Roy Mark

Google and Yahoo went two heavyweight rounds with Microsoft July 15 as both the U.S. House and Senate waded into the proposed advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo. In hearings in both chambers, misstatements, half-truths and general mud slinging were the order of the day. And that was just in the shallow end of the […]

Expect Google and Microsoft to exchange public insults July 15 when a Senate subcommittee examines Google’s and Yahoo’s proposed advertising deal, which is also under a voluntary antitrust review by the Department of Justice and the subject of growing interest by the attorneys general in a number of states. The hearing will place all the […]

Microsoft came out firing July 15 at a Senate hearing looking into the proposed Google-Yahoo advertising deal, claiming Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang told Microsoft officials that the Google-Yahoo partnership would eliminate both Yahoo and Microsoft as serious players in the online advertising market. Google and Yahoo announced June 12 they had reached a nonexclusive deal […]

No matter the FCC’s final decision on Comcast’s blocking of peer to peer traffic, litigation is sure to follow. Just for starters, Comcast doesn’t believe the FCC’s network neutrality principles are even legal in the first place. In a March filing with the FCC, Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen wrote, “It is settled […]

Comcast is guilty of blocking consumers’ access to the Internet and faces federal sanctions, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said July 10. If Martin’s fellow commissioners agree with his verdict, Comcast would become the first major broadband provider judged to be violating the FCC’s network neutrality principles. “The commission has adopted a set of principles that […]

Gail from Oldwick, N.J., was an ardent supporter of Barack Obama before his July 9 vote supporting legal immunity for telephone carriers that participated in President Bush’s domestic spying program. After the vote, she said she is “ashamed” she taught her parrot to squawk, “Obama Yes We Can!” Ditto for Robert from Hampden, Maine, who […]

Congress has proved once again the joke is on us when it comes to lawmakers protecting the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. After years of telephone companies turning over our phone calls and e-mails without a proper warrant for government surveillance, Congress has patted the telcos on the head, praised them as patriots and shielded […]

After a morning of fiery debate, the U.S. Senate voted July 9 to grant retroactive immunity to telephone companies that participated in the White House’s warrantless domestic spying program. The 69-28 vote came after the Senate defeated three amendments all aimed at either removing or modifying the immunity provision in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. […]

On the eve of a Senate hearing on behavioral advertising, the Center for Democracy and Technology has published a report everyone should read. Your Internet service provider doesn’t want you to read it, nor do companies like NebuAd, which is all the more reason to check out the CDT research. NebuAd, you may recall, is […]

Rumors are circulating in the blogosphere that T-Mobile USA plans to introduce an Android handset this fall along with the company’s rollout of 3G services. If true, T-Mobile would be the first to the commercial market with a phone powered by Google’s new open-source mobile operating system. TmoNews got the rumor mill churning July 5 […]