Tech news and forums this week have been overrun by chatter about the legislative proposal for net neutrality that Verizon and Google jointly released on Monday. The proposal, which both Google and Verizon posted to their blogs at 1:38 p.m. EST and 1:47 p.m. EST, respectively, was, they say, intended to spark discussion, and spark discussion it did. If your head is spinning with this week's discussions of network neutrality, wireline, wireless, a private Internet, and "differentiated online services", read on.
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Articles on Internet ProvidersTech news and forums this week have been overrun by chatter about the legislative proposal for net neutrality that Verizon and Google jointly released on Monday. The proposal, which both Google and Verizon posted to their blogs at 1:38 p.m. EST and 1:47 p.m. EST, respectively, was, they say, intended to spark discussion, and spark discussion it did. If your head is spinning with this week's discussions of network neutrality, wireline, wireless, a private Internet, and "differentiated online services", read on. A group of U.S.-based Internet service providers (ISPs) have announced that they are going to start charging their email users for processing the spam that is addressed to them. As the deluge of spam continues unabated, ISPs are seeking new ways to help offset the cost of processing the trillions of pieces of junk email that they are keeping out of their customers' inboxes (or, in some cases, still delivering to their customers' inbox or junk folder). There's been a lot in the news this week about the National Broadband Plan, and while it was first inserted into public awareness nearly a year ago, many were not aware of even the possibility of a National Broad band Plan, let alone the reality of it, until recently. At its broadest, the American Broadband Plan is about making sure that the U.S. has a robust, and wicked-fast, broadband infrastructure, to not only keep up with - but to keep ahead of - the rapidly changing Internet landscape and demands. It looks at allocation and reallocation of parts of the wireless spectrum, it considers redefining Federal funds currently earmarked to ensure that everybody has access to basic telephone service to include broadband access as well, and it looks at who ought to be paying for all of this broadband development and access. But it also has aspects that are much more personal, and hit much closer to home for the average American. You've probably already heard of the .xxx domain that has been proposed, rejected, re-rejected, and reconsidered, but did you know that there are also a .god domain and a .gay domain being considered? The .xxx domain was first proposed - and provisionally approved - back in 2005, and then was rejected in 2006 and 2007, primarily as a result of lobbying by conservative and religious groups; now it's being reconsidered. Interestingly, the .god domain, which has had considerably less press, was first proposed as far back as 1995, and has been in the public awareness since at least 2000. The .gay domain is among the newest of proposed TLD (Top Level Domain) offerings (actually "gTLD", which stands for generic Top Level Domain), although not the only new one (consider New York City's request for a .nyc domain) - all of which are being considered this week as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meets in Nairobi. Now here's a blast from the past. I was trolling Usenet recently (many of you may know it better as Google groups since Google borged Usenet), and I came across the letter to the editor that I wrote in reponse to a letter that the American Bar Association Journal had published, written by Martha Siegel (she of the Cantor and Siegal Green Card Lottery Spam infamy). In the letter, Ms. Siegel attempted to justify the mass-spamming of Usenet that she and her associate had done in the name of trying to drum up business for their law firm. It was, if not the first mega-spam, certainly the most high-profile of those among the first. A massive Internet outage, loss of telephone service, and even 911 emergency service communications were the result of an intentional act of sabotage against five different fiber optic cables in the Silicon Valley Bay area of California today, according to authorities. If you are having trouble with Internet connections between Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, Lebanon, Malaysia, the Maldives, Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, Taiwan, Yemen, or Zambia, you're not alone. Three undersea cables were cut this morning, leading to a global disruption of Internet connectivity. And this is the second time this year this has happened. Just two weeks ago, Comcast announced their updated terms of service, limiting bandwidth usage to 250G per customer per month. This week, Comcast cut off their users from Usenet newsgroups, that granddaddy of all Internet forums. (Usenet newsgroups are the foundation of Google's Google Groups.) Internet provider Comcast has issued a statement in which they limit and define "excessive use" as, essentially, anything over 250GB (i.e. 250 gigabytes). Starting on October 1, users will be bound by the Comcast AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) and TOS (Terms of Service) to keep their Internet traffic below the 250 gig threshhold. Is your ISP interfering with your downloading and your bandwidth? If you are