Entries Tagged as 'Government'

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Apple Apps, Censorship, and A Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoonist

Political commentary has always been a big part of our culture and a significant mainstay on the world wide web. On the whole, this has been the case because the medium is so good at conveying information without the threat of censorship or retribution. That said, of recent note is the Apple App Stores rejection [...]

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Comcast Wins FCC Net Neutrality Lawsuit

In what looks to be a landmark case…at least for the time being…Comcast today won the right, against the FCC, to dictate terms for limiting web traffic of users on their network. In a unanimous decision by judges, the company is now able to block websites and other internet based services without government authority . [...]

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Cloud Computing and the US Government

I stumbled on this great talk on cloud computing given by the CTO of the US Government. He makes a lot of good points on adoption and infrastructure of the cloud computing model and then branches into an example using medical companies and incentives to adoption. A lot of similar content to what I’ve mention [...]