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Privacy Rules
In the soundbite era of social media, it is easy to overlook the nuances of a given policy. Tom Cohen of Kelley Drye provides his seasoned perspective on this week’s vote by Congress to overturn the December 2016 FCC rules governing customer privacy by broadband ISPs. As he points out, these rules were an extension…
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The Power and Force of Today – 2017 MTA Annual Convention
If last night’s kick-off reception is an indication, this year’s Minnesota Telecom Alliance’s Annual Convention and Conference is off to a great start. In the above interview, MTA’s president and CEO, Brent Christensen provides a preview of the event that is taking place today and tomorrow. He hints at some of the changes on the exhibit…
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A New Way of Powering IoT Devices – Wood @IDTechEx
Harvesting forests may soon yield wood that allows harvesting of energy, thanks to researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and with help from the USDA. Speaking at the 2016 ID-TechEX conference, Chunhua Yao, co-founder of EWPanel and Xudong Wong, Associate Professor at UW-Madison explain that an electrode is embedded into the wood fiber. The wood…
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IoG – Internet of Gardens or Data Science for the Micro Farm
“It really comes down to recipes,” said Vince Kimura, co-founder and CEO of Smart Yields. He was referring to the idea that the needs of a crop are different and are location dependent. The goal of Smart Yields is to help farmers understand what they should plant and how to take care of it to most…
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Ellie – Protecting Babies and More #CES2017
[03/27/20 Update: Rayvio closed up shop last year, but it appears that Ellie re-emerged as LARQ and in addition to UV bottles, they also have bottles that keep beverages hot or cold https://www.livelarq.com/] With its almost 200,000 attendees in relatively close quarters, International CES2017 was the appropriate place to launch Ellie. RayVio CEO, Dr. Robert Walker,…
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Navigating the Broadband Sea
“We have the ability to bring back some more balance to the laws and regulations to help smaller businesses to encourage them to invest more,” says Matt Polka, president and CEO of the American Cable Association. Speaking at NCTC’s Winter Education Conference, Polka is hopeful that the new administration and associated changes at the FCC will…