legitimately using a torrent service, is your ISP interfering with your connections by doing some peer-to-peer busting? Or, maybe, is your ISP is limiting or even disconnecting your VoIP calls, such as if you use Vonage, or even Skype? How would you know? By using Switzerland, the new Net Neutrality-sniffing program from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Starting some time early this morning, it appears that all images hosted by Craigslist are unavailable. Moreover, it seems that the problem is not localized, but happening all over the United States. The problem is that the server which Craigslist uses to host its images - images.craigslist.org - is unreachable. More ISPs are jumping on the bandwagon, banning Usenet access to all alt. Usenet newsgroups, in an effort to keep users from Usenet access to Usenet groups which are known to traffic in illegal content, such as Usenet binaries depicting children in illegal acts. So far the ISP-banned newsgroups list includes Verizon newsgroups, AOL newsgroups, and Sprint newsgroups (and some have said Comcast newsgroups, although we can't confirm that) with more on the way. (If you are asking yourself "What is a newsgroup?" or "What is Usenet?", Usenet newsgroups (sometimes mistakenly called "Usenet usegroups") were the precursor to today's web-based forums; many people now know them as "Google groups", but they can also be accessed through any number of other servers and programs.) The way in which some of the US' largest ISPs handle domain name typos, monetizing them through Barefruit, has opened a vulnerability that if exploited by phishers and hackers could be an open and unfettered conduit for the injection of their malicious payloads onto the Internet. Reported late last week by Dan Kaminsky, this particular security hole has been patched. The fundamental danger, though, remains. A new hack has Wordpress hackers disabling all of your Wordpress plugins (including, you see, Akismet or any other anti-spam comment spam stopper plugin), which then allows them to inject comment spam into your blog at will. So if you suddenly find yourself getting an enormous amount of comment spam all at once, or if you suddenly find your blog pages coming up blank (because with your plugins disabled, that often can be the case) you may be the victim of this latest plugin-disabling comment spam hack. Following complaints about police officer safety based on concerns that the policeman (policeperson?) rating site ratemycop.com (that's Rate-My-Cop .com, get it?) posed a danger to law enforcement personnel because it outed the full roster, including names and badge numbers, of police officers at nearly 500 police departments around the country (to the tune of some 140,000 police officers), RateMyCop's host - GoDaddy - unceremoniously and without warning pulled the plug on the site. So who is in the wrong here? To quote that famous Buffalo Springfield song, we say nobody's right if everybody's wrong. A few days ago we reported that a third and fourth undersea telecom Internet cable had been cut, following the initial disruptions caused by damage to two underwater cables that had been blamed on anchors dropping on the cables, plunging millions of people in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Middle East, into Internet darkness. Now the plot thickens as a fifth undersea Internet cable outage is reported, and Iran is taken offline. Total users affected so far by the outages exceeds 80million. As a third and then fourth submarine Internet cable are cut, further disrupting power to India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Qatar, and other Middle East countries, officials admit that the cuts to the undersea cables have not been caused by poorly dropped anchors, but deny that the cable cuts are the result of malicious activity. Verizon Wireless is subsituting its own search engine - complete with ads which earn revenue for Verizon - even overriding their users' own preferences - whenever a user of Verizon's fiber optic Internet service (FiOS) mistypes a domain name. The "feature", as Verizon refers to it, is known as Verizon's "Advanced Web Search" (although their technical name for it, which we just love, is "DNS Assistance"). The lawsuit against Yahoo over the jailing of two Chinese journalist whom they helped the government of China to identify has been settled, after Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang met with the families of the two journalists. In a rush of pollyanic* optimism, their lawyer says "It's no longer possible for a corporation to say 'We were just following orders'." "Reach out, reach out and muzzle someone." If you're of a certain age, you'll remember the "reach out and touch someone," slogan that was famously used to tout bell giant AT&T. Over the years, however, ATT has apparently decided on a more heavy-handed approach. Now, according to the telecomm titan, they will suspend your AT&T high speed Internet and AT&T DSL services if you talk mean about them. So much for meaningful dialogue! Is your ISP inserting their own ads into your browser, trying to cash in on your browsing experience? Now you can bust them, with this new way of testing it! Do you want to stay connected via ssh to a remote computer, even when you're idle? Whether you are on a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, don't you just hate it when you are connected to a remote system via ssh, and you