#itec & #activism - 02mySecPrivTrans02. FCC contest stimulates development of apps to help keep ISPs honest. Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the winners of its open Internet Challenge.
"The winners of this contest will help ensure continued certainty, innovation and investment" in the broadband sector," said FCC chairman Julius Genachowski at the awards ceremony. "Shining a light on network management practices will ensure that incentives for entrepreneurs and innovators remain strong. They will help deter improper conduct helping ensure that consumers and the marketplace pick winners and losers online, and that websites or applications aren't improperly blocked or slowed. " The contest received twenty four submissions in total, with three winners. MobiPerf, a mobile network measurement tool that runs on Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile devices, won both the People's Choice Award and best overall Open Internet App. Two apps and teams shared the Open Internet Research Award.
FCC contest stimulates development of apps to help keep ISPs honest. Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the winners of its open Internet Challenge.
“The winners of this contest will help ensure continued certainty, innovation and investment” in the broadband sector,” said FCC chairman Julius Genachowski at the awards ceremony. “Shining a light on network management practices will ensure that incentives for entrepreneurs and innovators remain strong. They will help deter improper conduct helping ensure that consumers and the marketplace pick winners and losers online, and that websites or applications aren’t improperly blocked or slowed.” The contest received twenty four submissions in total, with three winners. MobiPerf, a mobile network measurement tool that runs on Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile devices, won both the People’s Choice Award and best overall Open Internet App. Two apps and teams shared the Open Internet Research Award.
Netalyzer is a Web-based Java app that measures and debugs a network. As Governments Get Censorship Happy, New Technologies Popping Up To Route Around That. We've been discussing more and more movements from various governments towards censoring the internet, whether it's things as simple as "filters" of "bad sites" or more recent efforts by governments to shut down speech they don't like from people they don't like.
However, as tends to be the case, technology seems to quickly come to the rescue. Late last week a new effort from J. Alex Halderman started to get some attention. Called Telex, it's a system for getting around internet censorship on a massive level, by using a variety of distributed nodes and disguising the type of traffic being sent over them. As Governments Get Censorship Happy, New Technologies Popping Up To Route Around That.
We've been discussing more and more movements from various governments towards censoring the internet, whether it's things as simple as "filters" of "bad sites" or more recent efforts by governments to shut down speech they don't like from people they don't like.
However, as tends to be the case, technology seems to quickly come to the rescue. Late last week a new effort from J. Alex Halderman started to get some attention. Called Telex, it's a system for getting around internet censorship on a massive level, by using a variety of distributed nodes and disguising the type of traffic being sent over them. The idea is to try to make it effectively impossible to filter out certain sites. So if you're in China, and you want access to a banned site like YouTube, you just type YouTube.com into your browser, and the Telex station will see that connection, and disguise it as something innocuous.
But that's not the only new technology popping up. "Google rigs its results," say critics at Senate antitrust hearing. oAnth. #Google US #Senate #hearing "Google rigs its results," say critics at Senate antitrust hearing Google has come under enormous scrutiny of late for its business practices, and today's Senate hearing provided a chance to air all sorts of complaints about its corporate practices.
Google had its defenders—Senators Schumer (D-NY) and Klobuchar (D-MN) both asked Schmidt to consider wiring their state for Google fiber—but it came under criticism from both parties. Sen. Jon Cornyn (R-TX) admitted to being a "frequent user of your products," but wanted to know why, if Google was such a terrific corporate citizen, it has just agreed to pay a $500 million fine for "helping online pharmacies illegally sell hundreds of millions of dollars" of drugs.
"Google rigs its results," say critics at Senate antitrust hearing. "Google abandoned these core principles [of fair play] when they started interfering with profits and profit growth," said Nextag CEO Jeff Katz today before a Senate antitrust hearing on the search giant.
"Today, Google doesn’t play fair. Google rigs its results, biasing in favor of Google Shopping and against competitors like us. " Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman joined the firing squad and told senators that "Google is no longer in the business of sending people to the best sources of information on the Web. It now hopes to be a destination site itself for one vertical market after another, including news, shopping, travel, and now, local business reviews. " Stoppelman said that Google had licensed Yelp's content, then tried to buy the company after the license ended.