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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 ...
Mobile
iPhone
This morning, the Technology Committee of the New York City Council convened a large hearing on a resolution urging Congress to pass a robust Net Neutrality law. I was supposed to testify, but our narrowband transportation system prevented me from getting to New York. Here, however, is the ...
Online
Scribd
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 ...
Mobile
FCC
The American Consumer Institute has released a collection of essays addressing the likely consequences of “‘Net Neutrality” regulation for investment in broadband and for consumer welfare. These are important things to consider, in case it needs saying.
Other
My colleague (and boss) Adam Thierer had a great post last week about how “fart apps” are a great example of the generative nature of the mobile phone application marketplace. But Fart apps are just one type of “soundboard” application. A typical soundboard app has a bunch of ...
Mobile
Android
My March 2008 paper, Franz Kafka’s Solution to Illegal Immigration , detailed the problems with electronic employment verification systems. The paper concludes that successful “internal enforcement” of immigration law requires a national ID—and ultimately a ...
Other
Yo people, help me build this list of the best Internet and digital technology (”Info-Tech”) policy reporters on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/AdamThierer/infotech-policy-reporters/members
I’m trying to make sure I’m following the best reporters out there who cover ...
Online
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 Microsoft, AOL-Time Warner, and Comcast: “I can’t imagine being a competitor ...
Home Theater
Microsoft
Comcast
AOL
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 ...
Other
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 ...
Other
John McCain
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”: ...
iPhone
Apple
Microsoft
Windows Mobile
iPhone
App Store
I wrote here a couple of months ago about the shady practice among a few Internet retailers of handing off customers who accept a “special offer” to a company that charges people a monthly fee for some kind of credit monitoring service. And I argued hopefully that maybe technologists and the ...
Other
Adam has done yeoman’s work for years pointing out, and arguing against, the phenomenon of techno-panic as it relates to children. That’s not the only area in which techno-panic can tighten its grip on the neck of common sense and the constitution, of course.
But here’s a ...
Other
Great NPR story today on how online social networking is helping to bring medical patients together to talk about their conditions and compare treatments.
The story quotes Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project:
“They are posting their first-person accounts of ...
Other
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 ...
Other
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 ...
Software
Apple
I’m VERY impressed with my Droid, particularly its browser capabilities. I can even run the backend of Wordpreess inside the browser (”Look, Ma, no app!”) to blog! (The app will help, as there are a few things that don’t work quite perfectly inside the browser.)
My ...
Mobile
Android
Wordpress
PC
Verizon
I got some feedback from readers about my post last night regarding the irony of the FCC’s newly-created MySpace page containing some rather vulgar user comments. I wondered if the agency would continue to allow such comments when the agency regulates similar words when they are uttered ...
Online
MySpace
Larry Page
FCC
A public policy collaborator and sparring partner wrote me just now, saying: “I don’t imagine you guys spend much time looking at media monopolies!”
Think about it.
Other
Oh my. So today, as part of its ongoing effort to look like the hip new regulatory agency on the block, the Federal Communications Commission decided to launch a MySpace page . Really. Big. Mistake.
I mean, shouldn’t someone over there have known it would take about 2 milliseconds ...
