Rob PegoraroThis holiday-shortened week will be condensed further by my travel to Barcelona for MWC starting Friday afternoon. This will be my tenth in-person edition of the trade show formerly known as Mobile World Congress, but this trip will bring one first-time ingredient for me: I’m moderating a panel on information-security issues at the MWC setup of a new nonprofit tech-policy publication called Compiler.
2/13/2024: State of the Net conference features continued crosstalk about net neutrality, Light Reading
I’ve been meaning to write something about how often critics of the Federal Communications Commission’s move to revive net-neutrality regulations completely ignore the digital-privacy rationale advanced by FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel. And then one of my editors at this telecom trade pub said they could use some help covering this tech-policy event that I’ve attended on and off since 2006.
2/13/2024: GOP FCC Commissioner: Investigate Apple for Blocking Beeper Mini From iMessage, PCMag
I started writing about FCC commissioner Brendan Carr’s critique at State of the Net of Apple’s App Store stewardship, realized I wasn’t clear about what he meant in a couple of places, and e-mailed a query to his press contact. I thought I might get the usual on-background reply from staff, but instead Carr called me back a few hours later.
2/14/2024: Comcast Talks Up Network Resiliency, But What About Those Data Caps?, PCMag
I had a day trip to Philadelphia Tuesday for Comcast’s Converge event and filed my recap of it the next afternoon after I’d had finished excavating the buried-lede aspect of the company’s presentation: In the few markets where it’s upgraded its cable network to deliver symmetrical upload and download speeds, Comcast’s service plans don’t have a data cap or equipment fees.
2/16/2024: Google Posts Developer Preview of Android 15: Here’s What’s New (So Far), PCMag
I was quicker than usual to write this, mainly because I’d already planned on taking off most of Friday to go skiing before I got an advance copy of this news from Google PR.
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