Technology & Industry Commentary

Here I discuss general technology trends across various market segments, including Internet Service Providers. What are some of the geeky things going on around the Capital I Internet.

j2 Briefing: FCC news, Microsoft whitespace, polls

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The j2 Podcast for August 29, 2019 Microsoft is pushing it’s Whitespace product as a solution to the Digital divide. This has been branded “Airband” https://www.multichannel.com/news/microsoft-brands-rural-divide-national-crisis The FCC The commission unanimously voted to distribute more than $20 billion of Universal Service Fund subsidies over the next decade as part of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. … Read more

Circle City Con 7.0

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/circlecitycon-70-tickets-62810947234 Continuing our year after year record breaking attendance, CircleCityCon 7.0 promises to test our limits and deliver to you a conference unique from all the others. Since Circle 1 we have delivered trainings for free with the option to reserve a seat for a modest fee. Since Circle 2 we brought the arcades in. … Read more

Google voice to do away with voicemail-to-text

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As reported on Cnet Google will apparently be removing a Google Voice feature over carriers’ efforts to fight robocalls. In a message shared on Twitter by journalist Brian Krebs, the company has seemingly begun alerting users that by the end of the week it will no longer support the “get voicemail by message” feature that … Read more

Defcon News: Vulnerable Windows Drivers

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FBI to monitor and collect Social Media Data

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I am sure this has been going on for awhile, but now it is being ramped up. https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-seeks-to-monitor-facebook-oversee-mass-social-media-data-collection/ The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to aggressively harvest information from Facebook and Twitter, a move which is likely to cause a clash between the agency and social media platforms. As reported by the Wall … Read more

Articles in the works

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Ultimate gaming rig

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The finished Big O features a PC, Xbox One X, and PlayStation 4 Pro cooled by a custom CRYOGENIC hard line liquid cooling system controlled by the PC. A Nintendo Switch dock is accessible via the front of the system just by opening the front panel, and just like a normal dock, you are free … Read more

Your phones are always watching and tracking

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https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/racist-graffiti-cellphones-wi-fi-glenelg-md Four Maryland teenagers sneaked onto their school’s property the night before graduation last year and covered it in racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti. The Washington Post described how they got caught in a Tuesday story . It says they covered their faces during the hate crime, but didn’t realize their cellphones automatically connected to … Read more

Three Spacelink Satellites just floating

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7200885/SpaceX-loses-control-three-Starlink-internet-satellites-just-WEEKS-launch.html SpaceX has lost contact with three satellites in its new Starlink orbiting network, with the errant craft now destined to fall out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.  Granted, they launched 60 satellites and only three have been lost so far. That is a 5% failure rate so far.

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