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- Outrage: Verizon Wireless wants to sell your personally identifiable data: here's how you can stop this
- Â Last week, it was revealed that Verizon Wireless is mailing a notice advising wireless subscribers that if they fail to Opt Out within 30 days, Verizon will begin SELLING their Customer Proprietary Network Information CPNI to "third parties and affiliates". CPNI information includes...
- Tags: FCC Commissioner, FCC, Chairman, Verizon Communications Inc., Network Instruments, Verizon Wireless, Customer Proprietary Network Information Information, Federal Government, E-mail, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Online Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
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- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lostStuff and nonsense>From day one, the purpose of Philly’s network is to increase digital inclusion and economic development. The measure of their success should be how lives and businesses are being helped in disadvantaged communities.The city to stick to...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless Philly, wireless, EarthLink Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Google losing cellphone battle?
- In the fight to create a competitor to the Apple iPhone, which defines the Mobile Internet Client MIC category, many people put their money on Google and its Open Handset Alliance. That bet looks shaky today. RIM has come up with its own "iPhone...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Alliance, LiMo Foundation, Verizon Communications Inc., T-Mobile, Cell Phone, Sprint Communications, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Business PCs are going nowhere fast
- "Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....
- Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- DLO TransDock III (with IntelliTune)
- FM transmitters aren't the best way to port your MP3 player's audio to your car stereo, but for those who don't have a cassette player or auxiliary line input, they're the only option. Thanks to FCC regulations, it can be a challenge to find one that offers transmission powerful enough...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, IntelliTune, DLO TransDock III, TransDock III, TransDock
- Product reviews 2008-05-12
- To Catch a Thief
- To catch a thief ... the high-tech way. Somone broke into Kait Dupalga's apartment and stole TVs, iPods, a set of car rims – and Kate's Mac laptop. The big break in the case came when a friend of Kate's sent her a text message congratulating...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mr., Friend, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere
- The latest net neutrality bill, offered by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), is a second try to treat neutrality as an antitrust issue, Ars Technica says. It's essentially the same bill that failed in 2006. The bill is intended to "promote competition,...
- Tags: Bill, Comcast Corp., U.S. Congress, Net Neutrality, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated)
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air updatedWell, as they sayToo much of a good thing can be bad.Hacker computerThey must switch the CPU with a hacked CPU.Geek-tech globs it on.Thermal grease is only there to fill...any gaps due to imperfections in the heat sink and the cpu...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Federal government, Thermal Grease, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., assembler
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- News to know: Microsoft Mesh; Microhoo; OLPC; Patents; Linked data
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh Ryan Stewart: Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft Screen shots: Microsoft's Live Mesh right Images: Hands-on with Live Mesh Techmeme ...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Linux, Open Source, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- FCC boss: Comcast blocking is widespread
- FCC boss: Comcast blocking is widespreadThis is really no supriseFor anyone who knows Comcrap they should have known this. and FINALLY a FCC investigation shead light on it. Comcrap needs to be hit with a HUGE fine so no other ISP resorts to the methods of blocking internet protocols and...
- Tags: Federal government, ComCrap, FCC, Comcast Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- FCC boss: Comcast blocking is widespread
- InfoWeek reports that, according to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Comcast was not merely blocking BitTorrent traffic during high-traffic times but pretty much all the time. Martin was testifying before Congress today. "Specifically, based on the testimony we have received thus far, some users were not able...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Federal Government, Networking, Internet, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010
- Blame it on all that content, especially videos, bring thrown into the pipes. But don't wish for government intervention, executive says.By Andrew Donoghue of ZDNet UK• AT&T to trim workforce • Comcast, AT&T absent from FCC hearing U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the...
- Tags: Network, AT&T Corp., Video, Net Neutrality, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Broadband
- News items 2008-04-18
- No SUSE or RedHat consumer Linux OK for Ed Tech
- No SUSE or RedHat consumer Linux OK for Ed TechIt's important to notethat Linux also can make for a gaming system via wine and cedega and cedega has specific install packages for suse. Maybe students should be informed that there are options for gaming on Linux and once...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Ed Tech, SuSE, Novell OpenSuse, RedHat consumer Linux OK, Lenovo T61, Linux, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Comcast won't be at Stanford hearing
- The AP is reporting that Comcast won't be attending the FCC hearing at Stanford tomorrow, despite the FCC's interest in learning more about its cooperation with Pando Networks on improving P2P performance on its network. After the Pando collaboration was announced on Tuesday, the FCC...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Pando Networks, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Comcast Bill of Rights unnecessary in open source world
- All the brouhaha concerning whether Comcast can create a "Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" for Internet users is misplaced. Like any small Wireless ISP, Comcast has the right, indeed the responsibility, to manage its network so every customer gets as much of it as practical. ...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Market, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- News to know: Salesforce and Google; LiveMesh; Cloud computing; Linux
- Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise Garett Rogers: Google announces SalesForce integration with Google Apps Techmeme Mary Jo Foley: The big reveal: Live Mesh Statement: Blockbuster proposes to buy Circuit City ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Data Center, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- FCC to look into firms' use of customer data
- FCC to look into firms' use of customer datanew world orderI have to wonder if the new world order is going to include the FCC, United Nations, and every other thug-like organization that acts on behalf of 'unknown interests'. Okay maybe we do know who the interests are, but they...
- Tags: Federal government, FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- FCC fines stores over TV labeling
- FCC fines stores over TV labelingWhat they said and what it means...Sears was “surprised.” (Blah!)Best Buy was “extremely disappointed.” (Blah!Wal-Mart has “voluntarily invested millions of dollars in new technology, training, new product and consumer education” for the transition. (Blah! Blah! Blah!)Grand total? Blah, blah, blah, blah,...
- Tags: Federal government, TVs, TV & Home Theater, FCC, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- FCC fines stores over TV labeling
- The FCC handed down $3.9 million in fines to big-box stores for not telling customers that analog TVs will have to be retrofitted with a digital converter box next year. Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other mega retailers were required, but failed, to affix a consumer alert...
- Tags: FCC, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
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