do something in another window, only to find when you return to your ssh session that you've been automatically disconnected by the remote system, and you have to log in all over again? Here's how make it so that you can stay connected to the remote computer with ssh no matter how long you are idle. Not to be left out of the Internet Ad boom (such as those ubiquitous "Ads by Google" Adsense ads), it has been discovered that ISPs are cashing in on the ad money craze by inserting ads into your browsing experience using a service called NebuAd - that is, as you are browsing from website to website, your ISP may be adding their own contextually matched ads for you to see, overlayed on top of what you are browsing, based on what you are browsing! If your Blackberry isn't working, you're not alone. Neither is anybody else's. In fact, Research in Motion (RIM) is experiencing what may be their largest network outage ever, affecting users of their (overly)popular Blackberry device around the world. Reports from the U.S., Canada, and the UK abound. Can't get into your Hotmail email? Not getting that expected email from a Hotmail user? That's because the Hotmail servers are down, again. RegisterFly has lost their accreditation to act as a domain registrar. What this means is that if you have registered domains through RegistrFly, you need to find a new domain registrar and transfer your domains to them. And ASAP, as RegisterFly has been ordered to cease registrar operations by March 31st! Network neutrality, laws requiring dating sites to perform background checks and ISPs to rat out their users, laws banning anonymous posting, and cyber bullying legislation. Is it all part of a move towards a nanny Internet? Microsoft joined the Internet Video sites today with its launch of Microsoft Soapbox. The new free Internet video site, offering free Internet video clips contributed by users, like YouTube and YouTube owner Google's Google Video, hopes to capture YouTube viewers' hearts and allegiance. On first glance, Microsoft Soapbox looks like YouTube and Google Video in the ways that you would expect. But is Microsoft Soapbox similar to YouTube enough to really be a contender? And is "similar to YouTube" enough, or does it need to be far better? You didn't have to be a customer of AT&T Internet to find that an ATT Internet outage disrupted your Internet communications this morning. AT&T, which also includes Pacbell (Pacific Bell) and SBC Global, accounts for a significant portion of Internet routing and traffic between Internet sites in the San Francisco Bay area, and so when parts of the ATT Internet infrastructure go down, traffic between all sorts of places on the Internet gets disrupted and falls into a black hole. Ever had the situation where you are sitting in a Starbucks, or some other Tmobile Hotspot, and you want to use the hotspot network - and your computer can't find the T-Mobile Hotspot server? I mean, the URL simply doesn't work and you get an error message from your browser? Well, here's the work-around. 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Dueling Net Neutrality bills have been introduced in Washington DC this week, one by Democratic House representatives Markey, Eshoo, Inslee and Boucher, the other by Republican Senator Ted Stevens and Democrat Senator Daniel Inouye. Oh yes, and another one by Senator Wyden. I'd like to talk about the other side of the email equation - what happens for legitimate senders, whose email is blocked as spam because an ISP decides that certain words in their email are not ok. Efforts to legislate net neutrality were shot down today, with the House Commerce Committee rejecting a rider clause to the pending "Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency (COPE) Act of 2006", and voting 42-12 to pass the COPE act absent the net neutrality clause. Net neutrality is a hot topic right now. Here's what one Internet business owner and customer has to say about it. A massive DOS has taken out the DNS servers of registrar Joker. The result has been that countless domains which are registered through Joker and whose DNS is serviced by Joker effectively fell off the Internet. What is "net neutrality"? We've been getting a lot of questions asking us to explain what this new term, "net neutrality" means. So we will. It all started with the introduction of the "Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006". Online suicide pacts are leading to an increased number of suicides. These Internet suicide pacts encourage those who might otherwise not take that final step. In Japan, the problem of web suicide pacts has reached such a proportion that ISPs now watch for and report "suicide circles". The Feds want your search records from Google, in a lawsuit designed to prove how much searching there is being done for child pornography. Should you be worried? You bet you should. And guess what. AOL, MSN and Yahoo have already given those records up. Free email providers get far more out of free email services than do the users of the free email services. "Richard Bangs Adventures" by Yahoo is an adventure travel website, profiling a different adventure and adventurer each month. Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Gmail access is being denied to military personnel in the Navy and the Marines who are stationed overseas. The military has blocked access from all government-owned computers, citing concerns about computer security and viruses. The line in the sand has been drawn, and that line is the Internet. The world wide web has become embroiled in a world wide custody battle over who will control the Internet. Earlier this year, as other countries' grumblings became outright cries ... What is the precursor of the Internet? Want a brief history of the Internet? Who invented the Internet? When was the Internet first created, anyways? Few people under the age of 40 realize that the Internet we know today actually evolved from a collaboration between government and academic sites. AllTopix (AllTopix.com) is an online community for teens which is attempting to fill the teen chat void created by the closure of Yahoo Chats to those under 18. Yahoo chat rooms have been closed off to anyone under the age of eighteen, following an agreement between Yahoo and NY's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer. "We need to be vigilant to protect our children," says Spitzer Yahoo IM and MSN Instant Messenger are about to start talking to each other, so that users of one service can easily chat with their friends on the other service. Hotmail, Yahoo email, Gmail, and other free email services may be free, but they come with a price. Is it worth it? Internet service provider Level3 tells their side of the story in their battle with Cogent which lead to Level3 cutting off Cogent's Internet traffic. Internet service providers Level3 and Cogent are feuding, and Level3 has blocked all traffic from Cogent, causing both Cogent's and Level3's customers to lose Internet connectivity. Industry experts are not amused. Is Microsoft about to buy AOL? Or at least a stake in Time Warner's AOL? That's what the rumours are, and nobody is denying them. A typo (typographical error) in an IP address led to Brian and Sarah Doom being wrongl accused of child pornography. "Oops," said Cox, the fumble-fingered ISP. "See you in court,", said Brian and Sarah Doom. Yesterday Microsoft announced its new free anti-phishing add-in for the MSN search toolbar, claiming it to be "the first such technology." Today Earthlink lobs a shot across Microsoft's bow, saying "not so." In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which so far has taken the lives of 68 people in a ferocious howling storm the likes of which had not been seen since Hurricane Camille in 1969, T-Mobile in an act of largesse opens up their wifi wireless Internet Hotspots to the citizens of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Zobot Botzor.exe (a/k/a worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.cbq, and rbot.ebq) and Mytob worm authors are believed to have been arrested in Turkey and Morroco. Authorities in both countries, in cooperation with the FBI and Microsoft, arrested Farid Essebar and Atilla Ekici, using online nicknames Diab10 and Coder, who are believed to have authored the worms. Many people and organizations are opposed to the proposed merger of Verizon and MCI, believeing that it would create a monopoly of unprecedented proportions and power. One of the largest state associations of ISPs, the California ISP Association (CISPA) testified before the ... According to a site with the rather unlikely and cumbersome name of "dating-webhosting.com", as many as 60% of all webhosting sites do not deliver what they promise. Indeed, according to dating-webhosting.com, they may take your money and not deliver at all. Says a note ... The new proposed TLD (top level domain), .XXX, has run into fierce opposition from President Bush and his administration, along with conservative groups and even governments around the world. The .XXX top level domain, which has already been preliminarily approved by ICANN, is to ... Rumours abound that Yahoo is about to roll out its own VoIP service. And soon. The most recent rumours started when Piper Jaffray analyst Safa Rashtchy said that in his estimation Yahoo was set to roll out a VoIP service within ... Jason Smathers, who pleaded guilty to stealing a list of 92 million email addresses from America Online (AOL), has been sentenced to one year and three months in prison. According to reports, Judge Alvin Hellerstein gave Smathers a sentence on the lenient ... In an at least temporary victory for Redmond giant Microsoft, in a lawsuit which defending Mountain View giant Google is calling "a charade", a Washington state trial court has ordered ex Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee to refrain from starting his new job at ... China has been in the news with relation to the Internet a lot of late. They recently joined the anti-spam "London Plan", have expanded their Internet offerings to their citizens with MSN Spaces' Chinese portal (which admits to censoring in China), and, ... Hacking and politics have contrived to make strange bedfellows. According to a report by the British news organization, The Sun, hackers have come forward and started to take down web sites which are fomenting terrorism, and inciting terrorist acts - something ... Governments around the world are using various methods to crack down on Internet porn in general, and that involving children in particular, and the United States is considering the Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005 (more about that in a minute). The ... Yahoo will be announcing on Monday that it has purchased Arlo Rose's Konfabulator for an undisclosed amount of money. Yahoo will also be announcing that it will drop the price