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The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to people familiar with the matter. Justice Department officials have spoken to several online video providers, including Netflix Inc. NFLX +0.65% and Hulu LLC, those people said. Investigators have also questioned Comcast Corp., CMCSA -0.39% Time Warner Cable Inc.

Consumers are cutting the cord and ditching their cable subscriptions for online options like Hulu and iTunes. Is cable TV not long for this world?

A Guide to the Open Internet

Network neutrality is the idea that your cellular, cable, or phone internet connection should treat all websites and services the same. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast want to treat them differently so they can charge you more depending on what you use.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently debating legislation to define limits for internet service providers (ISPs). The hope is that they will keep the internet open and prevent companies from discriminating against different kinds of websites and services.

Make no mistake: The big cable, satellite, and telco carriers are still sitting pretty with more than 100 million TV subscribers. Nevertheless, a new report claims that more and more viewers are "cutting the cord" in favor of watching their favorite shows via over-the-air antennas (remember those?), Netflix, or the Web.

A number of private bus companies and van drivers are trying to pick up the slack left by this summer's MTA's service cuts. They're thinking private enterprise could operate those routes more efficiently than the public sector -- and even make a profit. In late June, one company, Mr. S Charter Services, started running along a former express bus route in Brooklyn.

The buses don’t look like typical MTA buses. When one pulls up to Coney Island Avenue and Avenue X after 7:30 one morning, its windshield is embalzoned with the words "God Bless America" and "Blessed Save with Grace."

Internet service providers are to be asked by the government to tighten up on website pornography to try to combat the early sexualisation of children.

Ministers believe broadband providers should consider automatically blocking sex sites, with individuals being required to opt in to receive them, rather than opt out and use the available computer parental controls.

WE'VE got some good news for anyone who misses those old grey Telecom touch phones.

Your house is about to get another grey box, courtesy of the NBN.

New pictures of the NBN Network Termination Unit, or "NBN Box", have been published in an information pack for consumers.

The NBN Box will connect you to the new broadband network when it's rolled out in your area.

All Australian homes will get one, regardless of whether they're hooked up to the network via fibre-optic cable, wireless or satellite.

Saturday Night Live skit, "2010 Public Service Employee of the Year Award Ceremony," slams public employees for being surly, lazy and self serving. Painfully funny.