Hacker Control Via ISP
Knowing the rate of cyber-crime the UK has it's no wonder they're trying to think of anything that might work to take it down. Now, a few Lords are asking Internet Service Providers to "Police" the Internet.
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7.9.2007 Playstation 3 Launches in North America
Well the day has finally arrived for all the Sony fans and Playstation 3 hopefuls. The Playstation 3 has launched in North America. Of course the vast, vast majority of the units available worldwide are being made available in the United States since that is the biggest launch area for Sony at this point.
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18.11.2006 Europe Surpasses North America In Instant Messenger Users
Score Networks, the leader in digital media measurement, today released the results of an analysis of instant messenger (IM) usage in various parts of the world. According to the study, eighty-two million people, or 49 percent of the European online population, used IM applications to communicate online in February.
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11.4.2006 S.Korea Delays Microsoft Ruling
South Korea's anti-trust agency said on Wednesday it was delaying a long-awaited ruling on Microsoft Corp.'s business practices to next week, after the review committee failed to reach an agreement. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) began its investigation in 2001 when Daum Communications Corp., South Korea's top Internet portal, complained Microsoft had breached antitrust rules by incorporating its Internet Messenger and Media Player services into the Windows operating system.
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24.11.2005 Feds Side With Microsoft in Korea Flap
The Bush administration on Wednesday protested South Korea's decision to fine Microsoft roughly $32 million and order the software company to redesign portions of its Windows operating system.
"Korea's remedy goes beyond what is necessary or appropriate to protect consumers, as it requires the removal of products that consumers may prefer," J. Bruce McDonald, deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department's antitrust division, said in a statement.
The Korea Fair Trade Commission ruled that Microsoft violated South Korean law by bundling its Windows Media Service with the Windows Server operating system, as well as its media player and instant-messaging program with Windows. Microsoft will have to facilitate downloads of third-party media software and stop selling in Korea a version of its server software with Windows Media Services.
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9.12.2005 Microsoft Loses S. Korea Patent Case
South Korea is again proving to be a thorn in Microsoft's side, as the company over the weekend lost a patent battle in the country concerning its Office software. The decision could force the Redmond company to halt sales of the popular productivity suite in South Korea.
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27.11.2006 South Korea Fines Microsoft $32 Million
UPDATED Less than a month after it reached a $30 million settlement with South Korean Internet portal Daum, Microsoft has been fined another $32 million by the country's Fair Trade Commission. The Korean FTC has also ordered Microsoft to unbundle its instant messaging client and media player from Windows, and link to competing software.
Daum and RealNetworks had previously complained to the country's antitrust watchdog in 2001 about the bundling. Although both companies have recently settled with Microsoft and dropped their claims, the KFTC said it would continue its investigation.
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7.12.2005US to North Korea: No iPods for You
In its continuing effort to
rout out North Korean dictator
Kim Jong-il, the United States
government is now trying a new
tactic: banning the sale of
iPods and other high-tech
items to the country...
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30.11.2006North Korea Starts 3G Network Trials
The unlikely story of advanced 3G cellular service in the world's most tightly controlled and secretive country has turned another chapter with
the start of network trials. Cellular carrier Orascom said on Monday that it has completed the first 3G call on a WCDMA (Wideband Code Division
Multiple Access) trial network in North Korea, and is working towards a commercial launch there later this year. Earlier this year, a 25-year
exclusive license to offer 3G cellular service in the country had been awarded to CHEO Technology, a joint venture in which Orascom holds a 75 percent
stake and Korea Post and Telecommunications holds the remaining 25 percent. A full commercial service is scheduled to begin in the second half of the
year, Orascom said.
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21.05.2008South Korea slowed by third wave of cyber attacks
Several of South Korea's biggest websites and organisations have been victims of a huge cyber attack, taking down many of them, and leaving others
with access issues. The attack also targeted several American organisations some of which included the Pentagon and White House, according to an
article by The Independent. Many suspect that the attacks were started by North Korean hackers claiming that the latest missile launches may be
related to the attacks. Others, however, have said that it is too early to tell where the attack originated from.
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09.07.2009Korea Times: Sony home video at the tail end of a Korean exodus
Korea Times reports that Sony's DVD distribution arm in Korea has decided to stop selling discs in that country, making it the last of the
major studios to do so...
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05.09.2008Time Warner lobbies government to cripple community ISP
The incredible wave of negative publicity from Time Warner's (now postponed) plan for bandwidth caps on all of their broadband internet plans has
barely died down. That isn't stopping the increasingly despised ISP from giving people another reason to hate them, though. This time around, Time
Warner is lobbying the North Carolina state senate to pass laws that would cripple highly competitive community broadband providers and even
disqualify them from receiving federal aid from the proposed national stimulus plan. A while back, the city of Wilson, North Carolina approached
both Time Warner and local provider Embarq asking them to provide higher internet access speeds to residents of the city.
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23.04.2009BitTorrent blocking goes north: Canadian ISP admits to throttling P2P
In response to consumer complaints posted in the company's official forum, Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico has admitted that it uses bandwidth throttling
technologies to impose limitations on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing during peak hours. This revelation is further evidence that net neutralitythe
principle of equal treatment for all traffic through a networkis eroding.
