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The Top 10 Worst Internet Proposed Laws in the U.S. by Roy Mark NEW JERSEY: Social Networking Police New Jersey Social Networking Bill (A 3757) imposes penalties on social networking Websites for failure to investigate and report a user’s complaint of sexually offensive and harassing communications. This creates new legal liabilities for any Website on […]

After more than a decade’s absence, NASA made its first steps back to the moon June 18, launching two lunar spacecrafts atop an Atlas V rocket. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft are unmanned scouts designed to lay the first groundwork for NASA’s proposed 2020 return of astronauts to […]

Grassroots and consumer groups continued their pressure against exclusive deals between wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers June 17 with a major assist from U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). While Free Press launched a FreeMyPhone campaign calling on lawmakers to open up wireless networks and promote consumer choice, Kerry held a hearing questioning wireless-carrier practices. […]

Bedeviled by the same hydrogen gas leak that postponed the space shuttle Endeavour’s June 13 launch, NASA June 17 again scratched the 16-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission was officially called off at 1:55 a.m. EDT and rescheduled for July 11 at 7:39 p.m. EDT. A hydrogen gas leak also delayed the […]

With mobile phones now outnumbering traditional land-line telephones, IBM said June 17 it plans to invest $100 million over the next five years in research relating to advanced mobile services for businesses and consumers. IBM said its objective is to bring simple, easy-to-use services to the millions of people who have bypassed using the personal […]

Despite the recession, U.S. residential broadband penetration jumped significantly last year, according to the latest data from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. April’s 63 percent level of high-speed home connections represents a 15 percent increase from a year ago.That’s the good news.Over the last year, according to Pew’s numbers released June […]

Prompted by the grassroots support for his opposition to Time Warner’s proposed broadband cap pricing scheme, Rep. Eric Massa introduced June 17 the Broadband Internet Fairness Act (H.R. 2902) to require phone and cable companies to disclose their pricing plans to the Federal Trade Commission.The bill would give the FTC authority to prohibit a proposed […]

Four U.S. Senators are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigative whether exclusive deals between cell phone makers and wireless carriers are unfairly impacting competition and restricting consumer choice in the commercial wireless marketplace.Unlike wireline services, which are required by law to allow consumers to connect the legal devices of their choice to carriers’ networks, […]

WASHINGTON-Julius Genachowski’s June 16 Senate confirmation hearing to serve as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission was more a condemnation of former Chairman Kevin Martin than a critical examination of President Obama’s choice of Genachowski to head the agency that has the most direct impact on the Internet.On the other hand, most of […]

No sooner had television broadcasters abandoned their analog spectrum June 12 than Qualcomm moved into some of the vacant space, highlighting the promise of the new advanced wireless services coming to the 700MHz spectrum.With a flip of the switch, FLO TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, turned on 100 new transmitters across the United […]