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Telecommunications Sector

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Bay Citizen Newsletter Shut Down By Spamming Complaint

    ​More than 20,000 Bay Citizen readers didn't receive their daily newsletters this morning. An irate reader's e-mail complaint that the online newspaper was sending him unwanted pleas for his money led its internet service provider to shut the Bay Citizen down as a suspected spammer.That irate read ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Google Thumbs Nose at Antitrust Regulators

    ​You can't say Google doesn't have balls. Despite increasingly heavy antitrust scrutiny by the federal government, the Internet behemoth is charging ahead with a deal that brings all kinds of potential for cornering a market. It will pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading maker of hand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    AT&T Officially Sucks, Says Consumer Reports

    But this battle station does have weaknessess...​Earlier this year, Consumer Reports unloaded on the iPhone 4. Now the influential magazine has given the thumbs-down to the iPhone's obligatory service carrier, AT&T. Echoing the bellowed curses of legions of iPhone-wielding yappers, Consumer Re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Protesters Gather At Google Headquarters, Chant 'Don't Be Evil'

    techfreep.comGoogle headquarters in Mountain View​Today at noon, roughly 100 people assembled at the entrance of Google's headquarters in Mountain View. According to Yolanda Hippensteele, who was involved in coordinating the rally on behalf of the Save the Internet coalition, protesters hailed fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Cell Phone Industry Suing San Francisco For Your Good, Lawsuit Claims

    techzblog.inHey, Mom! I want a rainbow in my brain, too! ​Lobbyists from the Cellular Telephone Industry Association are suing San Francisco over the Cell Phone Right-To-Know ordinance, claiming the city is not allowed to make decisions involving the wireless industry. But they're not doing th ... More >>

  • News

    January 20, 2010

    Celling Out: The Bay Guardian now wants to cash in by letting T-Mobile build antennas on its roof

    techzblog.inHey, Mom! I want a rainbow in my brain, too! ​Lobbyists from the Cellular Telephone Industry Association are suing San Francisco over the Cell Phone Right-To-Know ordinance, claiming the city is not allowed to make decisions involving the wireless industry. But they're not doing th ... More >>

  • News

    August 12, 2009

    Adjust Your Television

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    Internet Archive Gives Low Income SF Residents Free Internet

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2008

    Radiohead Tour Dates Leave Out SF

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Cell Phones Get D from Consumer Reports

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Hitting the G-Spot: Google to Announce Mobile Phone Platform

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    Comcast Denies Virtual Crank Calls on BitTorrent

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2007

    SF Cable Access On the Ropes

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2007

    Do you want to live in a world without "The Fantasy Bedtime Tour"?

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • News

    April 11, 2007

    Tight Agenda

    Maker of Boy Butter says Comcast won't air his racy sex-lube ad in San Francisco

  • News

    February 14, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of 2-14-2007

  • News

    February 7, 2007

    Pay to Play

    The son of a world—renowned chef says he wanted to reform the phone industry. The feds say he wanted to get rich quick.

  • News

    January 24, 2007

    Why Cry for Wi-Fi?

    The son of a world—renowned chef says he wanted to reform the phone industry. The feds say he wanted to get rich quick.

  • News

    March 1, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, March 1, 2006

  • News

    February 8, 2006

    Is Anybody Watching?

    In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's S.F.-based Current TV is off to a rocky start

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Fiber-Optic Illusion

    Why Tom Ammiano's plans to create a city-owned broadband network are a boondoggle-in-the-making

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    Call to Patriotism

    If fighting terrorism requires a stimulated economy, no move could be more welcome than the dismantling of Pac Bell

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Playing Monopoly

    If fighting terrorism requires a stimulated economy, no move could be more welcome than the dismantling of Pac Bell

  • Film

    May 12, 1999

    Reel World

    If fighting terrorism requires a stimulated economy, no move could be more welcome than the dismantling of Pac Bell

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Rewarding Failure

    Streetcars that are too wide, long, and heavy (136 @ $3.5 million per). Bus engines that don't fit and are scrapped (20 @ $116,000 a pop). Manhole covers that take 10 engineers and three months to design (cost: $243,000). Muni's management has produced su

  • News

    August 20, 1997

    Spammer-Jamming Hammered

    The Internet's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys just escalated

  • Calendar

    September 18, 1996

    Unspun

    The Internet's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys just escalated

  • Calendar

    September 4, 1996

    The Grid

    The Internet's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys just escalated

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