7 posts and columns on Internet Protocol

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Comcast Takes Online Rivals’ Technology for a Spin

in Media on May 25, 2011 at 4:18 pm PT

Comcast Corp., facing a growing threat from online video services, is fighting fire with fire. The country’s largest cable-service provider soon will start testing a new way to deliver its television channels, co-opting the same technology standard that upstart Internet rivals have used to challenge traditional pay-TV business models.

Got Any Old IP Addresses? Need to Raise Cash? You May Be in Luck

in Enterprise on March 25, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Microsoft has paid $7.5 million to buy a block of 666,000 IP addresses from the bankrupt networking company Nortel. With IP addresses scarce, it’s probably not the last time we’ll see a deal like this.

Seriously, You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

in News on July 3, 2008 at 8:32 am PT

So much for privacy on YouTube. The federal judge presiding over Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and YouTube denied a motion for the pair to produce their source code Wednesday. “YouTube and Google should not be made to place this vital asset in hazard merely to allay speculation,” U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton wrote. Apparently he didn’t feel quite as strongly about the privacy of YouTube users, because he felt entirely comfortable turning that over to the media company.

EU Recommendation Would Make Google AdSense NonSense

in News on April 7, 2008 at 2:32 pm PT

If the major search engines took the privacy of their users as seriously as they claim, they wouldn’t hold onto their personal search data for so long. That’s the opinion of Europe’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, which today recommended that the European Union require search engine providers to “delete or irreversibly anonymize data [...]

Trust Us, We're The Googlement …

in News on January 23, 2008 at 12:10 am PT

The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to approve Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of online ad-serving vendor DoubleClick without condition hasn’t exactly elicited resounding calls of huzzah! from the European Union. On the contrary, European parliamentarians seem out to spoil the deal.

Trust Us, We’re The Googlement …

in News on January 23, 2008 at 12:10 am PT

The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to approve Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of online ad-serving vendor DoubleClick without condition hasn’t exactly elicited resounding calls of huzzah! from the European Union. On the contrary, European parliamentarians seem out to spoil the deal.