Comcast, Xbox 360 and Public Knowledge’s Puny View of Innovation

March 28, 2012

You may know that Comcast recently announced a new service package that would stream Comcast (Xfinity) movies to Xbox 360 customers, with that relationship sitting outside of the data caps imposed by the carrier. Notes Carl Bode: The lynch pin of Comcast’s argument is that the Xbox 360 is little more than another set top [...]

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A “Senator” Would Like to Know More About Free Press

March 19, 2012

This Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be looking into the planned $3.6 billion deal between Verizon and several cable companies for spectrum  / cross-promotion of each others’ services. This has the so-called public interest groups and various competitors (same thing, almost) concerned about the possible anti-competitive consequences of the deal.  Not surprisingly, professional naysayers, [...]

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Don’t Be Creepy

March 16, 2012

The story headline – Google in New Privacy Probes – seems to be a recurring theme for the company.  Recidivists have a way of doing the same things over and over.  Just ask Scott Cleland, who has well documented Google’s privacy slip-ups (by his count, 35 privacy scandals). This is a classic line within the [...]

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Entire Wireless Marketplace Is the Real “Maverick” – Choice Abounds Regardless of What “They” Say

March 4, 2012

The Wall Street Journal had this top-of-fold, front page story last Friday: AT&T Ends All-You-Can-Eat — Flooded With Web Data, No. 2 Wireless Carrier Puts Cap on Heaviest Users. In it, the paper writes that the reason for AT&T’s new data plan is: …The company says it is also looking to rein in the heaviest [...]

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Free Press – Exploiting the “Public Interest” to Benefit the Private Interests of Its 1% Friends

March 2, 2012

Anti-property groups such as Free Press like to remind their followers (and the press) just how “holy” their post-corporate “media reform” agenda is – it’s their brand, you know.  But, as this excellent article by Daily Caller’s Josh Peterson reveals (“Documents show ‘Free Press’ interest group leveraged ties to Google, Obama administration“), they’re really no better than any [...]

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Andrew Breitbart, R.I.P.

March 1, 2012

Andrew Breitbart, R.I.P.  You made it possible for the rest of us, and we shall carry on. Prayers for you and your family.

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The Duct Tape Internet

February 29, 2012

As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, AT&T’s John Donovan proposed… …A feature that we’re hoping to have out sometime next year is the equivalent of 800 numbers that would say, if you take this app, this app will come without any network usage… The Journal goes on, noting: Carriers have been considering different [...]

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Don’t Belittle User Trust – Regulations Are Just around the Corner

February 23, 2012

CNET Reports today that: On Thursday the White House and the Federal Trade Communications unveiled the “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights,” which will serve as a policy outline for future legislation and public policy that will work to protect consumers’ privacy while online from a computer or mobile phone. The administration also worked with online [...]

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Did Free Press Fib to Rep Marsha Blackburn?

February 18, 2012

Did Free Press, er, not come entirely clean, when it said last March in Congressional testimony (audio clip here) that it took no corporate / business funding, and then again 8 months later in responding in letter form to Representative Marsha Blackburn on same? I ask because the following images / text from today’s Wall Street Journal seem [...]

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Proof Point: SEC Net Neutrality Rule Hailed by PIG as One Step Closer to…

February 16, 2012

I wrote the other day that the SEC’s new Net Neutrality regulation – that’s right, the SEC (read here and here) – reveals that Net Neutrality regulation of the Internet is here to stay.  In that post, I also thanked the public interest groups that helped foist this rule on the Internet. If you think [...]

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