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Obama Team Names Net Neutrality Advocates for FCC Review
Slashdot reports that the Obama-Biden transition team have named two long-time Net Neutrality supporters to head up it’s FCC Review team. The two chosen were Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan Law School professor, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC member and Wharton professor. This choice by the Obama-Biden team sends a clear message that [...]
Continue reading...FCC Approves Unlicensed White Space Spectrum Use
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
After a long fight Google, Microsoft, and many other tech companies won their argument with the FFC yesterday when the FCC voted to approve the use of unlicensed “white spaces” spectrum newly freed up as a result of TV broadcasters going from analog to digital broadcasts. While there are companies opposed to opening up this newly [...]
Continue reading...FCC Wants Your Feedback on MPAA DVR Lock-Down
Friday, June 13, 2008
In an effort to make sure that consumers don’t enjoy their content too much, the MPAA is trying to push the adoption of Selectable Output Control (SOC), which would allow the MPAA to remotely decide when a movie could or couldn’t be recorded by our DVR. The point of contention came when the FCC stepped [...]
Continue reading...Congress to Investigate the FCC over Comcast Investigation
Friday, January 11, 2008
Confused about why Congress would investigate the FCC? No worries… let me explain: Comcast starts blocking and shaping user traffic quietly and denies it when asked about it. The block and shaping is independent confirmed by techies and researchers The Associated Press finally confirms it and publishes their findings The FCC takes notice, and announces they will investigate Comcast *MY [...]
Continue reading...FCC Complaints Up 711%
Sunday, June 24, 2007
I’m not actually clear on the percentage, but Ars Technica got on their soap box and decided to take a look at what is going on with the rise from 350 complaints in 2000 to 240,000 complaints in 2003. No you didn’t read that wrong… and yes, that was in 2003 not in 2007. What [...]
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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