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Virginia governor calls for IT outage review on Northrop Grumman’s tab

Posted: September 4th, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Net Availability | No Comments »

…Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell said Thursday the state will order an independent review of its information technology outage that stretched on for a week and shelved key… Read More


Cisco bug crashed 1% of internet

Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Net Availability | No Comments »

…Experiment knocked web users… Read More


Bulgarian cable thieves trigger Internet blackout

Posted: August 25th, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Net Availability | No Comments »

…SOFIA Bulgarian cable thieves triggered a 10-hour data blackout between Germany and Asia after they accidentally cut into a fiber-optic cable, the interior ministry said on… Read More


Internet lockdown looms

Posted: August 18th, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Net Availability | No Comments »

…New York – Google stands accused of betraying the founding principles of the Internet, as it readied a deal that will abandon key parts of its support for “net neutrality”, which has guaranteed equal access to the worldwide web since its… Read More


Verizon and Google propose Web traffic rules

Posted: August 12th, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Net Availability | No Comments »

…Verizon and Google said yesterday that regulators should be able to police Web traffic over cable and telephone lines, but carriers should control the speed of access to content on wireless… Read More


Google proposes free web, but mobile control

Posted: August 10th, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Net Availability | No Comments »

…Verizon and Google have said regulators should be able to police web traffic over cable and telephone lines, but carriers should control the speed of access to content on mobile… Read More