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| February |
Feb 10 | Friday | | Weekend Open Thread
It's Friday, so we're stepping away from the controls for a bit. Enjoy yourselves in the comment section below... More
30 - Read |  | Friday Evening Links
• Free Mobile's impact--we should have seen it coming [fiercewireless.com]
• Uh Oh! Not a good sign: Broadband speed .. More
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| Iran Starts Blocking All Encrypted Traffic
Late last year Iranian leaders made it a criminal offense to bypass the country's Internet filters using VPNs or any other techn.. More
22 - Read | | Tribler BitTorrent Client Can't Be Shut Down
Torrent Freak directs our attention to the development of a new BitTorrent client whose developers claim is impossible to shut d.. More
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| Nielsen Almost Acknowledges Cord Cutting Is Real
Back in June of 2010, Nielsen proclaimed that the idea of TV cord cutting in favor of Internet video alternatives was "purely fi.. More
35 - Read | | With LightSquared Reeling, FreedomPop Looking Elsewhere
Late last year Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström announced he'd be launching a new wireless carrier in 2012 that provides f.. More
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| Russian Wins $5,000 For Wireless Data Gluttony
While carriers here in the States seem to do everything possible to demonize heavy bandwidth users as the worst sort of gluttons.. More
58 - Read | | Growing List of Countries Oppose ACTA
As we've discussed for months, the ACTA took all of this country's worst copyright ideas --many of them enshrined in the controv.. More
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| ViaSat Phasing Out WildBlue Brand
In 2009 ViaSat acquired residential satellite broadband service WildBlue for $568 million, and now it appears they're phasing ou.. More
12 - Read | | Friday Morning Links
• Technology vs. people - how wireless evolves [fiercewireless.com]
• ViaSat phasing out Wildblue in favor of much fa.. More
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| Feb 09 | Thursday |
| Thursday Evening Links
• FreedomPop Explains How It Will Offer Free National Broadband Starting This Summer [forbes.com]
• Nielsen: Cord Cut.. More
2 - Read | | Verizon, AT&T Lobby to Weaken FCC Spectrum Authority
Since 1993 the FCC has had the authority to place restrictions on auctions or conditions on spectrum (like requiring auction win.. More
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| Shaw Unveils New 'Exo' Branding
In 2010 Comcast decided that a good way to take aim at services like AT&T's U-Verse and Verizon's FiOS would be to change the na.. More
10 - Read | | AT&T: The U-Verse Build is Over
In May of last year AT&T confirmed that at the end of 2011 they'd effectively be stopping their deployment of U-Verse upgrades, .. More
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| Google Drive is Finally Coming
According to a paywalled story in the Wall Street Journal, Google is getting close to finally offering their Google Drive storag.. More
14 - Read | | AT&T Responds to Throttling Complaints
Earlier this week we noted how AT&T's waging a quiet war on those "unlimited" data users it had agreed to grandfather when it el.. More
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| RIAA Whines About The Public Standing Up to Them
RIAA boss Cary Sherman penned an editorial in the New York Times this week that's effectively a very large pout against the rece.. More
63 - Read | | T-Mobile Offering All Smartphones 'Free' Feb. 11
Fresh off the failed AT&T deal, T-Mobile is back to playing the pesky upstart, running a new promotion that involves giving away.. More
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| Sprint Adds Baltimore, Kansas City to LTE Launch List
Last month Sprint announced that their first LTE launch markets would arrive sometime mid-year, including Atlanta, Dallas, Houst.. More
6 - Read | | Thursday Morning Links
• Web Founding Father Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free [wired.com]
• Patent Troll Claims Ownershi.. More
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| Feb 08 | Wednesday |
| Wednesday Evening Links
• DOT counters self-serving Lightsquared plans with it's own plan to ban services that interfere with GPS [wirelessweek.com.. More
10 - Read | | Boxee Warns of Push for Basic Cable Encryption
Boxee only recently unveiled their live TV dongle, and already it appears to have ruffled the feathers of a cable and broadcast .. More
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| Deceased Open Range Somehow Still Billing Users
Back in October Mobile WiMax operator Open Range Communications filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time, Open Ra.. More
19 - Read | | Lightsquared Wants GPS Standards
LightSquared is taking their battle with the GPS industry to a new level. Just a few weeks after the company accused the GPS ind.. More
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| Sprint Takes Big Financial Hit on iPhone
Sprint unveiled their earnings this morning -- the first to be released since Sprint announced they'd finally be carrying the iP.. More
56 - Read | | Frontier Lays Off FiOS Install Staff
Frontier just got done swearing to the heavens they were dedicated to the FiOS TV customers they acquired from Verizon, after so.. More
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| AT&T Technician Saves a Baby
AT&T technician Andrel Reid has only been on the job six months installing AT&T's U-Verse service, but those six months have alr.. More
30 - Read | | Google Steps Into Georgia Broadband Fight
Georgia is the latest state to try and impose restrictions on communities eager to deploy their own broadband after regional duo.. More
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| Wednesday Morning Links
• Defunct, now non-existant OpenReach still billing customers [denverpost.com]
• Do users really care whether the web.. More
2 - Read | | Tuesday Evening Links
• Rep. Lamar Smith: Enemy of the Internet? [techdirt.com]
• The Perpetual War: Pirates and Creators [nytimes.com]
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