http://www.speedguide.net/ SpeedGuide.net - Everything Broadband. en-us Copyright 1998-2012 Speed Guide, Inc. All rights reserved. webmaster@speedguide.net http://www.speedguide.net/news/feds-seize-illegal-sports-streaming-sites-4585 Days before the Super Bowl, federal authorities blitzed more than a dozen websites illegally streaming live sporting events. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies announced Thursday that they had seized 16 websites and brought criminal charges against a Michigan man who operated nine of them. In total the authorities took down a record breaking 307 domain names. The majority, 291, sold counterfeit NFL merchandise and the remaining sites allegedly linked to copyrighted streams. ... News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:36:11 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/facebook-financials-boosts-internet-stocks-4584 Tech stocks related to social media, like Groupon and Zynga, see shares rise after Facebook IPO. Groupon Inc shares jumped to their highest level of 2012 Thursday as the daily deal company got a boost from social networking euphoria sparked by Facebook 's IPO filing. Zynga shares are up about 11% and have set a new high in today s action. Zynga 's business model is largely based on Facebook 's success if people stop playing Farmville on Facebook, Zynga 's going to be hurting. "It shows ... News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:04:51 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/netflix-looks-to-beat-bandwidth-caps-with-new-software-4583 Netflix is looking to put an end of the Internet issues in video such as jitter, buffering and freezing with licensed bandwidth-scrunching software from start-up eyeIO. Today EYE IO, LLC (eyeIO) makes its official debut as an Internet video streaming technology provider, announcing its first commercial license agreement with Netflix, Inc. "eyeIO provides a straightforward solution for accommodating the rapidly growing demand for video delivery around the world by alleviating the overwhelming ... News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:10:43 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/the-pirate-bay-switches-domains-after-founders-4582 Sweden 's Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by the founders of The Pirate Bay, meaning their jail sentences and fines are now final. In 2010, TPB founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstr m received 10 month, eight month, and four month prison sentences, respectively, after being found guilty in 2009 of violating Swedish copyright law. Those sentences will now be upheld along with a fine against the three men equaling about $6.82 million. "The Supreme Court today decided ... News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:59:44 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/comcast-to-widen-low-income-broadband-program-double-4581 After connecting 41,000 low-income households under its $9.95-per-month Internet Essentials broadband service, Comcast will expand eligibility requirements for the program, as well as double connection speeds and step up digital literacy efforts. Comcast estimates that 2 million U.S. households could qualify for the program. The 41,000 who 've signed up so far represent about 2 percent of those eligible. David Cohen, Comcast s executive vice president, announced Tuesday that the company is expanding the ... News Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:23:39 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/mozilla-releases-firefox-10-4580 Mozilla has released version 10 of its Firefox browser with built-in developer tools, a new application programming interface (API) for full-screen applications, and enhanced support for 3D graphics via the WebGL standard. Mozilla said Full-Screen API enables developers to create full screen games, immersive video experiences and rich presentation sharing. Firefox 10, available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, includes eight security fixes, but the most noticeable change in upgrading is the way the ... News Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:37:07 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/fcc-extends-telephone-subsidy-to-include-broadband-4579 The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved the overhaul of a phone subsidy program that would dedicate federal funds to bring broadband Internet service to low-income households. The changes include setting up the National Lifeline Accountability Database that will prevent the subsidies from being funneled to multiple phone carriers on behalf of the same family or individual. The changes will also make a more streamlined way to determine if a family or individual qualifies for free service. ... News Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:08:58 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/us-lawmakers-seek-google-answers-on-privacy-4578 Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) wrote to Google CEO Larry Page on Monday and requested a briefing on the company 's recent changes to its privacy policy. "We applaud the move toward a shorter, simpler, streamlined policy, and believe that easier-to-understand terms of service are in the best interest of consumers, " they wrote. "We are concerned, however, with other changes to Google 's privacy policy, particularly with how a user 's data will be ... News Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:32:11 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/global-broadband-zooms-us-penetration-is-over-80-4577 Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, today released its Third Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report, based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform(TM). The report provides insight into key global statistics such as Internet penetration, mobile traffic and data consumption, global and regional connection speeds, and observed attack traffic. Akamai has recorded a 2000 percent ... News Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:03:32 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/megaupload-data-could-be-erased-thursday-says-report-4576 Federal prosecutors in the US have said data from users of Megaupload could start being deleted by Thursday but the lawyer for its founders says if the servers are wiped his clients will be less able to defend themselves in court. Megaupload hires outside companies to store the data for a fee. But the government had frozen its money, Megaupload attorney Ira Rothken said, so those companies were