internet service provider

Netflix Takes Aim at the Cable Guys, With a Promise to Start Firing Tomorrow

Peter Kafka in Media on January 26, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT

Netflix, which is fighting with the cable guys and telcos over streaming video costs, says it will publish a ranking of the best broadband performers. Or in other words: Netflix says it will tell some broadband customers that they ought to get a new provider.

Windows 7 Minimum Requirements

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm PT

Windows 7 system requirements; a new laptop for a Mac user and moving email contacts to a new Internet service provider.

Here’s One Way to Get People to Pay for Music: Labels Win $2 Million Verdict in Downloading Trial

Peter Kafka in Media on June 19, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Don’t want to pay $1 for a song on iTunes? Try $80,000 a pop. That’s what a federal jury in Minneapolis has told a woman to pay the music industry for illegally downloading 24 songs, bringing her total bill to $1.92 million. Her response: “Good luck trying to get it, because you can’t get blood out of a turnip.”

Online Ad Snoop NebuAd Gives Up the Ghost. Who’s Next?

Peter Kafka in Media on May 18, 2009 at 2:47 pm PT

Talk to online ad folks for any amount of time and you’ll walk away thinking that behavioral targeting–whereby marketers track and chase Web surfers based on which sites they visit and what they do there–is both old hat and the wave of the future. But I’m still convinced that there’s a very big gap between the way the ad industry views this stuff and the way politicians and average Americans do. For a reminder, head on over to NebuAd’s Web site, which no longer works. That’s because the targeting firm, which once employed 60 people, closed up shop on Friday.

What We Really Need Is a "Stopping Congress From Exploiting For-the-Children Politics" Bill

John Paczkowski in News on February 20, 2009 at 3:02 pm PT

Funny isn’t it? Congress spent most of last year calling for Internet companies to limit user data retention and here it is pushing legislation that would require Internet service providers and the operators of Wi-Fi access points to retain Internet user data for up to two years. Why? To protect children from predators, of course

What We Really Need Is a “Stopping Congress From Exploiting For-the-Children Politics” Bill

John Paczkowski in News on February 20, 2009 at 3:02 pm PT

Funny isn’t it? Congress spent most of last year calling for Internet companies to limit user data retention and here it is pushing legislation that would require Internet service providers and the operators of Wi-Fi access points to retain Internet user data for up to two years. Why? To protect children from predators, of course