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Happy Back to the Future Day! We May Not Have Hoverboards, But We've Got Really Fast Internet

It’s Back to the Future Day! In Back to the Future Part II, our hero Marty McFly transports to the future – specifically to October 21st, 2015 – to save his children and stop his nemesis Biff Tannen from permanently disrupting the space-time continuum. This after he saved his parents and thus himself in Back to the Future Part I
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How CISA Can Help Protect Personal Data, Internet Infrastructure, and Businesses

After months of discussion and hard work, the Senate appears set to move forward this week with the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (commonly known as CISA). As a member of the Protecting America’s Cyber Networks Coalition, we were proud to sign and submit a letter yesterday supporting CISA and committing ourselves to working with lawmakers to get cybersecurity
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Teaching Kids How to Navigate our Digital World

You hear a lot these days about Generation Z, the kids who were practically born with an iPhone in their hands, and those who can’t fathom why some computers or screens won’t swipe right or respond with the mere touch of their finger. It’s easy to assume that kids these days know technology better than most of us adults, but
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NCTA Innovation Center Brings Technology Alive

Most of us rely on cable in one way or another in our daily lives, whether its the buzzworthy and award-winning programming that we enjoy or the fast broadband speeds that connect us to the rest of the world. But we don’t always associate outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots with our home broadband connection, or realize that the smart door locks at
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Zombies Alive and Well on AMC

This Columbus Day weekend was a little more intense than usual. AMC’s The Walking Dead, also known as the most watched cable show in history, premiered its sixth season on Sunday night, to the anticipation and suspense of 14.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen, and upstaging the Giants v. 49ers game, as some early reports indicate. Fans tuned in and
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Infographic: Broadband Speeds from Singapore to New Jersey

According to the latest data from Akamai, the U.S. is home to seven of the top fifteen fastest regions in the world. This blog also appeared in CTAM SmartBrief
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NCTA: DSTAC Report Demonstrates There is No Need for an FCC Tech Mandate to Bring Pay TV Programming to Retail Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) today urged the FCC to reject calls for a new technology mandate that would put the government – not TV innovators – in charge of determining how video programming is delivered to consumers. NCTA filed comments on the recently released “Report from the Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee” (DSTAC) which
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Apps are the Present and the Future of TV

There is an interesting, but somewhat puzzling debate brewing in tech policy circles right now that poses a basic question: Do we need a new tech mandate to ensure that consumers can enjoy TV content on retail devices? If you take even a cursory look at the consumer experience and rapid transformation of the TV marketplace, the answer is pretty
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Taking Home Automation To a Whole New Level

Once upon a time, that thermostat on the wall was only for adjusting the temperature. The blinds had to be drawn with a pull-chord. Those lights had to be turned on with a switch on the wall. And that security camera recorded to videotape. But today, these objects could be running through a home automation system, often controlled through a
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Joint Statement on the FCC Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee (DSTAC) Report

As active members of the Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee (DSTAC) and as companies and organizations that have followed DSTAC’s work since its inception, we congratulate DSTAC Chair Cheryl Tritt, DSTAC Designated Federal Officer Brendan Murray, Alternate Designated Officer Nancy Murphy and the members of DSTAC for the extraordinary work in finalizing a report that successfully documents the vast and
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