Karl Bode

Americans are, apparently, tired of having every last shred of personal data over-collected, hyper monetized, then improperly secured by a rotating crop of ethics-optional corporations and lazy executives.

I spent decades as a telecom beat reporter watching the mainstream press cover the telecom industry. I had a front row seat to the endless promises big telecoms like AT&T and Comcast made before a merger, and the way the U.S. business press repeatedly parroted pre-merger claims entirely unskeptically, without pointing out the harms of consolidation, layoffs, or that pre-merger promises are broadly meaningless.

The streaming sector has historically been home to no shortage of failures that most people forgot. There was of course Quibi, the $1.75 billion Hollywood streaming project that

For many many years now we've noted how internet-connectivity (and greed) have changed the consumer equation sometimes for the worse, resulting in people no longer truly owning the things they buy. Expensive gadgets can become

For years, the cable industry has dreamed of a future where they could use your cable box to actively track your every behavior using cameras and microphones and

There was a long period where journalists writing about failing media ventures loved to imply that these collapses meant online journalism was no longer profitable. In reality, the industry had simply become overly infected by

On August 30, CPUC officials formally approved both a third and fourth round of FFA broadband funding.

Tue, Sep 3rd 2024 05:28am - Karl Bode Last March Oregon became the seventh state to pass “right to repair” legislation making it

Wed, Sep 4th 2024 05:30am - Karl Bode Despite the best efforts of automakers and companies like Apple , states continue to push

You might recall how Gannett, which owns USAToday (and probably the half-assed remains of whatever's left of your town's local newspaper), spent much of last year mired in