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Cable Companies Ordered To Support HD Content Streaming Within Homes By 2014
You may have not noticed, but your cable box at home has a Firewire port on it, designed to serve up content to other devices in your home. This almost useless port — thanks DRM — is a result of an FCC...
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Even The FCC Thinks Airplane Electronic Rules Are Bogus
Air travel would be a profoundly dangerous practice if any kid who turned on a Game Boy during takeoff could bring a multimillion dollar jetliner to its fiery doom. The Federal Aviation Administration,...
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Major U.S. Carriers To Launch Nationwide 911 Texting Service By 2014
The four largest US carriers this week agreed to create a nationwide service that would allow users to contact 911 via text message. In a statement released Thursday, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski...
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Slightly Smaller Apple TV Revealed By FCC Filing
The current Apple TV has been physically unchanged since the second-generation model rolled out in September of 2010, but a new FCC filing hints at a slight redesign. It looks like the next Apple TV...
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To Meet The FCC’s Gigabit Challenge, Cities Will Have To Get Political
A few weeks ago, a tremor was felt in the Force as FCC Chairman Genachowski announced his Gigabit City Challenge – an initiative to get at least one citywide gigabit network per state by 2015. The...
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Cancer Fears Could Prevent Google Glass From Ever Becoming A Phone
Google’s first attempt at face-based computing, Project Glass, isn’t very useful unless it’s connected to a wireless network. Without a connection to the internet, it can’t deliver search results,...
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