for Konfabulator from the current $19.99 to zero. That's right. Zippo. ... Is it a case of sour grapes, or good business? Microsoft this week has sued Google. Not over technology or copyright. Nope. Over poaching one of their top executives, Executive Vice President Kai-Fu Lee. It's no secret that Microsoft has ... Remember how last month Aunty told you about AOL's new AIM Mail free web mail service? Well, AOL has not only made it official that they are providing 2gig of email storage, putting them squarely in competition with both Gmail and Yahoo, but they ... Every year Security Space puts out a report on the top ISPs, measured by number of web servers hosted on the ISP's networks. Who do you think that the top three ISPs are? Well, if you said MSN, AOL and/or Earthlink, well, you'd ... It turns out that crime does pay, after all. Informants, that is. Microsoft has announced that they will pay out a promised $250,000 USD reward to two informants who helped lead authorities to Sasser creator Sven Jaschan. The teenaged Jaschan was tried ... As the battle heats up over whether to allow China to acquire major United States business holdings, China has turned its attention to another global business issue: spam. China has long been known as a major source of spam - indeed it ... Prosecution among the first under the federal CAN-SPAM Act ATLANTA, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthLink's investigation of Peter Moshou, aka the "Timeshare Spammer," has resulted in Moshou pleading guilty today to violating the CAN-SPAM Act on a federal charge brought by the ... Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet, but we can still bloody well control it, the U.S. seems to be saying. In a gesture which is being seen by some as the U.S. thumbing its nose at the global Internet community, the ... For all of you naysayers who insist that the Federal anti-spam law should be called the "YOU-CAN-SPAM" act instead of the CAN-SPAM act, and who say that it will never be a useful tool, Florida spammer Peter Moshou just might beg to differ. In ... The conspiracy theorists are out in force, this time accusing Microsoft's MSN of intentionally disabling the right click function in FireFox, while not doing the same for Internet Explorer (IE). Now,mind you, just because Microsoft engenders its share of conspiracy theorists doesn't ... A report released this week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that when it comes to Internet searching, and turning up adult content, MSN is better at blocking such results than either Google or Yahoo. Whether this is a bug or a ... Is the T-Mobile Sidekick About to Become the MCI Sidekick? This news release just came across Aunty's desk, and inquiring minds want to know!: ASHBURN, Va., June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MCI, Inc. today announced a four-year agreement with Danger, Inc., provider ... .EU Domain name applications can now be officially submitted. EuroDNS, the leading Luxembourg-based European Domain Name Registrar, is now an Official Accredited .EU Registrar, and is accepting applications for ‘.eu’ Domain Names. Bearing in mind that the ‘First Come First Served’ rule always ... Congratulations, Earthlink! A leader in legal action against spammers, in the PC World "Best ISP" survey, and now a leader in web hosting! ATLANTA, June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), the nation's next generation Internet service provider, today announced that ... PC World has just released a survey they took of more than 6,000 Internet users, in order to determine who the best ISP was. And the answers may surprise you. The 6,000 survey participants, all PC World subscribers, were asked to rate their ... Microsoft has just announced that they are now requiring that email sent to Hotmail accounts must use Microsoft Sender I.D. or the email will be marked with a big yellow box and put in the junk folder or maybe even deleted. That ... Webmasters whose websites deal with adult content may soon have to start policing the ages of the models and performers who appear in content on their website, even if they did not generate or solicit the content - indeed even if the content ... The United States House of Representatives has voted to restrict the Patriot Act so that it cannot be used to pry into the library borrowing and book purchasing of U.S. citizens. You would think that this would be a no-brainer - ... Earlier this week Aunty reported to you that Microsoft was censoring Chinese users of its new Chinese-based web and blogging portal. Today Silicon.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed this in an email to Silicon.com, in which Microsoft admits that it does maintain a ... A mock trial, in which ISPs were sued for damage done by a zombie network to a few fictitious companies' business and financial interests, found that a jury of IT professionals overwhelmingly held the opinion that the ISPs were not responsible for the ... A New York judge has ruled that Internet service provider RoadRunner must reveal the identity of a customer who sent email to the Public Relations Society of America's board of directors, claiming that the Public Relations Society of America's executive director, Catherine A. ... There's a hue and cry being raised about Microsoft's new MSN portal in China not allowing Chinese users to access or share certain "forbidden" sites and ideas on the Internet. In particular, Chinese