Experimental Radio Applications at the FCC

This summarizes a selection of applications for the Experimental Radio Service received by the FCC during February 2011. These are related to cognitive radio, land mobile, TV white space, unmanned…

March 24, 2011 0

What we are reading: 3/24/11

What we are reading: 3/24/11

Smith To Introduce House Patent Bill Ahead Of Next Week’s Hearing (Tech Daily Dose) AT&T Deal May Face ‘Steep Climb’ at FCC (WSJ.com) UI is becoming an “embodied” model (O’Reilly…

March 24, 2011 0

The Web is not a Communications Medium

My friend Martin Geddes has an intriguing post up at CircleID titled “Is the Web a “Communications Medium?”. The answer is “no, it’s not:” I’ve been having a short Twitter…

March 23, 2011 1

A Tree Falls in the Forest and Nobody Hears It

On behalf of Google and its partners at the New America Foundation, Vint Cerf dumped an ocean of data on policy makers today that’s only going to confuse America’s broadband…

March 23, 2011 2

What we’re reading: 3/23/11

What we’re reading: 3/23/11

We Need Smarter Governments to Manage a Changing Global Environment (CircleID) Explainer: What Went Wrong in Japan’s Nuclear Reactors (IEEE Spectrum) Consumer prices a flashpoint in merger (The Hill’s Hillicon…

March 23, 2011 0

Why is it Good to Combine Networks?

Why is it Good to Combine Networks?

[Note: This post covers the technology side of the proposed AT&T – T-Mobile merger, and only the technology side. To see what I think about the policy side, check out…

March 23, 2011 1

Al Franken’s Internet

CNet’s Maggie Reardon interviewed Sen. Al Franken before he delivered his speech on net neutrality at SXSW. Here we see the Senator fumbling two basic questions about the Internet: Q:…

March 17, 2011 1

What we’re reading: 3/16/11

What we’re reading: 3/16/11

Report: Feds could approve Google-ITA deal this week (The Hill’s Hillicon Valley) White House wants new copyright law crackdown (CNET News) Me, Michael Copps, and Sunshine That Hurts (The Free…

March 16, 2011 0

AT&T’s Usage Caps and Video Piracy

AT&T has announced that it’s going to set a soft limit of 150 Gigabytes/month for their ADSL customers and 250 Gigabytes for their VDSL+ (U-Verse) customers. The reaction of the…

March 15, 2011 34

What we’re reading: 3/14/11

What we’re reading: 3/14/11

Net neutrality: who cares? (BBC) China’s cyber abilities worry U.S.: spy chief (Reuters) Noncontroversial tech cuts in GOP stopgap measure (The Hill’s Hillicon Valley) Drilling into the FCC Open Internet…

March 14, 2011 0