7/28/2008
It looks like the U-S Federal Communications Commission is set to take action against Comcast for the way it has treated some of its Internet customers.
An agency official says a majority of the F-C-C's members have cast votes in favour of punishing Comcast for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic. Comcast is accused of violating agency principles that guarantee ``net neutrality.''
Basically that means all of an I-S-P's users have open access to the Internet.
Comcast is accused of blocking Internet traffic among users of a certain type of file-sharing software that lets them exchange large amounts of data. While it looks like most F-C-C members are on board the idea of taking action against Comcast, the decision won't be final until the votes are cast.
That's expected at the F-C-C's August 1st meeting. The F-C-C's chair says the action against Comcast won't include a fine.
(BIZ-Satellite-Merger)
It's now ``done and one'' when it comes to the satellite radio industry.
U-S federal regulators have formally approved the merger of America's only two satellite radio companies. The move means Sirius can complete its proposed buyout of rival X-M Satellite. And it also means that Sirius and X-M subscribers will be able to receive programming from both services.
The vote ends a 16-month-long drama that had been closely watched by observers both in Washington and on Wall Street. Executives of the satellite companies say the merger will mean huge cost savings for the satellite radio industry.
But opponents of the merger believe the union of the only two companies in the industry will hurt consumers and is not in the public interest.
(SPORTS-Brett Favre-Site)
The start of the N-F-L season is still several weeks away. But fans of the sport are in the grip of the Brett Favre (fahrv) saga.
Some Green Bay Packers fans have launched a Web site in an effort to keep the quarterback in the green and gold for another season, despite his decision to retire during the off-season. Now that he says he wants back in, the site is trying to huddle up enough signatures to force the Pack to take Brett back, something the team seems reluctant to do.
On the Net:
Save Brett site:http://savebrett.net/
(Search-Engine-Cuill)
It's spelled C-U-I-L-L and it's pronounced ``cool.''
And the person who came up with the latest search engine to rival Google is hoping Internet surfers will find the site a cool alternative to the search engine that's become so big, its name is synonymous with searching out something or someone online.
The inventor of Cuill is Anna Patterson.
Her last Internet search engine did so well, Google bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. Patterson has since quit Google and says she now has an even better way to root out information from the Internet.
The search engine is to begin processing requests for the first time today. The search engine spans 120- (b) billion Web pages.
Patterson says that's at least three times the size of Google's index. But that's not certain, since Google stopped publicly tallying the size of its index nearly three years ago.
At the time it spanned more than eight- (b) billion Web pages.
On the Net:
Cuill site: http://www.cuill.com/
(The Associated Press, ccg)
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