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Consumer Groups Want FTC Protection From Advertisers

Two groups asked the Federal Trade Commission for a 'do not track' registry to keep advertisers from grabbing information about them.

Markey: Behavioral Ad Protections Needed For Kids

Online advertisers using behavioral targeting to find their audience attracted the attention of the Federal Trade Commission, who have called for principles of self-regulation for that type of marketing.

The Internet Can Be A Distraction

Four weeks ago I had 5,250 emails in my inbox. Today? 10. What’s the difference? I’ve been on lots of airplanes in the past month. Why is that important? Because in airplanes there’s no Internet. Nothing to distract you. I find I can answer about 10x more email in a plane than I can on the ground when the Internet is there to distract me. That taught me an important lesson.

Comcast To Slow Net For Heaviest Users

Comcast CTO Tony Werner gets the last laugh on the most ardent BitTorrent users on his network, as the company plans to slow down all Internet traffic for them.

The Internet Demographic

Do you feel that most content on the Internet is aimed at your age group?

Economy Concerns A Boon For Online Ads

An economy that has been buffeted by soaring energy prices and inflated costs of goods may have the side effect of bolstering digital advertising.

Email Inventor Never Expected Spam

Although plenty of criminals have embraced spam, and corrupted thousands of machines to send out billions of messages, there was a time when spamming was unthinkable.

Verizon's Proud Of Its Slowness

Verizon's very excited that 12 eastern states now officially have access to its "new ulra-fast" 7 megabits per second High Speed Internet Service. The issued a very excited-sounding press release about it. The release is maybe limited to a few US states because if released in Hong Kong, they'd just laugh at them.  

OpenDNS People-Powers Web Filtering

David Ulevitch thinks network administrators have better things to do than manage expensive web filtering solutions; he also believes 'free' sounds good for a price tag.

Taxes Occupied Net Users In January

Early income tax filers seeking refunds likely powered traffic to several tax-related websites last month, judging by sharp jumps in their traffic.