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Georgia Shoots Down Awful Anti-Consumer Broadband Law - Though 19 Cities Now Have Laws Banning or Hindering Community Broadband | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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AT&T Tells Kentucky That Cutting DSL Lines = 'Upgrades' - AT&T Astroturfers Use Misleading Push Polls to Confuse Locals | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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AT&T Conning Kentucky & Kansas Into Gutting Oversight, DSL - AT&T Written Bill Passes Kansas House 118 to 1 | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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Free Press Hammers AT&T On Copper Network Shutdown - Insists Company is Gutting All Meaningful Oversight | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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America’s Coming Space Wars

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Alfred W. McCoy - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the lower- to the exo-atmosphere. A wonder of the modern age, it can deliver its weaponry anywhere on the planet with staggering speed, knock out an enemy’s satellite communications system, or follow individuals biometrically for great distances. Along with the country’s advanced cyberwar capacity, it’s also the most sophisticated militarized information system ever created and an insurance policy for U.S. global dominion deep into the twenty-first century. It’s the future as the Pentagon imagines it; it’s under development; and Americans know nothing about it.

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The AT&T T-Mobile Deal Is Officially Dead - After Historic Consumer, Industry and Regulatory Opposition

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

dslreports.com - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - Unfortunately... its too early to call 'Victory' for anyone, unless you're a current T-Mobile customer, or Sprint executive. Winners ?? T-Mobile customers (currently) Sprint Losers: AT&T obviously T-Mobile itself and customers. T-Mobile will still be sol

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AT&T Withdraws T-Mobile Deal Application at FCC - Uses Thanksgiving Distraction to Minimize PR Hit

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

dslreports.com - Nov. 24 (Opinion) - Hoping that the tryptophan roar of the Thansgiving holiday would take the public relations sting out of the move, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom this morning announced that the company would be withrawding their application at the FCC to acquire T-Mobile. The

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Study: Verizon Hasn't Paid a Cent in Taxes in 3 Years - AT&T, Comcast, AT&T Huge Beneficiaries of Loopholes, Subsidies | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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God Supports The AT&T T-Mobile Merger - AT&T's Merger Support Hijinks Still Making Waves

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

dslreports.com - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - Using lobbyists, hired consultants, fake consumer groups, think tanks and an unlimited number of advocacy groups willing to repeat whatever they're told in exchange for cash donations -- AT&T has created a "sound wall" of support for their planned acquis

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Wall Street Protests: Will the Revolution Be Tweeted? - Speakeasy - WSJ

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

blogs.wsj.com - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - Wall Street JournalWall Street Protests: Will the Revolution Be Tweeted?Wall Street Journal (blog)There have been many political actions whose emergence or nature has been tied to new media—the most-discussed seem to be Iran's 2009 “Twitter Revolution” and the “Facebook Revolutions” in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. When I've been asked to speak or ...What College Freshmen and Seniors Need to Know About Social NetworkingFox BusinessHow To Use Social Media To Promote Your Small BusinessForbesLinkedIn Expert Helps Businesses Leverage Social Media to Generate New Leads ...MarketWatch (press release)MiamiHerald.com -The Guardian -Philippine Starall 173 news articles »

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Telcos could be the key to Twitter’s revenue model

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Sam Ramji - Jun. 26 (Interview) - At WWDC this year Apple and Twitter announced a new partnership to bring Twitter to iOS devices. While this is impressive, the total number of new iOS users is dwarfed by the number of people who use feature phones worldwide. So how will services like Twitter bridge this opportunity gap?

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Japan Earthquake: Internet a Communications Lifeline as Telephone Lines Fail

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

seekingalpha.com - By Paolo Gorgo - Mar. 14 (Editorial) - Japan’s devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami put the country's telecommunications and Internet infrastructure under intense pressure. Millions of telephone lines were unavailable soon after the quake. Data connections were actually the least impacted, so that many Japanese turned to Web access in order to communicate with families and friends. Japan’s tsunami warning system worked properly, likely helping limit damage and loss of life.

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What is IPv6 and Why Should We Care?

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Next Web - Feb. 13 (Advocacy) - The IP [Internet Protocol] is a communication protocol used to relay data across a network. This is the primary protocol that establishes the Internet. The version of IP (IPv4) used today has not changed since 1981. It supports 4 billion addresses. We are running out of space. IPv6 will support 340,000 billion addresses and be user-friendly for mobile IP's.

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Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

TechCrunch - By Daniel Raffel - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his favorite new geek stuff from 2010. Looking back at 2010, Im particularly struck by the quantity and quality of new projects that launched. Just when I thought I had time to start reflecting on the year another project popped up onto my radar! And then another. And another! I count myself lucky to be working in an industry with so much creativity and ener

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Half a loaf: the FCC's Weak Rule on Net Neutrality

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - My take: the new rule is another example of the Democrats' "half a loaf" thinking and falls short of pledges by President Obama and his administration to protect the Internet against phone and cable gatekeepers.

