Comcast's shifting explanations for its Xbox deal raise questions about the justification for its bandwidth caps and the different ways it charges consumers for video.
Matt Wood, CNet
Cable giant Comcast's efforts to secure passage of the defeated Stop Online Piracy Act provided a boost to the company's lobbyists.
Andrew Feinberg, The Hill
In the wake of SOPA and PIPA, there is yet another terrifying bill on the table. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is currently being discussed in Congress. It is feared that CISPA is far worse than SOPA and PIPA in its possible effects on the Internet.
Anne Sewell, Digital Journal
An online activist site has collected 300,000 signatures in opposition to a pending "cyber-security" bill that critics say would allow increased government spying on the Internet. The petition focuses on a bill by Rep. Mike Rogers, but his legislation is one of at least four proposals now being considered by Congress.
Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
You can still write annoying, profane things about this story -- at least for now. Arizona legislators are expected to amend a controversial bill that experts say could stifle free speech online and violate the First Amendment. But free speech experts say the anticipated changes to the bill -- which will be made before the legislation is sent to Gov. Jan Brewer -- may not fix the major flaws in the proposal, which passed both legislative houses last week.
Bianca Bosker, Huffington Post
The government is moving forward with a plan to make local television stations post information about political advertising on a central website. Owners of local stations have tried to block the proposal, but it appears likely to be approved by the FCC when it convenes later this month.
Brian Stelter, New York Times
Broadcast television stations would soon be required to disclose on the Internet the rates they charge for political TV ads under new rules circulated at the FCC.
Amy Schatz, Wall Street Journal
The FCC late last week released its tentative agenda for its April 27 public meeting and it will be a busy one. There are votes scheduled on Universal Service Reform, noncommercial station fundraising and a regulatory framework for allowing TV stations to share channels as part of the reclamation of spectrum for incentive auctions. The disclosure rulemaking is also on the agenda.
John Eggerton, Multichannel News
Everyone knows how long a minute is. And your cellphone carrier keeps close tabs on how many you have used this month. Now, in the smartphone era, more people are being forced to think about how many megabytes of data they are using. But what exactly is a megabyte?
Brian X. Chen, New York Times
We've all heard the commercials and seen the ads. The major cellular carriers are rolling out their shiny new 4G networks, and they're promising speeds "up to 10 times faster" than those on regular 3G networks. They also toss the term "LTE" around as if it were going out of style. For most people, 4G feels a little faster, but it's not anything close to the speed we were promised.
Ed Robinson, GigaOM
Starting April 8, AT&T will allow iPhone customers whose contracts have expired to unlock their phones, or remove the restrictions that bind them to the carrier.
Jenna Wortham, New York Times
In a first for the microblogging service, Twitter has gone to court in an effort to rid its site of spam.
Wendy Davis, MediaPost
Google wants to bring more small websites to mobile phones, and to help nudge those sites along it's willing to foot the bill for a year. Google, with the help of mobile Web optimization startup Duda Mobile, is offering for 12 months free hosting and website customization for mobile browsers in an effort to make more Internet content mobile-friendly.
Kevin Fitchard, GigaOM
Last week, the Center for Media Justice and Free Press, together with the Main Street Project, Waite House and the Headwaters Foundation for Justice, welcomed author Joseph Torres to the Twin Cities to promote his book News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, co-written with Juan González. The timing for Joseph's visit to Minnesota couldn't have been more perfect.
amalia deloney, SavetheNews.org
Television news now feasts on fame, the gaudier the better, with journalistic credentials a mere afterthought. Morning shows must compete with YouTube, Twitter, iPads and a thousand other distractions. That's why they keep panting after the celebrity du jour, even one who claims to despise the lamestream media.
Howard Kurtz, Daily Beast
If most newspapers are an uneconomical proposition incapable of sustaining profits, let alone paying off the debt so many buyers have larded on them, who is left to own them? Rich guys.
David Carr, New York Times
Mike Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of America's best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the famous and infamous on 60 Minutes, died on Saturday. He was 93.
Tim Weiner, New York Times
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