The House Intelligence Committee will meet behind closed doors on the afternoon of April 10 to mark up a controversial cybersecurity bill before it heads to the floor for a vote, which could come as early as next week.
AT&T and Google’s plans to give Austin a gigabit is an experiment. Is it a good one?
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AT&T executives will meet with Austin and Texas officials seeking the same concessions that Google is getting in order to build out its gigabit network. As someone who has followed telecom in Austin, and in Texas, this mostly means the ability to cherry pick where it will deploy its gigabit network. And that points to both the upside and downside of Google’s influence.
Will 21st century broadcasting use the airwaves?
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The number of people watching broadcast TV with the aid of an antenna is a fraction of what it used to be; about 90% of U.S. homes tune in these channels via some form of pay TV. If Fox decided to shut down its transmitters tomorrow, it would cut off only 10% of its viewers, many of whom might quickly sign up for cable just so they could keep watching "American Idol." And doing so would not only end the threat Aereo poses to the retransmission fees Fox receives from pay-TV operators, it could conceivably enable them to demand higher amounts from those operators -- and from the Aereos of the world.
Belo’s Decherd: New Media Must Be Guided By Old Media Values
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The Radio Television Digital News Foundation changed its name several years back to reflect the rise of digital media, but March 14 may have been the real milepost as the organization saluted Twitter as a First Amendment award winner. And while traditional journalists collecting their own First Amendment awards echoed salutes to the transformative impact of 140 characters and the technology that powers the Internet, the evening ended with Belo Chairman Robert Decherd advising/warning that investment in traditional journalism and its values should not be trumped by technology.
President Obama meets again with tech bigwigs
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President Barack Obama met with a number of top technology CEOs and senior executives to discuss policy issues that are key for the industry this year.
Hey Internet, where’s the outrage?
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Compare, for a moment, the Internet industry’s outrage against potential government censorship, as they see it, with the seeming indifference to government surveillance. In 2012, major Web sites staged a massive global protest against a law that would have given the government new powers to shut down sites associated with piracy. Yet, as Congress considers sweeping new surveillance procedures over popular Internet companies, those same digital activists are largely silent. It begs the question, does this younger, tech-savvy generation care more about innovation than civil liberties?
Recalculating the privacy debate after Google Maps penalty
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By now, consumers and citizens may have detected a pattern: New technologies allow new types of privacy invasions, which then lead to ad hoc remedies – until the next type of intrusion. As the string of Google violations shows – along with dozens of new privacy laws passed since the 1970s – the pace of this cat-and-mouse privacy quest has quickened in the Digital Age.
Tech-savvy Newark Mayor Booker: Government flunking social media
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Cory Booker, the constantly tweeting mayor of Newark (NJ) who intends to run for the U.S. Senate, said that the federal government needs to reinvent the often overly formal way it uses social media.
Districts Forge School-to-Home Digital Connections
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A look at the importance of using today's technological tools to bridge homes and schools in all kinds of communities—rural, suburban, or urban—and give students online access to learning resources well beyond the school day. As increasing numbers of school districts have put 1-to-1 computing programs in place, administrators are wrestling with whether to allow those devices to go home with students at the end of each day.