Tech at Night: AT&T smacks down Public Knowledge and Sprint, FCC and Free Press exposed
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 19th at 03:00 AM |
I’ve been meaning to write about Sprint and the alliance it’s making with the shady, fringe left. Well, since that alliance is against AT&T, and trying to bring government down on AT&T, they’ve started to do the work for me with their myth busting posts. Part 1 takes down fringe left group Public Knowledge and its testimony to the Senate. AT&T illustrates how absurd it | Read More »
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2G,
3G,
4G,
AT&T,
Chuck Grassley,
Competition,
Data Roaming,
Free Press,
GSM,
HSPA+,
Internet,
LightSquared,
LTE,
Public Knowledge,
Spectrum,
sprint,
UTMS,
Verizon,
wireless
Tech at Night: Dodd-Frank kills innovation, Cybersecurity marches on, Lodsys patent trolling
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 16th at 09:00 PM |
Good evening. Care for your latest dose of regulation crushes innovation and competition? If you’re unhappy about the lack of innovation in America for mobile payments like they have in Japan, blame the Dodd-Frank bill. It prevented the wireless industry from getting together and making it happen. But we sure stuck it to the bankers, eh? Our faces are sure spited from cutting off our | Read More »
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apple,
Barney Frank,
Censorship,
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Clipper,
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Innovation,
Internet,
iOS,
Lodsys,
Mobile Payments,
Patent Troll,
Patents,
PlayStation Network,
PROTECT IP,
Regulation,
Sony,
wireless
Tech at Night: Jim DeMint does good, Texas races California to the bottom, FCC, AT&T, Copyright
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 14th at 04:11 AM |
House pressure on the FCC continues, with Friday’s hearings on FCC process reform, including testimony from all four active FCC Commissioners (Republican Commissioner Meredith Baker has quit the FCC). I associate myself with the remarks of Seton Motley on the preferred outcome of FCC Process Reform: “FCC ‘Process Reform’ Should Be About Reducing FCC Power. Oh, and making them obey the law.” Meanwhile, as much | Read More »
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AT&T,
Chuck Grassley,
Clearwire,
COICA,
Data Roaming,
Facebook,
FCC,
Google,
Internet,
Jim DeMint,
Justice Department,
Leap,
MetroPCS,
National Emergency Alert System,
Orrin Hatch,
Patrick Leahy,
Price Controls,
PROTECT IP,
Spectrum,
sprint,
T-Mobile,
Verizon,
wireless
Tech at Night: FCC, AT&T, T-Mobile, Facebook security warning
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 12th at 02:00 AM |
For a while there, we seemed to have a bit of a break from the big news. We knew big fights like the AT&T/T-Mobile deal loomed, but it was all talk. But that’s changing. As the coalition of self-seekers and socialists forms, the final scope of the debate is beginning to take shape. Listen to this: Some Democrats are criticizing AT&T for planning to use | Read More »
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AT&T,
COICA,
copyright,
Facebook,
FCC,
Internet,
Internet Tax,
National Emergency Alert System,
Net Neutrality,
PROTECT IP,
Spectrum,
T-Mobile,
Universal Serfice Fund,
Verizon,
wireless
Tech at Night: History Eraser Button, Privacy, Skype, Google, Sprint
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 10th at 12:30 AM |
Hello. So, the big rumor that just started going around is that Microsoft will buy out Skype. This worries me. I’m a paying customer, I’m happy with the service (though not with recent client releases), and I rely on it. If Microsoft ruins it, it will be a problem for me. Anyway, can somebody please explain to Joe Barton that you can’t take data off | Read More »
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AT&T,
Candy-like Button,
Eraser Button,
Google,
History Eraser Button,
joe barton,
Microsoft,
Privacy,
Ren and Stimpy,
Shiny,
Skype,
sprint,
T-Mobile
Tech at Night: FCC, USDA, Net Neutrality, Competition
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 7th at 03:30 AM |
Hello. Yes, I’m late again. But I’m genuinely starting to have fun with OpenGL ES 2. So Tech at Night got to wait a bit. Sorry! Anyway, as I usually do when I have a link to a RedState article, I’ll start tonight with it. RedState Insider suggests cutting the budget while implementing better policy by eliminating the Agriculture Department’s venture into tech subsidy, the | Read More »
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4G,
Agriculture Department,
Andrew McLaughlin,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
Cable,
Competition,
FCC,
FiOS,
Internet,
Julius Genachowski,
LTE,
MVPD,
Net Neutrality,
Rural Utilities Service,
Satellite,
T-Mobile,
Television,
US Cellular,
video
Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, FCC, Patents, Copyrights, Sony, Anonymous
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 5th at 03:30 AM |
Good evening. Or Good morning on the East Coast, as it’s unfortunately approaching 5am there as I start tonight’s edition. A big story is that the House Judiciary Committee will get into the game of watching the FCC, following in the footsteps of the Energy and Commerce, and Oversight committees. Commissioner Robert McDowell and Chairman Julius Genachowski are among those set to testify before Bob | Read More »
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Android,
Anonymous,
antitrust,
Bob Goodlatte,
Competition,
FCC,
Google,
Internet,
Java,
judiciary committee,
Julius Genachowski,
Net Neutrality,
Oracle,
Patents,
PlayStation Network,
Robert McDowell,
Software Patents,
