Telecom: The U.S. House of Representatives voted down an amendment that would have required broadband providers to set aside connections for high-speed services. “This will stifle openness, endanger our global competitiveness, and warp the Web into a tiered Internet of bandwidth haves and have-nots,” says Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who offered the provision. Browsers: In what some are calling the first time Google has hawked third-party products on its homepage, the search engine is actively pushing the open source Firefox browser. Security: Phishers are now dialing into VoIP, and have begun luring victims to fake call centers to verify account information on a phony customers support number. Bugs, meanwhile, are crawling around the Internet Software Consortium’s BIND software, but are not considered critical. Columnists’ corner: Running Windows Server 2003 and considering implementing a wiki? Then Oliver Rist has a suggestion: Use SharePoint. “I point this out not because I’m a Microsoft moonie, and I do it only partially because of this column’s moniker. Mostly I’m pointing this out because if you’re reading this, it’s likely that you’ve got a series of Windows 2003 servers in your enterprise — and if you do, you’ve already paid for a chunk of SharePoint, at least as far as wiki-type functionality is concerned.” Read Tap SharePoint and get wiki wid it. Technology Industry