• Broadband penetration continues to rise in EU [iptv-news.com]
• Continued Network And Service Optimization The Key To Continued IPTV Growth [IT Backbones]
• Maximum fine set at £50,000 for illegal file-sharing [broadbandgenie.co.uk]
• Law Firm Contemplates Class Action Suit To Recompense Xbox Live Modders [itproportal.com]
• MS denies Win 7 backdoor rumors [theregister.co.uk]
• AOL will shed a third of its staff [theinquirer.net]
• PS3 to go 3D in 2010, says Sony [reghardware.co.uk]

• Bigger U.S. Role in Broadband Is Likely [wsj.com]
• DTV Coupon Redemption Ends With Over $1 Billion Worth Unused [multichannel.com]
• Is Open Access Feasible in the U.S. Broadband Market? [4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com]
• Kicking People Off The Internet Not Enough In South Korea, Copyright Lobbyists Demand More [techdirt.com]
• Telcos will be the new channel [theinquirer.net]
• T-Mobile offering prepaid BlackBerry [fiercewireless.com]
• American Airlines Launches WiFi Widget [examiner.com]
• Chrome OS Unveiled, Focused on Netbooks, the Cloud [gigaom.com]

• Pay As You Go Mobile Broadband Overtakes Contract Deals In UK [cellular-news.com]
• Broadband economics: Competition lowers prices [cnet.com]
• Industry Predicts 21 Mbps to Be Next Mobile Broadband Baseline [cellular-news.com]
• Ofcom talks to spook firm on filesharing snoop plan [theregister.co.uk]
• Ericsson: Shortcut to mobile broadband [newspress.com]
• Microsoft claims IE 9 will be super speedy [theinquirer.net]
• Still vaporware: Apple's Tablet gets postponed [theinquirer.ne]

• FCC: Critical gaps undermine drive toward universal broadband [lightwaveonline.com]
• Charter's Reorg Confirmed by Court [cable360.net]
• AT&T Loses Bid to Stop Verizon Ads, May Lose Case [bloomberg.com]
• Cable Industry Joins MPAA In Asking FCC To Allow Them To Stop Your DVR From Recording Movies [techdirt.com]
• UK debate on “white space” spectrum heats up [digitaltveurope.net]
• Telus Sues Rogers, Says ‘Fastest’ Claim Is False [bloomberg.com]
• Gartner reveals top ten future mobile apps [theinquirer.net]
• NTIA, RUS Report: Government Agencies Have Worked 'Expeditiously' On Distributing Broadband Stimulus Fund [multichannel.com]

• UK Government 'to push through broadband tax' [cable.co.uk]
• Broadband Buffet: Last Call for Consumers? [businessweek.com]
• Broadband stimulus program risks waste and fraud, report says [latimes.com]
• European Commission :Broadband Internet Continues To Grow In The EU Despite All Difficulties [egovmonitor.com]
• ThePlatform Wants To Handle 'TV Everywhere' For Everyone [multichannel.com]
• CTIA, broadcasters wrangle over spectrum [fiercewireless.com]
• RIM: Hackers could make smartphones go 'rogue' [itpro.co.uk]

• Spain govt to guarantee legal right to broadband [reuters.com]
• TMobile breach of data protection laws by selling customer info referred to as 'the biggest of its kind' [broadbandgenie.co.uk]
• UK ISP: Broadband users to forget about email in a decade [cable.co.uk]
• Cox, NBC Run Dynamic VOD Ad Trial [cable360.net]
• Content Discovery a Lucrative But Dangerous Place for Operators [gigaom.com]
• Does Microsoft Even Care About Wireless Anymore? [fool.com]
• The Trouble With Hulu... Too Many Competing Interests [techdirt.com]
• AT&T upgrades 3G in SF Bay Area; forgets Cupertino and Silicon Valley are part of region [zdnet.com]

• UK Considers Opening Up White-Space Radio Spectrum [cellular-news.com]
• Berkman Broadband Study Highly Criticized [multichannel.com]
• ABI: Qualcomm leads in 4G patent race [fiercewireless.com]
• Suing P2P users is like terrorism [theinquirer.net]
• Study suggests mobile broadband plans should be restructured [cable.co.uk]
• Swindon to become UK's first wireless town [pcr-online.biz]
• FreeCreditReport Wins Over 1,000 Domain Names In Dispute Process [techdirt.com]
• Trojans likely to follow Win 7 activation hack [theregister.co.uk]

