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 The latter has been withdrawn, so what’s the excuse now?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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Chuck Grassley,
Connect America Fund,
dan lungren,
FCC,
Google,
Google Wallet,
GPS,
Hollywood,
Internet,
Internet Kill Switch,
John Deere,
LightSquared,
Net Neutrality,
Nextel,
Qualcomm,
Slippery Slope,
SOPA,
Spectrum,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Subsidies,
T-Mobile,
Transparency,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Verizon
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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BSA,
Censorship,
Connect America Fund,
copyright,
Cybersecurity,
FCC,
Internet,
PROTECT IP,
Ron Wyden,
SOPA,
Universal Service Fund
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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AT&T,
Barack Obama,
CWA,
Dick Durbin,
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Internet,
Internet Sales Tax,
Joe Lieberman,
kay bailey hutchison,
Lamar Alexander,
Lamar!,
LTE,
Marco Rubio,
Media Reform,
Mike Enzi,
Net Neutrality,
Regulation,
Sales tax,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
taxes,
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,
copyright,
dmca,
FCC,
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Google,
GPS,
IIA,
Internet,
LightSquared,
PROTECT IP,
Public Knowledge,
SOPA,
Spectrum,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Subsidies,
T-Mobile,
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 »
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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AT&T,
Blacklist,
Censorship,
copyright,
CTIA,
E-PARASITES,
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,
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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Competition,
copyright,
CWA,
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FCC,
Free Press,
George Soros,
Internet,
jobs,
martin o'malley,
Mary Bono Mack,
Poker,
Privacy,
Public Knowledge,
Regulation,
right to work,
T-Mobile,
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,
copyright,
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EPA,
FCC,
FTC,
gambling,
George Soros,
Internet,
iPhone,
iPhone 4S,
jobs,
joe barton,
Marsha Blackburn,
Mary Bono Mack,
PATENT WARS,
Patents,
Poker,
Property Rights,
PROTECT IP,
Public Knowledge,
Regulation,
Ron Wyden,
Samsung,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Subsidies,
T-Mobile,
Universal Service Fund,
wireless
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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Anna Eshoo,
apple,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
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Cybersecurity,
D Block,
Democrats,
Energy and Commerce,
Eric Holder,
FAA,
FCC,
Google,
HTC,
Incentive Auctions,
Internet,
Internet Sales Tax,
iPhone,
joe barton,
Julius Genachowski,
kay bailey hutchison,
LightSquared,
Mary Bono Mack,
Patents,
Privacy,
Regulation,
Sales tax,
Samsung,
Senate,
Spectrum,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
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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iPhone 4S,
LightSquared,
PROTECT IP,
RIM,
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Sprint Nextel,
Supercommittee,
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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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Regulation,
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Sprint Nextel,
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T-Mobile,
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Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Unlicensed Spectrum,
White Spaces,
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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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CTIA,
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Eric Holder,
FCC,
Intercarrier Compensation,
joe barton,
Julius Genachowski,
Marsha Blackburn,
Net Neutrality,
San Francisco,
Spectrum,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
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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George Soros,
Google,
GPS,
Internet,
Internet Tax,
iPad,
iPhone,
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LightSquared,
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NeXTStep,
Open Society Institute,
Patents,
Pixar,
Public Knowledge,
Sheldon Whitehouse,
socialism,
Steve Jobs,
sunlight foundation,
Univeral Service Fund Reform,
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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fred upton,
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Google,
Internet,
iPhone,
Jay Rockefeller,
joe barton,
kay bailey hutchison,
Michael Copps,
Motorola,
Motorola Mobility,
Neo Marxists,
Net Neutrality,
Regulation,
T-Mobile,
Universal Service Fund,
USF,
wireless
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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Chip Pickering,
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jstor,
larry lessig,
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MIT,
Patents,
Richard Stallman,
T-Mobile,
Terrorism,
Transparency,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
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