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Comment BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage In my view, throttling back and any form of 'traffic shaping' are simply ISPs breaking the law in many ways. Social networks to stamp out sex offenders This may have good intentions but will be easy to bypass.
[10 Apr 2008]
Comment Why should the ISPs have to fund what is inadequate copyright protection by the media companies? ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business credibility ¦ Legal...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal downloading doesn't stop. But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs' shoulders, argues lawyer Simon Levine. Certainly, ISPs should discourage illegal activities - and indeed should...
[22 Feb 2008]
AS Profile Not every decision is welcomed of course - for example, Reding earned the disapproval of ISPs earlier this year because of the way the dot-eu domain name registration was handled. It's not often a politician makes it into the top 50, but according...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment With the recent report saying that the UK came near the bottom of the league for fast and cheap broadband and now when someone launches a state of the art service the ISPs bellyache about bandwidth usage.
[16 Aug 2007]
Leader Claims by ISPs that the BBC should fund the extra bandwidth needed by users that want to download content from its online TV service iPlayer seems a little out of touch. As one silicon.com reader pointed out - ISPs wouldn't even exist if it wasn't...
[16 Aug 2007]
Leader And those on such free services have also found themselves saddled with the smallest download limits and slowest speeds for their trouble, as ISPs try and persuade users to upgrade. In the recent broadband feeding frenzy, ISPs have been spending...
[28 Feb 2007]
Comment Network providers and ISPs can do a lot to isolate and render useless the bot generators - in short they can block their traffic at source or mid-stream. From the first time I used email up to the present it has been one of my primary business tools.
[19 Feb 2007]
Comment As BT's largest rival in the wholesale access space, C&W clearly has a vested interest in persuading smaller ISPs to leave unbundling alone and, presumably, buy from C&W instead. Nevertheless, ISPs are falling over themselves to get involved.
[30 Nov 2006]
Comment We are going to have to build a bigger net for starters, and then the ISPs, plus the rest of industry, will have to take a very serious look at the threat posed by those responsible for virus attacks and other malware.
[21 Aug 2006]
Leader There are so many things not to like about it - the burden on ISPs to transmit the junk messages, the drain on IT departments' resources to store them and of course the annoyance to users who lose significant time each day pressing that delete key...
[19 Jul 2006]
Leader Saying that, the ISPs have come out grumbling with the same response issued every time someone accuses them of being irresponsible about content. In this single case it actually works for ISPs to give this response as they have been lucky enough to...
[14 Jul 2006]
Comment But unlike ISPs, most small businesses will not want to get involved with software development. Small businesses can benefit from switching to open source, says Danny Bradbury - just be careful which applications you choose to move.
[11 Jul 2006]
Leader But there are others - such as making ISPs responsible for content they may host - where the wrong legislation could bring internet operations to a halt. Telecoms and media watchdog Ofcom has published research into consumer protection for Brits on...
[21 Jun 2006]
Comment Though much US spam has traditionally travelled via China, the US does certainly harbour some of the most prolific spammers in the world, as well as the world's three worst ISPs for relaying spam, says Spamhaus.
[09 May 2006]
Comment After degrading the broadband definition to much less than 2Mbps, and endlessly wondering why people would want more, and what would they do with it, governments, regulators, telcos, cable cos and ISPs are starting to realise the Japanese and...
[05 May 2006]
Comment So most ISPs are not doing anything about it," he says. Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. Now botnets and phishing dominate malware. But what's next? Ron Condon reports. In January this year, 20-year-old Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded...
[12 Apr 2006]
Leader Australia's announcement that it is to get tough on internet service providers (ISPs) by requiring more from them in the fight against spam should resonate around the world. ISPs have always been loathe to step up on this issue because being seen...
[30 Mar 2006]
Leader It can also work "informally" with ISPs to take down websites that are clearly fraudulent as these will usually break the contractual arrangements with the ISP. Bad Girls and Emmerdale star Claire King was this week the unlikely choice of celebrity...
[03 Mar 2006]
Leader Even many mainstream telcos and ISPs aren't immune from failure. The sudden failure of satellite broadband provider Aramiska at the end of last week once again focuses minds on just how cut-throat much of the tech and comms world can be - and just...
[01 Feb 2006]
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