijacked the Shareaza.com domain name from the original, open source project’s owner. They are passing off their own for-pay software, which violates the GPL, as the real thing. Now, having stolen the Shareaza project’s identity, the scammers are threatening legal action to close down the real open source team.”
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The FCC held its hearing on network neutrality and Comcast today at Harvard. One commentator not afraid to predict what will come of it is O’Reilly’s Andy Orem, who writes: “The mere announcement of an FCC hearing on ‘broadband network management practices’ was a notch in the gun of network neutrality suggests. Yet to a large extent, the panelists and speakers were like petitioners who are denied access to the king and can only bring their complaints to the gardeners who decorate the paths outside his gate. What we’ll end up getting is a formal endorsement of non-discrimination as a policy that Internet providers must follow, leading to continual FCC review of current practices by telecom and cable companies.”
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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, Google, web 2.0
There are a ton of Google services that are optimized for mobile web browsers, including the company’s search page, RSS reader, and email client. But Google has yet to release a response to Yahoo! Go, Yahoo!’s mobile version of its web application web suite. So developer Bryan Burkholder decided to put one together all by his lonesome. He calls it Google2Go.
The application works with pretty much each Google mobile service, including:
- Google web, image, and local search
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Reader
- Google Docs
- Picasa
- Google News
- Google Notes
There’s also support for Amazon, eBay, Weather.com, Wikipedia, and Dictionary.com. Right now Google2Go requires a Windows Mobile 6 Professional device with a touchscreen, but Burkholder plans to add support for other devices soon.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
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