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"Learn everything, and do the right thing."
-- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
On May 10, the Federal Communications Commission released a Public Notice seeking public comment on how to structure real world trials that will inform the transition from today’s telephone networks to, well, the networks of tomorrow. The goal of any trials would be to gather a factual record to help determine what policies are appropriate to promote investment and innovation while protecting consumers, promoting competition, and ensuring that emerging networks remain resilient. In the FCC’s new proceeding, it seeks comment on several potential trials relating to the ongoing transitions from copper to fiber, from wireline to wireless, and from time-division multiplexing (TDM) to all-Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
Laurene Powell Jobs may be famous because of her last name and fortune, but she has always been private and publicity-averse. Now, less than two years after Mr. Jobs’s death, Ms. Powell Jobs is becoming somewhat less private.
Don’t mess with the legacy of Steve Jobs. That is one of several factors that seem to be motivating Apple’s vigorous defense against a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit accusing the company of conspiring with five of the largest publishing houses to fix prices on electronic books, according to people close to the case.
Surveillance can be a tricky affair in the Internet age.
The same press corps that has blessed every Obama Administration enforcement action and regulatory intrusion has suddenly concluded that the feds are dangerously overreaching. The reason? The government is now investigating the press. Welcome to the club.