users of MSN's blogging service, MSN Spaces, are forbidden ... Google sure does a lot of nifty things with their search and archive capabilities! And one of those things is that it now archives your search history. Meaning that if you are logged in to Google, and perform a Google search, ... Commercial Trials Set for Dallas, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle San Jose, Calif and Atlanta (June 6, 2005) — Covad and EarthLink, the nation’s next generation Internet Service Provider, today announced a new Voice over IP (VoIP) joint market trial that will give ... Internet web portal and ISP Yahoo, and router and software giant Cisco, have joined forces to jointly produce an anti-spam product based on Yahoo's Domain Keys and Cisco's Identified Internet Mail system. Domain Keys, which was announced last year, is Yahoo's entry into the ... AOL's previously announced Instant Messenger-based AIM Mail email system is now a reality. Windows users who upgrade to the new AIM version 5.9 will have access to the new web-mail service, which is one of the first of its kind to integrate instant messenger ... It seems like just yesterday that Aunty told you about how ISP and broadband providers are lobbying to prevent municipal wifi, which would keep you from being able to have city-wide free wifi such as some cities are now offering. Well, apparently some of ... The Federal government is arguing, despite rulings by the court to the contrary, that under the Patriot Act they are, or at least should be, allowed to demand customer records and information from ISPs (Internet service providers) in secret, and without a court ... According to Cecilia Barnes, men have shown up at her place of employment in Oregon expecting to be able to have sex with her. Which is odd, because she's not a sex therapist or a prostitute. Perhaps less odd, though, ... Some coffee shops are starting to tell their customers to "drop in, turn off, and tune in". Only unlike Timothy Leary, who uttered the original and infamous "turn on, tune in, and drop out", the coffee shops are talking about free wifi, ... An Open Letter from the Federal Trade Commission to ISPs and Network Professionals: Dear Network professionals: We are writing on behalf of an international group of government agencies to request that your organization join a worldwide effort to prevent spammers from compromising consumers’ computers and ... Free of Pop-Up Ads, myEarthLink Gives Internet Users Access to Customizable Content Online At No Charge ATLANTA, May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ... There is a hue and cry being raised across the web about Yahoo's use of web beacons, which some liken to "super cookies", and which allow the tracker to track a user's movements not only within their own website, but even when the ... ATLANTA, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following statement is in response to today's vote by the Federal Communications Commission requiring Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to support E-911 services, and is attributable to Dave Baker, EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), vice president of law and public policy. ... With the introduction of its new AIM Mail service, Internet giant America Online (AOL) has jumped on the "free webmail with 2 gigabytes of storage" bandwagon, but with an added twist: the new service is tied in to your AOL Instant Messenger ... Yep, they've finally done it. Yahoo has matched Gmail's watershed 1GB (gigabyte) of email storage. According to the splash screen at http://whatsnew.mail.yahoo.com, "By early May, all free Yahoo! Mail users will receive an email storage increase to a whopping 1GB. That's enough ... Have you heard about "domain shame"? Do you, perhaps, even suffer from domain shame? Or maybe you are one of the legion of users who identify those who should suffer from domain shame? The term "domain shame", recently coined by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Don Fernandez, refers to how you feel about and how others perceive that bit to the right of the "@" symbol in your email address. From the fine people who first brought you Geocities comes Goowy mail. Goowy mail is, so far as Aunty knows, the first commercial scale web-based email application built on Flash. This allows Goowy to offer a free webmail ... Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg obviously hasn't read How to Win Friends and Influence People, and clearly has a thing or two to learn about customer service and public relations. In a recently published interview he actually derided Verizon Wireless customers who want ... Internet provider ComCast experienced a widespread outage today, knocking countless Comcast customers off the Internet for the duration. The notice on the Comcast website is short and to the point, acknowledging the outage by saying "Connection to the Internet is currently unavailable. ... America Online (AOL) has announced that its new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol telephony) service is online and available to AOL customers in 40 cities. Called the "AOL Internet Phone Service", the new VoIP offering is available to AOL customers in Atlanta, ... Despite the FCC ruling that ISPs may not block VoIP, some ISPs are continuing to block VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services which do not originate with them. According to reports, ClearWire, a Washington