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• Google Public DNS and Your Privacy Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Here's a detailed look at what the system will collect from you and how that data will be used.
• Nearly 1.7 Million T-Mobile Users Hit by Service Disruption Nearly 1.7 million T-Mobile USA subscribers are affected by a service disruption that hit the mobile operator beginning late Tuesday afternoon.
• Admin Brings Mortuary's Net Connection Back from Dead IT horror show: a spine-tingling tale of an ISP service call and the poor response time that followed.
• FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Draws Fast Fire Broadband carriers protest and pundits weigh the issues involved in mandated Network Neutrality.
• 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.
• FTC Shutters Nefarious Underworld ISP FTC says company actively recruited and colluded with criminals seeking to distribute everything from child pornography to spyware and viruses.
• Do ISPs Deserve Protection Against Competition? Under the guise of leveling the playing field, legislation would restrict North Carolina municipalities from running public access broadband networks.
• EarthLink Hobbled by Earth Day Crash Users of the ISP were unable to access their e-mail or any EarthLink-hosted Web pages.
• Time Warner Drops Usage-Based Access Fees -- For Now Time Warner Cable has backed off from its proposed Internet metering plan
• Why Metered Broadband Wouldn't Work Time Warner has abandoned its plan for consumption-based broadband pricing, but it could have been instructive for consumers.
• Time Warner Changes -- But Keeps -- Bandwidth Caps Seeking funds, ISPs experiment with tiered pricing despite the outcry from customers.
• FBI Raids Dallas Internet Service Provider Core IP CEO says the raid was due to alleged illegal activity of a former customer.
• Could Traffic Throttling Hinder Comcast Wideband? Comcast 'wideband' reaches the San Francisco area, but the company's history makes me nervous about signing up.
• ISPs Ready to Assist the RIAA? Comcast and AT&T may be joining forces with the RIAA to stop illegal file sharing.
• Is Your ISP Throttling Your Internet Connection? Google's new tools can diagnose connection problems. Here's how to make the most out of them.
• Pirate Bay Still Blocked in Denmark A Danish High Court has ruled that ISPs must ensure that their customers don't use the Swedish torrent-tracking site.
• Chinese City Requires Net Cafes to Use Legitimate Software A Chinese city has required local Internet cafes to replace pirated software with licensed versions.
• Spam Traffic Varies After Source Shut Spammers try to recover and relaunch their botnets after a frequent host is eliminated.
• Spam Finds New Launch Pad Spam traffic is spiking again after a brief respite when its ISP was shuttered.
• Putting the Kibosh on Spam-Spewing McColo When McColo was taken down, worldwide spam volume dropped by 75 percent. Roger A. Grimes looks at how the spam-loving ISP was taken down, and lessons we can learn from this rare anti-spam success.
• Movie Studios Gang Up on Aussie ISP iiNet gets into hot water for attempting to protect customers.
• Estonian ISP Cuts off Control Servers for Srizbi Botnet An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the control servers for a botnet responsible for a large portion of the world's spam has cut off those servers.
• Email On the Road Even When Blocked By the Locals If a temporary hotspot or ISP blocks your outgoing mail, send with the local mail server.
• Dodgy Domains Dumped by ISPs The alleged bot-launcher site McColo came down at the hands of its ISP -- is that vigilantism or a digital Neighborhood Watch?
• Small Businesses to ISPs: Deliver or We'll Switch Reliability, support, and quality are priorities, a survey of small businesses report.