not getting paid. In response to this situation, the storage companies would start deleting users ' data on ... News Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:19:37 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/amped-wireless-begins-shipping-the-high-power-wi-4575 Amped Wireless, a leading manufacturer of high-power, long-range wireless communication products for the home and office, announces the nationwide availability of the R10000G High Power Wireless-N 600mW Gigabit Router. Through the use of a high-speed 620MHz processor, premium dual high-power Wi-Fi 600mW amplifiers and dual high-gain 5dBi antennas, the Amped Wireless Premium Series gigabit router delivers up to 10,000 sq. ft. of Wi-Fi coverage. The R10000G features gigabit wired ports for connecting ... News Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:42:40 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/fbi-wants-an-application-to-monitor-social-networks-4574 FBI wants to use an early-warning system based on material 'scraped ' from social networks instead of manually monitoring social media sites. The agency is looking for companies to build the software that will scan social networks for 'danger ' words and agents will respond to 'breaking news, incidents and emerging threats '. The application must be able to "provide an automated search and scrape capability of both social media sites and open source news sites for breaking events, crisis, ... News Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:35:19 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/first-super-wi-fi-network-goes-live-in-north-carolina-4573 Spectrum Bridge, Inc., today announced the launch of the first commercial TV White Space (TVWS) network in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. The company 's cloud-based spectrum management platform is the centerpiece of technology that taps into frequencies freed up by digital TV transition to provide wireless bandwidth and network access for a range of innovative solutions. The first network applications support broadband initiatives by providing the public with Internet access ... News Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:42:25 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/should-the-fifth-amendment-cover-your-encrypted-4572 American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their encrypted hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled a few days ago. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman Ramona Fricosu to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February 21 - or face the consequences including contempt of court. "I find and conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the ... News Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:31:55 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/netflix-subscriber-numbers-up-in-fourth-quarter-4571 Netflix said it had landed more than 600,000 new subscribers during a stronger than expected fourth quarter of 2011. Total domestic subscriptions are now 24.4 million, up from 23.79 million last quarter (and 19.5 million a year ago). That 24.4 million includes 21.67 million streaming subscriptions in the US and 11.17 million DVD-by-mail subscriptions - which is quite sharply down from 13.93 million last quarter. What 's more, the company also continued to emphasize its shift away from mailing out DVDs and ... News Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:39:42 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/symantec-recommends-disabling-pcanywhere-prompted-4570 Symantec has warned users of its remote access tool, pcAnywhere, to disable the product until it patches vulnerabilities related to the 2006 theft of source code by hacktivist group, Anonymous. Yesterday, Symantec confirmed the theft of source code from the 2006 versions of several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool. "Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code has been accessed, " the company said on a Web page. "...it was not until the ... News Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:33:02 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/google-overhauls-consolidates-privacy-policies-4568 Search giant Google announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine. That 's why the company has issued a new, single privacy policy that will consolidate the company 's 70 or so privacy policies across its products down to one which will pull data from Google users if they 're logged in. "What does this mean in practice? The main change is for users with Google Accounts, ... News Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:29:23 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/bitdefender-warns-of-new-hybrid-malware-4567 Computer users may have to watch out against a new breed of malware: those of the Frankenstein variety, Bitdefender warned. BitDefender has taken part in an analysis of 10 million infected files that saw it discovering some 40,000 "Frankenmalware " samples. With this representing around 0.4 per cent of checked malware, Bitdefender extrapolates it to mean that there are likely around 260,000 hybrid examples in the wild. "A virus infects executable files; and a worm is an ... News Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:17:32 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/us-government-online-security-website-hacked-4566 Hackers under the AntiSec banner appeared to have hacked the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the US federal government 's online security website, in protest against controversial legislation on Monday. In a message on the OnGuardOnline website and on Pastebin, the hackers threatened "a relentless war against the corporate Internet ", destroying what it said would be "dozens upon dozens " of government and company websites, if the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), Protect ... News Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:22 EST http://www.speedguide.net/news/us-warns-of-mobile-radio-band-bottleneck-4565 The head of a U.S. delegation to the World Radiocommunication Conference said on Monday that the U.S. seeks to avoid bottlenecks in crowded global mobile radio spectrums. "We believe that to avoid the crowded mobile radio spectrum crunch we need to look at every band possible, " Decker Anstrom told a press briefing on the opening day of the WRC. The conference follows a "very challenging agenda " that involves broadband issues, Anstrom said, adding that the U.S. ... News Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:39:05 EST