Ars Technica

The NBP and ISP competition: this fight's just beginning

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For a plan that puts "competition" as its number one goal, the National Broadband Plan is remarkably light on policies that will produce much of it in the wireline space.

Broadband for everyone by 2020, but who foots the bill?

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include sending and receiving e-mail, downloading Web pages, photos and video, and using simple video conferencing," opens the chapter of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan titled "Availability."

Inside the FCC's spectrum revolution (and its problems)

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Location: Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States

The National broadband Plan calls for freeing up 300MHz starting just below the UHF zone (300MHz to 3GHz) to be made "newly available for mobile use within five years."

After Google dustup, should the US ban Chinese computers?

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Location: Beijing, China

Should the Google/China spat over censorship start a trade war that puts an end to Chinese-made computers?

Online presence of hate, terrorist groups up 20%

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Location: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1399 South Roxbury, Los Angeles, CA, 90035, United States

Hate groups have always been a presence on the Internet, but their presence is growing quicker lately thanks to social networking sites.

Congress wants big National Security exemptions for spectrum inventory

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Location: US Capitol, East Capitol Street, NE and 1st Street, NE , Washington, DC, 20002 , United States

The Radio Spectrum Inventory Act, as now amended by the House Commerce Committee, would give Federal agencies and private license owners a national security pass on publicly disclosing information about their spectrum holdings or related data.

Google Apps becomes a platform, gets its own app store

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Location: Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, United States

Google has launched Google Apps Marketplace and is demonstrating how external Web applications from other vendors can be integrated into Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and other services that are part of the search giant's Web-based productivity suite.

The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030

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Location: Ofcom, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9HA, United Kingdom

In less than 20 years we may see 100Gbps Internet connections in US homes.

Cisco: Internet to change forever Tuesday (place your bets!)

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Location: Cisco, 170 West Tasman Dr., San Jose, CA, 95134, United States

After the close of markets today, Cisco is expected to significant news which will "forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments."

The poor care about broadband

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There's an allegedly stubborn portion of the population -- mostly poor, rural, and older -- who don't use the Internet at all, because they supposedly don't care to do so. But a new study suggests that this community of broadband outsiders is rapidly disappearing from the landscape, particularly among low income Americans.

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