Denial of Service Attacks Are Getting Bigger and Badder

A fire hose with 700 percent more unwanted water than before.
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Internet Pricing: The Next Policy Frontier

Usage-based pricing is not inherently anticompetitive or anti-consumer: Those who value the network more pay more.
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Understanding the New Boom in Subscriptions

Businesses optimize for efficiency. Customers optimize for happiness.
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Gangnam Bandwidth, American Style

For most Americans, five years from now, the best network available to them will be the same network they have today.
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Bandwidth Hog Netflix to Help Cablevision Manage Network Demands

Netflix Inc. knows its video streaming service hogs a lot of bandwidth. Tuesday it announced its first deal with a major U.S. cable operator, Cablevision Systems Corp., to ease the burden.

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French Government, ISPs Want Google, Others to Invest in Infrastructure

The French government is studying ways to push large Web companies to pay local Internet providers more for the bandwidth being used, a minister said Monday, in a sign of how European countries are intensifying efforts to wring revenue out of largely American businesses such as Google Inc.

Some of You Need a YouTubePhone

You can do all sorts of amazing things with mobile phones these days. But many of you, it seems, are content to use your handset as a YouTube delivery device. A new study says the site accounts for a fifth of mobile bandwidth usage worldwide.
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Verizon to Butcher Speeds of Data Hogs

What an odd coincidence. Verizon Wireless introduced a new policy today that gives it the right to throttle the data speeds of its heaviest bandwidth users-–just as it began accepting pre-orders for the new CDMA iPhone.

Google Shows Off Honeycomb Features, Android Web Market

Today’s event in Mountain View provided new details on the tablet-friendly version of Android and a new way to acquire apps. Mobilized was there liveblogging.

How to Steal Any Movie You Want on the Web: Wall Street Gets a How-To Guide

It’s easier than ever to download any movie or TV show you want on the Web, for free. Just ask Rich Greenfield. Or better yet, let the Wall Street analyst show you, via a helpful four-minute video .

Palm, Qualcomm Chiefs Weigh Wireless Future

YouTube Saves Money With Text-Only Video