ACT | The App Association applauds Congress’s action to restore the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to its full strength by holding a confirmation hearing for Chairman Ajit Pai, Jessica Rosenworcel, and Brendan Carr. With a full dais, the FCC can move forward on tackling the important issues we face in [...]
Microsoft announced its long-awaited Windows Phone 7 will ship soon and early reviews are favorable. Their official announcement came last week, but some have been testing out pre-release prototypes and can’t stop talking about it. Apple blogger John Gruber of the website Daring Fireball called the unit a "real, credible [...]
At ACT, we’ve taken great interest in the media coverage of a possible pending broadband deal between Verizon and Google. While we know nothing more than what’s been reported in the news, this appears to be an interesting development in the net neutrality debate. Advocates of net neutrality have differing [...]
Today, Free Press, an organization dedicated to free speech and media on the internet, decided to take on the mantle of a small business advocacy group, without bothering to look what small business actually needs. Free Press called for the FCC to "take immediate action to solve to competition problem", but what they want would not result in a single new piece of dark fiber being lit, or even one new rack of edge caching servers being bought. Instead, more lawyers will be paid to argue about new ways to regulate an industry that is already regulated.