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Spectrum Reality
Now that a detente of sorts has been reached with Congressional efforts to muzzle some of the most egregious criminal sites on the Internet, attention came resume on some of the other pressing tech policy issues.The spectrum crunch was at the top of the agenda before the anti-crime discussion began in earnest in December (why is December always the time for monster tech policy issues?) and with all sides in agreement that Protect IP and SOPA can move forward without DNS filtering, it seems that attention will once again shift back to spectrum. The mobile network providers and the House Energy and Commerce Committee are on one side of the current spectrum auctions issue, arguing that the FCC needs guidance [...]
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Last May and June, BBC aired a three part documentary by Adam Curtis on how computers are reshaping society called “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.” The title comes from a hippie poem of Richard Brautigan’s from the ’60s that expressed we would call “cyber-utopian” sentiments today. Brautigan fantasized about a world of plenty in which computers would [...]
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Apps, Web Apps, and the Future of Computing
One of the questions that keeps coming up in discussions about where network computing is going is the Web vs. Apps controversy. Wired magazine helped kick it off in 2010 with their “Web is Dead” issue. Wired showed a traffic graph highlighting the rise of video traffic on the Internet to a measured level of 51% of the total, not [...]
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Why Did Vint Cerf Say That?
Vint Cerf, one of the primary designers of TCP/IP and a man who’s among the “fathers of the Internet” has an Op-Ed in today’s New York Times arguing that Internet access is not a “human right.” This has a lot [...]
Discussion Thread: Does DNS Filtering Break the Internet?
There’s a lot of controversy about the DNS filtering mandate proposed in two bills moving in the U. S. Congress, PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA.) This is place to express your point of view and your [...]
SOPA Hearing DNS Filtering Discussion
The House Judiciary Hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) held on Thursday, December 15 was certainly one of the longest hearings in recent memory, as well as one of the most detailed. A group of nine members of [...]
My DNS Filtering Research before House SOPA Panel
The US House of Representatives was debating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill yesterday and the issue of DNS Filtering and the alleged danger to the Internet was raised. My research on DNS Filtering was referenced as a rebuttal to the claims [...]
FCC and AT&T Rural LTE Kerfuffle
A lot of ink has been spilled in the past week since AT&T withdrew its FCC application for a merger with T-Mobile and the FCC released a staff analysis report. AT&T’s Jim Cicconi took exception to FCC report’s assertion that AT&T [...]
The Shift to Smartphones in the Developed World
It’s a clear indication of mainstream smartphone adoption when even my mother is interested in getting a smartphone. She has always been content with a basic phone – not even a feature phone – but is now interested in getting [...]
Giving Android a Chance
A little less than a month ago, I wrote some effusive praise for the iPhone 4S on this blog and chronicled my buying experience. The 4S is a very impressive device in many respects, but my experience with it on [...]
How Technology and Markets Made Net Neutrality Moot
Before the courts have even ruled on Verizon’s lawsuit against the FCC‘s proposed Net Neutrality regulations, it appears that technological progress will make the wireless device neutrality portion of the FCC rules moot. One of the key aspects of Net [...]
“Unlimited” Now Equals 300 Megabytes
A small wireless company called Republic Wireless has started a new “unlimited” wireless voice/text/data service for $19 per month. It was bad enough when companies were calling 5 gigabytes unlimited, but Republic Wireless has stretched the meaning to a whole new [...]
Experimental Radio Applications at the FCC
This summarizes a selection from 173 applications for the Experimental Radio Service received by the FCC during August and September 2011. These are related to long-range low-frequency radar, amateur radio, shortwave data, wireless microphones, single-sideband, mine detection, millimeter-wave communications, signal [...]
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