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Sen. Rockefeller: FCC Should Take FOX News, MSNBC Off Airwaves

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Real Clear Politics - By Jay Rockefeller - Nov. 17 (Speech) - "There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: 'Out. Off. End. Goodbye.' It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future."

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Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slashdot - By CmdrTaco - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - The White House plans to deliver a bill to Congress next year that will require internet based communication services that use encryption to be capable of decrypting messages to comply with federal wiretap orders?. The bill will go beyond CALEA to apply to services such as Blackberry email. Even though RIM has stated that it does not currently have an ability to decrypt messages via a master key or back door, the bill may require them to. Regarding this development, James Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology commented on the proposal saying, 'They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function.

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How I Lost the Big One, Bigtime

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ammori.org - By Marvin Ammori - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit ruled on an important Internet law case I argued for the FCC’s supporting Intervenors, where the court rejected legal theories I helped craft on complaint I filed when I was, oddly, the only on-staff lawyer of the lead complainant, the media reform/open Internet group called Free Press. (I had deferred my current law professorship for that position.) Jack wrote about it yesterday, and I wanted to post a few thoughts about the decision.

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10 Technologies That Will Rock 2010

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TechCrunch - By Erick Schonfeld - Jan. 02 (Opinion) - Now that the aughts are behind us, we can start the new decade with a bang. So many new technologies are ready to make a big impact this year. Some of them will be brand new, but many have been gestating and are now ready to hatch. Below is my list of the ten technologies that will leave the biggest marks on 2010.

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Apple Rejects Google Voice, Plays with Fire

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

FreePress.net - By Josh Levy - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - Say it ain’t so, Apple. TechCrunch is reporting that you’ve rejected the official Google Voice app from the iPhone App Store, along with all Google voice-related applications. It seems you’re blocking Google Voice even though these apps have already been approved for the BlackBerry and Android phones, and even though you’ve enjoyed a chummy relationship with Google in the past, with Google CEO Eric Schmidt even sitting on your board. This rejection is the most recent in a line of dubious decisions made by Apple – most likely with AT&T breathing down their necks – to block apps that “duplicate” existing functions on the iPhone.

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Julius Genachowski to Chair FCC: Prospects for Media and Internet

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Josh Silver - Jan. 13 (Comment) - The FCC is poised to decide on a host of media policies that will have a profound impact on our media experience. Will Internet service providers be allowed to eliminate Net Neutrality and censor content? Will the airwaves be opened up to new wireless service providers that make high-speed Internet more ubiquitous and affordable? Will the largest media companies be allowed to further consolidate ownership, homogenize content and crowd out diversity? Will the US continue the slide from 4th to 22nd amongst developed nations in Internet speed and adoption?

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Tolerance and the Internet

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ICT4Peace - By Sanjana Hattotuwa - Dec. 29 (Opinion) - That the evolution of social networking, mobiles and the web in general leads to more self-referential, insular and viciously exclusive virtual communities is not an assertion that can be dismissed easily. Based on it, Fabrice and Howard are correct in eshewing the notion that the ubiquity of the Internet / web by 2020 will in and of itself lead to stronger social and political cohesion, reconciliation and democracy especially in deeply divided and / or repressive regions such as Sri Lanka. I’ve covered this in a helluva lot of posts on this blog, such as the growth of hate speech and the decline of civility on blogs, the Burmese junta’s censorship in the wake of a large humanitarian tragedy, China’s great firewall and the growing threats to independent online media in Sri Lanka. That said, to use an example from American politics, who would have thought even as recently as two years ago that Barack Obama would become the President of the United States? In the early 90’s, would the end of apartheid by the turn of the centure have been imagined? Around the world, there are hundreds of thousands of on-going processes and initiatives to use ICTs to support and strengthen peace, even within cycles of violence. Mainstream / traditional media is forever changed with the advent of mobile phones.

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Party-Crashing The Democratic National Convention's Private Back Rooms

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - Nancy Watzman of the Sunlight Foundation, a government oversight group, is trying to illustrate the ineffectiveness of current ethics restrictions by attempting to get into as many fancy receptions as she can, knowing she'll be rejected time and time again. While it is not shocking that a party-crasher would get turned away at the door of a high-end party, it nicely illustrates that the infamous smoke-filled backroom is still alive and well, at least in a figurative sense, and that oversight has a long way to go.

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New iPhone Will Jumpstart Demand for Wireless Broadband

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - this is the first time that a 3G connection on a non-computer device actually feels like a broadband connection. "This device is a true game-changer. Why? The immediacy of the data at your fingertips is huge. Imagine, looking up anything, anywhere," is how AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega told me in a chat earlier this year. In the U.S. especially, the iPhone is going to have a major impact, mostly because are a PC-centric society constantly search for web-like experiences. (So far, most of the carriers have made their money off 3G computer connections. I am wondering how the iPhone impacts (or not) 3G usage in Europe.)

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FCC Commissioners Call For National Broadband Strategy

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Public Knowledge - By Mehan Jayasuriya - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - While there's little doubt about the benefits that such fast, cheap and widely available Internet would have--for education, employment and the economy--the million-dollar question is how to achieve such a feat in just four short years.

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