Next week, the Senate subcommittee on communications will hear testimony concerning recent retransmission fee disputes between content providers and cable service providers.
A company in the UK will pay people up to 1000 pounds for monitoring commercial CCTV footage and alerting business owners to potential criminal activity.
A cadre of broadband engineers and academics have penned a letter to the FCC, thanking it for recognizing the growing rift between the traditional, every-packet-is-equal Internet and the “managed or specialized services” Internet that many ISPs are tinkering with.
The watchdog group Parents Television Council has documented the exponential rise of expletives in broadcast television with interesting statistics. Among them, use of bleeped or muted “f-words” has increased by 2409% in the past five years.
A number of suggestions have been offered to reform the FCC’s Lifeline and Link-up programs, which provide phone access (and perhaps broadband services in the near future) to the poor. One notable suggestion would automatically sign up individuals for these services after applying for food stamps or similar benefits.
This article contains observations from an early pioneer who terminated his cable subscription and has helped to integrate a new paradigm for video consumption into the zeitgeist.
Two interesting, yet difficult-to-prove stories involving giants of the industry: (1) Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) says Google’s recent privacy breach of residential Wi-Fi networks was a “conscious effort”; (2) Prof. Susan Crawford suggests that Comcast, concerned about its pending merger with NBC-Universal, had a say in Keith Olbermann’s suspension from MSNBC.
Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt a state court’s decision that class action bans within arbitration clauses are unenforceable? AT&T hopes so, and the Supreme Court will hear arguments on this case tomorrow.
The European Commission and Parliament are holding a daylong meeting to discuss net neutrality and related issues.
Given the context of last week’s Yemen-to-Chicago bomb scare, how do we secure in-flight Wi-Fi networks so that terrorists are unable to use them for destructive ends?
Marvin Ammori 