Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

The statistics the investigators compiled were staggering. In less than three weeks, this single zombie received 5 million connection requests from spammers and 18 million spam messages advertising more than 13,000 individual Web sites. Evidence gathered in this exercise contributed to a lawsuit that has now identified 13 different spamming operations.

The E-Rate program, managed by the Federal Communications Commission, is poorly run and "extremely vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse,"

But now comes an Internet that works on your behalf — finding or doing things in the background, with no intervention.

That’s why politicians are eager to co-opt them – or, at least, engage them.

Google confirmed the development of the service a few hours after taking down the link.

For the past decade, the Internet has opened the door for people and subjects that wouldn’t otherwise make it into mainstream media. Current is now using that opening to change mainstream media. And the industry is paying attention.

The order, issued by the Federal Communications Commission in August and first published in the Federal Register last week, extends the provisions of a 1994 wiretap law not only to universities, but also to libraries, airports providing wireless service and commercial Internet access providers.

No more World Wide Wait.

"It really reduces my construction costs," he said. And after trying it out, Navarro now prefers BPL for his tenants over other broadband options, like a digital subscriber line (DSL) or cable modem connection, because it is "one of the fastest Internets I have ever seen," he said.

While Sea Launch wouldn’t disclose the exact launch date for the satellite, Korn offered a time frame. "It’ll be early November," she said. "We’ll be announcing it on our website."