Week In Review 6W2010
Lots of Google Buzz opla.
Google announced a trial FTTH rollout which is basically a slap on the wrist to US ISPs. Municipalities are of course happy to welcome an open access, cheap FTTH network. And they’re doing it in UK too.
On more highspeed news AT&T is rolling out LTE in 2011. Ericsson and ALU are the suppliers which is probably why ALU said recently it wouldn’t invest a lot more in WiMAX.
If you have a Mastercard or VISA chip card this might be a good time to get worried. I did a writeup on how the EMV system is basically flawed.
On censorship news this week Verizon is blocking 4chan, a US court says ‘obscene’ is defined by the craziest person able to access content, Iran suspends Gmail, Youtube won’t censor stuff just for Australia
And on I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-butter news, higher prices mean less sales for iTunes and the music guys tell the books guys they’re idiots (just not on those terms). Meanwhile Warner will end streaming licenses which means the Warner catalogue is mostly dead to me. On an interesting twist an Australian court says facts aren’t copyrightable which means the phone book can be copied but bible can’t (zing added by me).
