Non-profit group ProCon enters the age old debate of violence and video games in their latest study.

Australian broadband providers have switched to non-neutral networks that favor local content with generous usage allowances but not transit networks. This has empowered Australian broadband users for the first time but Net Neutrality proponents have gone ballistic.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google will lower its Equipment Recovery Fee (ERF) for the Google Nexus One from $350 to $150.  The original $350 fee was unusual and unreasonable because it was on top of T-Mobile’s $200 Early Termination Fee (ETF).  This brings the total early termination fee (including the $200 charged by [...]

In their typical juvenile fashion, the 4chan boards launched an attack against Verizon Wireless customers over the weekend and 4chan’s owners are playing victim with no mention of their own responsibility.  The 4chan board servers were sending a flood of messages to Verizon Wireless customers which could effectively degrade or even block their Internet connectivity. [...]

George S. Ford presents a study of the effects of broadband Internet use on “discouragement” within the labor market. Discouragement is the official term used to describe an individual who is out of work and desires to have a job, but has given up their search based on beliefs that their job prospects are unfavorable.

With 16.5% of the nation “underemployed” and economists gloomily doubting next-generation job creation, Washington is considering a number of strategies, including the President’s “jobs bill.” “Jobs,” President Obama insisted in his state of the union address, “must be our number one focus in 2010.” But as Washington concentrates on employment, it also is considering a [...]

Digital Society Q&A Podcast
Episode #4
Length: 26min 16sec
Topic: Thoughts on Apple’s iPad

DigitalWrong.org claims that whenever piracy is tracked to a particular home, then it was obviously the neighbor’s kid that did it by breaking into the home’s wireless network. Digital Wrong claims that these home wireless networks are impossible to secure, but that is blatantly wrong.

Despite being a Boxee user and fan of the service, (I have been a user of both the Alpha and Beta clients for over a year) I have to call out Ronen for trying to be too clever by half. The fact is, Zucker has the more honest argument on this point. Boxee doesn’t, in fact, act just like a browser.

Pew Research has produced two new reports on statistical findings surrounding the use of social media amongst the age groups of teens 12-17 and for adults 18 and older.