Tech at Night: Rural coalition questions John Deere on LightSquared; FCC, Obama, and SOPA picking winners and losers in industry
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 8th at 02:30 AM |
The FCC’s excuse for delaying the AT&T/Qualcomm spectrum deal was to work on the AT&T/T-Mobile deal. The latter has been withdrawn, so what’s the excuse now? AT&T and Sprint both get bad reviews. Sprint’s Nextel deal went through. AT&T’s T-Mobile deal is getting blocked. Hmm. Looks shady, which is why I support Chuck Grassley’s push for FCC transparency involving LightSquared, even though so far their | Read More »
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Hollywood,
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Internet Kill Switch,
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LightSquared,
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Tech at Night: SOPA and PROTECT IP: Bad bills. FCC Subsidies march on.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 21st at 11:00 PM |
Had enough SOPA yet? Too bad. Ignore my Piracy/Privacy typo and read my overview of the issue over at the Daily Caller. In theory I will be there weekly now, writing about tech issues. Don’t worry though; I’ve scheduled it with them so I write for them and for Tech at Night on different nights, so I won’t burn out or anything. And if yu | Read More »
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SOPA,
Tech at Night,
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Tech at Night: Stopping Net Neutrality in the Senate, National Sales Tax plan, CWA backs up AT&T
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 10th at 03:00 AM |
Why can’t the news come in even intervals, instead of batching up all at once? So yes, the Senate Net Neutrality vote is coming up. Credit where it’s due: Kay Bailey Hutchison moved the ball forward on this, no doubt about it. Credit also to Marco Rubio making headlines with his strong support of the repeal. And Rubio is right: the whole thing is ridiculous. | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
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Dick Durbin,
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Internet Sales Tax,
Joe Lieberman,
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Lamar Alexander,
Lamar!,
LTE,
Marco Rubio,
Media Reform,
Mike Enzi,
Net Neutrality,
Regulation,
Richard Blumenthal,
Sales Tax,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
Taxes,
Tech at Night,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: USF Reform Reactions, We must stop SOPA and PROTECT IP censorship
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 31st at 11:00 PM |
Last week I noted that the FCC is officially moving ahead with its new subsidy program. The administration will convert the Universal Service Fund – currently taxing the public and handing it out to rural telephone carriers – into a grab bag of Internet subsidies. The rural phone companies are unhappy, and everyone else is racing to get a cut. C Spire, apparently serving many rural southern customers, | Read More »
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AT&T,
Barack Obama,
C Spire,
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Google,
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LightSquared,
PROTECT IP,
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SOPA,
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Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
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T-Mobile,
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Tech/Users Coalition,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: The FCC subsidy game is on, Sprint reveals more of what it actually fears
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 28th at 11:00 PM |
Not much to say tonight, which is good because I think I’m getting sick again, and if I had a lot to say I’d probably just skip tonight’s Tech. It’s official: the race for FCC handouts is on, as the FCC voted to repurpose the old rural telephone subsidy, the Universal Service Fund (a fund that comes from your special tax dollars) into a grab | Read More »
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AT&T,
Competition,
Internet,
Net Neutrality,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
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T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: Dangerous Internet censorship bill in the House, Spectrum crunch ideas, FCC subsidies advancing
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 27th at 01:00 AM |
Top story is easy to pick tonight. The legislation that’s been known in the Senate as PROTECT IP, the Internet censorship blacklist bill that promises to make a huge power grab online, Communist China-style, has come to the House. They’re calling it by two different names: E-PARASITES and Stopping Online Privacy Act, but by either name it’s just as bad. Even as the current laws | Read More »
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Copyright,
CTIA,
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Eric Schmidt,
FCC,
Google,
Incentive Auctions,
Internet,
Internet Sales Tax,
iPhone,
National Sales Tax,
Net Neutrality,
PATENT WARS,
Patents,
PROTECT IP,
Sales Tax,
Samsung,
Spectrum,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Stopping Online Piracy Act,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: It’s better for government to inform than to regulate, CWA dishes out talking points, Backlash against copyright freeloaders
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 25th at 01:30 AM |
Mary Bono Mack, pay attention: Here’s the model for any privacy ventures you should attempt: voluntary action by private individuals, educated by simple government actions. If you really must get government involved, teach the people to fish, so that they can protect their own privacy for a lifetime. Because if we insist on regulating the Internet problems of the moment, not only do we expand | Read More »
