Navx, a GPS company who maintains online databases of geolocation makers, issued a complaint against Google to the Autorite. Navx claims that Google is active in anti-competitive practices in online advertising. Autorite has made a temporary decision while it investigate for its final action. At the moment they feel that Google holds a dominant position and is used for 90% of all searches in France.

CDT, PFF, and EFF have filed joint comments to the FCC regarding COPPA. They state that the COPPA rule is in place to prevent information being collected from children under the age of 13. This is something that the groups believe have been successful and that has improved parental supervision of what children are viewing online.

Apple has released an official letter saying that the signal problems are due to faulty software showing 2 bars as 4 bars. The problem is that this won’t solve the real problem of bare hands touching the lower left corner of the phone.

For all of us that hate cable clutter, a new coalition of consumer electronics manufacturers have created the HDbaseT standard using common Category 5e or 6 Ethernet cables.  The new standard can carry up to HDMI, 100BASE-TX Ethernet, control signals, and even power.  Furthermore, the standard can operate at up to 100 meters or over [...]

The bigger lesson is that free is not necessarily good because destroying productive capability is a long-term mistake. It creates a variation on the old saw “Give a man a fish . . . Teach a man to fish” in which you take a man who can fish and sink his boat, and then feel good about yourself as you give him a sardine because you have eliminated nasty old self-interested markets from the system.

We were surprised to see that Anandtech only managed to get Wi-Fi performance of 7.2 Mbps downstream and 7.96 Mbps upstream using the SpeedTest.net app for iPhone OS. We ran our own tests and found that the iPhone 4 can sustain 20 Mbps over Wi-Fi. These are much better results, but they fall short of optimum 802.11g much less 802.11n.