Apple has responded to the FCC’s inquiry into the “rejection” of Google Voice. As my friend and colleague Paul Rodriguez and I suggested yesterday, the reasons Google Voice has not been approved have nothing to do with AT&T. From Apple’s filing:
Question 2. Did Apple act alone, or in consultation with AT&T, in deciding
Andrew Kessler recently wrote a lengthy article laying the blame for Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice application squarely at the feet of AT&T. While Kessler’s arguments are mostly about wireless, and posts here have typically focused on wired broadband, the article makes some proposals for broader telecommunications reform that compel us to respond.
There
In trying to quell the uproar over the government takeover of medical care in the US, Obama made a point that I think is really worth exploring. He said:
[I]f the private insurance companies are providing a good bargain, and if the public option has to be self-sustaining — meaning taxpayers aren’t subsidizing it, but
I commented earlier today on Twitter about this article. It seems the good folks in Congress have decided to vote themselves eight new planes – 4 Gulfstreams and 4 737s. This after bashing corporate CEOs for their “excesses” in traveling by private aircraft.
In response, I got the standard pushback that the
For the next two days I’ll be Tweeting, blogging, and otherwise chattering about the annual Personal Democracy Forum in NYC. PDF is the premier online politics event. While South By Southwest gets a ton of credit for its interactive conference, politics is really just a track within the larger program. PDF is solely
Since the day job launched a blog on telecom issues, I have confined my rants about such topics to that forum. This is a “gray area” kind of post. It’s not really policy related, but it touches on the Internet and video. I’m writing it here because it is not, in any
Mrs. Quip and I were talking about people I have worked with that are now running for office, and the fact that I have no interest in doing so. The main thrust of the discussion was whether or not I would be disqualified for having been very upfront with people about past drug use.
(To be
Recently I have been troubled by something and I was having a hard time putting a finger on what it was. As I was scanning RSS feeds and Google Alerts this morning a number of articles with similar headlines jumped out at me. They all shared a common theme about the dangers of
But What About Jacob
Ok, so what if they don’t go with a completely unsatisfactory ending.
Let’s assume that the battle between good and evil, wrong and right, darkness and light, black and white, has a point. The season finale introduced a few things that we may need to reconcile.
It is clear that Jacob and company
It has been a few busy weeks and my Lost fascination has had to go on hold. Unfortunately, as with most things I approach with an “ignore it and it will go away” attitude, this one hasn’t. In fact, just the other night, I was shaken from a deep sleep by a dream