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Copyright,
CWA,
Cybersecurity,
FCC,
Free Press,
George Soros,
Internet,
Jobs,
Martin O'Malley,
Mary Bono Mack,
Poker,
Privacy,
Public Knowledge,
Regulation,
Right to Work,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
UIGEA,
Unions,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: I can’t spare Marsha Blackburn. She fights. Also: wireless competition rages on, Barton and Bono Mack take on Poker
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 20th at 03:55 AM |
Late start tonight for Tech at Night. Sorry, but I’ve started a plan to get myself out of California, and to be honest I’m more than a bit nervous about the whole thing. Looking for new work in the Obama economy? Yeah. But at least Marsha Blackburn wants to help the tech job situation by taking on Barack Obama’s twin regulatory nightmares of the FCC | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
C Spire,
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FCC,
FTC,
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Internet,
iPhone,
iPhone 4S,
Jobs,
Joe Barton,
Marsha Blackburn,
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Tech at Night: Legislation: some good but mostly bad, FCC action: all bad, Patent Wars: getting silly
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 18th at 12:30 AM |
Sorry if you missed Tech at Night on Friday. I was under the weather. But I’m back, and with so much to review. How about legislation, good and bad? Well, mostly bad. Senate Democrats continue to push for senseless regulation of 4G Internet speeds, hindering vital new technology to increase high-speed Internet competition in America. Worse, Democrat Anna Eshoo is piling on in the House. | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
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Eric Holder,
FAA,
FCC,
Google,
HTC,
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Internet,
Internet Sales Tax,
iPhone,
Joe Barton,
Julius Genachowski,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
LightSquared,
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Samsung,
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Sprint,
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T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Wireless
Tech at Night: Rage against terrible, big government priorities in DC, Extrajudicial Internet seizures coming, Lightsquared vs GPS
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 13th at 03:00 AM |
Oh for crying out loud. For all that Washington talks tough about getting Americans access to high speed Internet, the “supercommittee” wants to tax new spectrum licensees. That’s just what we need: make it more expensive to build out America’s wireless infrastructure in order to pay for the President and his Cabinet to hand out money to their friends and political supporters. Isn’t that special? | Read More »
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Al Franken,
America's Broadband Connectivity Plan,
Amy Klobuchar,
Apple,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
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Competition,
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Eric Schmidt,
Google,
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IIA,
Internet,
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iPhone,
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LightSquared,
PROTECT IP,
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RIM,
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Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Supercommittee,
Taxes,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Verisign,
Wireless
Tech at Night: Anonymous fails again, Obama fails again, Internet censorship home and abroad
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 11th at 03:00 AM |
Columbus Day winds to a close, a cold slows me down, but Tech at Night marches on somehow. You know what’s also marched on? The New York Stock Exchange’s website. The anarcho-terrorists of Anonymous promised to take that website down (note: just the website, not the actual trading computers). Well, they failed, unless you count a two minute outage as success. Heck, RedState pretty much | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality goes to court, FCC still runs amok, Sprint admits there’s competition
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 8th at 03:00 AM |
Net Neutrality goes to court. Great news, too: Verizon’s preferred venue won the lottery, and the Net Neutrality fight will happen in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. This is, of course, the same circuit that slapped down Net Neutrality last time in Comcast v FCC. Oh, but here’s a big surprise. Despite the FCC claiming previously that “We look forward to defending our open | Read More »
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Eric Holder,
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Joe Barton,
Julius Genachowski,
Marsha Blackburn,
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Sprint,
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T-Mobile,
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Universal Broadband Plan,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Verizon
Tech at Night: Steve Jobs 1955-2011
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 5th at 08:30 PM |
Steve Jobs died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 56. Founding NeXT would have been enough to turn anyone into a cult hero in his field. Acquiring Lucasfilm’s Graphics Group and turning it into Pixar would have made anyone a respected business leader. But for Steve Jobs, those were feathers in his cap called Apple, the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak, | Read More »
