Almost one year after some users first noticed Comcast was throttling traffic to peer-to-peer sites, the company decided to reverse course. Facing pressure from the Federal Communications Commission as well as advocates and law professors, and at least one lawsuit by a consumer, the company finally said it will work with BitTorrent to find a way to manage traffic that doesn't depend on discriminating against certain types of protocols.

Warner Music Group is floating a proposal again that Internet service providers charge users monthly fees for unlimited access to music, according to Portfolio.com.

Paid search accounted for much of the remarkable growth spurt in online advertising that helped revitalize the flagging industry after the dot-com crash earlier this decade. But new data from comScore indicates that the paid search boom might have peaked.

As of this morning, presidential candidate Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia about race relations had been viewed around 3.8 million times on YouTube alone. When the speech aired on TV last week, around 4 million viewers watched it in real time. In other words, approximately as many people saw Obama's address on their own time, via YouTube, as on cable.

In another example of an Internet host censoring a Web site, U.S. company Network Solutions has suspended the site where Dutch politician Geert Wilders had planned to post his anti-Islam movie "Fitna."

Today's New York Times examines a relatively new addition to Google's search results -- the search-within-search box. With this tool, users can look for specific pages within a site without leaving Google.

Apple might be considering launching a music subscription service that would allow iPod owners to rent all the tracks they want for a set fee. At least that's as reported in The Financial Times, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times; some other press accounts have been skeptical. Apple itself has kept quiet on the reports.

Here's the good news: There were 100.9 million U.S. high-speed connections -- at least 200 Kpbs downloads or uploads -- for homes and businesses last June. That marks a 23% increase from 82.2 million the year before, according to a new Federal Communications Commission report. But here's the bad news: A new study by the European Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says that broadband penetration in the United States still lags behind 14 other countries.

Facebook has added new privacy tools that give members the ability to decide which other users can view photos, phone numbers and other personal information.

Yahoo today publicly laid out its argument for why Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid is too low.