Snowe Opposes FCC Proposal To Reclassify Broadband
June 4, 2010
| 8:20 AM
From this morning's Earlybird and around the web:
• Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, "the most vocal net neutrality supporter among GOP senators, has joined her colleagues in urging" Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski "not to change the regulatory classification of broadband service," The Hill reports.
• General Keith Alexander, commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command, said Thursday that the Department of Defense's networks repel approximately 6 million attacks daily, The Hill also reports.
• "AT&T Inc.'s shift toward charging wireless subscribers based on the amount of data they use is expected to be an important test of consumer behavior in the technology industry's fastest-growing arena," the Wall Street Journal reports.
• "Google Inc. agreed to provide European regulators with personal data it said it mistakenly collected through wireless networks, a move the Internet company had previously resisted," the Wall Street Journal (subscription) also reports.
• "It seems the issue of Facebook privacy has gained enough currency to earn itself a place in a TV attack ad in the race for California attorney general -- almost certainly the first Facebook-oriented TV ad in U.S. politics," the Los Angeles Times reports.
• "Sprint Nextel Corp. began selling the first phone in the U.S. based on a next-generation wireless technology, an advance that may usher in devices with high- definition video capabilities and fast downloads," Bloomberg News reports.
• Qik of Redwood City, California, is providing software for this phone that will allow it to support two-way video-chat, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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