Posts Tagged: Federal Communications Commission


18
Aug 08

HTC Dream FCC approved, Android clear for launch?

Ladies and Gentleman – the Google Phone!

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9
Apr 08

Justice Perverted

Well, in particular, this Mukasey claim is remarkable (fast-forward to 1:21):

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Mukasey blubbers about how a missed phone call from a 9/11 Hijacker, if intercepted, could have stopped 9/11. Hamilton refutes this by essentially saying this is important, yet was not shared with the 9/11 Commission, implying one of three things:

  1. Mukasey was making it up for dramatic appeal.
  2. He was repeating something heard elsewhere, believing it to be true.
  3. Somehow, something quite important was suppressed from the 9/11 Commision.

31
Oct 07

More Google and gPhone Rumors on the Internets…

It started with an announcement that Google was going to delay the announcement of their social networking plan so as to not get lost in the noise surrounding Facebook's pending debut of their advertising (and AdSense) competitor for their own platform.

The Wall Street Journal (via Mashable ) later announced that Google was actually about to announce their plans for the gPhone (previously), with other rumors indicated Verizon (US) had been courted, along with British carrier '3' and German carrier T-Mobile, as well as Chinese hardware manufacturer e28 (who produces handsets for LG and HTC – you'll recall an earlier rumor that Google was going to supply 50,000 units produced by HTC to developers around Christmas-time).  e28 most recently has had a GSM-WLAN-VOIP Linux-powered phone, the R2821, before the FCC for approval.

Also of interest is the focus on inter-operability between the various Google Products, and the possibilities as to how they may converge in the mobile space (think Picasa + Talk + Maps + Docs + Gmail + Open Social). 

The keystone of their plan may be that of Open Social implementing a bundle of open API (application programing interfaces) for interoperability between several networking platforms (such as Marc Andreeson's Ning, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster) and related services (such as iLike, Plaxo, and Slide).  This new platform, codenamed "Maka-Maka" as reported by TechCrunch (more links via Buzzfeed) will tie these services together and more importantly, as stated by GigaOm, provide a common authoring language to make application development easier.


11
Jul 07

Daily Links


3
May 07

23:58 Can Jack Bauer defeat the Elephant in the Room?

I bailed on Fox's 24 very early in this season – it just became too formulaic, too predictable, and just plain ridiculous.  This week, the readers of Jump the Shark have voted, and a sizable number said that indeed, 24 had jumped the shark (although a not-insignificant amount said it had happened several seasons ago).


26
Apr 07

Daily Links


10
Mar 07

Daily Links

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