Against the Rules? No 4G Tethering Apps for Verizon Phones Tethering -- connecting your mobile phone to some other device for broadband access -- could become the next battlefront at the FCC's Wireless Division. That is, if the FCC listens to a new complaint from Free Press accusing Verizon of limiting consumer tethering choices on the company's LTE mobile phones. Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica Complaint to FCC: Verizon Must Not Bar 4G Tethering An advocacy group has filed a complaint with the FCC that argues Verizon Wireless shouldn't be allowed to block tethering apps that let people connect their computers to the Internet through their phones' 4G wireless data network. Stephen Shankland, CNet Did Comcast Fool the FCC? Do the conditions that the FCC imposed on the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal have any real teeth? We may find out soon, thanks to a complaint against Comcast that Bloomberg is set to file with the FCC as early as this week. Katy Bachman, AdWeek  N.J. Public Television to Undergo Name Change, Cuts in Staff New Jersey public television will have a new name, a new schedule and a new -- and much smaller -- workforce when it is reintroduced next month as NJTV, the independent broadcaster that will replace the state-owned New Jersey Network. Peggy McGlone, Star-Ledger Christie Drops State-Owned Broadcasting Gov. Chris Christie, saying he wasn't elected to be "programmer in chief," is taking New Jersey out of the broadcasting business. NJN, a television network formed in 1968, will be broken off from the state and handed over to WNET, the New York public media station. WNET will get federal subsidies to continue running New Jersey programming. Lisa Fleisher, Wall Street Journal New York Public Radio to Buy New Jersey Stations New York Public Radio, the owner of WNYC, will acquire four stations from the NJN network, New Jersey's public television and radio broadcaster. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said New York Public Radio will create a new public radio station focused on New Jersey news, with a bureau in the Garden State. Ilya Marritz, WNYC An Exit Interview with Bill Kling, Public Radio's Original Entrepreneur As he prepares to step down from the top of American Public Media, his job for the last 44 years, I recently made the mistake of congratulating Bill Kling on his retirement. I guess I thought the man was ready to retire. On the contrary, Kling said, he is out to make public radio bigger and, he hopes, save local journalism in the process. Andrew Phelps, Niemen Journalism Lab  The Silencing Crime: Sexual Violence and Journalists Few cases of sexual assault against journalists have ever been documented, a product of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. But now dozens of journalists are coming forward to say they have been sexually abused in the course of their work. Lauren Wolfe, Committee to Protect Journalists | AT&T Deal for T-Mobile Deserves Close Scrutiny Misgivings about AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA have flooded into the FCC, with nearly 37,000 comments on file that run overwhelmingly against the deal. The public comments are a jumble of fears and grievances, covering everything from AT&T's dropped calls to ominous warnings about the Ma Bell monopoly reassembling itself one acquisition at a time. San Francisco Chronicle Internet Tax Push Gains Currency The days of the Internet as a tax-free shopping zone may be numbered. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is expected to step into the escalating Internet sales tax battle as soon as this week with a bill that would allow the 44 states -- plus Washington, D.C. -- that collect sales taxes to require out-of-state online retailers to pay up. Politico Appeals Court Rejects Class Action Lawsuit over 'Bundling' Cable Channels Many cable television subscribers hate being forced to accept hundreds of channels they'll never watch when they sign up for service. Over the years, a number of lawmakers have proposed legislation that would force the cable industry to go "a la carte" instead of the channel "bundling" that currently occurs. But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an attempt by a class of consumers to make this an antitrust matter. Hollywood Reporter Olympic Bidding Begins with Offer from Fox Fox Sports began the auction for Olympic television rights, by offering to buy the next four Games starting with the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. ESPN and NBC Sports will soon make their offers to the International Olympic Committee for two and four Games. New York Times Apple's Putting Your Music, Documents and Photos into iCloud Apple revealed its long-awaited cloud sharing and sync service, iCloud. Far more than a way to back up files to a distant server, iCloud is integrated across Apple desktops and mobile devices to ensure that all of your computers can synchronize contacts, calendars, email, apps, music, photos and more. Fast Company Laptops in Class: How Distracting Are They? We've all heard about students using their laptops to surf the Web in class instead of listening to lectures. But how big a problem is it really? Bigger than you think. Christian Science Monitor One in Four U.S. Hackers 'Is an FBI Informer' The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the U.S. by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. The Guardian The Era of the Sub-$100 Smartphone It will be cheap but powerful smartphones, backed by high-speed wireless networks, that ultimately brings the world online, not laptops or PCs. Connected Planet  |
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