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Verizon has been awarded .2 million in a lawsuit against Internet services company OnlineNic, who registered hundreds of domain names with Verizon trademarks. According to Verizon, the cybersquatted upon some 663 different Verizon-related addresses, including myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com and verizon-cellular.com. Verizon ultimately wanted some .3 million in damages, but will have to settle with half of [...]

MIT Technology Review explores how train-mounted satellite dishes have traditionally been too bulky for many tunnels (particularly in the UK). In response, scientists have developed a dome-shaped plastic lens that’s less than half as high as a typical satellite dish. The new 30 centimeters high dome can also track multiple satellites at once, making it [...]

Just a few days after conducting an interview in which FCC boss Kevin Martin admitted his free national wireless broadband plan was all but dead, Martin speaks to Ars Technica to inform them he’s pulling the filtering aspect of the plan. The plan involved auctioning off spectrum in the AWS-3 (2155-2180 MHz) band, with the [...]

Microsoft calls on UK government to launch an urgent program to improve fiber network techradar.com BBC’s iPlayer Chief Pushes Tiered Charging For ISPs theregister.co.uk MSOs Unite Against Telcos at the Headend lightreading.com Broadband pricing holds steady as TV rates inch up cnet.com Rogue admin who hijacked San Francisco’s network gets his day in court theinquirer.net [...]

For all the years we’ve watched the RIAA’s “sue ‘em all” scorched earth legal campaign, they’ve only really won one case in court, and that case was recently declared a mistrial. RIAA lawyers couldn’t prove actual copyright infringement took place, and the legal precedent was set that simply making a file available for download does [...]

The San Franciso Chronicle interviews Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who discusses the death of the disc and the shift to broadband-delivered entertainment. It’s interesting to contrast Hastings’ excitement to the general lack thereof exhibited by Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes, who seems a little intimidated by the broadband revolution. With a rallying stock and a slew [...]

In an interview with Broadcasting and Cable, FCC boss Kevin Martin all but admits his plan to offer free, smut-filtered wireless broadband for free to the entire country is, essentially, dead. The plan involved auctioning off spectrum in the AWS-3 (2155-2180 MHz) band, with the condition that whoever buys it must deploy at least 768kbps, [...]