Facebook’s new full SSL feature finally works three years after it became widely known that Facebook user accounts were easily hijacked. Unfortunately, their update still won’t fully protect Facebook users because Facebook forgot to deploy HTTPS authentication on the user login page.

Hillicon Valley reports that Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) will introduce legislation dealing with online privacy next week. The legislation will provide an “opt out” for individuals that do not want to allow advertisers to track them.

Why all the “Net Neutrality” screaming about Verizon throttling 5% of the heaviest users? Even under the strictest Net Neutrality rules, a fair sharing throttling scheme is reasonable and legal. For wireless networks, it’s the only way to keep the network operational for everyone.

The appeals of the FCC’s Net Neutrality rule continued to run their courses this week. [For background, see Which Court Gets to Hear the Net Neutrality Appeal? (Jan. 21) &  More on the Verizon Appeal of the Net Neutrality Regulation (Jan. 24).] On Jan. 10, even before the rule was published (which still has not [...]

Renesys who conducts real-time web studies has posted their real-time video of Egypt’s Internet activity this week.  As is well known by now there is a massive revolutionary uprising in Egypt that has been going on for the past week.  Several days ago the government pulled the plug on all the major ISP’s in the [...]

Google accused Microsoft of copying its Google search data as a ranking factor in Microsoft’s Bing search engine, but this is strange coming from Google since it routinely uses public web data gathered from the world’s websites.  For example, Google YouTube uses Amazon’s recommendation rankings.

Monday brought some bad news for Intel when it was announced that their latest product codenamed “Sandy Bridge” had a flaw in its chipsets.  Sandy Bridge is the code name for Intel’s latest microprocessor or CPU and the chipset called “Cougar Point” is the accompanying set of chips that provider peripheral functionality such as storage, and it’s located [...]

Athima Chansanchai has an expanded report on CNET’s Caroline McCarthy’s story on Facebooks move to take over the Internets commenting systems.