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e are now using a Internet Traffic Management to
restrict accounts that are using a large portion of bandwidth during peak hours," a Sympatico forum administrator wrote in response to a user complaint. The forum administrator also provides a list of affected applications, which includes
BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, and other widely-used P2P applications. Readers of Broadband Reports had been suspicious for some time that the
ISP was throttling traffic.
winbeta.org - 05.11.2007
Frontier ISP toys with 5 GB usage cap
Small regional ISP Frontier Communications has now joined Time Warner Cable in floating the idea of instituting monthly user caps even for subscribers
who don't use much bandwidth, anyway...
betanews.com - 25.08.2008
Microsoft Drops South Korea Antitrust Appeal
Possibly sensing that it would be an uphill battle, Microsoft said Tuesday that it planned to drop its appeal of an anti-trust ruling in South Korea...
betanews.com - 16.10.2007
80GB PS3 Launching in South Korea
The highly-anticipated 80GB
version of the PlayStation 3
will launch in South Korea on
June 16 as the sole version of
the console available in that
country...
betanews.com - 21.05.2007
Microsoft Loses S. Korea Patent Case
Microsoft has lost a patent
battle in South Korea
concerning input mode
technology in its Office
software. The decision could
force the Redmond company to
halt sales of the popular
productivity suite in that
country, but it is fighting
back...
betanews.com - 27.11.2006
Microsoft Appeals Korea
Antitrust Ruling
Microsoft said on Monday that
it had filed an appeal in the
Seoul High Court against a
decision by the South Korea
Fair Trade Commission. In the
ruling, the KFTC ordered
Microsoft to unbundle both its
messaging and media player
software from the Windows
operating system...
betanews.com - 27.03.2006
European tech leaders reject calls for ISP vigilance as 'scaremongering'
European ISP organizations are concerned that the cost of implementing proposals intended to reduce cybercrime could put them out of business, but a
leading security vendor said the cost of not doing anything could be even higher...
betanews.com - 03.07.2008
Microsoft May Pull Windows
from Korea
In its quarterly filing with
the Securities and Exchange
Commission, Microsoft made an
interesting disclosure about
an ongoing investigation by
the Korean antitrust agency:
it may delay future versions
of Windows in South Korea or
pull the operating system from
the country altogether...
betanews.com - 29.10.2005
Microsoft Loses Appeal in
South Korea
The South Korea Fair Trade
Commission this week turned
down Microsoft's appeal of an
antitrust ruling handed down
in the country in February,
which ordered Microsoft to
unbundle both its messaging
and media player software from
the Windows operating system...
betanews.com - 23.05.2006
No iPod at Apple Korea?
The iPod has become Apple's
trademark product, recognized
as more than a product but an
innovation. A Korean
construction firm even put out
an ad comparing its reputation
for excellence with that of
the iPod. But Apple Korea has
recently been telling
customers looking for the hot
selling gadget that they have
no more iPods available. iPod
Internet ads have also
disappeared.
The latest iPod plays
video as well as music and
comes with a 30GB or 80GB hard
disk. Released a year and a
half ago, it's still very
popular. So why are they so
hard to get? Apple Korea says
they don't know.
The iPod is in short
supply worldwide except for
small stock left in the U.S.
Apple Korea has only a few
left in its entire Apple Store
inventory. They've been long
gone from offline and online
markets. Apple Korea officials
don't even know when they'll
get new supplies.
winbeta.org - 17.08.2007
Microsoft to Alter Vista for EU, Korea
Microsoft issued a statement
this morning saying it is
going ahead with plans to
release Windows Vista to
volume licensees worldwide on
November 30, as previously
scheduled. There will be no
further delays, although
Microsoft will be making
changes in response to concern
from the EU and Korea...
betanews.com - 13.10.2006
All major Canadian ISP's throttling P2P
It seems as if throttling P2P is now the thing to do if you're a major ISP. We first broke wind that Comcast was doing it and that the Australia
was putting the lock down on P2P and it now seems Canada is following suite. After allegations arose of P2P throttling "Bell, Cogeco, Rogers and
Eastlink all admit to slowing down P2P traffic, arguing that it negatively affects network performance." All of the ISP's claim the usual
argument that P2P degrades network performance. Like other ISP's, the Canadian ISP's forget that there is legitimate use in P2P technology
and that very popular games like WOW use it to help distribute patches and game updates.
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neowin.net - 21.01.2009
AOL Falls to Third Largest ISP
In yet another sign of the
ubiquity of broadband, AOL
said yesterday it now counts
only 12 million subscribers -
a far cry from the company's
peak of 26.7 million in 2002.
AOL is now only the third
largest ISP, behind both
AT&T and Comcast...
betanews.com - 03.05.2007
Canadian ISP tests injecting content into web pages
Advocates of network neutrality frequently express concerns
that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will use sophisticated network filtering technologies that facilitate Deep Packet Inspection to track and
modify the content of web pages as they are being served to end users.
The ability to modify Internet content at the network
level could potentially be abused by ISPs to insert additional advertising into web pages or perform selective, automated censorship. Although no
mainstream ISP in North America engages in such practices, proponents of network neutrality have discovered that Rogersa Canadian cable Internet
provideris trialing similar technology to inject notices to subscribers in regular web content, leading some to fear that more abusive content
manipulation may occur in the future.
winbeta.org - 11.12.2007
Report: iPod a Failure in South Korea
While Apple may lead the market just about everywhere it sells the iPod digital music player, in at least one country it has a lot of ground to make up. In South Korea, Apple has a 1.8 percent market share, the smallest of any of its markets, and iRiver leads the pack with 35 percent...
betanews.com - 14.08.2005
