Nat'l Broadband Rumored to Cost $25 Billion, Twitter to Hit 10 Billion Tweets
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
- The FCC is expected to present its national broadband plan to Congress this month, and the program will reportedly cost $25 billion. The FCC is hoping to help finance the proposition by auctioning frequencies, or "underutilized spectrums," to various wireless broadband services. [From: Yahoo! News]
- Twitter users tweeted more than a billion times during Twitter's first two years of existence. That number has escalated astronomically over the last year, as the site is characters away from the 10-billion-tweet milestone. [From: Textually]
- Video game movies have become quite pedestrian and predominantly disappointing of late, but Warner Bros. is reportedly in the process of adapting an unexpected classic to the big screen. Despite the game's lack of plot, story line or protagonist, the studio is apparently developing a celluloid version of 'Space Invaders.' [From: The Los Angeles Times]
- Google is the star of numerous conspiracy theories. Among them are claims that the site stores details about users' activities, that its auto-match feature is biased, and that its PageRank system is skewed to favor certain companies. According to Google research head Peter Norvig, though, the PageRank claims, at least, are overblown. He says the "over-hyped" feature is not internally considered to be a "big factor" in search results. [From: The Register]
- Air-traffic controllers work in incredibly stressful environments and have to rely on quick wits and experience when faced with extreme circumstances. According to New York Magazine, one JFK controller, though, apparently deemed it acceptable to allow minors to directly communicate with and guide in-flight pilots. Despite at least one of the kids doing an "awesome job," both the controller and his supervisor have been suspended. [From: New York Magazine]
- The United States and various other organizations recently criticized the Afghan government's apparent practice of censoring Taliban-related Web material. Afghan officials have now said they are not specifically censoring the Taliban, nor its Alemarah site, but that they are targeting sexual, violent and drug-related content in order to "stop the seduction of the youth generation." [From: Yahoo! News]
