In 2009 the Federal Trade Commission issued warning to the world of advertising that if advertising agencies that used behavorial advertising within their published ads did not self-regulate then the FTC would act on their behalf. In order to self-regulate, leading ad agencies formed the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) to establish industry guidelines following the principles suggested by the FTC’s “Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising”.

Downes has recently penned a paper for PFF in which he briefly explains how we have gotten to the point we are currently at in the Net Neutrality debate. He follows this with the options the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had after the D.C. Circuit case against Comcast:

Castro makes the case that “cloud computing” has become an industry buzz word much like “Web 2.0″. But he does feel that this trend in computing will play a very important role in the creation of “new products and services for businesses, governments and individuals.”

Similar to the MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. case, the “safe harbor” clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) protected YouTube’s founders from civil liabilities because they had responded to take down notices. In the process of doing this they were also allowing for copyright violations and piracy just like the Grokster case.

Bennett discusses video navigation devices in his most recent reply comments to the FCC. Navigation devices are more commonly known as personal video recorders (PVR) in these comments. Bennett believes that the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on PVRs is based on technology of navigation devices in the late 1990′s. He feels that ITIF can offer a different solution that both meets the FCC’s long term goals and will meet consumer needs.

Jim Glassman interviews three experts on cybersecurity and Americas readiness for a cyberattack. Nearly a year after the Obama Administration review, these experts suggest that we are still not ready.

Saint reports that 4Chan.org’s founder Christopher “moot” Poole was called in as government witness in order to testify to the definition of terminology used on the web forum.

As many are aware there is a coming IPv4 address shortage. T-Mobile is making strides to move into IPv6 infrastructure in the coming months to sidestep any issues. Recently T-Mobile posted to their Google groups page that they intend to begin a IPv6 beta program called T-Mobile USA IPv6 beta service.

The science journal Nature reports on the project/game Rosetta@home. Based on the original 1999 project SETI@home which allowed multiple computers to be amassed to sift through radio telescope data in the search for extraterritorial life, the Folding@home project was created to allow individuals computers, along with the Playstation 3 to evaluate “how a linear chain of amino acids curls up into a three-dimensional shape that minimizes the internal stresses and strains-presumably the protein’s natural shape.”

The OC Business Journal has stated that Uniloc is once again after several other big tech names after taking Microsoft to court last year. The company owns the patent on security software that is used to lock programs installed on a specific computer to that computer. The security software at that point disallows the program to be copied to any other computer.