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iPhone tethering fees violate Carterfone principles
AT&T prohibits tethering unless they sell you permission. From Plan Terms, Prohibited and Permissible Uses:"Furthermore, plans(unless specifically designated for tethering usage) cannot be used for any applications that tether the device (thro…
King of Broadband
FCC acting chairman Michael Copps just named Blair Levin to coordinate the construction of the FCC’s broadband plan. Thank you, Chairman Copps! Mazel Tov, Mr. Levin! Astoundingly great, ubiquitous, pervasive, cheap, uncensored, clean, accessible, fai…
Tune in to the Revolution. Live.
Anything with Susan Crawford has my attention. Tune in now. hashtag: #fpdc Tune In, Agenda, Speakers, Resources, News, FAQ News release: Michael Copps, Vivian Schiller, Susan Crawford to Keynote Free Press Summit Event to highlight …
Q. What are the Skype TechPolicy issues?
I’m heading out to a technology public policy conference today. Tuning my ear to listen for new issues. Some already on the Skype plate… Mobile Carterfone – freedom to use the device of your choice on a mobile network Mobile Net Neutrality…
A dozen topics I’d love to see at eComm Amsterdam 2009, SFO 2010
The previous formal call for speakers and how to express your interest in speaking or sponsoring. The first Emerging Communications Conference in Amsterdam is slated for sometime in the first two weeks of October 2009. The 2010 eComm San Francisco wil…
Power, Freedom And Money: Skype, Apple, and the Carriers
Power, Freedom And Money View more presentations from evanwolf. My thoughts on Skype’s political strategy at CTIA 2009. It builds on my Monday post, Apple, AT&T hobble Skype for iPhone 3 Ways (Skype Journal), Robert Miller’s Is Deutsch…
Must Go DC event: Freedom To Connect
David Isenberg’s Freedom To Connect is to US public telecom and datacom policy what Lee Dryburgh’s Emerging Communications Conference is to world telecom strategy and technology. F2C is thought leadership. It’s creative. It’s intimate. It’s diverse. …
As phones becomes PCs, shouldn’t you control your phone, not the phone company?
Skype will announce results of their Zogby consumer survey tomorrow. Findings support Skype’s bargaining position with mobile carriers (pre-install Skype, embed SILK) and their freedom-to-connect regulatory rhetoric (delamination, Skype Carterfone). …
Evildoers trust Skype encryption, Cops seek more power
BBC News reports: Officers in Milan say organised crime, arms and drugs traffickers, and prostitution rings are turning to Skype in order to frustrate investigators. The police say Skype’s encryption system is a secret which the company ref…
US$Billions for Broadband
The US plans to spend $7.2 billion over the next 18 months for a broadband buildout. Faster, better, more, and net neutral broadband makes Skype better, so this should be good for Skype. Next steps: congressional conference committee combines House and…
What could Skype do with 1Gbps Broadband to the home?
