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I do NOT ever take on something so personal as the recent incredibly bad experience I had with a UK web host.But, I’m not sure if it is the current state of the George W. Bush (GOP) great recessionary economy or a sign of the times for future prosperity,but never-the-less this web hosting service could NOT have gotten any worse. Everything that could go wrong – did!

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5-0 today to launch an investigation of the wireless industry, focusing on efforts to improve innovation and increase consumer protections in the American mobile market.

The Windows 7 technology allows XP applications to run in a virtualized (XP mode), environment within Win7. This offers backward compatibility with applications, but comes at the expense of security, according to Richard Jacobs, Sophos chief technology officer.

Users of Pidgin and other alternative IM clients need to update their software following the discovery of potentially serious security flaws.

Pidgin, Finch, Adium, Meebo, and Gaim are all vulnerable to a flaw that stems from a bug in Libpurple, library software for multi-protocol support that’s used by many IM clients.

To combat falling advertising revenue, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been proposing the formation of a consortium with other publishers to charge a fee for all news distributed on the Internet and on portable devices – reports the Los Angeles Times.

Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, according to a federal appeals court in New York ruling – a defeat for Sony Corp’s BMG Music.

Friday’s ruling is a setback for record producers that have struggled with slumping sales as customers increasingly obtain music online or through other means.

The National Broadband Plan Needs To Be Visionary …
— like landing a man on the moon or creating an extremely functional highway system.
So what’s your idea on how to expand high-speed Internet access (broadband), across the United States? Here’s your chance to finally have a voice in affecting dramatic change coming for future United States Internet policy & usage.

A dog and pony show…
Telecom lobbyists are projecting an artificially inflated view of broadband competition, while lobbying lawmakers at the behest of major carriers. The Wall Street Journal raised many ethical questions in June 2008 about ‘Connected Nation’. Created solely to bamboozle the consumer public as another artificial consumer advocacy group, but only to argue against your best interest as a consumer.

News Corp is threatening to charge for access to its news websites by the middle of next year. Where exactly is the supposed value in exchange for their intended news fee? Is News Corp. hemorrhaging revenue and talent, or are they just becoming greedy? They also might break off their relationship with Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle e-reader, unless News Corp can get a sweeter deal.

Panda Security, the Spain-based antivirus software, today released a new free antivirus program called Panda Cloud Antivirus.

Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.