I erred on criticizing Spectrum Bridge and the city of Claudville for wasting White Space mobile spectrum on a backhaul network because it turns out that they were using 200 MHz White Space spectrum for a last-mile broadband network. Spectrum Bridge has a temporary “experimental” license to use this spectrum but once White Spaces becomes unlicensed, it could cause problems for the broadband network.

National Journal is hosting a discussion about the future of broadband in America after the FCC last week released its national broadband plan. The panelists, including two members of Congress, also will tackle issues such as network neutrality and cyber security. Get live updates from the event here.

The next time you hear the FCC, the FTC and their allies in the “media reform” movement waxing eloquent about how government subsidies can save journalism and thus save democracy, remember the conflict of interest now plaguing the San Francisco Public Press.

Per Larsen paints a picture of a cellular industry that is overcharging for what is today a common feature in cell phones — text-messaging.

Google and YouTube argue that they are innocent in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom because they are protected under the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions. But Safe Harbor only protects websites that have no knowledge of infringement yet YouTube founders clearly knew of and almost entirely depended on pirated content. One YouTube co-founder even uploaded stolen content himself.

The whole repressive world is watching to see whether the United States adopts network neutrality as law in the land of liberty, and then they will use it as an excuse to further curtail Internet freedom in their own countries. That’s the message between the diplomatic lines that a top State Department information policy official uttered this week.

Back in January I wrote a post titled “‘Gamers For Lag’ Weighs In On Net Neutrality“. The post argued the pro-net neutrality position adopted by the Electronic Consumers Association (an organization of which I am a member) would actually be detrimental to gamers.

They didn’t reply directly to the post, but we wanted to be fair to ECA. We asked, nearly two months ago, if we could submit some questions on the topic and have them address our concerns over their network neutrality position. The questions were pretty straightforward, but get straight to the heart of our concerns.

AT&T has announced an interesting “ZERO Draw” phone charger that draws no power when not charging a phone.

Settle on a talking point, please.

In Are Your Bits Worn Out?, author Todd Adelmann discusses the problems inherent within the age old hardware-software war and the consumer that is caught in the middle.