Security news dominated this week, and that will undoubtedly be the case next week as well, with the Black Hat and Defcon conferences under way in Las Vegas. In other news, Yahoo shareholders met Friday for their annual meeting, with fewer fireworks than expected.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s decision Friday to prohibit Comcast from slowing peer-to-peer traffic was met with a wide range of reactions, with some groups calling the vote a huge victory for broadband subscribers and others saying it opens up the Internet to meddlesome new regulation.
About 65,000 Verizon Communications workers might strike beginning Sunday if the carrier can’t work out a deal with their unions, possibly slowing the rollout of Verizon’s flagship FiOS fiber-optic network.
Yahoo was criticized by some shareholders on Friday for the way it handled Microsoft’s attempted acquisition, but in the end there were fewer fireworks at its annual meeting of stockholders than some had expected.
Yahoo was criticized by some shareholders on Friday for the way it handled Microsoft’s attempted acquisition, but in the end there were fewer fireworks at its annual meeting of stockholders than some had expected.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its broadband network, with officials there saying the cable provider was “invasive” in its network traffic management.