• Verizon Giving DSL Away, Also Offering Price Breaks on FiOS Bundles, Multiroom DVR [multichannel.com]
• Bush Administration Was Afraid It Would Have To Admit Telcos Helped With Warrantless Wiretaps To Get Immunity [techdirt.com]
• Ruckus Positions 802.11n As WiMax Rival [informationweek.com]
• VeriSign Planning DNS Security for .com and .net [internetnews.com]
• Time Warner Sets Dec. 9 As AOL Spin Date [multichannel.com]
• Ohio's Buckeye Cablevision Pushes Fiber To The Home [multichannel.com]
• Australia May Award $469 Million Broadband Orders, Review Says [bloomberg.com]
• Anti-Internet censorship conference is censored [theinquirer.net]

• Huawei Deploys World's First TD-LTE Trial Network [cellular-news.com]
• Networks & Their Fear & Loathing of Hulu [gigaom.com]
• 3 Reasons Why Cable Should Cheer the Comcast-NBCU Marriage [multichannel.com]
• Newspaper Industry Lawyers Attack Fair Use, Claim Google Is Illegal [techdirt.com]
• Psystar Loses Big To Apple [techdirt.com]
• Google's lifeline for AOL shows signs of fraying [totaltele.com]
• Another bad Flash flaw is revealed [theinquirer.net]
• Is Dell's Android Smartphone Doomed? [networkworld.com]

• Comcast To Launch 'On Demand Online' In Early December [multichannel.com]
• Critical Infrastructure in the Cloud? Absolutely! [networkworld.com]
• FLO TV Goes Retail [multichannel.com]
• Would Google Be Liable Under The Pirate Bay Ruling? [techdirt.com]
• Nortel Completes Wireless Sale to Ericsson [internetnews.com]
• Droid Boasts 25% of Android Web Traffic [internetnews.com]
• DNS problem linked to DDoS attacks gets worse [networkworld.com]
• iPhone Costs Average Yearly Chinese Salary [redherring.com]

• Google gives Voice to 'open standard Skype' [theregister.co.uk]
• Comcast deal for NBCU would face regulatory hurdles [totaltele.com]
• High-speed Internet gap between rich and poor widening, UN warns [app.com.pk]
• There will always be home broadband [techwatch.co.uk]
• Governor Schwarzenegger Endorses Siskiyou County's $23 Million Federal ARRA Rural Broadband Stimulus Bid [dbusinessnews.com]
• Qualcomm combines 3G and 4G wireless technology [theinquirer.net]
• France to announce national fiber plan in December [totaltele.com]
• First Windows 7 zero day exploit is spotted [theinquirer.net]

• Why the Two-Way Broadband Business Model Won't Work [seekingalpha.com]
• FCC Mulls Broadband Network for Public Safety [internetnews.com]
• ABI: 2009 Femtocell Shipments Downsized [cable360.net]
• Broadband map shows BT's superfast fiber network can't meet demand [expertreviews.co.uk]
• Netflix Is the iPod of Broadband [gigaom.com]
• Qualcomm CEO: AT&T will launch first smartbook [fiercewireless.com]
• UK Gov't Official: Innocent People Won't Get Kicked Off The Internet; Trust Us [techdirt.com]
• Vivendi Mum on NBCU/Comcast Deal [multichannel.com]
• Sprint faces possible credit downgrade [fiercewireless.com]
• UK ISP 3 to start shaping traffic on Monday [theregister.co.uk]
• Walmart to Offer $100 Gift Card for Purchased BlackBerry [softpedia.com]
• Google's Chrome beta for Mac expected early December [theregister.co.uk]

• The fragility of the digital home [it-director.com]
• Creditors withdraw motion to appoint investigator in FairPoint bankruptcy [cellular-news.com]
• Booming Gray Market Threatens Cell-Phone Industry [businessweek.com]
• Online Video Advertising Is Increasingly Popular [softpedia.com]
• Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard [electricpig.co.uk]
• Will Call of Duty: Modeern Warfare 2 cripple the Internet? [ukcomparebroadband.com]
• TVGuide.com Launches Online 'DVR' Bookmarks [multichannel.com]
• Top 10 technologies in a death spiral [theinquirer.net]

