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GOOGLE has unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers are inappropriately blocking or slowing their work online.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc on Wednesday unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers like Comcast Corp are inappropriately blocking or slowing their work online.

GOOGLE has unveiled a plan aimed at letting computer users determine whether ISPs are inappropriately blocking or slowing their work online.

The newest version of Internet Explorer 8 is still the slowest big browser when it comes to JavaScript. But it has significantly closed the gap since last summer's second beta, benchmark scores show.According to tests run by Computerworld , Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (IE8 RC1) lags behind its four major competitors in rendering JavaScript -- at times, by large margins.[ Discover the top-rated IT products as rated by the InfoWorld Test Center. ]Mozilla's Firefox, Google's Chrome, Opera Software's Opera and Apple's Safari all posted better SunSpider JavaScript benchmark scores, with Chrome leading the pack. It was four times faster than IE8 RC1, while Firefox and Safari were nearly twice as fast.Computerworld ran the SunSpider suite in Windows XP three times for each browser, then averaged the scores. In SunSpider, smaller numbers are better. The results were: Chrome 2.0.159.0 -- 1275; Firefox 3.0.5 -- 3037; Safari 3.2.1 -- 3050; Opera 9.63 -- 4139; and I

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Thursday 29 January 2009 at 00:56:00Measurement Lab offers net neutrality testGoogle has released a new tool which lets users find out whether theirbandwidth is being purposely throttled by their ISP.The newGoogleMeasurement Lab allows people to monitor their network traffic, and detectwhether an internet service provider (ISP) is deliberately slowing certain typesof traffic, specifically from torrent services.Google has partnered with theNewAmerica Foundation and thePlanetLabConsortium, and hopes that the site and its accompanying set of measurementtools will allow the group to identify any ISP deliberately throttling webtraffic.'By running these tools, users will get information about their connectionand provide researchers with valuable aggregate data,' wrote Google internetevangelist Vint Cerf and engineer Stephen Stuart in ablogpost.'No matter your views on net neutrality and ISP network management practic

Google's new Measurement Lab will be able to determine why your connection speeds are what they are.

How much do you know about your Internet connection? The search giant and research groups team up on a platform to put Internet activity under a microscope.

Google challenges Internet service providers with Web measurement tools from Measurement Lab, a research effort designed to put Internet service providers in check. M-Lab is a new network neutrality weapon for content providers to wield against service providers who throttle Web services, or assign preferential traffic treatment. Google is clearly protecting its cloud computing kingdom. - Google opened a new front in the network neutrality war between content providers and Internet service providers Jan. 28 by offering measurement tools to help computer users determine why their Web applications are balky.The search company created Measurement Lab, an open platform upon which r...

A new open platform from Google, the New america Foundation, and PlanetLab allows consumers to monitor their broadband connection for Internet provider interference.

A new open platform from Google, the New america Foundation, and PlanetLab allows consumers to monitor their broadband connection for Internet provider interference.