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“Big Media” Critics Miss the Big Picture on Comcast-NBC Deal

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 12/04/2009

Media watchdogs are having a fit this week over the announced agreement between Comcast and NBC Universal. Under this deal, Comcast will hold 51%…

Tech and Telecom

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30 Jobs “Created or Saved” in a Phantom Congressional District

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/17/2009

The Recovery Board, a task force created to track the $787 billion in federal stimulus spending, published on its website data for jobs “created” in…

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Wireless Customers Don’t Like Variable Billing

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/16/2009

The Sunday New York Times ran an article over the weekend that digs into the apparent madness behind cell phone and wireless mobile service…

Tech and Telecom

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Intel Settles With AMD

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/12/2009

Intel and AMD have announced a settlement in their 4-year legal antitrust battle. As per the agreement, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion, an…

Tech and Telecom

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Free Government Money: Broadband Edition

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/12/2009

As part of the America Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, congress has set aside $7.2 billion for Obama’s national broadband plan. It should come…

Tech and Telecom

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar Criticizes Verizon, Ignores Wireless Industry Realities

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/10/2009

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is once again proving that she has no understanding of either the wireless phone industry, the rationale behind contract law,…

Tech and Telecom

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European Regulators Target Another American Tech Company

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/06/2009

The European Commission is once again targeting an American tech company with an antitrust investigation. This time the EC has its sights set on…

Tech and Telecom

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Free Kareem D.C. Rally Today!

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/06/2009

The Free Kareem protest is going on today at 12 pm outside of the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau on New Hampshire just south of…

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Nvidia Rumored to Compete in Supposedly Uncompetitive Market

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/04/2009

Rumors abound that graphics chip maker Nvidia is getting set to enter the x86 processor market. Recall that, according to AMD’s lawyers, the…

Tech and Telecom

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MPAA: Net Neutrality Will Kill Film Industry

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/03/2009

The Motion Picture Association of America has come out against net neutrality… sort of. In its filing with the FCC[PDF] late last week,…

Tech and Telecom

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Net Neutrality Not Needed: New BitTorrent Version Throttles Itself

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/02/2009

TorrentFreak reports that a new “network-aware” version of the BitTorrent protocol is being beta-tested. The new client, µTorrent 2.0 or µTP, will be able…

Tech and Telecom

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Government Incompetence Costs Woman Her Job

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 11/02/2009

Wired reports that a Maryland woman recently lost her job due to an error in the FBI’s criminal database. Eschol Amelia “Amy” Studnitz, formerly…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

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Another Bill to Block Net Neutrality

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/28/2009

Net Neutrality’s opponents are fighting back. Last week it was John McCain’s “Internet Freedom Act,” and yesterday, Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced…

Tech and Telecom

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New CEI Release: One Nation, Ungovernable?

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/26/2009

Question: What do you get when you combine a $700 billion “stimulus” package, $1.1 trillion in wealth-destroying regulatory compliance costs, a mountainous non-discretionary entitlement obligation,…

Regulatory Reform

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Competition in Wireless Communication: Android Edition

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/26/2009

The New York Times reports that several cell phone manufacturers are turning to Google’s free operating system, Android, to run on their upcoming smartphone…

Tech and Telecom

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Sen. McCain Introduces Anti-Net Neutrality Bill

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/23/2009

Senator John McCain introduced a bill yesterday to combat the FCC’s push for Net Neutrality.  The “Internet Freedom Act of 2009” would limit the…

Tech and Telecom

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More Hypocrisy Regarding FTC Blog Regulations

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/21/2009

Michael Masnick at Techdirt offers up another incidence of government inconsistency in light of the FTC’s blog-watching rules, reminding us that “…

Consumer Well-Being

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American Society Now Responsible for Saving Journalism

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/20/2009

Creative destruction is never easy for an economy to digest, especially when the industry involved has an exceptionally loud megaphone to amplify its screaming. In…

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FTC Sets its Sights on Bloggers

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/19/2009

In the past, guidelines have determined the kinds of research claims companies or celebrity endorsers can make about products in advertising. With the recent update,…

Tech and Telecom

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DOJ Investigates IBM’s Mainframe Business

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 10/09/2009

The lawyers at the US Department of Justice must be getting bored around the office. This week, antitrust regulators launched an investigation of IBM‘s…

Tech and Telecom

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Truth-In-Labeling? Call the Federal Advertising Bureau

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/25/2009

This week, the New America Foundation called for government-mandated “Truth-in-Labeling” from the nation’s broadband service providers. They’ve even created a mock-up of what they…

Tech and Telecom

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Oregon DOJ Uses Copyright to Keep Public Records Behind Paywall

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/17/2009

Imagine a state in which the public records retrieval process is so convoluted that the government needs to publish a user manual explaining how to…

Intellectual Property

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Waxman Joins Markey Again to Sponsor a Terrible Bill

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/17/2009

You know them from the cap-and-trade climate bill that failed to generate funding for Obama’s proposed health reforms.  Now, they’re joining forces again. Rep. Henry…

Tech and Telecom

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Intel Appeals Record-Breaking EU Fine

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/16/2009

Intel accuses the Commission of having failed to prove that Intel's allegedly anticompetitive tactics actually harmed consumers in any way.

Tech and Telecom

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Again, U.S. Wireless Market is Intensely Competitive

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/15/2009

More evidence that the wireless communications industry is highly competitive: Motorola is looking for more carriers for its new CLIQ smartphone. The CLIQ was…

Tech and Telecom

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AT&T, Content Creators Argue over “Broadband” Definition

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/14/2009

Network owners and content providers are bumping heads again. Telecommunications giant AT&T filed comments with the FCC a couple of weeks ago urging the…

Tech and Telecom

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Obama: Unfairly Bashing Video Games?

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/14/2009

Some commenters have noted President Obama’s game-bashing comments in his recent speeches. Whether he’s telling the nation’s school children to put down the…

Blog

Outsourcing Parenting to the FCC

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/11/2009

Ars Technica recently posed the question: Did Family Guy cause 179,997 FCC Indecency Complaints? Matt Lasar concludes that indeed it did: We go over…

Tech and Telecom

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Motorola, Sprint Compete in Supposedly Uncompetitive Industry

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 09/11/2009

This week has been a disappointing one for critics of the wireless industry. First, Motorola launched its new CLIQ handset. The CLIQ,…

Tech and Telecom

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FTC to Monitor Blogs for Undisclosed Compensation

  • By: Elizabeth Jacobson
  • 06/22/2009

So much for the idyllic “free information” model of the internet. The Federal Trade Commission is drafting new rules that would extend its authority to encompass bloggers who…

Regulatory Reform

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