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There was a very interesting front-page article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Julia Angwin and Geoffrey Fowler wondering whether Wikipedia , the wildly popular online encyclopedia, was dying because of new posting guidelines which have apparently led to a drop off in the number of ...
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Because it's guaranteed to produce a wry chuckle, I occasionally check the PTC (Parent's Television Council) website to see what shows have recently most offended their delicate sensitivities. Apparently, the latest outrage has to do with some sexually suggestive song and dance routines ...
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Free Press, the radical pro-regulatory media activist group, recently filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the agency's upcoming workshop on " How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age ?" The Free Press comments provide an enlightening glimpse into the mind of how many ...
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Arik Hesseldahl has an interesting piece in Business Week about Apple's control of the iPhone App approval process in which he asks: "Is a smartphone gatekeeper needed?" Plenty of people don't think so and have raised a stink about Apple trying to play that role for the iPhone. It certainly ...
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It's truly amazing how fast mobile broadband demand is expanding. A couple of things caught my eye yesterday that really drove that home. First, I was reading Bernstein Research's weekly (subscription-only) newsletter and Craig Moffett, one of America's top media and communications analysts, ...
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Just when it was starting to look like it was "All Broadband, All the Time" at the Federal Communications Commission, a ray of light burst through: an FCC investigation into fraudulent billings of the Telecommunications Relay Fund has resulted in substantial fines levied by the U.S. Department ...
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I'm VERY impressed with my Droid, particularly its browser capabilities. I can even run the backend of Wordpress inside the browser ("Look, Ma, no app!") to blog! (The WPtoGo app helps, as there are a few things that don't work quite perfectly inside the browser.)
My Droid is a pretty darn ...
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Great story in Wired about how Apple disrupted Microsoft's mobile OS lead, again illustrating how quickly today's leaders can, and probably will, become tomorrow's laggards in the topsy-turvy tech biz.
And on the benefits of Apple's heretical "closedness":
The iPhone operates on a closed ...
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Hmmm... What am I missing? I cannot lay my finger on a single line in the Communications Act of 1934, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, or any statute in between that gives the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the authority to regulate cloud computing . And yet, like any good stickler ...
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I was just digging through some old files and came across a quote that I found entertaining. Back in 2003, when he was still president and chief operating officer of Viacom, Mel Karmazin said with reference to Microsoft, AOL-Time Warner, and Comcast: "I can't imagine being a competitor with any ...
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Rep. Bart Stupak , (D-MI) recently introduced the '' Online Age Verification and Child Safety Act '' (H.R. 4059), which would require mandatory online age verification for "any pornographic website accessible by any computer located within the United States to display any pornographic material, ...
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The Wall Street Journal reports that "FCC staff also are studying whether to revive 'open access' rules, which would require Internet providers to lease their networks to rivals at government-regulated prices." "Revive" is an interesting choice of words, as it implies that such rules were once ...
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As I noted in a recent paper with my PFF colleague Barbara Esbin (" An Offer They Can't Refuse: Spectrum Reallocation That Can Benefit Consumers, Broadcasters & the Mobile Broadband Sector ") an official at the Federal Communications Commission (Blair Levin) recently suggested that it might ...
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Why do (most) stores have walls? Because, obviously, walls are generally (at least in the developing world) a cost-effective technology for enforcing the value exchange that stores offer customers: products or services for customers' cash. Open-air markets exist, but tend to be reserved for ...
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This will be a busy week for those who follow privacy policy in Washington:
Monday (11/16), 11 am : the coalition of 10 so-called "privacy advocacy" groups that recently demanded sweeping regulation of online data collection and use will be holding a briefing for congressional staffers on ...
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In the debates about media policy, big stories and big companies dominate the discussion. But the audience fragmentation that is undermining traditional business models for large enterprises like Tribune, the New York Times, and large broadcast groups also is taking its toll in small town ...
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Seems like everywhere I turn someone is gushing about their new Droid phone, including my TLF colleagues Berin Szoka, Braden Cox, and Ryan Radia, who all had great fun rubbing their new toys in my nose over the past couple of days. And why not, it's a very cool little device. It makes my HTC ...
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Mercury News Columnist Chris O'Brien warns Beware the hype around mergers ! O'Brien catalogs the many failed that ultimately ended in divestitures in the tech sector in recent years citing data provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Bryan McLaughlin, who estimated tha:
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Adam Thierer and I will be participating in two separate panels at the FTC's December 7 "Exploring Privacy" workshop discussing, respectively, surveys & expectations and online behavioral advertising. Below is the cover letter I filed as part of my comments ( PDF & Scribd ), along with ...
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by Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer
The latest call for "search neutrality" and "cloud neutrality" comes from Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota's School of Mathematics & Digital Technology Center--and probably among the top ten most influential academics in Internet policy. In ...
