Tech at Night: Is ACTA a problem, and the return of Internet Kill Switch lite?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 31st at 02:07 AM |
There’s a lot of fear going around about ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a plurilateral agreement under the WTO between the US, the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Morocco. Some of the fears look real, some don’t. For example, even though it was negotiated in secret, the text is easily available. Another false complaint is that it’s another SOPA, when | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Carrier IQ a non-issue, Spectrum, ARRA failure, SOPA fight continues
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 6th at 02:00 AM |
It’s Monday night, so naturally we start now with my weekly appearance at the Daily Caller. This week I finally got around to reading up on the Carrier IQ scare, and decided it was just a scare. Smoke, but no fire. Keep calm and carry on, people. How about some spectrum? Jerry Brito takes on the thorny issue of civil defense/first responder spectrum and the | Read More »
Tech at Night: FCC victimizes T-Mobile, SOPA in trouble, Google’s Net Neutrality admission?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 3rd at 12:30 AM |
Remember: One of the victims of the joint Sprint/Justice/FCC Triple Alliance against AT&T is T-Mobile itself. T-Mobile has no 4G, no iPhone, and no clear plan for what to do if their right to sell off to AT&T is taken away by the big government wonder team. Nobody benefits when big government tramples the little guy. Even if FCC is clearly wrong, and it is, | Read More »
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