• Telcos: Wireless to be king, but fixed broadband to stay [thestandard.com]
• Online Viewing of Movies and TV Shows Doubles [ecoustics.com]
• Motorola exec sees room for WiMax and LTE to thrive [computerworld.com]
• FCC Releases Top Five Barriers To Broadband [multichannel.com]
• HP to buy 3Com in $US2.7bn networking, data center bid [arnnet.com.au]
• Nielsen: Droid Not an iPhone Killer [pcmag.com]
• Apple passes Nokia in handset profitability [fiercewireless.com]
• Benchmarks Show Firefox 3.6 Fastest Version Yet [crn.com]

• Hollywood bosses call for ‘three strikes’ [samknows.com]
• Wi-Fi Hotspot Market Stages Revival [mobiletechnews.com]
• Clearwire: 'Google believes in us' [zdnet.com]
• MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off Free Muni-WiFi Over Single Unauthorized Movie Download [techdirt.com]
• Slower broadband speeds could hinder UK house sales [propertytalklive.co.uk]
• Remote repair for infected phones in development [cellular-news.com]
• Microsoft disconnects as many as 600000 Xbox gamers [bbc.co.uk]
• Samsung enters open mobile OS market [fiercewireless.com]

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• ISP Karoo Launchs Bizarre Weekday Only Broadband Package []
• UK ISP O2 does oppsite of Orange; offers free tethering, cheap broadband with iPhone [mobilenewscwp.co.uk]
• UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime [theregister.co.uk]
• Google to Offer Free Wi-Fi in Airports During Holiday Season [eweek.com]
• Botnet responsible for estimated third of world's spam< knocked out by security firm/a> [theregister.co.uk]
• Firefox five years old today [theinquirer.net]
• Microsoft will release six updates next Patch Tuesday [theinquirer.net]

• Dish Files To Trademark 'TV Everywhere' [multichannel.com]
• Free Press, Hispanic Media Coaltion: We Can Make Own Net-Neutrality Decisions [multichannel.com]
• IFPI: If Lawsuits Aren't Working In Denmark, We'll Seize Computers To Get Evidence [techdirt.com]
• Mobile broadband not so shiny on new Mac operating system [broadbandgenie.co.uk]
• UK Conservatives announce fiber broadband tax review plans [cable.co.uk]
• AT&T now offering “with Canda” wireless calling plans [gadgetell.com]
• Sprint may slash up to 2,500 jobs [fiercewireless.com]
• World's first iPhone worm Rickrolls angry fanbois [theregister.co.uk]

• AT&T's Donovan defends network, touts connected devices [fiercewireless.com]
• NTIA awards another approximately $13.5 million to seven more states [multichannel.com]
• Lessons From the War Over Skype [nytimes.com]
• Voice Is Cable’s Secret Weapon for Growth [gigaom.com]
• UK provider takes cue from AT&T debacle, throttles iPhone users [theinquirer.net]
• Court Says Telenor Doesn't Need To Block The Pirate Bay [techdirt.com]
• Verizon's Buzz for Motorola's Droid Fizzles at Day's End [cio-today.com]
• Venezuelan Government Blames Video Games For Violence, Implements Widespread Ban [techdirt.com]

• Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model [techdirt.com]
• NCTA Outlines Ways For FCC To Free Up Funds For Broadband Deployment [multichannel.com]
• Infonetics Research discusses broadband congestion [broadband-finder.co.uk]
• Netflix Ships PS3 Streaming Discs As Survey Shows ‘Watch Instantly’ Is Hugely Popular [webtvwire.com]
• Backdoor in top iPhone games stole user data, suit claims [theregister.co.uk]
• UK mobile consolidation looms as Orange, T-Mobile ink merger [totaltele.com]
• Symbian phones to support NFC in 2010 [nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com]
• Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan [cnet.com]

• NCTA Chief argues broadband stimulus program neglects demand side [internetnews.com]
• Verizon, AT&T, others rally on IMS approach to voice over LTE [fiercewireless.com]
• Spain won't disconnect illegal file sharers [theregister.co.uk]
• China says there's no such thing as net addiction - then warns on 'inappropriate use of internet' [theregister.co.uk]
• Cablevision Mobilizes DVR App [multichannel.com]
• AT&T Drops Price Of FLO TV from $15/month to $9.99/month [moconews.net]
• Verizon Wireless To Increase Termination Fees to $350 [cellular-news.com]
• Sun and RIM release critical patches [security-watchdog.co.uk]