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[telecom] Disruptions: Indiscreet Photos, Glimpsed Then Gone
Disruptions: Indiscreet Photos, Glimpsed Then Gone By NICK BILTON MAY 6, 2012 People once took photographs so they could capture a moment for themselves and keep it forever. Then digital cameras and...
 
Re: How the Blind Are Reinventing the iPhone [telecom]
Bill Horne noted, You make a good observation; at some times, society has enacted laws that may not be cheap, but which go out of their way to practice inclusion. And at other times, those laws are...
 
Understanding the net neutrality debate [telecom]
Understanding the net neutrality debate: Listening to stakeholders Alexander Ly, Bertrum H MacDonald, Sandra Toze First Monday, Volume 17, Number 5 - 7 May 2012 Abstract The Internet is increasingly...
 
Paying Internet users to surrender their data [telecom]
A market for unbiased private data: Paying individuals according to their privacy attitudes Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman First Monday, Volume 17, Number 5 - 7 May 2012 Abstract Since there...
 
[telecom] Digital inclusion and data profiling
Digital inclusion and data profiling Seeta Peña Gangadharan First Monday, Volume 17, Number 5 - 7 May 2012 Abstract In the United States, digital inclusion policies designed to introduce poor people,...
 
[telecom] Now 4 billion people know the joy of txt
Now 4 billion people know the joy of txt The humble SMS is 20 years old? and a far more important invention than the flashier inventions that have followed it John Naughton The Observer 5 May 2012...
 
[telecom] Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses
Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses By TAMAR LEWIN May 2, 2012 In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans - one that offers vast new learning opportunities for...
 
[telecom] How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet By KATE MURPHY May 2, 2012 Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all...
 
[telecom] Talking Business in Flight? Be Careful
Talking Business in Flight? Be Careful By DAVID WALLIS May 2, 2012 PETER COCHRANE, a technology consultant, entrepreneur and blogger, usually unwinds on the train between his home in Ipswich, England,...
 
[telecom] Judge: An IP-Address Doesn't Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)
Judge: An IP-Address Doesn't Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) A landmark ruling in one of the many mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the US has suffered a severe blow to a thus far lucrative...
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Some people are still renting their phones. [telecom]
It's been almost 20 years since the breakup of the Bell System, but some people are still paying monthly fees for their equipment. Do you have landline phone in your home? Well some consumers could be...
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Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn also weighs in on TV channel sharing [telecom]
Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn has issed yet another "independent" opinion the FCC proceeding that will enable spectrum sharing between TV and cellular companies. As with his coworkers' efforts, this...
 
FCC Commissioner issues separate statement on TV spectrum sharing [telecom]
One of the FCC Commissioners has /also/ issue his own statement about today's report and order for TV spectrum sharing. As with Chairman Genachowski's statement, I'm at a loss to explain why. Robert...
 
FCC Chairman Genachowski issues separate statement on TV spectrum sharing [telecom]
The FCC Chairman has issued a separate statement about today's Report and Order to allow spectrum sharing between TV stations and cellular/data providers - but, for the life of me, I can't figure out...
 
FCC Issues order to allow TV bandwidth sharing [telecom]
The FCC has issued a order that will allow TV stations to share bandwidth with new data and other future cellular uses. The Report and Order is at...