Posts Tagged ‘ Tech policy ’

AP: Yeah, we’d better cite pajama-wearing bloggers, too

September 4, 2010
By Nate Anderson
AP: Yeah, we’d better cite pajama-wearing bloggers, too

The Associated Press didn't need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play "reporter," thank you very much. Now it knows better.At the AP's 2009...
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Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy suit

September 4, 2010
By Chris Foresman
Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy suit

The fallout from Google's Buzz social networking aggregator continues: the company has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over concerns that the service's original configuration violated users' privacy. While Google has made...
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Week in tech: Android tablet army begins march, Chrome, OAuth fail

September 4, 2010
By Eric Bangeman
Week in tech: Android tablet army begins march, Chrome, OAuth fail

Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab: Samsung is putting the iPad in its crosshairs with its new Android-powered Galaxy Tab touchscreen tablet. The well-specced device will launch in a few week in Eur...
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Frustrated Nexus One owner sues Google over "sporadic" 3G speed

September 3, 2010
By Nate Anderson
Frustrated Nexus One owner sues Google over "sporadic" 3G speed

Imagine that your name is Nathan Nabors and that you live in the sunny climes of Orlando, Florida. Imagine further that, back when Google announced its own Android phone and called it the Nexus One, you realized that...
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We’re trudging down the long road to universal 4Mbps broadband

September 3, 2010
By Matthew Lasar
We’re trudging down the long road to universal 4Mbps broadband

Judging by the Federal Communications Commission's latest survey, we're still pretty far away from the FCC's National Broadband Plan goal of 4Mbps Internet download speeds for everyone. The agency's newest statistics indicate tha...
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White space broadband to be finalized (at last) this month

September 2, 2010
By Nate Anderson
White space broadband to be finalized (at last) this month

"White spaces" broadband has been in hibernation—the rules governing unlicensed use in empty TV channels have never been finalized, and therefore no devices have yet appeared. This despite the fact that the idea was approved un...
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Scammers using fake copyright infringement notices for profit

September 2, 2010
By Nate Anderson
Scammers using fake copyright infringement notices for profit

HADOPI, meet the internautes. The French "high authority" that oversees the country's three strikes anti-P2P file-sharing campaign is now being used by spammers and scammers who attempt to trick people out of their cash by accus...
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An ISP that knows nothing of "data hogs"

September 2, 2010
By Nate Anderson
An ISP that knows nothing of "data hogs"

Pop quiz—which US Internet service provider made the following statement about a network upgrade?During the construction of this network we have given a lot of thought... to the business model in the US, and how we could do...
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Feature: Thomas Edison’s plot to hijack the movie industry

September 1, 2010
By Matthew Lasar
Feature: Thomas Edison’s plot to hijack the movie industry

It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry. "With...
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Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down

September 1, 2010
By Matthew Lasar
Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down

For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz "AWS-3" band. The service would pay for itself via advertisement...
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