dan tynan on Apr 11 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, politics
Well, the FCC just got kicked in the gonads.
A US Circuit Court has ruled the agency does not have the jurisdiction to punish Comcast for throttling down its customers’ Bit Torrent connections without telling them.
This throws a huge spanner into the national broadband plan as well as the hopes of getting some [...]
dan tynan on Feb 05 2009 | Filed under: Da Web, Gadgets, US Airways Magazine
The boob tube is about to get a whole lot smarter
It’s the biggest change to television since Gilligan woke up one morning in 1965 and discovered that all the coconuts were suddenly in color. Later this year U.S. television will leave its analog past behind and enter its all-digital future.
[Note: Just this week, Congress pushed [...]
dan tynan on Jul 07 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
The Bush Administration’s anti-recession tactics have given rise to an unexpected beneficiary: the Internet pørn industry. According to the Adult Internet Market Research Company, adult sites have been engorged with sales during the normally limp summer months. One popular clothing optional site surveyed its members [...]
dan tynan on Jun 05 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes From the Field Blog.)
It’s been a wild week here in Cringeville. My blog posts on YouTube v. Viacom and the FCC’s proposal for a pørn-free wireless Internet have inspired raging debates about copyrights and corporate rights, free speech and free sex. Here are some of the highlights.
First, longtime [...]
dan tynan on Jun 03 2008 | Filed under: Geekishness, Infoworld, Life, Privacy, Quizzes
The FCC may soon require bidders on a swath of the wireless spectrum to deliver a free, wireless version access to the Net — sans adult content.
Is a porn-free Internet possible or even desirable? Infoworld’s Robert Cringely has some thoughts on the matter here. Tell us how you feel about it by registering your [...]
