According to an article from the BBC News service, UK Broadband installations have surged to the point where the UK now has higher penetration than France, once the Internet center of Europe (and the birthplace of interactive television).

In a move certain to garner more headlines and a substantial following of observers, Cornell University has announced that they will be charging users for usage that exceeds 2GB per month. The policy, detailed in this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education sounds innocuous enough, until you get to …

According to an article on BBC News, scientists have managed to push a DVD over the fledgling Internet2 network in just about 30 seconds, yielding a throughput of 923mbps over a 10,000 kilometer distance (from Sunnyvale, CA to Amsterdam). Although these speeds are commonplace these days for short-haul connections …

According to an article on Wired, the state of Kentucky has issued a mandate that all new public housing units that receive funding of 50% or more from the State's housing corporation (the KHC) be wired for high-speed internet access. The KHC has also stated that they're working on a …

Researchers at AT&T Research Labs have published a paper (PDF) about counting hosts behind NAT devices. The short version is that they take advantage of the poor use of monotonically increasing packet ID numbers in IP packets sent by different hosts to track the number of hosts that are …

The long-rumored demise of dial-up internet may well be underway. According to an article in the New York Times, the big three ISPs (AOL, EarthLink, and MSN) are all reporting slowing subscriber growth or loss of subscribers in the most recent reporting periods. Meanwhile, broadband operators are seeing increases in …

Since they charge for it on CD's, it was only a matter of time before the RIAA decided they needed to get more revenue by taxing ISPs. This article on Yahoo covers the latest ideas from that most loved of musical institution (tongue firmly in cheek at this point).

MacWorld San Francisco 2003 Wrap-up.This is mainly the good. I'll leave the bad and the ugly up to the "real" press. Yesterday was the last day for MWSF2003. I didn't attend this day, due to prior commitments, but I was there for the preceding 3 days rummaging around on …