Tech at Night: Illegal Amazon Taxes fail, DeMint modernizing cable, thorny copyright issues
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 10th at 12:30 AM |
Monday night, as promised, we still have some catch up work to do. So let’s start with those Amazon Taxes, those Internet sales taxes of dubious Constitutionality. Colorado’s got tossed in federal court and Illinois’s didn’t raise any money. Obeying the Constitution counts, folks. Pass a true interstate compact through the Congress first. Also as promised, there’s the matter of the Next Generation Television Marketplace | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Google, Wireless Internet
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 11th at 02:45 AM |
Good evening. Even as Google tonight wins some recognition from conservatives for its observing Veterans day on the search homepage, the firm is still under fire. As Machiavelli warned, become the big guy and everyone turns on you. Now it’s the big television networks going after Google. Specifically, they’re blocking Google TV from watching streams of their shows. Fox has since joined the blockade I | Read More »
Tech at Night: Google, Apple, Adobe, FCC, FBI, TSA, Free Press
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 11th at 11:00 PM |
So, while Google may have seen the light on Net Neutrality (which is actually, amusingly enough, making the far left sound like me), they still have other issues going on. The WiSpy Street View spying issue is still ongoing, with South Korea raiding their offices and Germany pressuring the firm to be more transparent and responsive to privacy complaints about the program. Because as I | Read More »
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