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Internet Tax,
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Universal Service Fund
Tech at Night: Dems fight Internet Tax, GOP welcomes it, FCC fights transparency as it regulates, No on USF Reform, Yes on Google and AT&T competitive mergers
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 29th at 03:30 AM |
Regulation, Regulation, Regulation. We’re faced with it, and now the regulators are going Presidential on us and claiming executive privilege at the FCC. You want to know how they’re coming up with their marching orders for America? Too bad. Just ask watchdog StimulatingBroadband.com. You want a laugh? George Soros-funded front group Free Press is suing the FCC… because Net Neutrality isn’t enough of a power | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Anonymous still in trouble, Lessig and Stallman defend Swartz, Pickering deceives, USF
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 2nd at 02:30 AM |
Frogmarch watch continues. Even as Anonymous has desperately tried to enlist unions into its anti-Paypal Jihad, Paypal funnels information to law enforcement to help catch the terrorists. I don’s use that word lightly, either. But when the gang is attempting to intimidate law enforcement, possibly as an answer to another high-profile arrest, I believe Anonymous and its subsidiaries like Lulzsec and Antisec have leapt far | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Universal Service Fund, Dick Durbin’s new tax, Ron Johnson’s regulatory freeze
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 30th at 02:30 AM |
I’ve been warning for ages that Universal Service Fund reform was coming, and that it would end up as an Internet tax. Well here we go: Plans are afoot. Oddly enough though, people seem fine with the America’s Broadband Connectivity Plan, which so far seems to be a plan to redirect funding toward greater Internet access. Free State Foundation is fine with the plans so | Read More »
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Greg Walden,
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Internet Sales Tax,
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Ron Johnson,
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T-Mobile,
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Universal Access,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: FCC, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Amazon
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 14th at 03:30 AM |
Sorry if you’ve been missing Tech at Night this week. Monday I just ran out of time as I had to do a whole bunch of housekeeping*, and tonight I’m running late. So let’s go. In classic Tech at Night style, let’s talk about the FCC. They took forever to get the ball rolling on Net Neutrality, but it’s coming now and it’s a vehicle | Read More »
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Tech at Night: A lot of tech legislation I hate, and a big win against the Fairness Doctrine
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 9th at 03:30 AM |
With fourteen articles to run through tonight, a near record, I don’t have time to waste. We’ll start with Joshua Trevino bringing us Bill Peacock on the Texas Amazon Tax. Texas SB 1 contains the tax Governor Perry already vetoed this session, and it needs defeated again. Says Peacock: “Gov. Perry was right to veto the Amazon tax bill, and he’d be right if he | Read More »
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Derek Turner,
Fairness Doctrine,
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Free Press,
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IBM,
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Marsha Blackburn,
Patent Reform,
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Patric Leahy,
PROTECT IP,
Rick Perry,
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Texas,
Universal Service Fund,
Verizon
Tech at Night: Let’s put hackers in jail, please?, the opponents of Internet regulation strike back
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 7th at 03:30 AM |
I really can’t wait until the Lulzsec crew learns about the joys of frogmarching. These arrogant punks need to have some sense smacked into them, and felony charges would be a great way to do that. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you improve domestic cybersecurity: find the people breaking into servers and take away their liberties under existing US law. More in security news: | Read More »
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Facebook,
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Lulzsec,
Michael Copps,
Microsoft,
Net Neutrality,
Nintendo,
Oracle,
Tech at Night,
Universal Service Fund,
Yahoo
Tech at Night: Crowder on Net Neutrality, Walden on the FCC, Apple on the patent troll, Ryan Giggs is an adulterer
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 24th at 03:30 AM |
Top story: the great Steven Crowder has a new video on Net Neutrality. With all the hype on Twitter leading up to this release, I was looking forward to Crowder’s video release. It’s funny, accurate, and devastating to the left. As usual for Crowder. Sometimes a patent troll runs into fire. Lodsys, as you may recall, decided to abandon the strategy of targeting deep pockets | Read More »
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Greg Walden,
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John Hemming,
Lodsys,
National Association of Broadcasters,
Net Neutrality,
Parliamentary Privilege,
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PROTECT IP,
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