Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Greg Aharonian, Editor/Publisher of the Internet Patent News Service–and one of America’s leading intellectual property experts–has just filed a major lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of software copyrights. In his complaint to the U.S. District Court’s Northern California Circuit, Aharonian details the adverse impact of vague software copyright laws and decisions. This is an important development [...]
Heritage just released this article on the upcoming UNE vote by the FCC: Telecom Competition Rules: D©j Vu All Over Again? by James L. Gattuso WebMemo #621 December 14, 2004 On December 15, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote on regulations requiring telephone companies to lease, or “unbundle,” parts of their networks to [...]
While sex on television may get more headlines for the FCC, its more important work may be the most arcane: telephone regulation. But it’s not without drama–the Commission is scheduled to vote on its new, improved unbundled network element rules this Wednesday. All reports indicate the debates within the FCC are intense, and no one [...]
Will airline passengers soon be able to use their cellphones while in flight? Perhaps. The FCC announced today that at its meeting next week it would consider changing its rules to “facilitate” cellphone use in aircraft. This is welcome news. The phone ban was imposed in the early 1990s due to concerns that the then-new [...]
Yesterday’s news that IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo got me all sentimental. I worked at IBM’s PC support headquarters in Research Triangle Park, NC for a bit about ten years ago, back when IBM was going through some turbulent times. The future of the mainframe business was definitely looking grim, but its PC [...]
Using a computer makes a kid less able to compute. Or so one study says. An article in The Register reports on a study that finds students who use computers in school do worse than their computer-less peers in math and reading. From the article: “The researchers suggest two theories to explain their findings. One [...]
Next year, the Supreme Court will (as Reason’s Jeff Taylor puts it) “decide if your cable modem is really a telephone.” TechWeb has the story. On the legal merits, it seems like it could easily go either way. I’m not a lawyer, but it’s hard to see how cable broadband is any different from DSL [...]
It’s essential to understand that the Internet is an agreement among users. That can be a little mind-blowing to everyone who thinks that it is a thing requiring some form of external, top-down, public-law-style regulation. Here’s an anonymous post inspired by the ICANN meeting now underway, obviously by someone who gets it. There are details [...]
May 16, 2012
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