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• Comcast Aims to Help Bandwidth Hogs Impose Self Control Comcast is trialing a service that tips off heavy users when they are about to run afoul of the company's acceptable use policy.
• Hey AT&T: The Courts Can't Fix Your 3G Network The service provider asks a Georgia court to stop Verizon's "There's A Map for That" ads.
• AT&T Considers Raising Fees for Data Gluttons Carrier is considering "pricing options," which could be affected by whatever rules come from the Federal Communications Commission as it weighs net neutrality.
• Nokia's Future Is All About Location--Indoors and Out The mobile powerhouse says Nokia devices will collect the information needed to map the inside of buildings like airports, train stations and hotels.
• Net Neutrality Fans, Meet Your New Foe House Republican Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, asks FCC to stop open Internet vote.
• Canada Weighs in with Net Neutrality Ruling Telecom regulator upholds the right of major telcos and cable providers to manage the traffic of its Internet customers.
• Net Neutrality Battle Spills Into Wireless World As the mobile Web grows in popularity, a power struggle is brewing over who controls the wireless 'pipes.'
• Verizon's Quad-Play Bundle Verizon pushes the familiar "triple-play-bundle-for-TV" concept to the next level, adding wireless calling to its triple-play plans.
• Open Broadband Nurtures Competion -- and Deals Analysis: An FCC report finds that boosting broadband rivalry is a win for consumers; bring it on.
• Finland Makes Broadband a Legal Right 1 Mbit by next July, 100 Mbit by 2015!
• New Mobile Internet Devices at the Intel Developer Forum One focus of this year's Intel Developer Forum is small portable computing devices running a variety of Windows operating systems. Senior Writer Darren Gladstone takes a look at the Viliv S10 Blade, the Archos 9 PC tablet, and the Umid M1.
• Cheap and Easy Ways to Use Your Gadgets on the Road Travel can be stressful and expensive. Here are tips for keeping your gadgets charged and for saving money on smartphone bills while you're away from home--whether elsewhere in the United States or halfway around the world.
• FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Draws Fast Fire Broadband carriers protest and pundits weigh the issues involved in mandated Network Neutrality.
• Microsoft's IE Mobile Browser Needs a Makeover The Internet Explorer Mobile browser has fallen behind in the browser wars--but Microsoft knows it, and an overhaul is just around the corner.
• Nokia's S60 Touch Browser Needs Too Many Touches The limitations of Nokia's browser go back, in part, to the original S60, which wasn't built for touchscreen phones.
• BlackBerry Storm Browser Keeps Pace With Peers Touchscreen browser lacks tabbed browsing but compensates with a handy desktop-like cursor mode.
• Android Browser Excels in Search Tasks Google's in-page and voice search capabilities help put the Android browser in the top tier with the Apple and Palm browsers.
• Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200 This credit card-size device provides supereasy mobile broadband access.
• Fast, Universal Broadband: The Dirty Secret about the Roadblock Is it the laws of physics or of profit that prevent widespread high-speed Internet services?
• AT&T Wi-fi Hotspots Expand in Europe, China Customers of AT&T's remote access enterprise solution will be able to connect to corporate networks from public locations across Eastern Europe, the UK, and China.
• High-Speed Internet on a Plane: Where to Find It Which airlines are most likely to keep you connected in the sky? Find out in our update.
• Wireless Regulation: Great, and Terrible Wireless carriers don't get enough credit for delivering a solid service at a reasonable price.
• 9 Web-Based Office Productivity Suites As netbooks proliferate, the talk about cloud computing buzzes on. And as Microsoft and Google ready their cloud-based app suites, a bevy of lesser-known 'Webtops' are available now. We take a look at the main ones, and pick the winners.
• Clearwire: 'You WILL be Assimilated' It doesn't always pay to be an early adopter, as I battle Clearwire's robocalling army pushing an upgrade that occurred months ago.
• Virgin Mobile 3G Mobile Broadband, Zero Contract Virgin Mobile's Broadband2Go service lets you connect to a cellular data network without a costly contract.