Obama aims to get every child online!?
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has announced a plan which would see every child in the US getting access to the internet.
He also aims to connect all the hospitals in the country through cutting edge technology.
He said about the position of broadband in the USA: “It is unacceptable that [...]

AT&T acquires Wayport to expand Wi-Fi services
US based telecom giant AT&T has announced that they are acquiring Wayport.
Wayport is a privately held company that operates more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in McDonald’s restaurants and hotels.
The deal is worth around USD 275 million.
AT&T would get access to their hotspots located at 2,800 locations as [...]

Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. collaborating
After Microsoft Xbox 360, Netflix is now collaborating with TiVo.
The two companies are collaborating to bring more media content to their subscribers.
TiVo subscribers would be able to stream movies from Netflix catalog.
This service would start in December this year.
Netflix said that the collaboration was delayed as they could not [...]

Yahoo to lay off around 1,500 workers
Rumors are confirmed as Yahoo has announced that they would be cutting around 1500 jobs in their worldwide operations.
This job cut would mean that the company would get rid of 10% of their entire workforce.
The company has just come out with their latest revenue report and the numbers are [...]

Cisco Systems acquiring Jabber
Networking industry giant Cisco has announced that they are now acquiring privately held Jabber.
Jabber specializes in developing instant messaging solutions.
Cisco would be using technologies acquired from Jabber to enhance their own Internet-based communications products.
The two companies did not reveal the financial aspects of this deal.
Doug Dennerline, senior vice president of Cisco’s Collaboration [...]

Yahoo Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. have announced a collaborative deal which would see them develop a co-branded portal.
This portal would be showcased as a home page for Verizon’s broadband customers.
The two companies have been working together on such deals since 2005 and this latest agreement extends that.
Customers who accept to get this portal as [...]

Comcast and NetZero announces their plans to block child porn
US based internet service providers Comcast and NetZero have announced their plans to join the list of ISPs which are going to block access to child porn.
This was confirmed by the New York Attorney General’s office.
This happened after Comcast was threatened by New York [...]

Verizon Communications to give discounts to wireless customers
Verizon Communications has revealed that they would now offer discounts to their wireless customers who apply to get Internet or TV services from them.
Until now these discounts were only provided to their landline customers.
The company is all set to launch a Flex Double Play bundle which would offer [...]

AT&T could start charging extra from massive downloaders
AT&T has said that they are considering charging extra from users who download excessively.
A company representative said: “A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable.”
AT&T claimed that the top 5% users on their network end up consuming 46 percent [...]

Analyst: internet to be dominated by Google and Amazon
Google and Amazon are two big giants on the web. However, they are not alone and a lot of companies are currently dominating the web in one way or the other.
Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay has however other ideas about the future. In his report named [...]