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Tech at Night: Shoot the Hackers, Defeat the Patent Ripoff, Reform the FCC
Can we just start shooting the hackers? It seems like it’s war on the Internet these days, and the more there is for me to cover, the more work it is churning out Tech at Night! Lulzsec denies the...
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Tech at Night: Big online terrorism roundup, Ridiculous FCC stalling, Patent...
Hello everyone! I hope people have plants to get out to Charleston this weekend for the third annual Gathering. I will be there, which is why there will be no Tech at Night on Friday. Having also...
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Tech at Night: Obama and Holder vs AT&T, CA tax corruption, Anonymous arrests...
This is one of those weeks when all the important stuff happens at once, and there’s much to cover. I’ll start with the big national story. As I previously covered, The Eric Holder/Barack Obama...
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Tech at Night: Wireless competition, Regulation vs Jobs, Greg Walden
I’d like to start off tonight’s edition by saying that I enjoy some of the pushback I’ve been getting in this Tech at Night series. It’s fun when someone comes here, telling me I’m all wet, then...
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Tech at Night: LightSquared, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google
I’ve basically got three topics for tonight’s edition. It’s sad that two of them are government antitrust actions. I suppose elections do have consequences, and one key consequence of Barack Obama’s...
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality scheduled, Sprint admits the truth, Hutchison...
November 20. That’s the day the Obama administration has chosen to regulate the Internet after what even The Hill calls “a partisan vote” at the FCC to pass the Net Neutrality regulations. I’m hoping...
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Tech at Night: Chuck Grassley holding firm on FCC oversight
Apologies, but I’m going to be a bit brief tonight. I have a lot going on this week, and starting Tech at Night at midnight my time just isn’t good. Sorry! Chuck Grassley’s continuing the fight...
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Tech at Night: FTC makes a move, FCC still trouble, NAM backs SECURE IT
So we already had the coming FCC battle over Verizon’s attempts to acquire the spectrum it needs, the Senate fight over ‘cybersecurity,’ and a possible Congressional fight over Internet sales...
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Tech at Night: Verizon innovates in Spectrum, Sprint accused of tax fraud,...
CISPA is still a harmless bill devoid of new mandates of power grabs, but I’m actually short of new things to say about it this week. Lieberman-Collins is the real threat. Watch the other hand. Let’s...
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Tech at Night: Cybersecurity, Retransmission Consent, Challenging Mike Lee on...
So, Cybersecurity. I’ve spent so much time talking about why the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity bill in the Senate is terrible, and anti-PROTECT IP champion Ron Wyden has taken up the opposition as...
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Tech at Night: Free Press wants worse Internet for us, Public Knowledge is...
Texas takes on Google as the state comes after the corporation on antitrust grounds. I’m not sure this is a good idea, any more than it was a good idea for the Clinton administration to go after...
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Tech at Night: More on Republican support of the Marketplace Fairness Act
Governors Robert Bentley, Mitch Daniels, Dennis Daugaard, Bill Haslam, Paul LePage, Rick Snyder, and Tom Corbett are part of push for the Marketplace Fairness act. I’ve come across a July letter to...
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Tech at Night: FCC forced to do the right thing on content; FTC all wrong on...
Even the Obama regulators occasionally do things right. It was right for FCC to let the regulation die that forced cable companies to license original content to competitors. Though as The Hill points...
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Tech at Night: Hurricane Sandy thoughts, Cybersecurity inconsistency from the...
Hello all. I was without power for 25 hours after Sandy, and so I’m a bit behind. So tonight’s edition of Tech at Night is going to be put together a bit quickly. Sorry about that. By the way, while...
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Tech at Night: Cybersecurity Act fails again, not that Obama cares about how...
Good news, everyone! Kay Bailey Hutchison and Senate Republicans were able to help defeat the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act once again. Bad news, everyone! We lost the Presidential election, so...
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Tech at Night: Copyright, copyright, copyright. Where the real money is made...
I said earlier this week that I wouldn’t comment on the RSC’s pulling of the copyright paper until I studied it. Well, I studied it, and they were wrong to pull it. Of course, for saying that, I’m...
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Tech at Night: FTC gives in on Google. Why the anti-SOPA coalition dissolved.
Message to The New Republic: The left-right antiSOPA coalition isn’t getting back together because the right half still opposes Internet regulation, while y’all keep pushing stuff like privacy...
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Tech at Night: Google caving to Communists; Ron Wyden allying with Al Franken
And this is how that tech coalition begins to die: Ron Wyden working with Al Franken on large expansions of government online, a startling reversal from the anti-PROTECT IP Senator from Oregon. Google...
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Tech at Night: A word on the politicization of Aaron Swartz’s death.
An activist is dead, by his own choice. He also chose to commit crimes to push his agenda. Nobody denies he did it. They only deny that he should have been prosecuted. I can understand the man’s...
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Tech at Night: What goes around, comes around for Sprint. Hey Chuck Grassley:...
Justice is impeding the Sprint/Softbank merger. Gee, whoever could have predicted that if Sprint funded the left-wing effort to embolden Obama administration action, then Sprint itself could suffer...
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