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Vuze, a video distributor using BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission Nov. 14 to establish rules prohibiting Comcast and other broadband providers from “throttling” network traffic. Vuze contends the practice violates the FCCs network neutrality principles. Throttling involves blocking or slowing the uploading and downloading speeds of lawful applications and content. Vuze, of […]

Sen. Barack Obama said on Nov. 14 if he is elected to the presidency next year he would appoint the countrys first chief technology officer to guarantee that the United States is “always at the forefront of technology.” Using the Mountain View, Calif., headquarters of Google as a campaign backdrop, the Democratic presidential hopeful promised […]

The U.S. House approved Nov. 13 the Broadband Census of America Act, designed to change the way the Federal Communications Commission measures broadband penetration nationwide. The legislation (H.R. 3919) will discontinue the FCCs current ZIP code method that counts a single broadband subscriber in a five-digit ZIP code as representing high-speed access for the entire […]

A federal court issued a temporary restraining order Nov. 12 to prevent the White House from destroying backup copies of millions of deleted e-mails that are at the center of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed the lawsuit March 29 against the Bush administration and […]

U.S. businesses could be required to file financial reports formatted in XBRL, top Securities and Exchange Commission officials said Nov. 13. John White, head of the SECs division of corporate finance, and Conrad Hewitt, the SECs chief accountant, told the Financial Executives International Conference in New York that the SEC is in the process of […]

In an eWEEK analysis of individual political contributors at the nations largest technology and telecom companies, tech workers are overwhelmingly betting their presidential dollars on the Democrats. More than 70 percent of the $929,829 contributed by the companies employees to presidential candidates through the first three quarters of 2007 went to Democrats. Of the 23 […]

The European Commission, concerned about competitive issues in the online ad serving world, is opening an extensive investigation into the proposed $3.1 billion merger of Google and DoubleClick. The EC, which made its decision Nov. 13, now has until April 2, 2008, to make a final decision on whether Googles acquisition of DoubleClick would “significantly […]

Like most Democrats stumping for the White House, John Edwards can whistle up a tune for the technology crowd. Unlike his fellow competitors, Edwards tune hits some discordant notes for Silicon Valley, broadband providers and their Wall Street financiers, and the true believers in an unregulated Internet. The 54-year-old former U.S. senator and vice presidential […]

Just one week after a public shaming before Congress, Yahoo settled on Nov. 13 a civil lawsuit accusing the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet power of cooperating with Chinese authorities in the jailing of journalist Shi Tao for a decade. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. A reporter and editor for the Chinese publication Contemporary Business […]

While patent reform legislation stalls in Congress, infringement lawsuits continue to pile up like cordwood in the technology sector. Since the House approved a version of patent reform that was strongly supported by the technology industry Sept. 7, Apple, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and Intel have all been sued for infringement. Search giant Google is the latest […]