state ISP, is now blocking Vonage, basing ... VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) provider Vonage says that despite the FCC giving the smackdown to an ISP for blocking 3rd party VoIP services, Vonage's VoIP calls are being blocked again, by both a cable operator, and a wireless broadband operator, although Vonage ... A lot of people seem to be looking for information about AOL Coach lately. Usually, although not always, they are looking for the helper application called AOL Coach, although there is also "AOL Coaches", which is AOL's online self-help and life-improvement program. AOL ... We all know that a large amount of spam comes through personal computers which are connected to the Internet, and which have been hijacked - turned into "zombies" - by viruses, Trojans and the like. But did you know that, according to SpamHaus, nearly ... T-Mobile Sidekick users across the country are suffering a Danger network outage which is leaving their Sidekicks unable to communicate across the Danger data network, rendering the T-Mobile Sidekicks just glorified T-Mobile telephones. The Danger network outage, which started yesterday, shows no ... Verizon Online is being sued by their subscribers for blocking incoming email from entire countries. You heard it here first (Aunty sure appreciates her little birdies!) U.S.-based ISP giant Earthlink and Korean-based SK Telecom have just this morning announced that they have joined forces to form a national wireless provider here in the United States. What does this mean ... Internet service provider Panix.com found that their entire domain was hijacked over the weekend. The ISP, which serves the greater New York City area, found that the domain had been moved from their own registrar to one in Australia, that their DNS ... Poppa's got a brand new bag, and spammers got a brand new ploy. This one, interestingly enough, is being attributed to spammers' concerns over running afoul of CAN-SPAM, and so trying to end run it instead. Specifically, it is claimed, they are trying ... America Online (AOL), one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the United States, if not in the universe, is sticking it to spammers again, this time by offering an updated version of its software which is designed to be more spam, ... Word on the street was that Verizon for some reason known only to them had decided to block all (or at least nearly all) email which was not sent from inside of the good old USA. Internet giant America Online (AOL) has said that they are in beta testing with a new free webmail service, along the lines of Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail. Dubbed "AOL Mail on the Web" (AMW? AOLMW?), it is already available to existing AOL ... Jerry Smathers, a former AOL employee who first made the news by stealing more than 92 million AOL user email addresses, and selling them to spammers, is now facing up to two years in prison for his misdeed. Due in court in New York ... Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, and several other industry giants, along with the FBI, the FTC, the U.S. Secret Service, and the USPS announced today the formation of Digital PhishNet, a collaborative initiative designed to take phishers down by arresting and convicting them. "The key to ... Three cheers for Microsoft, who just announced that this week they have filed seven more anti-spam lawsuits, this time taking aim specifically at porn spammers. The lawsuits, filed in the Washington State Superior Court in Kings County, were filed against seven "John Does". ... As Aunty reported back in October, Microsoft reintroduced its roundly rejected Sender I.D. proposal, after, it says, reworking it a bit to meet some of the objections which did it in the first time. And true, to their credit, they did address ... There is a new chapter in the debacle which started with Microsoft's extending and embracing of SPF and its advocate, Meng Weng Wong, and which culiminated in the collapse of an empire (well, ok, of the IETF working group tasked with evaluating Sender ... Wow, talk about reinventing the square wheel! Startup Affini, Inc., of Saratoga, California, has launched a new email system with an integrated "pay to send to our users" feature. Microsoft has announced that it will no longer be offering for free its service which allows users to connect to their Hotmail and MSN accounts using Outlook and Outlook Express. Citing exploitation by spammers, Microsoft will begin charging those who want to use the ... Two-factor security key being offered by AOL is just the thing to help thwart phishers and identity theft. Gentle Readers, This week a United States Court of Appeals in Massachusetts held that an ISP may read a customer's email without the customer's knowledge or permission. Yes, you read that right. It is not illegal for an ISP to read its customer's email, ... AOL employee Jason Smathers has been arrested for stealing an AOL customer list containing 92 million AOL usernames and selling it to Las Vegas spammer Sean Dunaway. Police say that Dunaway, who was arrested as well, used the list to send spam ... The BBC reports today that the California Senate has passed SB 1822, aimed at limiting Google's ability to scan email coming in to the users of their Gmail system, and also limiting Google's ability to archive and sell the resulting information. Now, Aunty is ... |
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