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Entertainment
MPAA Is Still Trying To Plug Your Analogue Hole
2:40AM Danny Allen | Still use component connections with your pay TV box? Listen up: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has again asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to let studios disable analogue connections during certain on-demand movies. The FCC currently bans this, and here’s why that’s a good thing. More »
Software
1.4 Million Have Google Voice, But Not That Many Actually Use It
1:51AM Matt Buchanan | The reason your friends aren’t begging you for a Google Voice invite is probably ’cause they’ve got one by now. BusinessWeek got a hold of the redacted user numbers Google gave to the FCC, and they’re higher than I’d expect: 1.419 million users, only 570,000 of whom actually use it everyday. More »
Entertainment
FCC Documents Reveal Cisco’s FlipShareTV
10:30AM Rosa Golijan | While we were distracted by the Apple TV 3.0 update, there’s been a potential gem waiting in FCC documents. Something called the FlipShareTV which is intended to be a companion to Cisco’s popular Flip video recording devices. More »
Software
Google Voice Is Only Blocking Like 100 Numbers Now
10:30AM Matt Buchanan | It’s still about 100 numbers too many, but Google Voice has gone from blocking a decent swath of phone numbers—ranging from sex chat lines to nuns to some simply rural digits—to around 100. More »
Networks
Losing Net Neutrality: The Worst Case Scenario
12:13AM John Herrman | It’s alarmist, over-the-top anti-net-neutrality propaganda, sure, but this chart goes a long way to explaining why the IT dude at the office wears that “All Packet are Created Equal” shirt to work every other day. Short answer: because tiered ISPs are scary. More »
Networks
FCC May Reclaim Some TV Airwaves To Boost Wireless Broadband
10:28PM Danny Allen | You’ve heard lots about the FCC and net neutrality, but they’re also working on another important problem: Mobile broadband is growing faster than wireless providers have expansion room to cater for. What the FCC calls the “looming spectrum gap”. More »
Gadgets
Week In Review: Apple, Microsoft, Nook And More — It Was Nuts
11:00AM Chris Jacob | What didn’t happen this week? We saw the Windows 7 release, new Apple hardware, Barnes & Noble’s eReader, the beginnings of major net neutrality legislation and more. It was so crazy, we thought we’d round up all the highlights. More »
Networks
John McCain’s Internet Freedom Act Seeks To Block Net Neutrality
10:55PM Danny Allen | When the FCC voted to formalise net neutrality guidelines yesterday, it took minutes for the cable industry to bitch about plans to forbid them (and wireless carriers) from selectively blocking types of internet use. Surprise! McCain’s not a fan either. More »
Networks
The Predictable Industry Response To The FCC’s Net Neutrality Plan
2:57AM John Herrman | Within minutes of the FCC’s proposed rules to codify net neutrality, we got an email blast from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association—basically the RIAA of the ISP and telco world. It’s easy to guess how they feel about this, but it’s not actually that easy to see it in the text: More »
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