Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The Internet Has Not Transformed Civic Engagement…Yet
If there is any subject that optimists and pessimists love to bang heads over, it’s the Internet.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Report: Personal Internet Use At Work Out Of Control
As Congress once again considers a response to the latest outbreak of “inadvertent” peer-to-peer file sharing, the P2P software industry will doubtless point to its efforts to bring the problem under control.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
FCC Promises Open Process on National Broadband Strategy
Get ready for an excruciatingly inclusive process in figuring out how the government will implement its national broadband strategy.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Handicapping the Genachowski Honeymoon
The news that President Obama has formally nominated Julius Genachowski to chair the Federal Communications Commission has been received with something slightly short of euphoria by a large portion of the broadcasting and telecommunications sector. Over the last eight hours Ars Technica has been deluged with statements of pure, unadulterated happiness about the pick….
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Rockers Refuse to Throw the Horns for White Space Broadband
As a vote on the question looms, the Federal Communications Commission’s docket continues to fill up with an amazing number of statements, position papers, petitions and pronouncements, all focused on whether the agency should authorize unlicensed devices to pick up and receive wireless broadband via temporarily unused TV channels–aka white space.
Monday, July 7, 2008
FCC Ponders Solution to Bird-Slaying Communications Towers
What should the government do about migrating birds that fatally collide into wireless communications towers at night? The actual number of deaths is disputed, but it may run into the millions each year. A recent mini-conference on the problem held at the Federal Communications Commission went largely unnoticed by most agency watchers, present company included.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Cable and Telcos Side With Comcast in FCC BitTorrent Dispute
The race is on to get the last word in on the Comcast/BitTorrent controversy. With 10 days left to file, telcos, trade and advocacy groups are sending the Federal Communications Commission their statements on whether Comcast and other ISPs purposefully degrade peer-to-peer traffic, and if so, what to do about it. Not surprisingly, the debate pits broadband content providers and advocacy groups against the big telcos, cable companies and their trade association backers.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
P2P Users Blast Comcast in FCC Proceeding
Two weeks into a Federal Communications Commission public comment period on whether Comcast deliberately degrades P2P broadband traffic, there’s no shortage of angry users who feel cheated and want the tampering to stop. Evidence is also mounting that Comcast is blocking more than just P2P traffic.
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