FCC Defeat Holds Chattanooga Train at the Station
FCC order preempting state broadband laws struck down by Sixth Circuit in the least surprising court decision of the year. So it’s back to the drawing board for the White House.
The Internet Election
The Internet looms large in this presidential election. This has been true in various ways for several cycles, but it’s more true now than it ever has been. Since 2004,…
Russia’s Unconventional Election IT Strategy
It turns out my post on the digital campaign tools of the two major presidential candidates was a bit incomplete because it didn’t address outsourcing to foreign powers. The tech…
Senate to Examine FCC’s Privacy Scheme
Bright and early Tuesday morning – at 10:00 AM Capitol Hill time – the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the FCC’s proposed privacy rules, How Will the FCC’s…
FCC Curious about Noise Floor
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology has opened an inquiry on spectrum noise floors. Anecdotal evidence says there’s more random spectral noise today, and OET wants to know how…
Overcoming Internet Stagnation
The DC Circuit’s blessing of the FCC’s Internet Service Provider regulations evoked a chorus of hosannahs from the predictable sources: reflexively anti-coprporate newspaper editorials, alarmist blogs, and advocacy groups with…
Democratic Judges Uphold Misclassification of Internet as Telephone Service
DC Circuit judges Tatel and Srinivasan went along with the FCC’s misclassification of Internet service as a telephone service today, but Senior Judge Steven Williams dissented. The majority opinion rules that…
Integrating its Way to the Future: Apple WWDC
Apple’s annual World-Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) is one of the most anticipated and best-covered tech events of year. WWDC is typically about software updates, while the so-called Special Events are…
Cell Phones Don’t Cause Cancer
Anything’s possible, but the evidence we have so far says there’s no reason to fear cancer from cell phones. Stories on cancer risk from phones endlessly crop up on the…
Privacy and the Internet: What the FCC Doesn’t Get
If you want to get totally confused about the nature of the Internet, you can’t do any better than to listen to and believe FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s remarks in…