Industry Ears

Nielsen reports online user trends Study finds 79% would avoid Web site that charges By Georg Szalai NEW YORK — As media and entertainment companies continue to mull new ways to charge consumers for online news and entertainment, 85% continue to prefer that content remain free. According to new research from Nielsen, which asked more

Obama admin report: More people getting Internet, but poor and minorities lagging More people are using broadband Internet at home, but low-income families, minorities and seniors aren’t adopting the service as quickly as others, according to the Obama administration. The findings were in a report released Tuesday by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and

Google To Build Ultra-Fast, Consumer Broadband Networks in U.S. By Ryan Singel Wired.com Search and advertising giant Google plans to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the U.S., promising up to a one gigabit per second service — a hundred-fold increase over what most Americans currently can subscribe

Push-polling” net neutrality By James Rucker Guest Contributor A little over a week ago I delved into a troubling topic: Why are so many civil rights groups and members of the Congressional Black Caucus opposing net neutrality? It seemed strange to me that leaders in communities of color would be echoing discredited telecommunications industry talking

Obama’s Proposed “Small Business” Initiative Lacks Audacity (and Focus) By Chris Rabb Originally published on The Huffington Post You wouldn’t have guessed it from listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address, but small and/or new businesses aren’t really the types of enterprises that need our recirculated stimulus money the most. Mature businesses do.