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WASHINGTON-Cisco Systems has strongly denied that it cooperates with the Chinese government in censoring Falun Gong or other dissident groups. The accusations arose from a 6-year-old sales document produced by Cisco that refers to the Chinese government’s efforts to quash the religious movement. At the time, Cisco was approaching the Chinese government in hopes of […]

Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman called on Google May 19 to immediately remove videos produced by terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. Readily available on Google’s YouTube, the videos show assassinations, deaths of U.S. soldiers and civilians, weapons training and incendiary speeches by al-Qaeda leadership. In a letter to Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman said […]

Sandvine, which produces traffic-shaping hardware and software for broadband providers, said May 19 it will now offer a range of policy options for ISPs, including an application-agnostic approach. According to a number of reports, Sandvine gear is currently being used by Comcast to throttle or block BitTorrent traffic. Sandvine said its new FairShare program is […]

Once again, the desire for justice is outracing the law and potentially exposing to a federal felony beef anyone who has ever violated his or her terms of service with a web provider. You are, no doubt, familiar with the case of Lori Drew, the 49-year-old St. Louis woman who, along with her teenage daughter […]

Sprint kept the WiMax ball moving down the court May 15, declaring its XOHM 3G mobile broadband network has cleared testing and industry standards. Sprint plans to begin service in the Washington-Baltimore region by the end of the year. XOHM President Barry West said Sprint has created a proven WiMax ecosystem that can “deliver this […]

RIM’s WES2008 CONFAB – the annual conference of all things BlackBerry began and ended with rumors that Research in Motion plans to introduce a touch screen version of its new BlackBerry Bold. RIM is mum on the issue, but the speculation is racing through the blogosphere and rumor mills. Why not? With the introduction of […]

Comcast should stop denying the undeniable and get on with the inevitable outcome of the FCC’s investigation into the cable giant’s network neutrality violations: suing the FCC for doing its job. It’s a time-honored Washington tradition. When accusations first surfaced of Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic in violation of the FCC’s network neutrality principles prohibiting traffic […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted May 14 to formally propose requiring U.S. public companies to file their financial reports using Extensible Business Reporting Language. XBRL tags uniquely identify individual items in a company’s financial statement. Formatting financial documents with XBRL allow the data to be easily searched on the Internet, downloaded into spreadsheets, reorganized […]

Comcast and Cox Communications are blocking BitTorrent traffic throughout all hours of the day, according to a report by Germany’s Max Planck Institute. The global study released May 15 found widespread blocking of BitTorrent transfers only in the United States and Singapore. The study further found that the blocking was occurring only among cable companies, […]

Verizon landed a $678.5 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security May 14 to deploy and manage a secure global IP network. The deal requires Verizon to combine the multiple separate wide area networks of the DHS’ 22 agencies into one common IP network. Over the life of the 10-year agreement, Verizon will also […]

Sean Garrett of 463 Communications wants to know where the Washington tech leadership has gone. In an intriguing post, Garrett gives the proper chops to John Doerr, John Chambers, Jim Barksdale, Reed Hastings, Craig Barrett and others for their pioneering work over the last decade in bringing the Valley’s voice to Capitol Hill. But, he […]

The Federal Communications Commission took the first steps May 14 to untangle its complicated, controversial and ultimately failed plan to launch a nationwide interoperable broadband network for public safety agencies. The solution? Start over again at square one with public comments. In July 2007, as part of the FCC’s rules for the 700MHz auction, it […]