Multiparty video chat. In super-duper-ultra-hi-def resolution. In Surround Sound 5.1 audio. While watching HD television together. In Seoul in 2012. That’s what I call a national broadband policy. Korea plans to boost their 100Mbps to the ho…
Google’s Three Opportunities for FCC2009
Emerging Communications’ Lee Dryburgh interviewed Richard Whitt, Google’s Washington telecom and media counsel. Whitt sees three opportunities for Google and the emerging communications community. The stimulus package. It ma…
The Power to Fight Eviction
Online Eviction Jason Scott’s Protection From Online Eviction? and his follow up post make the argument that services like AOL, MySpace, flickr, or Skype should be treated like landlords. The power landlords have over tenants is overwhelming, unless …
China blocks New York Times and Skype Journal
Welcome to our club, Gray Lady. Skype Journal is blocked by the GFW too. Technorati tags: censorship, china, nyt, gfw, skype journal
Skype sued for old money
Do you want your money back after 180 days? Skype’s long taken credits from accounts it deems abandoned. Seattle lawyer Roger M. Townsend filed suit Friday on behalf of all Skype users in Washington who lost money this way. The plaintiffs say a Sky…
Obama transition team publishes technology goals
The Obama-Biden transition team launched Change.gov Friday. You can apply for a job or see how the new administration blogs its progress. RSS feeds for news and blog. A national technology agenda is one of the first items brought to the site from the…
FCC puts off rural funding and freemium decision
The Federal Communication Commission scheduled it for election day, but they will not vote to reform intercarrier compensation and rural telephone subsidies as part of the Universal Service Fund (USF). While it may be brought up again, it probably won’…
TOM-Skype Breach: Nart’s Recommendations to Skype
This is the fourth and final of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.Having discussed some background to Nart’s research, the activities of the Citizen Lab and a…
TOM-Skype Breach: Answers to Phil’s Questions from 2006 SJ Post
This is the third of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.Two weeks ago Phil republished an April 2006 Skype Journal post with about sixteen questions related to…
Monday reading
Gear Cute. Minoru from Novo 3D stereoscopic webcam, works with Skype. Anthropomorphism intended. They may be competing with IPEVO at the CES I-Stage in Vegas this weekend. CNET reviews the Sony PSP 3000 (black). Skype inside. Nokia N810 WiMAX star…
TOM-Skype Breach: The Citizen Lab
This is the second of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.After discussing the report itself and some of the follow up activity, we went on to talk about The Ci…
TOM-Skype Breach: Meeting the Primary Investigator
This is the first of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.Last Tuesday afternoon I returned to a University of Toronto building I had last visited in its role as…
Carriers, Apps face off at OpenMobileSummit
How open is open? Skype’s Jonathan Christensen will be on a panel at the OpenMobileSummit. Open access for apps to carriers is on the menu. I’ll be there, along with folks from AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, Verizon, Goog…
Skype to FCC: Mobile carriers blocking Skype is proof of closed networks
Skype asked the FCC to support unfettered customer freedom following statements at CTIA’s conference last month. CTIA and Sprint retorted with balderdash and Skype’s Christopher Libertelli sets them straight in this short, direct letter. Emphasis mine….
TOM-Skype Breach: Questions from 2006
Reblogging this post from 19 April 2006. The Financial Times’ Alison Maitland scored an interview with Niklas Zennström that ran yesterday. In it Zennström confirms the TOM-Skype joint venture censors text messages on behalf of the Chinese …
TOM-Skype Breach: What is filtered most?
Milk powder. Ah, so the list is updated frequently. SARS. Cripple public safety worker communications for the next outbreak? Skype. Hah! Chart and terms provided in BREACHING TRUST: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on Ch…
TOM-Skype Breach: Chinese TV News
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TOM-Skype Breach: Stated Risks
This excerpt from the eBay Form 10K for the year ending 2006, Item 1A: Risk Factors, page 32 (screen 36 in the PDF), refers to Tom Online. TOM Group took TOM Online private. Our operations in China are subject to risks and uncertainties rela…
Skype the US Congress
One-click call to Congress. Email corrections and your stories about your Skyping your elected officials to tips@skypejournal.com. Revised 30 September 2008. State District Home Page DC Phone District Phone …
Rural Internet access is an Obama priority
From Friday’s U.S. presidential debate, in discussion of domestic spending priorities, Senator Obama said: And I also think that we’re going to have to rebuild our infrastructure, which is falling behind; our roads, our bridges, but also broadband…
Skype refuses British order for emergency dialing
Skype refuses to comply with 999 ruling. Andrea-Marie Vassou quotes a Skype spokesperson: "At this time, Skype is not complying with Ofcom’s ruling, as we believe that it is not applicable to our software offering and in fact potentiall…
McCain and Obama proxies debate technology policy Monday
Monday is One Web Day, the web’s "earth day." Skype is sponsoring a debate between technology spokespeople for the two U.S. presidential campaigns. The debate in Cincinnati, Ohio, will be virtual, with speakers calling in to the public access…
Skype asks FCC to support unfettered customer freedom
Skype called "liar, liar, pants on fire" [my phrasing] on the leading US mobile carriers and "we can’t trust those guys" to the Federal Communications Commission. It was triggered by comments at last week’s CTIA conference. For exam…
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