Nov 30, 2010
Netflix Partner Says Comcast Fee ‘Threatens’ Open Internet – NYTimes.com
Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage. Level 3, which helps to deliver Netflix’s streaming movies, said Comcast had effectively erected a tollbooth that “threatens the open Internet,” and indicated that it would seek government intervention. Comcast... read more
Nov 30, 2010
Wis. students chatted with gunman to keep him calm – Yahoo! News
Trapped in their classroom with a student gunman, a group of terrified Wisconsin high schoolers worked desperately to keep their captor calm by chatting and laughing with him about hunting and fishing. The 15-year-old gunman eventually shot himself as police stormed the room at Marinette High School hours later Monday evening. He had allowed five of his hostages out after nearly five hours and finally all... read more
Nov 30, 2010
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Targets Wall Street – Andy Greenberg – The Firewall – Forbes
Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass... read more
Nov 29, 2010
Video: US embassy leaks: ‘The data deluge is coming …’ | World news | guardian.co.uk
Video: US embassy leaks: ‘The data deluge is coming …’ | World news |... read more
