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Marvin Ammori: CyberMonday Shopping: Celebrate Net Neutrality

Apparently, the first Monday after Black Friday is a big online shopping day, as Americans go back to work ... and shop online. Whether CyberMonday is hype or not for retailers, it's a good day to celebrate Internet openness.

For years, a debate has raged in DC over whether phone and cable co...

Net Neutrality: The Only Thing Keeping Us From Dictatorship -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

Okay, that's not exactly what White House official Andrew McLaughlin said. Close enough though! "If it bothers you that the China government does it"--denies people access to parts of the Internet, that is--"it should bother you when your cable company does it." AT&T's chief lobbyist Jim Cicconi...

NYC Still Hearts the Net

The New York City Council is voting on a resolution this morning supporting the idea that Internet service providers cannot discriminate against web traffic on their networks. As gestures go, this resolution supporting net neutrality is more symbolic than it is useful, and to that end has already...

Online campaign takes on gender inequities in EU government

I'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Barcelona talking to an interesting English guy, Jon Worth, who, along with a small group of friends, just launched a campaign to push for more women on the European Commission. As Jon tells it, the European Commission is kind of like the Cabinet for the Europea...

High definition 1080p video coming to YouTube next week

YouTube is introduce support for 1080p high-definition (HD) video from next week, allowing film shot in HD quality to be uploaded and viewed on the site.The official YouTube blog explains that the new maximum - which doubles the number of lines on a video from the present maximum of 720p - is bei...