Several weeks ago, Federal Communications Commission press person Jen Howard sent me a note, apologizing for not responding to one of my e-mails. “I’ll only forgive you if you can get me 30 minutes with Blair Levin ,” I jokingly replied. Guess I should kid around with the FCC more often, because when Levin, the FCC’s lead on broadband planing, was in San Francisco for a conference on Wednesday, I got the interview
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feature: The end of analog: Blair Levin on the National Broadband Plan
More than fifty million netbooks have been sold since the phenomenon’s beginnings in late 2007, and of those, only a small fraction run Windows 7. With cheap licenses available in family packs and academic discounts, and XP installs increasingly decrepit, ugly, and vulnerable to malware, lots of Windows 7 upgrades are going to happen.
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feature: Seven steps to netbook marital bliss with Windows 7
The number of music buyers in the world tanked in 2009 compared to just two years prior, according to market research firm NPD Group.
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P2P use down, but 24M fewer people bought music in ‘09 vs ‘07
Excitement about the approach of the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan, due March 17, is inspiring ever more dramatic calls for greater high-speed Internet connectivity in the United States.
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feature: Case closed: why most of USA lacks 100Mbps ‘Net connections
Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser is coming to Google’s Linux-based Android operating system . Although the porting effort is still at an early stage of development, it is moving forward swiftly
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feature: Hands-on and under the hood: Ars tests Firefox on Android
Even if you’re a compulsive tweeter, you probably didn’t know what Twitter was a year ago. The 140-character broadcast machine has gone far beyond updating your friends about dinner plans, and, for those who use it, Twitter is slowly melding with the fabric of life and work
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feature: Collaboration 2.0? Twitter team-ups for fun and profit
It is clear that, according to Google, the American telecommunications Industry has dropped the ball when it comes to getting broadband out to the people. The search giant has decided to show us how it should be done, announcing its plans to run 1Gbps fiber pipes to up to 500,000 households .
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feature: What Google could learn from EU ISPs’ experience with fiber
When it comes to cybersecurity, the Obama administration is taking the same approach to the policies of the Bush administration as it has in so many other areas: there are differences, but they’re mainly matters of subtle emphasis and focus. Take the Trusted Internet Connection initiative, which the Bush administration launched in late 2007, and which is aimed at securing the government’s network infrastructure by routing all of its network traffic through a smaller number of access points. The original goals of the TIC program were to establish a baseline set of security practices for government systems that access the Internet, to consolidate all federal Internet access points into about 50 officially certified TICs, and to put in place an audit process to ensure that all government agencies stay in compliance with the program
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Obama administration tweaks its cybersecurity plans
