Ars Technica

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.

Why Google keeps your data forever, tracks you with ads

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Location: Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States

Not many companies could get away with defending controversial data retention practices by saying that the data is needed to "learn from good guys, fight off bad guys, [and] invent the future." But that's how Google sees itself.

The new age of online grocery shopping

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Shopping for groceries and household items via the Internet is making a huge comeback, however, thanks in part to some major players who have taken it outside of the typical niche markets.

How much hate will the National Broadband Plan get?

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

What kind of response can the Federal Communications Commission expect to the National Broadband Plan? Well, we already know that television station owners are opposed to any plan that reallocates...

EFF demands FCC close copyright "loophole" in net neutrality

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

The Electronic Frontier Foundation might be expected to love the Federal Communications Commission's "Open Internet" push, but the group has one big concern with the rulemaking: the presence of "a loophole for copyright enforcement in its proposed regulations for network neutrality."

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