Sony
Tech at Night: FCC Lies, Copyright, Internet Tax, Amazon
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 3rd at 03:30 AM |
Curse Firefox. I’m getting to this much later tonight than I would have, thanks to a stinking Firefox 3.6 rendering bug, plus Firefox’s refusal to make it easy to work around Firefox rendering bugs. Microsoft Internet Explorer makes that easy with conditional comments. Firefox has no such feature, pretending it’s always right. Which is fine, except when Firefox 4 and Firefox 3.6 render the same | Read More »
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amazon,
amazon tax,
broadband,
California,
Competition,
copyright,
FCC,
Firefox,
Illinois,
Internet,
Internet Tax,
Section 706,
Wisconsin
Tech at Night: Broadband, FCC lies, Wireless, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Internet Tax
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 30th at 01:30 AM |
Good evening. Here’s a bit I’d never expect to read from the San Francisco Chronicle about Sprint’s begging for the FCC to pick winners and losers, instead of just standing aside and letting AT&T and T-Mobile get together: At a time when wireless service is getting cheaper and more innovative, there is no reason for a Depression-era bureaucracy like the FCC to step in and | Read More »
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Google,
Internet,
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Meredith Baker,
Privacy,
Robert McDowell,
San Francisco Chronicle,
Section 706,
South Carolina,
sprint,
T-Mobile,
Verizon,
wireless
Tech at Night: Privacy, Apple, Copyright, Patent, FCC, Bill Shock
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 28th at 12:00 AM |
Good evening. I’m not seeing anything huge as we pass the middle of the week. But, you never know what will become important, so let’s take a look at what caught my eye so far this week. Even as Mary Bono Mack seeks to legislate on the news, or at least introduces a bill to make people feel better, Apple explains that the “location tracking” | Read More »
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Bill Shock,
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First Amendment,
Free State Foundation,
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ICE,
Internet,
Julius Genachowski,
Mary Bono Mack,
Net Neutrality,
Patent,
Privacy
Daily Kos poll suggests Union movement no match for TEA Party
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 26th at 07:00 PM |
By request, I took a look at this poll by PPP for Daily Kos and SEIU. Markos Moulitsas himself is hyping the poll as showing an enthusiasm gap, which of course was one big indicator of the electoral wipeout we saw in 2010. I think that he’s right, to a degree. However I read the figures as having two conclusions: First, the TEA party effect | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
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tea party,
Unions
Tech at Night: Amazon Internet Tax, Privacy, Google
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 26th at 12:30 AM |
California’s Democrats, having refused to get tough with the unions who coincidentally will fund their re-election campaigns, are still determined to raise taxes. So they continue to push for an unconstitutional Amazon Tax on the Internet that just might cost the state more than it brings in, in the long run. They’re playing with “thresholds” to try to focus the bill on specific companies like | Read More »
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Anonymous,
apple,
C-SPAN,
California,
Dick Durbin,
Firesheep,
Internet,
Internet Tax,
Melissa Yu,
Net Neutrality,
pccc,
Playstation 3,
PlayStation Network,
Privacy,
Sony
Tech at Night: FCC, AT&T
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 23rd at 02:30 AM |
It’s the calm before the storm. House Republicans have taken every ordinary measure to work with the President and get the regulatory excesses under control. The administration has refused though, and now the House is preparing to get tough. This buildup applies not just to the FCC, but also to the EPA and other runaway parts of the executive, but here I’m focused on the | Read More »
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AT&T,
Cliff Stearns,
Competition,
FCC,
fred upton,
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Net Neutrality,
Oversight,
Public Safety,
Regulation,
T-Mobile,
wireless
Tech at Night: Darrell Issa versus the FCC, Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 21st at 12:00 AM |
Good evening. Darrell Issa is stepping up the pressure on the FCC. He wants to tie spectrum reallocation incentives to Net Neutrality repeal. Many of us want to be able to reallocate spectrum from television stations to multipurpose wireless data, since we as a society are demanding more and faster data these days. If Darrell Issa makes the FCC’s ability to facilitate that, contingent on | Read More »
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apple,
Darrell Issa,
Facebook,
FCC,
Google,
GPS,
Internet,
iPhone,
Mark Zuckerberg,
Michael Copps,
Net Neutrality,
Spectrum,
Ubergizmo,
wireless
Tech at Night: Dick Durbin’s Internet Tax, FCC Reform
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 18th at 11:00 PM |
In a startling turn of events, I’m starting tonight’s edition of Tech at Night at 6pm, roughly 8 hours earlier than I have been starting it lately. Imagine that. Top story is a shocker. I mean, I had no idea the Democrats would get this far out there. Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, wants to pass a national sales tax solely on Internet transactions. The | Read More »
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