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Okay, for those of you who don’t know, I’m going to try to explain just what net neutrality is, and why we need it now more than ever. First, we have the recent attempt by Comcast to block Internet-based video services such as Netflix and Hulu. (Most of the news reports about this have only [...] Mark Brimm recently wrote a blog entry about AT&T and its failure to deliver on purchased search engine advertising: So here’s the scoop. Basically, this all started back in about July of 2009, when I decided I would give AT&T’s online search a try. It started out kind of innocuously. $75/mo or so for their [...] A recent Lockergnome post details AT&T’s surprising request to the FCC: setting a date for the sunset of analog landline service. And my take on this may surprise many, but I think this is a mistake. I have noticed a steady decline in the quality of telephone communications ever since the rise of the wireless [...] The Blade has a recent entry on the Google Voice application for the iPhone. The FCC inquired about the rejection to all three companies involved: Apple, Google, and AT&T (which has an exclusivity arrangement with Apple for the iPhone in the US market). The interesting part here is the reaction from each company. AT&T denies [...] Fred von Lohmann, writing for the EFF Deeplinks blog, reports on the FCC’s investigation regarding the highly dubious and potentially anti-competitive rejection of a Google Voice app for the iPhone. And my not-so-humble opinion, of course, can be summed up thusly: About damn time. Hopefully, a decision on this will be at least useful as [...] Zeropaid reports on yet another ISP censoring its Usenet access. AT&T will cease offering access to alt.bin* and alt.bain* newsgroups as part of its package later this week, due to pressure from New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo exerted under the guise of reducing the flow of child pornography. The sheer idiocy of this [...] Wired.com reports on Apple’s arbitrary iPhone application approval/rejection process, and how some believe it to be a de facto attack on net neutrality. A group called Free Press calls out the inconsistent decisions Apple has when deciding which iPhone applications to approve or reject and why. In particular, an application called SlingPlayer was rejected by [...] It’s a bit out of character for me to take AT&T’s side anywhere. Yet when the EFF reported on ASCAP’s lawsuit against the telecom behemoth, this is exactly what I wound up doing. This is the same ASCAP that tried to extort the Girl Scouts for singing songs around campfires. Some of you may be [...] |
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