The authors suggest that government investment in science, technology and education should not be decreased and that the U.S. government should actually increase direct funding or incentives via tax credits to research and design in these areas.

Shelly Roche reports that the bill, Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (S. 3084), gives the Department of Justice the power to blacklist websites by blocking their domain name effectively turning the website off.

O’Neill has reported that Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis says that Comcast will pursue their “TV Everywhere” platform with a relaunching of Xfinity next month.

Andes and Castro believe that the mobile broadband network has finally reached a point at which “high-value applications” are becoming more of the norm. This is due not only the networks but also because of mobile devices becoming more powerful and fast enough to handle in depth applications. Because of these things the authors believe we are about to see a huge boon in services, business models, and applications.

Nine states have joined together to file a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the California ban on violent video games. The brief was submitted by Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch. Other states included on the brief were Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Washington, and also signing was Puerto Rico.

The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date to hear Schwarzenegger V. EMA. The hearing will take place on November 2nd and marks the very first time the Supreme Court has ever heard a case on the topic of banning video games.

Digital Society Q&A Podcast
Episode #7
Length: 38:52
Topic: “The Future of the Internet”

ICanStalkU.com website was created in 2010 by Jackson, Pesce, and Mayhemic Labs in order to convey to individuals information that they may be inadvertently be sharing online that they normally would not share because of privacy concerns.

Castro believes that current legislation on advertising could be detrimental for online businesses. Stricter privacy regulation for online advertising could reduce money that goes toward supporting free content or inexpensive content as well as applications and services. Castro also feels that this could reduce start up funding and the effectiveness of advertising.

A 2-week deadlock to decide who was running the show down in Australia ended today. One of the big issues on the table was what to do with the National Broadband Network, the $43 billion project that I discussed here last week.